Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

I'd say he was easing himself back into the game. He didn't score but contributed well, passed well and set up a couple of tries.

I'd really rather have a four-man front, have a couple ends to go 'sic 'em and have interior guys get in the step-up lanes. We just haven't gotten that yet.

Jen Lancaster

I can clean my own house. Now, maybe a couple of times a year we have a cleaning crew come in before we have a party, but otherwise, I'm able to maintain it myself.

I don't like going that short. It's funny. A couple years ago, I would have been happy to go that far. It was always five innings, no more. Now, I don't feel like I did my job unless I go six, seven innings.

Ricky Hatton

Over the last couple of years we have been offered deals by other promoters but we have always stayed with Frank because we like him.

Our pressure didn't give them any easy looks. The girls worked hard. This is a real tough team ? they have a girl who is 6-foot-2 and they have a couple of other girls who can do some nice things ? so if you don't come in prepared they could surprise you.

Tom Renney

Our power play got us a couple of big ones and our PK did what it had to do. Keep the puck to the outside. They work very, very hard.

Our running game we started out pretty strong. We've had some good games. The last couple weeks obviously it's not what we wanted it to be. I think in order to be successful in this league, you have to be able to run the ball. For whatever reason we just haven't been able to. I can't tell you why.

Willow Shields

My brother was a huge fan of 'The Hunger Games' for a couple of years before I got the role, so he was really excited when he heard that I got the role.

We'd like to play. Now you're looking at a week in between games. Regardless of who we're playing we'd like to play a couple times a week.

We were kind of sluggish in the first quarter, but I think that comes from being off a couple of weeks. We made a couple of adjustments and were able to shut them down.

We have a minor stabilization of the market after a couple of slightly softer days. No big surprise.

The decorative designs at intersections has been known to slow people down. When everything looks the same, people slow down. Widening the sidewalks a couple of inches will narrow the roadway and that's a proven way to slow drivers down.

The demand for season tickets has been unprecedented over the past couple of weeks and we have been doing our utmost to get them out to the supporters in time for tomorrow's match,

Joe Maddon

We need him where he is for a couple of days and then we'll put him back.

We needed to do a better job physically in the paint and not just from a couple guys, the whole group. R.J. can sure shoot it, he gave us some big baskets, and Mario worked very hard. We just needed one more guy to step up.

We are what we are, a team that has a couple of lines that can score. The other two better be able to shut down the lines they're going up against, as should the top lines.

Scott Skiles

We made free throws, they fouled us and we made free throws. We were able to get a couple of baskets when it was starting to get tight, and we held the off and kept them at bay. It was really just making free throws.

Gary Johnson

We've known for really the last couple of years, but not exactly when it would happen. He'd said in the next year or so he'd like to go back to teaching.

When the good Lord was handing out the physical traits in terms of quickness, agility, speed and coordination, he was at the front of the line and maybe he went in line a couple of times for some of them. But he knows how to use it. For a young man of 21 he's got a pretty decent set of technical skills. He can score with either foot. He can score in the air.

We had some protection problems, and a couple of times they got us on schemes.

Dane Cook

A couple of days back, I got into a car accident. Not my fault. Even if it's not your fault, the other person gets out of their car and looks at you like it's your fault: Why did you stop at a red light and let me hit you doing 80!

David Byrne

All you needed was a couple of instruments and a few chords and you could be on an indie label.

Dave Eggers

Writing is a deep-sea dive. You need hours just to get into it: down, down, down. If you're called back to the surface every couple of minutes by an email, you can't ever get back down. I have a great friend who became a Twitterer and he says he hasn't written anything for a year.

Dave Eggers

The key thing is, even if you only have a couple of hours a month, those two hours shoulder-to-shoulder, next to one student, concentrated attention, shining this beam of light on their work, on their thoughts and their self-expression, is going to be absolutely transformative, because so many of the students have not had that ever before.

David Letterman

The best part about holiday parties is the alcohol. You have a couple of drinks and you tell your coworkers and your superiors what you really think about them. And then the fun begins.

Dave Willis

I think I'm long past the days where I would go to the store and drop a couple hundred bucks on CDs, so my playlist is gonna be pretty long in the tooth.

Dave Sitek

I make music to bring the dead to life for a couple minutes and then let it go.

David Ogden Stiers

There are a couple of roles I haven't played that I want to. I would love to play Shiloh.

Condoleezza Rice

I've always said as a political scientist that "culture" is what we use when we can't explain things. I think it's more about accessibility. Part of the problem is that this is an expensive game [golf]. I know in a couple of places where there are black members, and they come from pretty much the same socioeconomic level that the white members come from.

Experience is what counts. You want someone who does this every day, not someone who rents for a day to do a couple of surgeries. You don't want to be the guinea pig for an obstetrician delivering his first baby, or a doctor doing open-heart surgery for the first time, right?

But the kids have practiced well the past couple of days and were looking forward to Orland this Friday.