Famous Quotes & Sayings

He's right where we want to be after the first couple of heats. He's handling it well.

Isaac Rosenberg

I don't think I knew what real poetry was till I read Keats a couple of years ago.

Eric Williams

I don't really see a weakness right now going to districts. We're more of a defensive team right now, but we're trying a couple things to become more of a striking team.

Jim Edmonds

I don't put much thought into anything right now except getting myself more comfortable at the plate and playing hard enough to get something out of these last couple days.

I don't know if we're running out of gas. I can't explain it, ... It's just one of those things where we're kind of in a rut right now. Our starters had a rough couple weeks, and I feel like our starters are really starting to come back and pitch well again. The hitters are having a little rough week now, too.

I don't know if those are parent-owned houses, but the partying has been getting worse over the last couple years.

I don't know if they go by if you rank in your league, or the games you win and lost, or our RPI. I think we still have a fairly good chance. We still have the (conference) tournament to go. I still think we have a good shot to win, but we have to get some wins now. We've lost a couple in a row down the stretch here, and they look at that, too.

I don't know if fatigue was a factor or not. You just have to give Heritage credit for a couple of huge shots after we didn't rotate on defense late in the game and a couple of huge rebounds. We gutted it out until the end but couldn't get shots to fall late.

I don't know if it's emotional but I will realize if we play great or poorly that there is only a couple of weeks left.

I dont know if its anything intentionally we did, but . . . we actually used to have some stations here and a few people knew us then, but we sold most of the stations in the Valley a couple of years ago, ... We own Phoenix Fuel here in town. Youve probably seen some of their trucks on the freeways, but they operate under the name Phoenix Fuel so most people dont know that we own them either.

I don't know how many generals there are. There are a couple thousand at least, and they're going to have opinions. It's not surprising, we're in a war.

I don't know how comfortable I'm going to feel, even though I have been there a couple of times. I guess you've got the No. 1-ranked player in the world and the No. 4-ranked player in the world right on my tail.

I don't know if you're supposed to love your coach. Right now I love him, but we'll see in a couple weeks.

I don't know if it makes a difference, because everybody plays better at home in this league. But we'll still get a couple of practices in so that should help us a little bit.

I don't know if I ever said that to myself. There were a couple of times that I felt OK and then all of a sudden I started feeling like (garbage).

I didn't think we played very well. We lost our composure, and this time of year that can't happen. We have our work cut out for us the next couple of days.

I didn't feel like myself tonight. I don't know what the problem was, but they had a couple of good chances, a couple of breakaways and they were able to finish.

I didn't feel any effects of not facing hitters for a while. For the most part, I did what I wanted to do. I just left a couple pitches up.

I didn't even recall being on the DB sessions until Herbie Flowers reminded me a couple of years ago.

Bill Wyman

I didn't do music for a couple of years; I just focused on other things.

I didn't know much about my disorder when I started two years ago. I had been hospitalized a couple times, and then my CMO put me in touch with the group.

I didn't pull the team through in a couple of games, the first and third games when they needed me most.

Ingmar Bergman

Among today's directors I'm of course impressed by Steven Spielberg and Scorsese, and Coppola, even if he seems to have ceased making films, and Steven Soderbergh - they all have something to say, they're passionate, they have an idealistic attitude to the filmmaking process. Soderbergh's Traffic is amazing. Another great couple of examples of the strength of American cinema is American Beauty and Magnolia.

Jack LaLanne

If you lose a couple of inches off your stomach, your business down there will look a lot longer.

J. D. Salinger

I don't hate too many guys. What I may do, I may hate them for a little while, like this guy Stradlater I knew at Pencey, and this other boy, Robert Ackley. I hate them once in a while—I admit it—but it doesn't last too long, is what I mean. After a while, if I didn't see them, if they didn't come in the room, or if I didn't see them in the dining room for a couple of meals, I sort of missed them. I mean I sort of missed them.

Ivor Novello

A couple of seats at a good picture house cost comparatively little but give a generous return in the shape of freshened minds and freedom from the worries that even the best regulated homes cannot always avoid.

Ioan Gruffudd

People in America and Hollywood are very good at pronouncing my name, to begin with. Socially, they're very adept at listening to somebody's name and repeating it, cleverly in the first couple of sentences so the name sticks to begin with.

Ira Glass

What nobody tells people who are beginners… is that all of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, and it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not… your taste is why your work disappoints you… We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this… It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions.

Ilya Kovalchuk

I want to keep growing. I should take a couple steps every year if I want to be one of the best players in the league.

Ike Barinholtz

I'm a big crier in general. The right life insurance commercial will take me out for a couple of days.

Jack London

The fortunate man is the one who cannot take more than a couple of drinks without becoming intoxicated. The unfortunate wight is the one who can take many glasses without betraying a sign; who must take numerous glasses in order to get the ‘kick’.

Jack Nicklaus

For years, I never thought I needed a short game. Finally I just decided to do something about it. I needed to get up and down from tough spots on the par-5s for my birdies. So I went to Phil [Rogers]. He's the best. For the last couple weeks, Phil has been staying at my house and we've been practicing in the evening.

Jack Nicklaus

I have a couple [of grandsons] that are in college playing lacrosse. It's great and it's fun. But they all also play golf a little bit.