Famous Quotes & Sayings

You come into Freedom Hall and hold Louisville to 57 points, you can't say you didn't do a heck of a job. We just made a couple of mental breakdowns at the end.

You can't guard Nicole Scott with just one player. Langley (Iverson) did a great job on her but we also ran a couple of players at her (Scott) now and then.

You can't go to a log home or to anything using logs and not see cracks or checks. We can take whole logs and dry them whole in a couple of days.

Larry Bird

You can't walk in there after a couple of months off and expect to play in the playoffs. He's definitely going to have to play some games before the playoffs. There's no question about that. The playoffs are completely different.

Dusty Baker

You can't put your finger on it. The last couple of years we've played them tough. That's not the team you want to play every day.

Dana Williams

The major game plan is to spend a couple months listening,

The key was getting a couple of shots down early to extend their zone.

The key for us the past couple games has been working hard as a team. We played excellent defense and we did it as team, which makes a big difference.

The injury makes him doubtful for the weekend because he took a couple of heavy knocks on it.

James Sullivan

The underlying trend in employment growth is pretty good. With the unemployment rate down to 5 percent and inflation expectations up over the last couple of months, we do see more acceleration in wages. For now the Fed will keep moving on its stated path.

The underlying trend for our industry over the next decade should be strong. What we've seen in the past couple of quarters is bookings have been picking up,

Ryan Sullivan

The trip went well; we improved as the trip went on. We started 1-7, but finished 4-4, so 5-11 overall. As always, there were a couple of games that we thought we should have had, but we are a young team and got better.

Gloria Steinem

When you attempt something new, there's always fear. A couple of helpful slogans to me are "follow the fear" or "fear is a sign of growth."

J Mascis

I have a couple of gold teeth. I had braces for a year but I didn't wear the retainer.

J. K. Rowling

Er — have the Bludgers ever killed anyone?” Harry asked, hoping he sounded offhand. “Never at Hogwarts. We’ve had a couple of broken jaws but nothing worse than that. You don’t have to worry about the Quaffle or the Bludgers —” “— unless they crack my head open.” “Don’t worry, the Weasleys are more than a match for the Bludgers — I mean, they’re like a pair of human Bludgers themselves.

J. K. Rowling

Rack your brains, that should only take a couple of seconds.

J. K. Rowling

Hello, Harry" said George, beaming at him. "We thought we heard your dulcet tones." "You don't want to bottle up your anger like that, Harry, let it all out," said Fred, also beaming. "There might be a couple of people fifty miles away who didn't hear you.

J. K. Rowling

No, there is literally nothing on the business side that I wouldn't sacrifice in a heartbeat to have an extra couple of hours' writing. Nothing.

Ivan Reitman

I don't think there will be another Ghostbusters. I think we're all too old to do it. I think we've done it a couple times and there is not that much to get out of it, to do that would be fresh in it.

Ivan Reitman

My first student film was Orientation, which was basically the set-up for Animal House. There are a couple of scenes that we later borrowed in some form.

Itzhak Perlman

In Paris they have special wheelchairs that go through every doorway. They don't change the doorways, they change the wheelchairs. To hell with the people! If someone weighs a couple more pounds, that's it!

H. L. Mencken

A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.

Grace Paley

I didn't intend to become a short-story writer. I became one because I finished a couple of short stories and realized that's what I wanted to do and could do with children and with all the other things in my life.

Grace Paley

When I was about twenty-one, I published a few poems. Maybe I wrote a couple of stories before, but I really began to write stories in my mid-thirties. My kids were still little, and they were in school and day care, and I had begun to think a lot about wanting to tell some stories and not being able to do it in poetry.

I have more money than I am ever going to need. Financially, I'm fine for the next couple of hundred years.

University is the best couple of years of your life. Nowhere else can you drink and chase as many birds.

Michael Ondaatje

I kind of was shoveled onto a boat at 11 and went to England. I didn't have any parent watching over me. It was very free and may have been a bit of a scary time for me, but I really don't remember much about the voyage apart from playing ping-pong a lot with a couple friends.

Michael Ian Black

Any time I am involved in something from conception to execution, that's obviously a lot more personal, and I'm going to be more invested in it than something where I just show up for a couple days, shoot, and leave.

Michael Ian Black

Lordy, lordy, lordy do I love money. It is a character flaw, no doubt, one that springs from a panicked childhood in which I always felt as if our family was only a couple missed child support payments from being tossed onto the pitiless streets of our suburban New Jersey town.

Michael Ealy

If you look at a lot of people's careers, the first couple of movies, usually, are the most embarrassing.

Michael Eisner

Graduate school is a place to hide for a couple of years.

Michael Douglas

You have to make entertaining movies. But like a good meal, it's nice to have a little food for thought after you walk out of the theater rather than just wiling away a couple of hours.

Michael Emerson

But in the US, when you have two separate cultures, each with its right, each of which has come to exist in this political entity in the last couple hundred years, each feeling like, "I have the right to hold onto my culture," and that's what makes it difficult.