Famous Quotes & Sayings

Daniel Handler

I wrote Rick before I was published, and I had no vision of it, really. It was just a story that occurred to me, and that put its little claws in my brain, and I wrote it, and I showed it to a couple people, and they all said, "This is ghastly."

Dan Uggla

The first couple months, I was hitting the ball hard but had some awful, awful luck. You stay positive, keep grinding out some at-bats, get a couple to fall through, get a little confidence going and keep going from there.

Thomas Lennon

Super Troopers is hilarious. Everybody always thought we somehow - we did Reno way, way before any of us had seen Super Troopers. It sat on the shelf for a couple years.

What we did for the last 40 minutes was a good sign. There were a couple of breakdowns early and that got us in a hole. But we have a lot of positives to get us on track.

Billy Crystal

A laugh is a weird sound, and when you get a couple thousand people making it at once, it's really strange. But when I can feel proud of myself for causing it, it's great.

Bobby Fischer

I was in Japan a couple of months ago, I saw a preview for the movie Pearl Harbor. And they showed the Japanese airplanes coming in to bomb Pearl Harbor, and I applauded. Nobody else in the theater applauded.

Bridgette Wilson

I've only skied a couple of times in my life. Any skier would say I stink.

Brian Posehn

Once I could drive, I spent all my time in the city going to metal shows. I missed the first couple of Metallica shows because I was lame. By the time I got into them, they were playing places like the Kabuki.

Brendon Urie

I love going back to vinyl! I still have a great vinyl collection that I'm building up every couple of months. It's something I love to do.

Billie Piper

There's not enough money in the world to get me singing 'Because We Want To' again. I wouldn't do it. I think Beyonce Knowles got a couple of million for a private show but I would be happy to turn it down.

Dennis Farina

I have a home in Arizona. I go a couple months a year, but basically Chicago is my home.

Artie Lange

A-Rod wants to be like Babe Ruth. And people don't realize this, he's a lot like Babe Ruth. Before the playoffs a couple of years ago, A-Rod went to the hospital and promised a dying kid he'd ground out to second for him.

Brody Jenner

If your ex is making things up about you, he's obviously miserable. It's just like, 'Wow, this person really cares to go out of their way to start a rumor about me.' I've dealt with it so much, obviously. The first couple of times, it really sucks. But then [they] just come out with something else. If you dwell on it, it's going to make you miserable. Just move on and laugh it off.

We have a real good group of guys, it will be an adjustment, but I think after a couple of games they'll get used to the tempo and get used to the way things are going.

We have a plan right now, but we need to get a couple more things solidified.

Robert Gallery

We have had too many in the last couple of games, and we have to get rid of them. I'm disappointed I got nailed with a penalty at a crucial time in the game.

Brian Littrell

Marriage can be work, it can be difficult, it can be hard, but I think working through those times makes you stronger as a couple and as a unit.

We've been improving OLN consistently and relatively under the radar for the past couple of years.

We're 3-1 now, so we're up at the top. Hopefully we can pick up a couple more games and be where we want to be at the end of the year.

XM shares have been weak recently, mainly because of expected weakness in a couple of key metrics in 2006.

Craig Nelson

We have played here a lot in the past couple of years. It is much better than going off to a place like Denver where you have to deal with an unfamiliar gym plus the elevation.

John Abizaid

We've spent too much time over the last couple of years talking about the Kurds and the Shia and the Sunnis. We've got to start talking about Iraqis,

Bobby Cox

We've seen Sheets really good the last couple of years.

We've seen interest in SUVs decline over the last couple of years.

Sugar Ray Leonard

Normally, I would run with a group of guys in my camps. A couple of days before the fight, I would run by myself. That was my time to choreograph the fight in my head, so I needed to be myself.

Dirk Nowitzki

If theres an injury, for a couple games, you can have guys step in. But for a long period of time, it always catches up with you.

Dave Mustaine

Buckethead [former GUNS N' ROSES guitarist] is probably twice as good a guitar player as me and Slash combined, and can stand having fried chicken rubbed up against his face all night for a couple of hours.

Rick Carlisle

Down the stretch, the free-throw line was our nemesis. If we can get a couple of stops and make our free throws, it really shouldn't have come down to an overtime. But if you don't play a full 48 minutes, you leave too much to chance.

Doug was a one-man show in the first half. He was fantastic. He hit some great shots with a defensive man on him. Eastern started gambling in the second half and double-teamed Doug. Ross did a nice job slipping to the hole. He also made a couple of nice drives to the basket.

Craig Thompson

Couple that with our top programs, we feel we can make a great step forward, and a great statement about inclusion in a new BCS. We feel that we have really made a step toward being a BCS league.

And thou shalt make fifty taches of gold, and couple the curtains together with the taches: and it shall be one tabernacle.

Erica Durance

And you can't make that stay true if all of a sudden one compromises in a couple of episodes and is madly in love with the other person. I think they're wanting to develop that over time.

Joakim Noah

Are you guys ready to party for like a couple weeks now?