Famous Quotes & Sayings

We had a couple disappointments, but other kids who have done better than they have all year. I'm proud of all of them.

We got lost a couple of times, but I was happy with our defensive effort.

Scott Skiles

We got it tight there a couple times, kind of left our feet, got a little out of control. But having said that, we got a decent look at a 3-point shot to tie the game with 18 seconds to go. We had our chances.

We got in the red zone a couple of times but just couldn't do anything with our chances.

Weatherford will stick in there and throw the football. We popped him a couple times a couple weeks ago and he stayed in and threw the ball.

Billy Graham

For a married couple to expect perfection for each other is unrealistic.

Irwin Winkler

No one wants to hear from the producer. He's the guy by the pool with a cigar in his mouth and a couple of lovelies on his arm. But when you're a director, they want to hear what you have to say about everything - the war, the world.

With a tax cut coming, I think you've got to be interested in retail stocks, ... And if you have the patient to invest for more than a couple of months, I think technology and telecom are still going to be great.

Stephen Jay Gould

South America had been an island continent, far bigger and far more diverse than Australia, for tens of millions of years before the Isthmus of Panama rose just a couple of million years ago. The resulting flood of North American mammals across the new land bridge corresponds in time with the decimation of the native South American fauna. In fact, most large mammals generally considered distinctly South American... are all recent migrants from North America.

There are seasons that you look at getting out of the gates quickly, winning your first couple games. And then there are other times where you have to forget about that. This is one of those seasons.

The quicker he learns, the easier it's going to come to him. All he needs is a couple things to go his way to maintain his confidence. Then he'll be OK.

Fred Frith

We played some gigs in Switzerland a couple of weeks ago and it was the first time I really felt the group was really a band in the sense of something I could write for.

We called out to it a couple of times trying to get it to lift its head so we could take its picture. He was so engrossed in eating, and when he got done he just ambled off down the railroad ties and into the woods.

We only trailed by six points with 1:30 left in the game. Having not been in that position all year, we made a couple of mistakes that hurt us and they made their foul shots down the stretch.

Sam Simon

We only have about 200,000 gallons, which is next to nothing. We could go through that in a couple of hours.

We only had 10 girls for a couple of games. It went through the whole team.

We own a hospital stock. We own a couple of them, but our favorite is UHS. They're performing well. Admissions are up. Pricing is up and that stock's probably worth 30 percent higher,

Alan Greenspan

We owe it to those who will retire over the next couple of decades to promise only what the government can deliver,

We over-purchased a couple of hundred and a week out from the event just want to get rid of them.

With a couple of bounces here and there, it's a different game. Our shots just didn't fall down the stretch.

Rose Leslie

For the first time in my life I tried whale. It was very chewy and quite fatty. My friend had had whale before, so I knew it would be quite blubbery. It was delicious. I loved it. It was smoked, so it had a lovely kind of tangy taste to it. We had it a couple of nights. I was won over. It was very yummy.

Everywhere we go, we try to get a couple groups together to help whatever neighborhood we are in.

Firms are still pretty cautious, given the experience of the past couple of years. But if firms are going to maintain market share, they will have to be competitive in terms of the goods they offer.

Pierre Turgeon

Finally. The last couple games, I've been thinking about this. It's an honor.

Moises Alou

Finally it looks like we'll have the lineup that we expected to have, without J.T., unfortunately ... Hopefully it pays off the last couple weeks of the season. We've got something pretty good going.

Finally. I think we were road weary the last couple of trips. We battled, but didn't come through like tonight.

Max von Sydow

Film acting, if you don't play the lead, you come, and you do your scenes in a few days, and you act with a couple of colleagues. All the rest of the actors you never see, and you don't even meet many of them. And you don't know what will happen with what you've done. Maybe it will be in the film, maybe it will not.

Experience is what counts. You want someone who does this every day, not someone who rents for a day to do a couple of surgeries. You don't want to be the guinea pig for an obstetrician delivering his first baby, or a doctor doing open-heart surgery for the first time, right?

But the kids have practiced well the past couple of days and were looking forward to Orland this Friday.

Michael Reagan

(But) none of that's as important as what I'm doing right now, ... If I can spend a couple hours of my time ... and I can help somebody start healing, even just a little bit, I don't have a choice.

But nobody wants to hear about gains over the next couple of years,

I remember early on, in the first couple of years especially, I would run into some people that would try to put Kickstarter under the 'social good' label. And I actually had this very visceral reaction - I just didn't like that at all.

David Bowie

I'm an early riser. I get up between five and six, have coffee, and read for a couple of hours before everyone else gets up.