Famous Quotes & Sayings

Essence Carson

We'd go in when the sun was up and when we left, the sun was down. The couple days we had nice weather, we didn't experience it at all.

We'd get back, but couldn't get over the hump. We needed a couple more stops.

Jane Austen

It is your turn to say something now, Mr. Darcy. I talked about the dance, and you ought to make some kind of remark on the size of the room, or the number of couples.

Jane Austen

How little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue.

Jason Aldean

I would say, 'Go ask any couple that's been married for 30, 40, 50 years... It hasn't always been roses.'

Janis Ian

I want to do some fiction writing, I've had some pretty good luck with short stories, I'd like to do a couple of larger things.

Janis Ian

I see interracial couples all the time in Nashville. I'm a Jew in Nashville. I'm a gay person in Nashville. It's a non-issue in most of the time. That's a huge leap forward.

Janis Joplin

All my life I just wanted to be a beatnik. Meet all the heavies, get stoned, get laid, have a good time. That's all I ever wanted. Except I knew I had a good voice and I could always get a couple of beers off of it. All of a sudden someone threw me in this rock 'n' roll band. They threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me. And I decided then and there that that was it. I never wanted to do anything else. It was better than it had been with any man, you know. Maybe that's the trouble.

Janet McTeer

When children arrive, or when some crisis occurs, couples don't have the resources to deal with it because they've been so busy getting on with their lives. They haven't learned how to sit down and discuss things.

Michael Tucker

There are something like 1,000 rights that accrue to married couples under state law.

The only fly in the ointment was that goal in the first half in one of their infrequent trips (in the Wizards' defensive end). There were a couple of decisions we needed to make better. Then we got a little apprehensive after that. We were teetering a little bit. Two-zero leads in the recent past haven't been good to us.

James Blake

There are definitely times since I've been back that I just kind of look up and take five extra seconds before I serve. This is what I was dreaming of just a couple of years ago, to come back and feel this feeling again.

I am real pleased with the way Heath threw. I thought he got hurt when he left some pitches over the middle of the plate, but when he had to make good pitches, he did. It was a good outing for him, and a good way to set the tone. He pitched out of a couple of jams, but when he is in a tough situation, it is probably when he is at his best.

Padraig Harrington

I am somewhat pleased but I now need a couple of those at the weekend.

Jerry Sloan

Carlos is playing pretty strong. He should probably start to be about at the level he's playing at now after being out for a long period of time. He's finding a rhythm. He played extremely well tonight. He's played extremely well for a couple weeks now.

(Cathey) is an outstanding football prospect. Illinois was in here a couple of weeks ago and was very impressed with him on film.

But we've played 16 games now and every game is (close) like that, with a couple of exceptions. It's getting ridiculous.

Gary Williams

But we'll have to see how that plays out. I say that with the idea that there will be a couple of teams that play well these last three weeks of the regular season.

But we have a young team, so I think they learned a couple of lessons.

Basically, I skied sections today good enough to win, but I still made a couple of mistakes. I know that I need to be more consistent. Each race, I'm getting more confident, and I think with that comes consistency.

Because of the 9/11 commissions, people are sweating scared about what happened. We sucked! We sucked, and we got hurt. 800 Americans were killed over 20 years in terrorist actions, and what did we do? We shot a couple of missiles.

Al Alvarez

Because one of the curious things about writing is that it doesn't matter how perfect you try and get it, that you never quite get the sentence right, or there are things that you miss and, you know, you have work repeated a couple of pages later that shouldn't have been repeated.

Because of the storms we've had the last couple of years, there are many properties where we're finding the start of a new nest, or seeing an old nest revived.

Zach Randolph

I looked up and seen there were a couple seconds, so I got a couple good dribbles in and put it up. It felt good.

I lost my mind for a couple of weeks.

John Wright

I lost everything in my house. A couple of my relatives were killed, so I'm not in a real festive mood at this time.

My dad was a diehard fan, ... We had season tickets from when I was about 5 to about 12 years old. I used to go to a couple of games a year. I still remember where the seats were, too, 15-yard line, on the scoreboard side, under the awning. So if it rained or whatever, we were always underneath.

Jim Edmonds

Mulder struggled his first couple of starts with us. Then he found his groove, and it's impressive how all five of our starters feed off each other. Mark has fit in here real well.

Mooney is rebuilding this year. They've handed it to us a pretty good time the last couple years. They're just young.

My hat's off to them; they knew what they wanted. They needed a couple of key parts to the puzzle.

My guess is the panel is playing with a couple of different ideas. One is some...reform of the current income tax system and the second is a value-added tax.

My hope is that he can play similar to where he was a couple of years ago, ... I don't know that that's a realistic expectation starting this week.

Steve Coogan

My father worked for IBM. My mother raised us kids. There were six of us, and a couple of extra foster kids at any given time.