Famous Quotes & Sayings

My shooting's been off the last couple games. But I'll get that back.

My serve went well today and kept me out of trouble a couple of times, ... I felt a lot of pressure to do something out there.

My own thought is that we go a couple of years. We just aren't getting that much reaction to it. It seems to be accepted.

My own feeling is that this isn't a new threat, it's been around a couple weeks and AV vendors have had protection in place.

My mother was raised in the Nicholls home for several years. She got to know the Nicholls' very well and said that of all of the married couples that she had ever known they were the only one who each loved the other as much.

Brendan Morrison

My name has been mentioned a couple of times and I sure hope nothing happens, but that's the nature of the business.

My mom called me last night after she heard. She had only met him a couple times, and she was on the phone crying because he was so dear to her. He was so dear to everybody he met.

My roommate and a couple of other friends told me about it. I had never shot a gun before, and wanted to learn how to shoot. I had no interest in hunting.

Jamey Carroll

My role on this team is to be the utility guy and I have had a couple opportunities to come in whatever the situation is, then it's back to where I am, ... I understand my role and I am not surprised at all. He is the starting shortstop.

My reckoning is it will subtract a couple of tenths of a percent, so we will have first-quarter GDP at 1.5 percent instead of 2.0 percent,

Liz can no longer be a role player. She's learned the last couple of weeks that she has to be become a primary scorer for us.

Looking back at his history, he's a very smart man because he's been in a number of systems and been around for a long time. Just in the short couple weeks that I've been working with him, I've learned a lot.

I'm stiff right now. The doctor said I'm going to feel the effects for a couple of days. ... It's just more of a muscle ache and having a really, really sore neck.

I'm standing here with a group of young men who have grown tremendously in the past couple of months.

Marcus Camby

I'm still a couple of weeks away. The pins (in his finger) weren't quite ready to come out yet.

Freddy Garcia

Maybe that's good for me. I've got a lot of innings, I've been throwing a lot this year, and a couple days off, you know, it feels pretty good.

Jay Leno

Man, what is it down to, just a couple of voters?

I'm impressed with how hard they play. They're better than their record shows; they've only played a couple home games.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I have a free couple of hours," I told him, walking toward my car, which was parked on the next block. "There's a very private, very secluded barn in Lookout Hill Park behind the carousel. I could be there in fifteen minutes." I heard the smile in his voice. "You want me bad.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I don’t see any police cars.” “They probably had to park a couple blocks over. Anyway, as I was saying, I noticed illegal substances in the hands of a few guests.” “So?” she snapped. “It’s a party.” “Alcohol is illegal under the age of twenty-one.” “Great!” Marcie shouted. “What am I going to do?” She paused, then raised her voice again. “You probably called them!” “Who, me?” Vee said. “And lose the free food? No way.

B. B. King

Sometimes the proprietors of the little juke joints gave me a couple dollars. I loved that. I'd go back next Saturday.

We've tried re-introducing them to the wild seven or eight times, but every time they die within a couple of years; if you don't get rid of the fungus, all you're doing is providing it with lunch.

Jim Haslett

We've talked a couple times, and I'd like to have him back. But I understand how this thing works, too. So if it didn't work out, we'd have to get a good replacement.

We never thought in 1991 that six years later we'd be making that historic walk with Silver Charm. We looked like a couple of teenagers walking through there.

We never stop attacking. Defense is what got us here. Defense is how we've made our name over the past couple seasons. We try to stay on top of teams, and good things usually happen.

We need all six players to play solid, ... Hopefully we'll get everyone here doing that in the next couple of weeks.

We need a couple more players to give us six to eight points a game. If we can get to 40 points, we'll win a lot of games.

Well, as far as going for a championship the past couple of years, we (the division) haven't really had a real contender,

Bill Condon

I had a couple of movies that I was passionately involved with that I could never get made. 'Richard Pryor,' I wrote for - gosh - over a year. That was close to getting made for two-and-a-half years after that. We're still pushing it, you know. It is weird. Suddenly you wake up and it's like, 'God, five years have gone by.

Bill Engvall

A couple of months ago I went fishing with a buddy of mine, we pulled his boat into the dock, I lifted up this big 'ol stringer of bass and this idiot on the dock goes, Hey, y'all catch all them fish? Nope - Talked 'em into giving up. Here's your sign.

Big Sean

I probably wasted a couple of thousand dollars on some dumb-ass clothes.

C. S. Lewis

The State exists simply to promote and to protect the ordinary happiness of human beings in this life. A husband and wife chatting over a fire, a couple of friends having a game of darts in a pub, a man reading a book in his own room or digging in his own garden-that is what the State is there for. And unless they are helping to increase and prolong and protect such moments, all the laws, parliaments, armies, courts, police, economics, etc., are simply a waste of time.

Carl Reiner

I was a Teletype operator in the army, so that's where I learned to type. One day, I went downstairs to see if I could still type - I hadn't done it for four or five years after the war. So I typed out a page and I showed it to my wife and she said, "Where did you get this?" I said I wrote it. "You wrote this?" It was something very funny. I went and wrote another page, another couple of pages, and by the time I was finished I had 13 little short stories, humorous short stories.