Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carey Mulligan

I did The Seagull, the Chekhov play, on Broadway, a couple of years ago, and I had done it in London, and I became completely obsessed with the character, Nina, that I played in that. She's an actress. I couldn't find a play after that, that I wanted to do, because I couldn't think of doing anything else. Every part is a disappointment, once you've done that part.

Cameron Russell

Having a couple really great basics makes it easy to dress well every day.

Cameron Diaz

The last couple of years were hell. Like, I can't even tell you, it was so hard. I didn't know how to handle it. But I think I'm in a much better place now, because I stepped away for a second and took a breath. Hollywood is a funny place. It offers so much, but it can also take a lot away from you.

Flip Saunders

We've talked about Chauncey and how it would be a travesty if he's not an All-Star. It's the same way with Parker. He's really played at that level the last couple of years, and I can't see any way he doesn't make that All-Star team this year.

Dan Hawkins

We've taken a couple of knocks in the in the head, and I fully expect us to rally.

We've struggled for the past couple weeks. I don't know if you can tell if you walk into a practice. We're working hard.

Burt Rutan

Virgin Galactic, which will be operating SpaceShipTwo, will be only one of several spacelines. The competitors for Virgin include the Russians, Bezos's Blue Origin, and possibly Rocketplane Kistler. And likely a couple of others who are smart enough not to tell people what they are doing!

Catherine O'Hara

I think one of the sexiest things a couple can share is laughing.

Carol Alt

I never drank except a couple sips of wine at Thanksgiving.

Alan Lightman

I re-read a lot of books that I like a lot. There are some books that I try to reread every couple of years. A good book changes for you every few years because you are in a different place in your own life.

Alafair Burke

Anyone who's had a shower and hasn't ingested illegal narcotics within a couple of days stands out on a bench in the courthouse.

Al Yankovic

I was able to come up with a couple articles for the magazine, I was able to solicit help from a bunch of my friends to contribute pieces: Patton Oswalt, Seth Green, Emo Phillips, Chris Hardwick, John Hodgman, and more. It's very much a "Weird Al" themed issue, so I'd like to think that there's a lot of "Weird Al" flavor throughout but I think it'd be generous really to call me an editor.

Alain de Botton

An argument in a couple: 2 people attempting to introduce each other to important truths - by panicked shouting.

Al Franken

Ralph Nader is a hero. I know Ralph, and I call him up occasionally. He's helped me out on a couple of occasions when I've given speeches to corporations where he'd have a good... He'd give me some good information.

Al Franken

I've never understood why we would want to deny all the joys - and the challenges - of marriage to anyone. Which is why I think any loving, committed couple - gay or straight - should be able to get married.

Al Franken

Does the mainstream media have a liberal bias? On a couple of things, maybe. Compared to the American public at large, probably a slightly higher percentage of journalists, because of thier enhanced power of discernment, realize they know a gay person or two, and are, therefore, less frightened of them.

Mike Holmgren

Mo (Maurice) Morris did a really good job in place of Shaun and Mack Strong filled in a couple of blanks.

McClellan (4-0) threw a great game. He settled down and got us out of a couple of tense innings.

Matt Stiles stepped up huge. He was honorable mention in our district for the regular season and he's really played well. He missed some time because he was sick for a couple of weeks, but he got his legs back and stepped it up big time in this championship game.

Matt's been struggling with the stick so it was nice to see him get a couple of knocks.

Megan has really improved in the past few weeks. She pitched a couple of good games in Gulf Shores, and she has really become consistent, which is what we need out of our pitchers.

Me and a couple guys were talking about a parade on State Street or Michigan Avenue.

My job is to create and (Holy Cross) gave me the lane a couple times. If it's there I'm going to take it, if not I'm going to kick it out. Other guys stepped up tonight and knocked down shots.

My knee was just giving out. They braced it and taped it, and I felt like I had a little more. I'll get an MRI in a couple of days and just see what happens.

Martina Hingis

My life has been very good the last couple of years. I'm very comfortable, and this is really hard work,

Michael Bradley

My legs felt great, ... I was winded right off the bat, quickly. That'll come with getting a couple more minutes and doing a little extra conditioning. But my legs felt great.

My feeling was somewhere in the last couple of days it just didn't look like I would be involved, that I was going to be a consideration for the managerial position.

Jim Edmonds

My first question was whether I could know ... just for some peace of mind or to have a game plan how I could live my life the next couple years,

LeBron James

No decision yet. I hope to make one in the next couple days. It's looking real positive right now I might be playing on the team.

One of the things we talk about during timeouts is getting three defensive stops in a row. We finally did it. ... We got a couple of them and it gave us the working margin again. It was a good team effort.

Justin Hartley

One of the things I wanted to do was direct. There've been a couple of times that a director will walk up and say something to me, and all it does is make me mad. Inside I'll go, 'Well, that wasn't helpful at all.'

Bob Woodward

One of the things that Deep Throat did was at several crucial moments -- we knew we were right when we had a couple sources -- and then Deep Throat would say, 'That's right.'

John Jones

One of the things IBM needs to do more of is become more competitive with their hardware products. They've become very competitive in software and services. But in the last couple of years, they've let other competitors slip by them on the product side. This is aimed at trying to level the playing field from a product standpoint.