Famous Quotes & Sayings

Matt Barr

I think I've found my passion in life. I'm going to direct a couple of short film on hiatus. That's what I really want to do.

Mary Steenburgen

I think I did a couple of test commercials that didn't even make it on the air. That's how little I had really done. I knew almost nothing about the camera. In fact, I actually did know nothing about the camera.

Patricia Heaton

I just don't know a couple that's been married more than three years that doesn't annoy the heck out of each other every 15 minutes.

Patricia Briggs

Charles could care less about shoes - and he suspected he wasn't alone among men in his feelings. Shoe, no shoe, he didn't care. Naked was good, though over the past couple of weeks he was beginning to think that dressed in his clothes was a decent second best.

Philip Larkin

I think a young poet, or an old poet, for that matter, should try to produce something that pleases himself personally, not only when he's written it but a couple of weeks later. Then he should see if it pleases anyone else, by sending it to the kind of magazine he likes reading.

Paula Cole

But looking back, the fact was that I had a couple of big hits too quickly and it was simply too much for an introvert like me to handle.

Phil Jones

I'm getting hassled by a couple of people to release the CRU station temperature data. Don't any of you three tell anybody that the UK has a Freedom of Information Act.

Katy B

My mum loved Joan Armatrading and used to play her records all the time and even took me to see her a couple of times when I was really quite young. I didn't really like her music back then because my mum was always playing it, but I've grown to appreciate it more.

Kevin Whately

I wanted to be a stage actor but I got stuck on television. It took a couple of years to get used to.

Khaled Hosseini

I found myself sitting at the computer, and I thought I was going to write a kind of simple nostalgic story about two boys and their love of kite fighting. But stories have a will of their own, and this one turned out to be this dark tale about betrayal, loss, regret. The short story which was about 25 pages long sat around for a couple of years.

Kenneth Lonergan

I actually think storyboards are great. I don't draw well enough to do them myself. I've only used storyboards a couple of times.

Jonathan Safran Foer

I first became a vegetarian when I was nine, in response to an argument made by a radical babysitter. My great change - which lasted a couple of weeks - was based on the very simple instinct that it's wrong to kill animals for food.

Jonathan Safran Foer

From space, astronauts can see people making love as a tiny speck of light. Not light, exactly, but a glow that could be confused for light - a coital radiance that takes generations to pour like honey through the darkness to the astronaut's eyes. In about one and a half centuries - after the lovers who made the glow will have long since been laid permanently on their backs - the metropolitan cities will be seen from space. They will glow all year. Smaller cities will also be seen, but with great difficulty. Towns will be virtually impossible to spot. Individual couples invisible.

There is one fault that I must find With the twentieth century. And I'll put it in a couple of words; Too adventury. What I'd like would be some nice dull monotony If anyone's gotony.

Norman Rockwell

I had a couple of million dollars' worth of... stock once. And now it's not worth much more than wallpaper. I guess I just wasn't born to be rich.

Norman Mailer

When you know too much information and you acquire it too easily, you tend to either use it in disagreeable ways, out of vanity, or you tend to be indiscriminate about it. I mean, in the old days, it was tricky, you had to go to various encyclopedias, you had to go to the library, maybe spend a day there, whatever. But in the end, if you found something, it was really exciting. Now you hit a couple of buttons and you get some information. Which, by the way, is almost always presented in that same goddamn mediocre style that characterizes the Internet for me. It is slightly deadening.

Norman Lear

We had a Judeo-Christian ethic hanging around a couple thousand years that didn't help erase racism at all. So the notion of the little half-hour comedy changing things is something I think is silly.

Norman Lear

Life goes on pretty much the same way. I've been working on a couple of films on the side. You may see some more. You may even see another television show.

Ryan Sullivan

The trip went well; we improved as the trip went on. We started 1-7, but finished 4-4, so 5-11 overall. As always, there were a couple of games that we thought we should have had, but we are a young team and got better.

These are guys that are going to be able to go year in and year out for the next couple of years. I'm really excited for them.

These last couple week his progress has been really steady. He just keeps moving up and doing good things.

J. J. Johnson

These kids never quit. That was the difference from a couple of our losses. Once they got down, they would give up the game. But at the end tonight, they never stopped going hard, and they took over at the end.

These kids have been working so hard with the Olympics and the world championships. We try to give them a couple hours a day to relax and recharge their batteries.

These guys, they're married; they've got a couple of kids. Wine is part of their lives, but it's not integrated in a way that they really force themselves to be knowledgeable.

These guys have been through far, far worse. Most of these guys were on the 20-loss team from a couple years ago; last year we were on a seven-game losing streak. They've seen it all.

These guys have been in the playoffs. They have been playing in October for a couple of years, and they know what they are doing. As players, we're just trying to follow them.

Joey Galloway

This is new territory for me. This is my fourth season here and this is new territory. It feels good. I get to go home and sit down a couple minutes and enjoy where we are before we start thinking about Miami. But I know this: We have to finish it. We definitely have to finish it.

This is my first road race. I've been in mountain biking. I had a couple of friends and we decided to start road racing. I will do all three stages. I feel this will be a good challenge. Hopefully, I'm in good enough shape to handle it.

This is a great coup for our region.

Rick Carlisle

This has been tough for him. He's been out of the rotation the last couple of weeks. He keeps working and keeps himself ready to play. Guys like him, you don't worry about.

This is all part of the puzzle that we need to figure out in the next couple days.

This is all happening now, so this will flesh out in the next couple of weeks.

Bill Gates

This is a key element of the technology industry getting re-energized and putting productivity back into other sectors of the economy that can get the economy back to where it was a couple of years ago,