Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kurt Vonnegut

The Bible may be the Greatest Story Ever Told, but the most popular story you can ever tell is about a good-looking couple having a really swell time copulating outside wedlock, and having to quit for one reason or another while doing it is still a novelty.

Kurt Vonnegut

Here is the solution to the American drug problem suggested a couple years back by the wife of our President: "Just say no.

David Letterman

The best part about holiday parties is the alcohol. You have a couple of drinks and you tell your coworkers and your superiors what you really think about them. And then the fun begins.

David Letterman

Well, we're just a couple of weeks from new President Barack Obama being sworn in. And he's been very busy naming a lot of cabinet positions. And today he announced that he wants the surgeon general to be TV Dr. Sanjay Gupta. That was the kid on 'American Idol,' wasn't it?

David Johansen

I've been around the block a couple of times, and the guy I am now is the guy I like to be.

Dave Willis

I think I'm long past the days where I would go to the store and drop a couple hundred bucks on CDs, so my playlist is gonna be pretty long in the tooth.

Dave Willis

Couples who make it aren't the ones who never had a reason to get divorced; they are simply the ones who decided early on that their commitment to each other was always going to be bigger than their differences and their flaws.

Dave Sitek

I make music to bring the dead to life for a couple minutes and then let it go.

Dave Sim

The evidence that I see around me in society indicates that not only is thinking very much out of favor, but I'm not sure that the last couple of generations - Generation X and Generation Next, or whatever you want to call them - even know what a thought is, having been raised to be women.

Dave Grohl

Whenever I say I made a record in the garage, people just assume that I have, like, a Lear jet parked in there or something. But really there's old luggage, a couple of bikes. It's big enough to put one minivan in. That's it. No dartboard. I'm so not macho.

David Ogden Stiers

There are a couple of roles I haven't played that I want to. I would love to play Shiloh.

Danica McKellar

I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!

Dada Vaswani

Marriage helps young couples to raise themselves towards God. The bond of marriage unites two souls so firmly that though they are physically two separate entities, their souls are merged into one harmonious whole.

Condoleezza Rice

I've always said as a political scientist that "culture" is what we use when we can't explain things. I think it's more about accessibility. Part of the problem is that this is an expensive game [golf]. I know in a couple of places where there are black members, and they come from pretty much the same socioeconomic level that the white members come from.

Colin Hanks

Normally, what I do for fun is just nothing. I try to just relax. Normally, it involves just relaxing and reading and maybe going out and meeting up with a friend. I live a very simple existence. I would much rather just sit around and listen to a couple of records and read the paper.

Colin Farrell

The original WAS a fun film. [Paul] Verhoeven made a couple of 'Robocops' that were so great, too. I think the level of excitement is great and Arnie [Schwarzenegger] was particularly charismatic with that chopped up English, and the size of the man with his confidence and sense of humor.

Dan Savage

Straight couples don't have to be monogamous to be married or married to be monogamous. Monogamy no more defines marriage than the presence of children does. Monogamy isn't compulsory and its absence doesn't invalidate a marriage.

Dan Savage

One person simply can’t be all things to another person – sexually or otherwise—and unmet needs, unfulfilled desire, and unexplored possibilities are prices we pay to be in LTRs (long –term relationships). Monogamous, polyamorous, Femdom, or whatever: All couples people walk around feeling a little unfulfilled. (Single people, too). Because no one gets everything they want.

Dan Quayle

There are lots more people in the House. I don't know exactly - I've never counted, but at least a couple hundred.

Dan Quayle

I'm going to be a vice president very much like George Bush was. He proved to be a very effective vice president, perhaps the most effective we've had in a couple of hundred years.

Dan Dierdorf

Al [Michaels] is inquisitive, knowledgeable, and incredibly well-prepared. I don't know what his IQ is, but it's probably only a couple of points lower than mine.

We didn't get any No. 1 seeds, but we did very well. Our goal is to get all 11 of our kids to sub-sections, and I'd like to see a couple of league champions.

We did not play. I don't know if we overlooked them, (but) there's no point in complaining about it. We deserved to lose. We should be going home and we will be going home in a couple of hours.

We did not play as well as we could have today, but are still in the hunt. Hopefully tomorrow we can come out and put a couple low rounds together and make our move.

We had a couple of young ladies running a little tired from previous races in the day. But we'll see, hopefully we can still get into nationals. The ladies have been doing a good job.

We had a couple of younger kids come in and do a nice job for us. I have said to a lot of people recently that we are getting better at the right time.

We had a couple of winners that did really well.

We had a couple of volunteer stations we had to go back to a second time.

We had a couple of turnovers and missed some free throws.

We had a couple of turnovers, a couple of penalties and a couple of missed assignments, and that's when the game got really tight. But at the end of the game, our kids deserved some credit for rising to the occasion. I'm proud that we didn't let go of the rope. I would like to have less mistakes and I would like to execute better, but again, we're walking away with a win.

We had a couple of train wrecks towards the end of the day. We were playing really well through eight holes. These greens are fast and bent. We are not experienced in that area, so we had some experience to gain today.

We had a couple of tough practices after the DePaul match and just worked on our intensity.

Tommy Bowden

We had a couple of third and longs, and they hit the short guy and the short guy ran for the first down. Last year they didn't make that decision as often as they should have.