Famous Quotes & Sayings

J. K. Rowling

Hello, Harry" said George, beaming at him. "We thought we heard your dulcet tones." "You don't want to bottle up your anger like that, Harry, let it all out," said Fred, also beaming. "There might be a couple of people fifty miles away who didn't hear you.

J. K. Rowling

No, there is literally nothing on the business side that I wouldn't sacrifice in a heartbeat to have an extra couple of hours' writing. Nothing.

Ivan Reitman

I don't think there will be another Ghostbusters. I think we're all too old to do it. I think we've done it a couple times and there is not that much to get out of it, to do that would be fresh in it.

Ivan Reitman

My first student film was Orientation, which was basically the set-up for Animal House. There are a couple of scenes that we later borrowed in some form.

Itzhak Perlman

In Paris they have special wheelchairs that go through every doorway. They don't change the doorways, they change the wheelchairs. To hell with the people! If someone weighs a couple more pounds, that's it!

H. L. Mencken

A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.

Grace Paley

I didn't intend to become a short-story writer. I became one because I finished a couple of short stories and realized that's what I wanted to do and could do with children and with all the other things in my life.

Grace Paley

When I was about twenty-one, I published a few poems. Maybe I wrote a couple of stories before, but I really began to write stories in my mid-thirties. My kids were still little, and they were in school and day care, and I had begun to think a lot about wanting to tell some stories and not being able to do it in poetry.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

If we make a couple of discoveries here and there we need not believe things will go on like this for ever. Just as we hit water when we dig in the earth, so we discover the incomprehensible sooner or later.

Gene Kelly

Like an athlete, [dance] is an everyday job. You have to stay in shape - unless you just want to loaf through a couple of hoofing routines. But that just didn't satisfy me.

Jessica Valenti

Bra-burning never happened. It was completely made up by the media. A couple of women protesting a Miss America pageant threw some bras into a garbage can, and somehow that became this longstanding idea of feminists as bra-burners.

Jerry Coleman

I've made a couple of mistakes I'd like to do over.

Jenna McCarthy

Divorce is contagious. That's right - when you have a close couple friend split up, it increases your chances of getting a divorce by 75 percent.

Jenna McCarthy

As relationships progress, the time you spend smooching diminishes. Where kissing was once an enjoyable entree unto itself, it becomes a mere appetizer couples hasten through on the way to the main course.

If he's healthy we have two months to see if he can get fit to play in a World Cup. It's not like we need to rush him back into everything. We know the kind of player he is. There's a lot of quality there and if, over the next couple of weeks, we see steady improvement he's obviously going to get pretty strong consideration for the final roster.

Bill Belichick

I felt that once we got to the 31, 32 yard line, we were in field goal range. We didn't want to get in the situation where we throw a couple incomplete passes and Pittsburgh had another timeout. It's like basketball; we were playing for the last shot.

Jose Theodore

I felt really good even though we got two goals down. I felt in control. We didn't panic. I knew if we could keep going the same way we were, we'd be able to get a couple of goals.

Sean Taylor

If everybody had a time machine and they can hop in that machine and go back a couple of hours, a couple of seconds, they would do it. But we're living right now.

Nomar Garciaparra

If I had something to prove, I wouldn't have had so many teams talking to me. I had opportunities to take more than one year. I could have played short for a couple teams.

Gary Carter

I figure I'll give it a couple of years. I know I have to pay some dues. ... Who knows, if I do a good job this year in St. Lucie, maybe an opportunity will come next year.

Peter Graves

I figured that first year would be swell. We'd do Roosevelt and Churchill, a couple of things like that, and that would be it,

If I live to be a couple hundred years old, the story will not change,

I called a couple timeouts but that didn't seem to help. What can you do when they were shooting around 90 percent?

Carmen Electra

I definitely want to be a mom some day, absolutely. But not yet. Maybe in a couple of years.

I definitely saw (Harper) turn up the sideline. When I saw him, that's when I let it go a couple of seconds later after making a great defensive end like William Wall miss.

I definitely feel better than what I have in the past couple years, but it's still kind of fine-tuning. The team comes first. We got to do what's important for the team, not for me.

Nate Robertson

I did a couple slide steps and then threw a couple pitches wide and was worried more about holding the runner instead of throwing a quality pitch. So when he said something, you put two and two together and you figure it out.

Dan Boyle

I did a couple of interviews with you guys right after and I still didn't know. On the way to the training room, they pulled me into the coaches' room and let me know.

Rupert Everett

I did a couple of films, I was very lucky at the beginning of my career... and then, I never had another job here for ten years probably and I moved to Europe.

I can't think of anything else where somebody had a theory and a practice and an institute in their name and that there was a coup going on internally over it. This sounds nasty.

I can't tell you enough good things about Athena. There were a couple times when they could have folded and they definitely stuck with it and wouldn't go away.

Richard Grimes

I can remember going back a couple of years later and, you know, think about it and I was doing a, kind of a political survey, door to door, and everything and I couldn't find any men in the town. It was very strange, you know.

Roy Williams

I can remember a time when you were a No. 1, No. 2 or No. 3 (seed), the first couple of games you could win without playing well. I don't think you can do that anymore.