Couple Quotes - Page 24

• Due to budget crunches, Bush has had to scale some of the programs. He has a new program, 'Leave A Couple of Kids Behind.'

  David Letterman

  Kids, Program, Crunch

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• 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 Shankman

  Drama, School, Past

  "Producer Adam Shankman Talks STEP UP REVOLUTION Blu-ray/DVD, Future STEP UP Movies, Directing GLEE’s Upcoming Christmas Episode, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 27, 2012.

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• When I do a play, it's like agreeing to be ill for a couple of months.

  Bill Nighy

  Play, Months, Ill

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• Normally, what I do for fun is just nothing. I try to just relax. Normally, it involves just relaxing and reading and maybe going out and meeting up with a friend. I live a very simple existence. I would much rather just sit around and listen to a couple of records and read the paper.

  Colin Hanks

  Fun, Reading, Simple

  "Colin Hanks, Tom Hanks Team Up On-Screen". The PARADE Magazine Interview, parade.com. March 20, 2009.

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• Lordy, lordy, lordy do I love money. It is a character flaw, no doubt, one that springs from a panicked childhood in which I always felt as if our family was only a couple missed child support payments from being tossed onto the pitiless streets of our suburban New Jersey town.

  Michael Ian Black

  Children, Spring, Character

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• But, what did happen is I went to Woodstock as a member of the audience. I did not show up there with a road manager and a couple of guitars. I showed up with a change of clothes and a toothbrush.

  John Sebastian

  Guitar, Clothes, Woodstock

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• I don't play polo anymore because I am too old. But we still have a half a dozen horses - a couple of young horses we are teaching how to play polo and older horses that are real trustworthy when you get them up in the mountains.

  William Devane

  Horse, Real, Teaching

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• I enter myself in races. I did a triathlon, and I have done a marathon a couple of times.

  Stephen Mangan

  Race, Done, Marathon

  "Balanced?". Interview with Stevie Brown, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2006.

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• My daughter Lily's the oldest, and by the time she was six months, we just had books of photos. Poor little Maeve, who's six months old now My mom hasn't met her yet, and last night she said, 'Show me some pictures!' I'm looking through my phone like, 'Well, I got a couple, but they're from two months ago'

  Chris O'Donnell

  Mom, Daughter, Book

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• Listen - I like musicals. Even when they're bad, there's a couple of dancers I can watch.

  Richard Schiff

  Dancer, Watches, I Can

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think being raised by a single mother put me on the outside, and I would watch my mothers married friends and think, Why does she put him down in public? or, Why is he so rude to her? It seemed to me that there were very few marriages where the couple were genuinely in a supportive, loving partnership.

  Cherie Lunghi

  Mother, Thinking, Rude

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• Im a huge fan of The Odd Couple, yes, and any comparisons to Tony Randall and or Jack Lemmon are completely welcome. I kind of try to channel those guys, and then add my own neuroses, too.

  David Alan Basche

  Guy, Trying, Fans

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• I think there's an opportunity for a couple of them for sure, maybe more depending upon the situation, but it's too early to say which ones. It's a pretty competitive fight. And that doesn't mean the older guys are just going to walk into spots. I remind them all the time - you got to earn everything you get. And that's what made our team good last year, is guys really competed for opportunities and understood their roles.

  Tony Bennett

  Team, Mean, Fighting

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• We had a couple of minor coups that made a big difference. We snared away from a competitor a correspondent already on the ground in Afghanistan. That was an enormous help to us, because there we were.

  Brit Hume

  Differences, Helping, Made

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• I wanted to be a concert pianist at Carnegie Hall; that is what I wanted to do from really early on. I actually was the accompanist for a couple of the musicals I was in growing up.

  Kirsten Nelson

  Growing Up, Carnegie, Concerts

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• To marry for love were no reproachful thing if we did not see that of ten thousand couples that do it, hardly one can be brought for an example that it may be done and not repented afterwards.

  Dorothy Osborne

  Marriage, Example, Done

  Dorothy Osborne (1903). “The Love Letters of Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple”

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• What an age do we live in, when 'tis a miracle if in ten couples that are married, two of them live so as not to publish to the world that they cannot agree.

  Dorothy Osborne

  Marriage, Two, Miracle

  Dorothy Osborne, Edward Abbott Parry (2014). “Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, 1652–54”, p.184, Cambridge University Press

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• I want to play a role of a 24-year-old woman, not 17-year-old girls. So I have picked a couple of films like 'Butter' to show that. And it's perfectly fine not to do anything for a year if I don't find the right thing.

  Ashley Greene

  Girl, Play, Years

  "Ashley Greene: The Bombshell". Interview with Josh Patner, www.glamour.com. March 28, 2011.

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• I am a bit in love with a new designer George Hobeika; I have worn him a couple of times on the carpet. Ralph Lauren is another one I really have fun with.

  Darby Stanchfield

  Fun, Designer, Lauren

  "5 Minutes With... Darby Stanchfield of 'Scandal'". Interview with Rebecca Petro, www.flare.com. October 3, 2013.

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• Lasting love has to be built on mutual regard and respect. It is about seeing the other person. I am very interested in relationships and, when I watch couples, sometimes I can sense a blindness has set in. They have stopped seeing each other. It is not easy to see another person.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Watches, Sometimes, Lasting Love

  "Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: 'My new novel is about love, race... and hair'" by Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. April 6, 2013.

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• For no matter the shadows of an age, the picture of a young couple in love, we are told, speaks most luminously of the future, as the span of that passion makes us believe we can overleap any walls, obliterate whatever obstacles.

  Chang-Rae Lee

  Wall, Believe, Passion

  Chang-rae Lee (2014). “On Such a Full Sea: A Novel”, p.20, Penguin

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• When couples have children in excess, let abortion be procured before sense and life have begun; what may or may not be lawfully done in these cases depends on the question of life and sensation.

  Aristotle

  Children, Law, Justice

  Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.257, Aristotle

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• Close your eyes and simply "feel" the spot your finger is touching. Then, after a couple of minutes, let your hands down. Continue to hold your attention on the spot just as you did when your finger was there.

  Frederick Lenz

  Eye, Buddhism, Chakra Meditation

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• The drama teacher that I had in high school, back in Texas, was the only teacher who didn't kick me out of his class. He turned me on to 'The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan.' I had picked up Dylan with 'Bringing It All Back Home,' and he turned me on to the first couple of albums, which I hadn't heard.

  Steve Earle

  Teacher, Drama, Home

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• I'm getting better, happier, and nicer as I grow older, so I would be terrific in a couple of hundred years time.

  Maeve Binchy

  Years, Get Better, Would Be

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