Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anthony Horowitz

Alternatively you can twist the cylinder round twice clockwise; that turns it into a hand grenade. Five-second fuse. I tested it on one of my assistants. Poor old Bennett... he should be out of hospital in a couple of months.

Alice Sebold

I mean, if I went into my closet, I could find a previous draft and try to figure that out, but it takes a long time for me to find the voice to tell a story in. I was working from other points of view for a couple years there.

Andy Hertzfeld

We were developing an innovative Personal Information Manager called Chandler but a couple years ago I took off from that to do a project writing down my memoirs essentially, reminiscing about the development of the Macintosh.

Andrew McMahon

There's no certainty to the next couple of years, but people are paying attention now. And I want to put out a record when people are paying attention, because that's when it has the best chance of being heard.

Amy Ray

When I'm writing, which is 8-9 months out of the year, I'm in a concerted writing pace, where I work 5 days a week for at least a few hours a day, maybe a little bit more. But I won't work for more than 2 hours at a time. I'll work for a couple hours and take a break.

Amy Lee

A fan once asked if he could have a piece of my hair for voodoo. I said no, so he hugged me and plucked out a couple of hairs and ran off.

Ally Carter

In a restaurant, tangoing couples circled past, and the look in Hale's eyes was especially mischievous when he told her, "Oh, I see. You brought me here so you can have your way with me on the dance floor.

Ally Carter

Might have a couple of kinks to work through," Hale admitted then reached for her hand. As soon as he touched her, Kat knew there was no such thing as curses. People make and break their own fortunes--they are the masters of their own fate. And right then Kat wouldn't have changed a thing.

Ann Druyan

Ten long trips around the sun since I last saw that smile, but only joy and thankfulness that on a tiny world in the vastness, for a couple of moments in the immensity of time, we were one.

Ann Coulter

Gays (homosexuals) usually bring up the argument about all the straight couples living in 'sham' marriages, but I see no point in dragging the Clintons into this

Ann Coulter

[Senator]Torricelli [D-NJ] will leave public office with just the clothes on his back, a Rolex watch and other assorted jewelry, a TV set, a couple of racks of Italian suits, some Jets tickets, a grandfather clock and three paper sacks filled with small, unmarked bills.

Ann Coulter

Gore said foreigners are not worried about 'what the terrorist networks are going to do, but about what we're going to do.' Good. They should be worried. They hate us? We hate them. Americans don't want to make Islamic fanatics love us. We want to make them die. There's nothing like horrendous physical pain to quell anger. Japanese Kamikazes pilots hated us once, too. A couple of well-aimed nuclear weapons got their attention. Now they are gentle little lambs.

Amy Winehouse

I read a lot when I'm travelling and always have a couple of books on the go.

Afrojack

I studied psychology for a couple of years as a personal hobby, so you start learning about people and listening to your intuition, like when you you're feeling that people are not being entirely straight with you.

Richard King

I think the act of condensing months or years of work down to a couple hours of entertainment is pretty wild and extremely rewarding.

Dave Wannstedt

The deal was to try to force field goals and minimize the touchdowns and come up with a couple of turnovers. I felt like we had that going on defense. But in the second half, we've got to get a couple of scores.

The day started out kind of bland, then I made a couple of good par putts early and got things going, ... You always feel good when you play like this. I'm going to have to put up some similar numbers the next two days.

The critical numbers will be the data on January which are due in a couple of months, but there are no signs of inflation-busting pay deals from these numbers and we expect that to remain the case.

We expect to be competitive this year and very talented in the next couple of years.

We'll definitely have a couple of good laughs and smiles about it.

Tom Flynn

We'll be making it a better environment for pedestrians. Work will start in the next couple of weeks.

We were mixing it up offensively. They're a pretty good offensive team. We established drives. We had a couple good drives that did not end in the end zone. We got first downs. We made them frustrated. They kind of panicked.

Larry Foote

We were mad because they cracked a couple runs and got right down in there,

We were lucky it stopped where it did. A couple of feet (in elevation) makes a big difference.

We were able to get a lot of guys into the game, which was significant. But we gave up a couple big plays. We have to do a better job of eliminating those types of things.

When it comes to family, a lot of times they think the more the merrier, and it doesn't occur to them that the couple is paying $50 per person, or that space may be limited, or that the couple wants an intimate ceremony.

We'd side out and get a point and then hand it right back to them. Actually, we'd side out and then they'd side out and get a couple more, then we'd side out again.

Marcus Vick

We drove down there a couple of times and just couldn't get in. I think we just started executing and went down the field with a lot of confidence. And that's what made it better.

We realize some places are impenetrable by land vehicles. We may have to rent a couple of helicopters to fly relief in there.

We're a little up and down. More up than down. We had a couple of negative runs where we didn't do well. For the most part we played pretty well.

Rich Rodriguez

We're a little more talented now than maybe we've been the last couple years. But we've got to show it on the field.

We're a little disappointed in the depth. There are a lot of kids who worked pretty hard in the weight room this summer and aren't quite living up to what I think they should be doing. But it's still early and we've had a couple guys step up.

We played McClintock over the summer and they are very quick and athletic. They're not very big, but they're pretty good. They have a couple kids who can shoot. I am familiar with what they can do." ()