Famous Quotes & Sayings

The laws of this commonwealth have not endowed non-residents with an unfettered right to marry. Only non-resident couples who come to Massachusetts and intend to reside in this commonwealth thereafter can be issued a marriage license.

David Scott

The lock designs look like like they would work. If it gets put 100 feet north of where the lift is, it will solve a couple problems.

The little ones and my wife will join me here in Houston for a couple of weeks each month. I can't do without them. They grow too fast.

James Patterson

What are you doing in there, waxing your mustache?” Iggy yelled, pounding on the bathroom door. I yanked the door open and pushed him backward hard, making him stagger. “I don’t have a mustache, you idiot!” Iggy giggled and put his arms up to protect himself in case I punched him. “And you know what?” I added. “You don’t have one either. Well, maybe in a couple years. You can always hope.” I left him in the hallway, anxiously fingering his upper lip.

James Patterson

Max: "Okay guys, I had a couple thoughts I wanted to go over with you." Iggy: (pretends to snore loudy) Max: (throws another pinecone at him) Iggy: "Quit throwing things at me!" Max: "Glad you could join us.

James Patterson

Why aren't crazy people content to take over, like, one town? It always has to be the whole word. They can't just control maybe twenty people. The have to control everyone. The can't just be stinking rich. The can't just do genetic experiments on a couple unlucky few. They have to put something in the water. In the air. To get everyone. I was tired of all of it.

James Patterson

Listen, street punk. You're a guy, and you're a couple inches taller, and maybe forty pounds heavier, and ooh, you're in a gang. But I've survived ten years of Catholic school, and I will cut you off at your knees without a blink. Do you understand?

James Merrill

Before trying a novel I wrote a couple of plays.

James Marsden

Voice work is usually not that big of a time commitment. You can go in for a couple of days or a couple of months, here and there, and just go in and play. I like being able to do that. You don't have that luxury on film sets or television sets.

Emile Hirsch

Even just a normal shot I find that much more interesting because of the 3D. It's like a shot of a couple of cars and us walking and it's like, "Oh wow, this is 3D. I've never seen this before!".

Eric Ries

There was a study done in the early 20th century of all the entrepreneurs who entered the automobile industry around the same time as Henry Ford; there were something like 500 automotive companies that got funded, had the internal combustion engine, had the technology, and had the vision. Sixty percent of them folded within a couple of years.

Emily Giffin

Every couple has two stories - the edited one to be shared from the couch and the unabridged version best left alone.

Emily Giffin

Sure, we were friends who exchanged soulful glances, friends who slept in a bed filled with sexual tension, friends who found any excuse to touch, but I worried that we'd never take that perilous leap of faith toward becoming a real couple, a permanent team.

Emily Giffin

We are one of those couples i used to watch, thinking to myself that I'd never be on the inside of something so special. I remember reassuring myself that it probably looked nicer than it actually was, I am happy to be wrong about that.

Emeril Lagasse

You have to be cautious of eating continuously the same thing. Beef comes to mind right away, and there's nothing wrong with beef, but you've got to do whatever you're doing in moderation. So try to break it up a little bit. Eat some fish or some shellfish at least a couple of times a week.

The difference from the last couple of years is that supply fears are driving the market.

Larry Ellison

All of Tom's experience will be very valuable to Oracle for the next couple of years, ... I have no problem with him saying not-nice things about me in the past. I might have said some things about him. I forget. That's all water under the bridge. We're on the same team again.

All of that stuff I went through a couple years ago with my son, it happened down the street from here. And it's not the easiest place for me to come. We drive by that place, and it's hard. It's not the easiest place in the world, but it is what it is. And, like I said, I had a little extra motivation today.

All of our losses follow the same pattern. We come out real hard in the first half or the first couple minutes and then we have a little drought. We just have to learn to get over that hump, whether it's being tougher and not letting the fatigue factor set in or just having a little more heart.

All the folks in the new administration are working as hard as they possibly can. They are not happy about any of this. This year, everybody understands what the scenario is. Obviously, it's going to be a very difficult couple of months for everyone funded by the state.

All these potential crises around the world are helping to move up prices in the energy market. The market wants to pull back but there was just too much negative news over the last couple of days.

All the proteins look very similar. Without the labeling, it would be like trying to find a specific potato within a couple hundred thousand of them.

Charlie Melancon

All the president's visit did was tie up New Orleans for a couple of hours.

All the practices were very intense, very upbeat. The first couple nights it looked like somebody had shot them with a gun. They were laying on the ice, throwing up and everything. It took us three or four weeks to get by that and you can see the results. It's a different team.

And for the next couple of years we won't be able to make big improvements,

Elayne Boosler

Now that the Court has declared money to be speech, I say we replace the current Court with some Ben Franklins, Thomas Jeffersons, George Washingtons, a couple of Susan B. Anthony's, Roosevelts, Hamiltons, a Sacajawea or two, and an Abe Lincoln to cover Scalia in full.

Holly Black

She wants me to take out Patton.” Barron’s brows draw together. “Take out? As in transform him?” “No,” I say. “As in take out to dinner. She thinks we’d make a good couple.

Hermann Weyl

Our federal income tax law defines the tax y to be paid in terms of the income x; it does so in a clumsy enough way by pasting several linear functions together, each valid in another interval or bracket of income. An archeologist who, five thousand years from now, shall unearth some of our income tax returns together with relics of engineering works and mathematical books, will probably date them a couple of centuries earlier, certainly before Galileo and Vieta.

Heidi Julavits

I think the one reason that writers marry other writers - one of the reasons that I married another writer - was, I fell in love with that writer. But second of all, I had been married before and a source of marital strife was me needing to go away for a couple of weeks to write or it's Saturday and I think I just need to work today and not hang out with you.

Heath Ledger

I love acting. Oh, God, I love it. But all this fame and all this bullshit attention. I'm not supernatural. I've done nothing extremely special to deserve the position. It happens every couple of years, and it's happened to hundreds of people before me.

Hiroshi Sugimoto

Where do you draw the line as a human being? Written record is only, what, a couple thousand years? And this scientific revolution is less than a hundred years. And computers only a few decades! We've changed so much. It's amazing, the speed of changes.

Helen Reddy

I couldn't do anything. I'd work in a department store for a couple of weeks, but I couldn't hack it. I couldn't even type! I had no skills whatsoever outside of show business.

Helen Rowland

When you see a married couple walking down the street, the one that's a few steps ahead is the one that's mad.