Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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!

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.

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.

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

Jack Wilson

We've been outhitting our opponents most of the times lately. We're just not getting the big hit. Tonight, we got the big hits in that second game. That's one thing that's been eluding us the whole season. We got a couple of them tonight.

Jerome Bettis

We've been on the doorstep a couple times. Once we got to the play-offs, we knew it was a realistic possibility.

We need to get a couple of ugly goals, something to go off somebody's skate.

We had a couple of chances. If we had gotten that score right before half, it's 13-7 and we have the momentum.

Irwin Winkler

No one wants to hear from the producer. He's the guy by the pool with a cigar in his mouth and a couple of lovelies on his arm. But when you're a director, they want to hear what you have to say about everything - the war, the world.

We made a couple more errors. We had a few breakdowns.

We've got to do a better job of getting those guys a couple of looks during the game down low. Hopefully they'll learn from the experience.

When I signed onto 'Superman,' editors Matt Idelson and Wil Moss gave me a rough outline that JMS had turned in for the remaining issues of the 'Grounded' arc, which amounted to a couple of sentences for each issue, spelling out in general terms where the issue would take place geographically, specific guest stars, things like that.

Mike Robinson

We knew there'd be some mismatches, but there were a couple we could've won, and we didn't.

We've been seeing a lot of people in the last couple of months, ... We've also been getting lots of phone calls.

We have gotten a couple of leads, but we do not yet know who the guy is.

We will get well into the second quarter before the job situation really starts to improve, ... That's typical of recoveries; it takes a couple of quarters before the labor market starts to turn around.

Kurt Vonnegut

How important my books are or anybody's books are, I don't know. I don't think they are terribly important I think that they make people contented during the period they are reading them and this is worth something is to take care of somebody for a couple of hours.