Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arnold Palmer

I started [flying] by being scared. When I was an amateur I played a couple tournaments and I had to fly, and got into weather and stuff, and it scared me, and I decided that would not work, I had to learn to fly, I had to find out about airplanes and aeronautical engineering and what it was all about.

Lisa Cholodenko

In May 2006, I had our son, Calder. I spent the next couple of years learning how to be a mom.

We stubbed our foot a couple of times. And that's all I have to say on that.

We are making another run at $70 a barrel, and we are doing it without a hurricane having knocked out 70 percent of U.S. production. You couple that with the stark reminder of all the geopolitical jitters out there, and you wind up with investors wanting to get a little more defensive.

Jerry Harris

We are a very young team. We played really well defensively but we missed a couple of opportunities on offense. I thought we played well for our first game. I was very pleased with our effort.

Lleyton Hewitt

When you've been number one in the world for a couple of years and won a couple of slams and whatever else that's been, you look at the big picture and what motivates you.

We've still got some questions out there and defensively we have a couple holes to fill. Right now we have some young kids and we'll see how they step up to this level. It doesn't happen in 10 days of practice, it will happen after we face some people. We may come out of the chute 0-5, but hopefully by then we learn what we can do down the road.

Alan Tudyk

I consider theater, this is a vacation for me from LA, I sort of view this as I get to have this vacation and during my vacation I get to work on acting. It's like an acting class. And if I go too long without doing a play, I just feel empty. Like approaching a role, I feel like the pool is very shallow, like I'm drawn from it. So I need to come back and do a play, fortunately I've been able to, every couple of years.

Chanel Iman

In a couple of years, I'll be the most glamorous woman, hopefully.

Beth Henley

I did write a couple of original screenplays, but I'd rather write plays

Neil Peart

Once, I went speeding past an old couple and smiled as I imagined their conversation: him grumbling about me and her telling him not to be such an old grouch. Then, suddenly I was in tears, thinking, 'I'll never get to be a grumpy old grandpa!'

I love theater. I love the idea that you can transform, become somebody else, and look at life with a completely new perspective. I love the idea that people will sit in one room for a couple of hours and listen.

Nell Newman

I did a couple of movies when I was little. You have to be possessed to be an actress, and I was not possessed... It was not my life's passion.

Sheryl Crow

When we were rumored to have split, and when our publicists called these magazines to say we haven't split, the magazines were all so disappointed because that's really what's selling, rooting for a couple and then they split. That's what sells the magazines.

Joe Gibbs

We're going to try a couple of other things this week,

(Woods) had made a couple of really good plays, and I don't know if he misjudged it or took a step in, but I knew it was hit hard. Patrick had a good game and wanted to win pretty bad. If we can just get everybody on the same page we'll be OK.

We're still in the preliminary stages of identifying what damage had been done, ... It could take a couple of days. Some of them are definitely sunk and some of them are definitely out of place.

Norv Turner

We've used it in practice and we'll use it some the next couple of days.

Dennis Hopper

[After Easy Rider] I couldn't get another movie, so I lived in Mexico City for a couple of years. I lived in Paris for a couple of years. I didn't take any photographs, and then I went to Japan and saw a Nikon used. I bought it, and I just started, like an alcoholic. I shot 300 rolls of film. That was the beginning of me starting again...

Ed Sheeran

And they say She's in the class A Team Stuck in her daydream Been that way since eighteen, but lately, Her face seems Slowly sinking, wasting Crumbling like pastries And they scream The worst things in life come free to us Cos we're just under the upperhand Go mad for a couple grams And she don't want to go outside tonight And in a pipe she flies to the Motherland Or sells love to another man It's too cold outside For angels to fly Angels to fly

Eliza Coupe

I've been recognized a couple times. I get people staring at me, and I think in their heads they're thinking, 'How do I know her? Did I go to high school with her?' I think it's not registering yet.

Bob Hope

It's very frustrating making a picture in Paris. We work hard all day at the studio to get a love scene just right. Then, on my way home, I see couples on every street corner doing it better.

John Long

With the situation we're in now with the dry weather and the humidity and what we've seen in the past couple days, it'd sure be nice if everyone would leave fireworks to the professionals and start the new year out right safe and alive.

Jon Mead

Any time I've ever won anything, we've gotten away with a couple of things and that's the difference between teams that end up winning and teams that don't.

As disappointed as Shelby is at not being able to go with us this weekend, I think she fully understands we need her to get healed up. If it means missing the first couple games in order to be ready for the rest of the season, she's ready to do that.

Bob Melvin

As a starter, you need to mix in a couple more pitches, at least one more.

David Carr

As an offense, we've got to be aggressive, ... We can't go back and resort to what we did our first couple of years when we were just trying not to lose.

As a whole, we had too many little mistakes -- our expectations are much higher than that. In the secondary, we gave up a couple of deep ones and you didn't see too much of that last year, so we have to get back to the drawing board.

Rodney Mullen

As a kid, I grew up on a farm in Florida, and I did what most little kids do. I played a little baseball, did a few other things like that, but I always had the sense of being an outsider, and it wasn't until I saw pictures in the magazines that a couple other guys skate, I thought, 'Wow, that's for me,' you know?

Steve McClaren

A week is a long time in politics and even longer in football at times. We have had an eventful couple of months. But credit the players for this win. Through all the criticism, all the performances and the results, we have always stuck together. There has always been a great spirit and it rewarded us today.

Lleyton Hewitt

Back when I first started, it seemed that I kept bumping into a lot of other Australians. It's something that I haven't done in the last couple of years.

Jonathan Wright

A solid, and relatively clean, set of figures from BP in the first quarter, a welcome relief following the last couple of non-operational-ridden quarters.

Marcus Ginyard

As long as we understand we didn't give the effort we needed to give tonight, we can learn from it going into the tournament. We're still excited about the NCAA tournament and what we'll be able to prove to some people in the next couple of weeks.