Famous Quotes & Sayings

When we got within a couple miles to the beach, there was nothing resembling a house; there was only rubble. To see the scale of devastation in person was just unbelievable.

When we got that lead they made a couple of mistakes with that intentional and technical, and we just ran with it.

We wrote the script very quick, in a couple of weeks.

We wrestled well. The kids looked great. A couple of JV kids stepped in and wrestled well.

We wrestled hard. The last couple weeks we haven't wrestled as a team, but we did tonight.

What he's cleverly done in the last couple of weeks is taken food off the Democrats' table.

We got turned down by a couple of other high schools who didn't necessarily want us to film a movie that had anything to do with drugs there. We tried to explain it was a satire that was anti-drug, but it was no good.

We got trashed up there. There were a couple of things we were able to do tonight that made the difference.

We got to within 44-40 in the last minute, but then we missed a couple easy shots and had a couple turnovers.

Richard Allen

We can determine the magnitude within a couple of seconds of initiation of rupture and predict the ground motion from seconds to tens of seconds before it is felt.

What makes it frustrating is that, we're the type of program that practices every day and we practice situations every day. Mentally, a couple kids did not execute properly, home plate was left uncovered and, hey, give their runner credit, she never stopped.

Phil Garner

We're going to have to take a personal inventory as a team. This is September, and this is no time to fool around. We need to pick it up a little bit. It is fortunate to lose two ballgames the last couple of days after having a nice streak and not lose any ground to the leaders.

We're going to have games bunched together at the end of the season and I would have liked to have had a couple of those games scheduled for this week.

Unfortunately, it seems like we have a couple every year.

Craig Conroy

Usually I kind of understand him, but tonight I couldn't even understand what he was saying. I think it was Slovak. I don't know. He was pretty happy, though. It was nice to see him get a couple of goals because he played there so long.

Brad Bird

Well I'm still working on The Incredibles. So I'm going to take a little time off. I've got a couple of tricks up my sleeve. I'm not ready to talk about them yet, but expect the unexpected.

Ben Affleck

I recognize that Hollywood is not about seniority. Often it's not even a meritocracy. It's about what you did yesterday. You have a couple of misses, and suddenly it's impossible to find a hit. So the swings are gigantic. But I've always understood it as such, and navigated it as such.

Ben Affleck

My father has positional vertigo, and if he flies he gets really dizzy, so he has to drive out to California, which he does a couple times a year. We talk, but we e-mail mostly.

Barry Sanders

I sat behind Thurman Thomas for my first couple of years, then my first year starting I won the Heisman. After I won the Heisman, that's when things changed as far as going to the NFL.

Diane Ackerman

Living with anyone for many years takes skill. To keep peace in the household, couples learn to adapt to one another, hopefully in positive ways.

Derrick Rose

I don't live in that world where I'm on social media, I don't got social media. Or I'm reading articles [about my game], so it's like I hear stuff by word of mouth a couple of days after so it never gets to me. So I can't get mad about what they say.

We're going to do a couple of smaller things to accommodate more people, but we're not going into all-out Division Series mode. It's hard for us, but it's harder, unfortunately, for the people who we had to explain we can't accommodate. You're trying to get as many people in as you can, but you're also trying to maintain a working environment where people can get their jobs done.

We extend thanks to our riders and to our members for the support that they have received in the last couple of weeks of difficulty.

John Jones

We feel that we?re one of the top teams in the district. We can show that with a couple more wins in the state playoffs.

Steve Riley

(We're) finally trying to nail down some specifics and pick between a couple of the really big options. Let's get on with something; let's make something happen.

We're fighting for a first-round bye so that's the only thing we're kind of thinking about, talking about ? just as we've done over the last couple of months is just try to put wins on the board.

Scott Wilson

We're just a couple of old guys playing heavy music.

We're just looking for something to get us going. Maybe a couple of things can go our way to get on a hot streak.

We're getting smarter, that's for sure, ... It's still not perfect, we still have to work on a couple of things. We were winning 3-0 and we have to keep the lead and make sure nothing like that happens in the future. We put ourselves in a difficult spot and, for our confidence, it's not good to have a lead and then get shaky at the end.

Luis Gonzalez

We're getting big hits when we needed them the last couple of days,

We're getting better, but our defense the last couple of games hasn't been there. Teams have been scoring on us. We've got three more games to get it right before the Big East Tournament -- three important games -- so, hopefully, we can get it started now.

We're hoping she can get back for state. She hasn't been in the water for a couple of weeks and that's going to be real hard to come back from.

Lesley Gore

I decided to host a couple of the 'In The Life' programs. And I did that really as a result of meeting a lot of young gay people in the Midwest who really had nothing to relate to. At least I felt this program is presenting them with some options.