Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jonathan Toews

I don't think anything in my game has regressed in the last couple years. I think I've only gotten better. I keep wanting to assume more responsibility in all parts of the rink.

Jonathan Tropper

We are injured and angry, scared and sad. Some families, like some couples, become toxic to each other after prolonged exposure.

Kevin Spacey

A couple of clues came my way of what I might be getting myself into when I sat down with a number of actors who had played Richard III in the past. And I was hoping of course, that one of them or all of them were gonna give me the magic key, the secret way in to play Richard III but none of them did that.But every one of them did say the following, "Be careful."

Tom Izzo

You know me, I don't feel like we're ready, but I do think we can get ready in four days. Illinois is playing awfully well, they haven't lost many games in the last couple years, but we're gonna be ready on Thursday, I can promise you that.

You know, Jimmy Martin's a good kid. He was an all-American back at nationals this last summer, and Josh Townsend's just a couple little adjustments away from winning that match And Miller's in there too.

Andy Roddick

You know, I warmed up, ... I didn't really move a lot. It was about a 10-minute warm-up. When I got out there and started moving, it just stiffened up on me, kind of similar to yesterday. You know, after the first couple games, I didn't feel too good about my chances.

You could tell we were not playing well together. A couple more weeks of practice, and we would be a lot better.

You could see a real sense of urgency on our part. We had a couple of days to re-group.

Quentin Richardson

You come to a new team, new system, it'll take a couple games, ... I'm not alarmed by anything. I'm just going to keep working hard and practicing hard and keep working at it. As a player, you get frustrated a little bit, but I know with time, everything will come into play, so I'm not that worried about it.

You come into Freedom Hall and hold Louisville to 57 points, you can't say you didn't do a heck of a job. We just made a couple of mental breakdowns at the end.

You can't guard Nicole Scott with just one player. Langley (Iverson) did a great job on her but we also ran a couple of players at her (Scott) now and then.

You can't go to a log home or to anything using logs and not see cracks or checks. We can take whole logs and dry them whole in a couple of days.

Larry Bird

You can't walk in there after a couple of months off and expect to play in the playoffs. He's definitely going to have to play some games before the playoffs. There's no question about that. The playoffs are completely different.

Dusty Baker

You can't put your finger on it. The last couple of years we've played them tough. That's not the team you want to play every day.

Dana Williams

The major game plan is to spend a couple months listening,

The key was getting a couple of shots down early to extend their zone.

The key for us the past couple games has been working hard as a team. We played excellent defense and we did it as team, which makes a big difference.

The injury makes him doubtful for the weekend because he took a couple of heavy knocks on it.

James Sullivan

The underlying trend in employment growth is pretty good. With the unemployment rate down to 5 percent and inflation expectations up over the last couple of months, we do see more acceleration in wages. For now the Fed will keep moving on its stated path.

The underlying trend for our industry over the next decade should be strong. What we've seen in the past couple of quarters is bookings have been picking up,

Mary Elizabeth Winstead

I feel like most horror films are made for teenagers about teenagers. I've done a couple of those horror films. There's nothing wrong with that but the older I get the more I starve for more adult material.

Lauryn Hill

With the things that I love, I tried to put a couple seeds, a bunch of seeds in the ground and see what sprung up. Sometimes it was acting and sometimes it was music. But whatever it was I continued to plant.

Lance Armstrong

The Europeans look down on raising your hands. They don't like the end-zone dance. I think that's unfortunate. That feeling - the finish line, the last couple of meters - is what motivates me.

Lisa Kudrow

To be able to let you know who someone is in just a couple of words, I'd have to pick the most pronounced features of a character's personality. And I always feel like I'm leaving out so many important little ones.

Lisa Kudrow

I wanted to be the kind of woman who would attract a certain kind of man that I could respect. That was my thinking. It had to do with the kind of couple I would be a part of.

Lisa Marie Presley

A couple of months ago I hauled my white ass on stage alongside Chaka Khan and Stevie Wonder for Divas Las Vegas, singing in front of a celebrity audience. If I can hold my own there, I can hold my own at Top of the Pops, trust me.

Lisa Kleypas

Most of the time when couples argue, it’s not really about the thing they’re fighting about; there’s a deeper reason why they’re arguing.

Lisa Kleypas

It was likely that no one had been surprised, however, as it was clear that Aline and Mckenna belonged together. There was something invisible and yet irrefutable that made them a couple. Perhaps it was the way both of them stole quick glances at each other when one though the other wasn't looking... glances of wonder and hunger.

Lisa Kleypas

A couple of times in your life, it happens like that. You meet a stranger, and all you know is that you need to know everything about him.

Johnny Depp

I'd worked with Marlon [Brando] a couple of times, and he was a practical joker. He was far more interested in getting jokes out than getting the words out. We laughed all the time.

John Sentamu

The virtue of the civil partnerships scheme lay in the attempt to treat the needs of gay and lesbian couples as what they are, not to bundle them into some other category.

James Rollins

I'm pretty disciplined to keep the momentum of a story going by writing everyday, even if it's only a couple paragraphs or a page or two.

Marc Maron

I didn't know that people compared Bill Hicks and I but certainly I'm flattered if they do. I knew Bill a bit. We had dinner a couple of times and played guitar together once. I really tried to keep my distance from him professionally.