Famous Quotes & Sayings

Patrick Marber

I hoped the dramatic power of the play would rest on that tension between elegant structure - the underlying plan is that you see the first and last meeting of every couple in the play - and inelegant emotion.

Pritam Chakraborty

There was a time that I was only known for being a plagiarist. It used to hurt at times because there was so much effort I was putting into music. And instead of that, it was a couple tunes that I had reproduced from folk songs to remake as film songs, which were being written about.

Mike Murphy

We had opportunities -- the kids battled. It was one of those deals where (McKenzie) made a couple shots at the end. I'm extremely proud -- I don't know what else we could have done.

Bill Guerin

We hadn't paid the price for it yet. Tonight we did. A couple of tough plays and we lose the game.

Andrew Ladd

We hadn't been playing all that well the last couple of games. Tonight it seemed like everybody was on track from start to finish.

We'll probably be doing it for a couple years.

We were hitting the cover off the ball. We had a couple of quarters in our pocket.

We were going to lay off (Snell), and (Gonzalez) hadn't played much, but once they hit a shot or two, we had to guard them. When you play at home and you hit a couple of those, you get momentum and the crowd gets excited. If they don't have that stretch when they hit those, we would have been right there.

We were going to (Garnett) down the stretch. Then Ricky Davis got it going down the stretch for a couple of buckets and it wasn't like we were going away from him.

Typically, a couple will come in with unequal assets.

We don't impose our suggestions or opinions on clients,. We give them all the information and help them make a decision. We're as involved as the couple wants us to be.

We work on it a lot, but I want to get a couple more reps at that.

We worked on set pieces for the past couple days and those are the goals that you usually get in the playoffs. I was at the far post and it just slipped to me in the back post.

We won't know for sure on him until later, probably a couple of days.

We won't know for another couple of months if this is a lull in the market or part of a longer-term downturn. It's always difficult to project from trends we see in January and February. The March numbers will tell us much more about what's going on.

We'll see how it ends up. Right now, it's just getting guys their work. Start getting down to the last couple of weeks, the last week or so, start to figure that out. There's a lot of guys vying for jobs. We'll see exactly where he fits in when the time comes.

We didn't have nearly as many shots as we've been getting in other games but we were pretty happy with our shot selection. When we did take shots, we got them on target and that's a big improvement from our last couple games.

John Spencer

We didn't have a lot of fields roundabout us, ... We'd put down a couple of sweatshirts and use them for the goalposts. We just played on the asphalt, but it wasn't a problem. We had a lot of good times and never complained.

We didn't have a leadoff hitter. When we got him, we took off. He can run, I'll tell you what. No doubt about it. If he gives me a couple of steps, I would think about racing him.

We are missing a couple people off of the line up. Menasha was the better team tonight, hopefully by the time sections rolls around we will be the better team.

We are missing a couple of guys right now. That's not an excuse, because we have guys who can fill those roles. That's what I tried to do.

We are making provisions and plans for evacuating that site if need be over the next couple of days. This is going to be a challenge.

Abel Ferrara

Even if you're a poet sitting in your room writing a poem, you're still in the world - although I guess being a poet is a different than having to deal with 40 or 50 people to raise a couple million bucks and all that bullshit.

Robert Hunter

I got really, really sick with a spinal infection that put me in a hospital for a couple of months, and it was touch and go. I had my guitar with me, and as soon as I got well enough to play, there was nothing else to do in that hospital. The nurses would come in and request songs.

Robert Powell

I vaguely remember we had an air-raid shelter in our yard. We lived in a semi-detached house with a small garden in the suburbs of Salford, a couple of miles from the docks.

Frank Beamer

(The defense) got us our first couple of scores,

Mark Zandi

The data is going to look ugly in the next couple of months.

(The data are) suggesting the decline we've seen in the dollar over the last couple of years is not having an impact. It suggests the dollar may still need to fall to help narrow the trade deficit. But there's a risk to higher inflation if it does.

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,

Abbas Kiarostami

Those same people, when they leave the theater, when they look behind the curtains they are curious about their neighbors, they can guess if their neighbors are siblings or a couple, how old they are, what their occupation is. They are curious about each other and they can understand each other without being fed information. Why should it be different in cinema?

Adam Shankman

I feel like a lot of my past career was going to film school, making a lot of different kinds of movies. I made a bunch of comedies, I made one drama and I made a couple musicals.

Adam Rapp

I try not to write more than two or three, I try to just write one if possible, I write till the end at least a draft of a play or a novel; but sometimes, I'll take a break for a couple weeks for a project that is paying me money like a television project which I try to stay away from just to stay financially ahead of the game.