Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ray Bradbury

I was never young. Whoever I was then is dead. That's more of your quills. I don't want a hide full, thanks. I have always figured that you die each day and and each day is a is a box, you see, all numbered and neat; but never go back and lift the lids, because you have died a couple thousand times in your life, and that's a lot of corpses, each dead a different way, each with a worse expression. Each of those days is a different you, somebody you don't know or understand or want to understand.

Randy Jackson

I've sung background for a couple of bands.

Randy Moss

When I got drafted by Minnesota, and I think I said this a couple weeks ago, I think I felt obligated to bring a Super Bowl to Minnesota.

Randy Pausch

All my adult life I've felt drawn to ask long-married couples how they were able to stay together. All of them said the same thing: "We worked hard at it.

Rand Paul

Just because a couple people on the Supreme Court declare something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so.

Rand Paul

When you couple this militarization of law enforcement with an erosion of civil liberties and due process that allows the police to become judge and jury-national security letters, no-knock searches, broad general warrants, pre-conviction forfeiture-we begin to have a very serious problem on our hands.

Rajon Rondo

I haven't played defense in a couple years.

Raf Simons

My ideas for the next collection always happen a couple of months before the show. I have learned to shut up and not bother my assistants with it.

Shay Mitchell

When I was modeling, I had always been told 'If you could lose a couple of inches, you'll work so much more,' or 'You'll do so much better if you were just a little bit skinnier.' I finally realized that no one is perfect and that I like the fact that I look different and don't have the perfect body. No one does!

Shane MacGowan

With The Pogues, at least the first three albums I'll stand by completely, yeah? Because I was in artistic control then, yeah? And the last couple of albums I'll stand by anything that's got my name on it, yeah? But I'll stand by anything that is on The Popes' albums, you know? I wouldn't put stuff out that I didn't like. I don't put out bad music. And I can tell the difference. I know that.

George Shearing

I haven't written an awful lot recently, but I think I probably will start again very shortly. Being so much on the road, when you have a couple of weeks off, you're likely to avoid sitting at the piano, and taping, and giving yourself more work to do.

George Orwell

It was true that there was no such person as Comrade Oglivy, but a few lines of print and a couple of faked photographs would soon bring him into existence... Comrade Oglivy, who had never existed in the present, now existed in the past, and when once the act of forgery was forgotten, he would exist just as authentically, and upon the same evidence, as Charlemagne or Julius Caesar.

George R. R. Martin

I have done a lot of work in Hollywood myself. I worked in television for roughly 10 years, from the mid-'80s to mid-'90s. And I was on staff at a couple of shows. I did some feature films, including originals and adaptations.

George R. R. Martin

I had a couple of friends, but I was mostly the kid with his nose in a book.

George Carlin

There are a lot of little things about our bodies that we all know, but we never talk about. That's what interests me. These are practically universal experiences; nobody mentions them! Some of them are disgusting. Some of them are appallingly revolting and degrading even to the most degenerate mind. So let's get started with a couple of them.

Gene Robinson

It is at least a small comfort to me, as a gay rights and marriage equality advocate, to know that like any marriage, gay and lesbian couples are subject to the same complications and hardships that afflict marriages between heterosexual couples,

Gene Siskel

The result is a picture that represents so much of what I want and rarely get from a movie - a couple of hours filled with characters who are as exciting as the people I know in real life.

They (Avon) started to put some things together. But, a couple of penalties here and there and we were able to get some stuff back.

They are very physical. That's one thing I remember from playing a couple of years ago. They're always tough to guard in the interior.

They went out on a New Year's Eve date in 2001. They married just a couple of years ago -- May 3, 2003 -- and their son, Will, just turned a year old in August.

They went on a couple of little runs. You can only overcome so many of those. We fought back and gave ourselves a chance, but they'd come back at you with another run.

They went down and got a couple of easy baskets and the next thing we knew, it was too late to get back in the game.

Jose Theodore

They were skating more and they had the puck more than they had the last couple of games. They had more shots, they were shooting from everywhere with traffic.

Jay Payton

They weren't in the way. I turned around and saw there were a couple of Oakland fans, so it worked out pretty well. I think they might have held the other fans off.

Bonnie Fuller

They want to have a nickname for the couples because they feel as if they are part of the stars' extended group of family and friends.

They wanted to go out a couple months ago. I held off as long as I could.

They've struggled. They have a couple of kids who are pretty athletic, but they're young and rebuilding.

They've set themselves up astonishingly well for the next couple of years, especially so when you see that some of the big growth has come in high-margin businesses.

Craig Foster

They were waving to us, they had lots of smiles, and I saw a couple hold up some fish with great glee.

They were up 5-4 and 40-30, but they didn't get it. I probably will switch them up, too. They've had a couple chances, but couldn't quite do it.

They were under duress a large part of the time, so it's tough to evaluate. We didn't protect and they didn't have time. I thought Mike threw some good balls, and we had a couple of drops. We have to make those plays.

Cory Lidle

They were swinging early in the count, and a couple of fastballs were up in the zone. I might have been a little relaxed in trying to get strike one, instead of aggressively going after them. It just wasn't in the cards.

They made a couple more plays than we did. I thought we played with great intensity and energy all the way.