Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ioan Gruffudd

People in America and Hollywood are very good at pronouncing my name, to begin with. Socially, they're very adept at listening to somebody's name and repeating it, cleverly in the first couple of sentences so the name sticks to begin with.

Ira Glass

What nobody tells people who are beginners… is that all of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, and it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not… your taste is why your work disappoints you… We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this… It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions.

Ilya Kovalchuk

I want to keep growing. I should take a couple steps every year if I want to be one of the best players in the league.

Ike Barinholtz

I'm a big crier in general. The right life insurance commercial will take me out for a couple of days.

Jack London

The fortunate man is the one who cannot take more than a couple of drinks without becoming intoxicated. The unfortunate wight is the one who can take many glasses without betraying a sign; who must take numerous glasses in order to get the ‘kick’.

Jack Nicklaus

For years, I never thought I needed a short game. Finally I just decided to do something about it. I needed to get up and down from tough spots on the par-5s for my birdies. So I went to Phil [Rogers]. He's the best. For the last couple weeks, Phil has been staying at my house and we've been practicing in the evening.

Jack Nicklaus

I have a couple [of grandsons] that are in college playing lacrosse. It's great and it's fun. But they all also play golf a little bit.

Jack Nicholson

If it is difficult to know yourself as an individual, it seems to be more complex as a couple. So if you say, "Oh I like a person who is like this and that," you might take away the possibility of seeing the only one that might be right for you.

Jack Kingston

But whether a couple is a man and a woman has everything to do with the meaning of marriage.

Jack Irons

I remember a tour where we played 50 cities in 56 days. We also went to Europe a couple of times.

Jack Johnson

Sometimes I just start humming something, find a melody I like a lot, and if it sticks around for a couple days, a few words will lock themselves into place. I might just get the first line. Then words just keep falling into the syllables. The choruses kind of write themselves and verses I have to work at a little bit.

Jack Adams

Chicago's buoy was a couple of hundred yards astern of Arizona, and I was saddened to look at her.

J. B. Smoove

I am the comedy version of ambidextrous. I'm working with my left and right hand. I'm the two-sided coin. I'm all of those metaphors you can think of. I'm the interracial couple. I'm BET and CBS.

Indra Nooyi

Women play a couple of roles. They are in professional schools and increasingly producing the talent to keep the engines of the economy growing, but they're also the nurturers and the caregivers.

Mark Lowe

Because of my significant youth over these guys, I'm sticking around a couple more years.

Chauncey has become a very solid player the past couple of weeks.

Mark Dantonio

Chet did a nice job. He had a couple of real nice punts. He'll go into this game as the punter. But we're always going to hold people to a standard as we move through this.

By 2010, we'll have many of the local treatment plants operating under the new requirements, but there will also be some that will still be under construction - so it may take a couple of years after that deadline to get them all operating.

By far it's the most important game I've ever played in college, high school, anything. I want to show them I can make a play and put a couple of touchdowns on the board.

By far it's the most important game I've ever played in ù college, high school, anything. I want to show them I can make a play and put a couple of touchdowns on the board.

David Bull

By no means does it alleviate the situation. These are a couple of steps at improving the situation. But they are small steps.

Chad Brown

Hopefully, that will help. We'd won a couple in a row and wanted to keep some momentum.

Dwight Howard

Hopefully in the next couple of days, I'll get my invite. Actually, tomorrow I should have my invite.

Sean Burroughs

Hopefully, in a couple of weeks I can stop worrying about it. It's something I'm getting treated for every day.

Jacque Jones

Hopefully, I'll be able to get back on the field in a couple days.

Hopefully he'll recover, and be right in a couple of weeks time.

Hopefully he is going to be tied up in the next couple of days. He has looked extremely impressive in training.

Hopefully it won't be that long. Get a couple of games down there. Get some experience in and come back.

Honestly, when you look up at the scoreboard and see your name up there, it's like, 'Whoa, I only have a couple weeks left,' and that's tough.

Honestly, I've only worked in public education for a couple years. But from people who have been here longer than me, I can tell that there's not a lot of optimism that the funding levels are going to increase. Hopefully they don't decrease any more.

Being off the field for the last couple of days because of the weather hurt us, but a win is a win.

Cate Blanchett

Being in Australia, I was really sun conscious. For a couple of summers there, I did the baby oil thing, and my my mom said, 'Just don't. You'll regret it.'

Chris, as of right now, is the starting QB. He's just a sophomore, so he's going to make sophomore mistakes, but he's getting better by the day. And the exciting part is, we're going to have him a couple more years after this.