Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lynne Truss

If we looked inside ourselves and remembered how insignificant we are, just for a couple of minutes a day, respect for other people would be an automatic result.

Lucy Lawless

Xena and Gabrielle were a couple...in the end, it was if not explicitly said, it was implicit that...yeah, they totally were.

John Green

I wondered if there would ever be a day when I didn't think about Alaska, wondered whether I should hope for a time when she would be a distant memory - recalled only on the anniversary of her death, or maybe a couple of weeks after, remembering only after having forgotten.

John Green

I did some research on this a couple years ago," Augustus continued. "I was wondering if everybody could be remembered. Like, if we got organized, and assigned a certain number of corpses to each living person, would there be enough living people to remember all the dead people?" "And are there?" "Sure, anyone can name fourteen dead people. But we're disorganized mourners, so a lot of people end up remembering Shakespeare and no one ends up remembering the person he wrote Sonnet Fifty-five about

John Glenn

I think a mentor gets a lot of satisfaction in a couple of ways. They're doing something constructive, so they feel good about that. And when they see the results of this, with the young people they're working with, it's very, very rewarding.

John Florio

A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple.

John Fowles

One of the great fallacies of our time is that the Nazis rose to power because they imposed order on chaos. Precisely the opposite is true - they were successful because they imposed chaos on order. They tore up the commandments, they denied the super-ego, what you will. They said, "You may persecute the minority, you may kill, you may torture, you may couple and breed without love." They offered humanity all its great temptations. Nothing is true, everything is permitted.

Jonathan Lethem

Some people have things written all over their faces; the big guy had a couple of words misspelled in crayon on his.

Jonathan Katz

Scientists have found the gene for shyness. They would have found it years ago, but it was hiding behind a couple of other genes.

Jonah Hill

I like playing characters that, you know, a couple could go see the movie and one person could love him and one person could hate him.

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.

Edward Carpenter

Remember, the serpent is still living in the Garden of Eden. Only the heterosexual couple was expelled.

Edward Albee

When I was fifteen I wrote seven hundred pages of an incredibly bad novel - it's a very funny book I still like a lot. Then, when I was nineteen I wrote a couple hundred pages of another novel, which wasn't very good either. I was still determined to be a writer. And since I was a writer, and here I was twenty-nine years old and I wasn't a very good poet and I wasn't a very good novelist, I thought I would try writing a play, which seems to have worked out a little better.

Edward Albee

By some curious mischance, a couple of my plays managed to hit an area where commercial success was feasible. But it's wrong to think I'm a commercial playwright who has somehow ceased his proper function. I have always been the same thing -- which is not a commercial playwright. I'm not after the brass ring.

The married couples that seem to be successful in making love last are those that have a high regard and respect for each other. And they are intentional about nurturing the marital friendship.

The markets are looking a little tired and we could shuffle lower over the next couple of weeks.

The market reacted negatively to the oil inventory numbers. But we've had a pretty decent run-up the last couple of days, it's been a very strong first quarter.

The major trend in the market over the last couple of weeks has been uncertainty. Uncertainty about the Fed, uncertainty about earnings, and we're seeing a continuation of that today.

The market has fallen a lot in the last week or so, people have locked in some profits on the miners and now the dust has settled over a couple of days we've headed comfortably back to the 5,400 level.

The market has done poorly over the recent couple of days and weeks. Three weeks ago, the fundamentals were improving and all was well with the world. Now there's depression back on Wall Street and it looks like the 'Santa Claus' rally is not going to happen. Having said that, this market is also driven by emotion.

The market has been weak in the last few days on a number of worries. One of them has been earnings. We think that despite a couple of warnings and misses, earnings in general for the fourth quarter of 2005 are going to look pretty decent.

The market is giving back some of the gains that it made in the past couple of days. The market is now overbought so we should expect to see it sell off,

Holland Taylor

I've had a long life and a lot of relationships and not one of them do I wish -- well, I take that back -- there are a couple I could have done without,

Holly Madison

I started a trial period a couple of weeks ago as a correspondent for 'Extra,' and now it's become full time.