Famous Quotes & Sayings

We did hang around, but we didn't make plays down the stretch. We needed a stop, a couple of scores. We didn't get them and the game kind of rolled away from that.

We did everything that we set out to do. We have to wait a couple of days to get the final order we need.

Essence Carson

We'd go in when the sun was up and when we left, the sun was down. The couple days we had nice weather, we didn't experience it at all.

We'd get back, but couldn't get over the hump. We needed a couple more stops.

Jane Austen

It is your turn to say something now, Mr. Darcy. I talked about the dance, and you ought to make some kind of remark on the size of the room, or the number of couples.

Jane Austen

How little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue.

Jason Aldean

I would say, 'Go ask any couple that's been married for 30, 40, 50 years... It hasn't always been roses.'

Janis Ian

I want to do some fiction writing, I've had some pretty good luck with short stories, I'd like to do a couple of larger things.

Janis Ian

I see interracial couples all the time in Nashville. I'm a Jew in Nashville. I'm a gay person in Nashville. It's a non-issue in most of the time. That's a huge leap forward.

Janis Joplin

All my life I just wanted to be a beatnik. Meet all the heavies, get stoned, get laid, have a good time. That's all I ever wanted. Except I knew I had a good voice and I could always get a couple of beers off of it. All of a sudden someone threw me in this rock 'n' roll band. They threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me. And I decided then and there that that was it. I never wanted to do anything else. It was better than it had been with any man, you know. Maybe that's the trouble.

Janet McTeer

When children arrive, or when some crisis occurs, couples don't have the resources to deal with it because they've been so busy getting on with their lives. They haven't learned how to sit down and discuss things.

Adam Gilchrist

There is no doubt the rest helped me immensely, as it has done in the previous four years. People are questioning a couple of guys having a rest. We have been doing this for a long time now.

When I explain it to people I tell them the decathlon is like running a marathon. You really can't get another one in. It takes a lot out of you. It takes a couple of weeks to recover.

Suzanne Collins

'Lord of the Flies' is one of my favorite books. That was a big influence on me as a teenager; I still read it every couple of years.

Sugar Ray Leonard

Normally, I would run with a group of guys in my camps. A couple of days before the fight, I would run by myself. That was my time to choreograph the fight in my head, so I needed to be myself.

Stephen Amell

I loved Superman growing up. I saw a couple of those movies in the theater, and I watched 'Superman II' 8000 times.

Thomas Lennon

Super Troopers is hilarious. Everybody always thought we somehow - we did Reno way, way before any of us had seen Super Troopers. It sat on the shelf for a couple years.

We're just trying to play, execute our game plan and win games. We need a couple wins to get that feeling back.

We're just trying to finalize a couple of positions. We're still looking for our fourth and fifth starter and for some setup guys in the bullpen.

What we do know about the team we'll let the guys know and then get prepared for a couple more days off and be ready to go Friday.

What we did for the last 40 minutes was a good sign. There were a couple of breakdowns early and that got us in a hole. But we have a lot of positives to get us on track.

Brian Cowen

There were a couple of occasions when it was passed around - and, unlike President Clinton, I did inhale!.

Brian De Palma

You know it's always amazed me - I think the most startling thing that's happened in the last couple of decades is that there is no sort of objective reporting anymore.

Brian Eno

Things that are very popular are not taken seriously, because the snobbish side of one says, "Well, if everyone likes it it can't be that good." Whereas if only I and a couple of other people like it, then it must be really something special.

Boris Becker

Tennis has to be very careful.Not everyone is a computer, it is very good we have John McEnroe. I hope we have a couple more.

Billy Crystal

A laugh is a weird sound, and when you get a couple thousand people making it at once, it's really strange. But when I can feel proud of myself for causing it, it's great.

Bong Joon-ho

I have a group of cafes and coffee shops that I go to regularly. They usually have an area where I can plug in my computer and have a corner seat where I can do a couple hours of writing or whatever, even the noise of the surrounding people walking by. Those things are the things that stimulate me into writing.

Bode Miller

I tried retiring a couple of times and it just didn't really stick so, but at some point enough things conspire together and it does stick.

Bobby Fischer

I was in Japan a couple of months ago, I saw a preview for the movie Pearl Harbor. And they showed the Japanese airplanes coming in to bomb Pearl Harbor, and I applauded. Nobody else in the theater applauded.

Bruce Greenwood

Racing Stripes was so much fun to do. It's one of the funniest movies I've seen in a couple years.

Bridgette Wilson

I've only skied a couple of times in my life. Any skier would say I stink.

Brian P. Cleary

If a couple has their picture taken at a wedding or other social gathering, and the woman looks hot, her guy could be blinking, chewing, or even mid-sneeze, and she’ll still display it on her desk at work.

Brian Posehn

Once I could drive, I spent all my time in the city going to metal shows. I missed the first couple of Metallica shows because I was lame. By the time I got into them, they were playing places like the Kabuki.