“The nice thing about the world that I've been able to inhabit for the last couple of years is that I'm given a lot of freedom. Not all artists really get that.” WorldYearsAbleLastsArtistGivenNiceCoupleNice Things Author:Brad Paisley
“I won't date a guy who doesn't own a toolbox. I'm not saying you need to be able to knock down a wall or build a house or anything like that. But I've been out with a couple of guys who didn't own toolboxes, and they couldn't even change a light bulb.” NeedsLightAbleGuyHouseWallCoupleBulbsLight BulbToolbox Author:Kristy Swanson
“I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able to hit it, you're able to hit it with a couple of short sharp shots... it's a beautiful thing.” BelieveAbleBeautifulI BelieveCoupleShotsCapabilityBeautiful ThingsPrecisionMosquitoes Author:Alexis Arguello
“It's my belief that, like every other American, gay and lesbian couples should be able to make a lifetime commitment to the person they love and protect their families.” ShouldPersonsAbleBeliefCoupleGayProtectCommitmentLifetimeLifetime Commitment Author:Mark Udall
“I probably won't be able to hear it until five years from now anyway. That's when I always hear my own music. It takes five years to sit down with it after not hearing it for a couple of years.” YearsAbleMy OwnFiveCoupleHearingFive Years Author:Alan Vega
“I’ve never understood why we would want to deny all the joys - and the challenges - of marriage to anyone. Which is why I think any loving, committed couple — gay or straight — should be able to get married.” ThinkingWantShouldAbleJoyChallengesCoupleGayMarriedUnderstoodCommittedDeny Author:Al Franken
“I've got a couple of years until I turn pro so I guess within that period hopefully I'll be able to get a little bit better.” YearsLittlesAbleTurnsBitsCouplePeriodsLittle BitHopefully Author:Lydia Ko
“When I moved to New York, I felt very strong emotionally and mentally. Aside from touring, I'd spent a couple of years alone and because of that, I was able to go out in the world again.” WorldYearsAbleStrongFeltNew YorkCoupleMovedVery StrongTouring Author:Marketa Irglova
“Getting ahead in a difficult profession - singing, acting, writing, whatever requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows and unfair reversals. When I think back to those first couple of years in Rome, those endless rejections, without a glimmer of encouragement from anyone, all those failed screen tests, and yet I never let my desire slide away from me, my belief in myself and what I felt I could achieve.” ThinkingWritingYearsFirstsAbleDesireBeliefFeltDifficultActingAchieveCoupleSingingTestsEncouragementBlowProfessionScreensEndlessRejectionRomeUnfairSlidesFaith In YourselfStaggeringAvidReversal Author:Sophia Loren
“And also it was a process of, we lifted weights as well, in an effort to train my body to then be able to lift heavier weights when I got in Australia. So that was the first couple of months.” FirstsWellsBodyAbleProcessEffortMonthsCoupleWeightTrainLiftsAustralia Author:Brandon Routh
“I suppose I could have sat back and pitied myself. For a time I wondered if I'd ever be able to go on to a stage and perform again. After a couple of weeks I began to feel I could fight my way back to health if I put my mind to it. I thought to myself: 'Pity never did anybody any good. Go on. Patsy, show 'em what you can do'” IfsWayFeelsMindShowsAbleFightingCan DoWeekStageGoes OnCouplePityMy WaySatEms Author:Patsy Cline
“People abhor boxing, and I agree, but I admire men and women who can stand in a ring like that, nowhere to hide. I've only been to a couple of boxing matches, and they're different from any other event. I'm not there to see blood; I'm there for the heart of someone being able to get up and keep going. And for the respect that's often there in the end.” PeopleMenHeartDifferentEndsAbleBloodEventsCoupleMen And WomenAgreeRingsAdmireGet UpBoxingKeep GoingBoxing Matches Author:Markus Zusak
“I consider theater, this is a vacation for me from LA, I sort of view this as I get to have this vacation and during my vacation I get to work on acting. It's like an acting class. And if I go too long without doing a play, I just feel empty. Like approaching a role, I feel like the pool is very shallow, like I'm drawn from it. So I need to come back and do a play, fortunately I've been able to, every couple of years.” IfsNeedsFeelsYearsLongPlayAbleViewsActingClassRolesCoupleEmptyTheaterPoolVacationShallowActing Classes Author:Alan Tudyk
“I've had so many critics over the past couple of months. I've had so many people who said I'm too old for this, I am burnt out. But, you know what, I am so hungry to make a career for myself. I was able to turn all this negativity into something positive.” PeopleKnowsSaidAblePastTurnsCareersMonthsCoupleCriticsHungryNegativityOver The PastBurnt Out Author:Ashley Wagner
“People change, couples change, and you have to be able to accept what is coming without trying to hang on things that you had before that they may disappear but they may transform into something that is even better.” PeopleTryingMayAbleAcceptingCoupleDisappear Author:Antonio Banderas
“Voice work is usually not that big of a time commitment. You can go in for a couple of days or a couple of months, here and there, and just go in and play. I like being able to do that. You don't have that luxury on film sets or television sets.” PlayBigsAbleFilmVoiceTelevisionMonthsCoupleCommitmentLuxuryHere And ThereFilm Set Author:James Marsden
“It's fun to be in a small club and to be able to look somebody right in the eye and watch them just freak. Then it's fun to be in front of thousands of people and watch a couple of hundred freaking out of their minds.” PeopleMindLooksEyeAbleFunWatchesFrontsCoupleHundredClubsFreakFreaking Out Author:Lou Reed
“I think Google's founders are both a couple of guys with some high ideals which have been to some degree reflected in the way the company has been run in terms of its having a very good workplace and good employee programs, and now that they're going public they want in some ways to be able to ensure that that kind of approach continues. So they've effectively put in place this notion of "Don't Be Evil".” ThinkingWayWantKindHas BeensRunningAbleGuyEvilTermBusinessCompanyCoupleDegreesApproachIdealsProgramNotionVery GoodEmployeeFoundersGoogleGood WorkWorkplace Author:Joel Bakan
“I probably need another couple of years of absorbing that and really looking at it to be able to do it because you actually have to know everybody's job and I don't know everybody's job yet. I'm just now comfortable with my own.” KnowsNeedsYearsAbleJobsMy OwnCoupleComfortableAbsorbing Author:Colin Hanks
“But, as an actress, you don't want to run into these scenes, willy-nilly. The couple that I did do were important for the character and essential to the plot, to show what was actually going on between each character. It is great to be able to have that, and to be able to say certain things and have certain passions.” WantImportantCharacterShowsRunningAbleCertainPassionCoupleSceneEssentialsActressesPlot Author:Tamsin Egerton
“As a single couple, we are no longer able to hang around with married couples 'cause they cannot be in our presence without getting very annoying. It's always like, 'So, when are you guys getting married? Huh? When are you getting married? When are you guys getting married?!' I dunno, you're married - when are you gonna die? You're already married, death will be next. When are you gonna die?” AbleGuyDiesNextCausesCoupleMarriedAnnoyingGetting MarriedMarried Couples Author:Greg Fitzsimmons
“I fool around with guitar and I can fool around on piano. I don't really play either instrument although I can play a couple of songs on guitar. You don't really need to be able to play to compose. There are many composers and arrangers who work out of their heads.” NeedsI CanPlayAbleSongFoolCoupleInstrumentsGuitarWork OutPianoComposer Author:Frankie Laine
“When I was about twenty-one, I published a few poems. Maybe I wrote a couple of stories before, but I really began to write stories in my mid-thirties. My kids were still little, and they were in school and day care, and I had begun to think a lot about wanting to tell some stories and not being able to do it in poetry.” ThinkingWritingLittlesStillsStoriesCareKidsAbleSchoolCoupleTwentiesTwenty OneDay Care Author:Grace Paley
“When I was in school, I was very much into just sports, mostly basketball, and didn't really see myself as much of a student. But once I got into college, I figured I wasn't going to be play beyond college. I started to think what was I going to do, since I wouldn't be able to make a living with basketball. There were a couple of things I liked to do. I wrote poetry, spoken word mostly.” ThinkingPlayAbleSchoolSportsStudentsCollegeCoupleBasketballSpoken Word Author:Matt de la Pena
“I bailed out on social media for a while, and in short order I found I was able to sit down and read a book again. For the first time in a couple years I could read more than three pages without my brain wandering off into the ether. I drew a direct causal line between all this sort of ratta-tat-tat staccato stimulation that we get from the Internet and my growing inability to sit down and read anything that was longer than 500 words. But for me it came back because those synapses were already latent in my brain.” YearsFirstsBookAbleOrderThreeFoundSocialLinesBrainGrowingMediaCoupleInternetPagesFirst TimeDirectDown AndSocial MediaWanderInabilityStimulationLatentSynapses Author:Ron Currie Jr.
“To be able to let you know who someone is in just a couple of words, I'd have to pick the most pronounced features of a character's personality. And I always feel like I'm leaving out so many important little ones.” KnowsFeelsLittlesImportantCharacterAblePersonalityCouplePicksLeavingFeatures Author:Lisa Kudrow
“To get started, track your expenses for a couple of months. Then you should be able to start filling in your estimated debits and deposits for the next few months. Once you get it rolling for a while, you will be able to see your budget for the upcoming months reflected in the estimated totals. You can even notice year-to-year trends, like bonuses, tax bills, etc. that come up routinely and it will help you budget accordingly.” ShouldYearsHelpingAbleNextMonthsCoupleTaxesBillsTrackCome UpBudgetsEtcExpensesTrendsRollingFillingBonusDepositsFilling InDebit Author:Michelle Singletary
“I want to be successful and I want people to hear the music and I want to make money at it, but if it isn't what you do, eventually it seems like that will cause you to not be able to do what you do. If you did that for a couple years, you would just become someone else, which is fine, I guess...but I don't want to become someone else. I want to do what I enjoy and what feels right.” PeopleIfsWantFeelsYearsSeemsAbleCausesEnjoySuccessfulFineCoupleMaking MoneyBeing SuccessfulFeels Right Author:Will Oldham
“I was able to come up with a couple articles for the magazine, I was able to solicit help from a bunch of my friends to contribute pieces: Patton Oswalt, Seth Green, Emo Phillips, Chris Hardwick, John Hodgman, and more. It's very much a "Weird Al" themed issue, so I'd like to think that there's a lot of "Weird Al" flavor throughout but I think it'd be generous really to call me an editor.” ThinkingHelpingAbleIssuesPiecesCoupleMy FriendsGreenCome UpBunchMagazinesGenerousCall MeAlsEditorsArticlesFlavorEmoWeird Al Author:Al Yankovic
“Marshal Petain's Vichy regime looked like that new start. A couple of years later, it wasn't so evident that he was going to be able to protect them from German extortions, and it didn't look so much as though they had won the war, either. And so by '43, a lot of people are shifting sides.” PeopleYearsLooksWarAbleSidesCoupleProtectRegimesEvidentShiftingNew StartExtortion Author:Robert O. Paxton
“In 2011 I stopped playing rugby for England so during the Six Nations, which is on during February and March, I was able to grab a week's skiing. But I still had to take it pretty easy because I didn't want to get injured while I was playing for Gloucester. In 2013, when I retired fully from rugby, I finally had the chance to go a couple of times a season.” WantStillsAbleNationsEasyChanceWeekCoupleSixSeasonsEnglandMarchRetiredInjuredRugbyFebruarySkiingPlaying RugbyGloucester Author:Mike Tindall
“We all get one life to live here. It's 2012, and for gay and lesbian couples who are in love, not to be able to be married is so absurd.” AbleCoupleGayMarriedAbsurdBeing MarriedOne Life To Live Author:Howard Stern
“Right now it feels like we're playing a role, like me and a couple of my friends, in where popular culture is going. That's a very rare thing in a person's life to be able to be a part of that. It's a responsibility I take seriously.” FeelsPersonsAbleCultureResponsibilityRolesCoupleRight NowMy FriendsLike MePopular CultureRare Things Author:A-Trak
“I lost my phone and I just really didn't look for it. It was the nicest feeling, like six weeks. ... A couple of times I needed to use a telephone, and I was always able to touch someone that had a telephone and say, "Hey, can I use your phone? May I please?" And they'd say, "Sure." And that was it! So it was OK, it was a real vacation. I took a real vacation from myself.” LooksMayRealUseFeelingsAbleLostWeekCoupleNeededPleaseSixPhonesHeyVacationTelephonesTouch Someone Author:Bill Murray
“I think Donald Trump's reaching out and supporting John McCain and Kelly Ayotte in particular, and Paul Ryan, who had been critical of him, you know, a couple of days earlier, shows that he has the ability and the understanding to realize that there are going to be disagreements and you've got to be able to reach out to the entire party.” ThinkingKnowsShowsAbleUnderstandingRealizingAbilityPartyParticularTrumpCoupleCriticalReachingReach OutDisagreementMccain Author:Rudy Giuliani
“When I speak about attention, I mean literally, "How much attention can we pay to ourselves?" As children, sometimes we cannot hold our attention for more than a couple of seconds. Over the years we are able to attend to more and more. Yet, we're seldom schooled to hold life in respect, to enlarge our ability to love, take care of, and be respectfully connected with all things around us.” YearsMeanChildrenSometimesCareAbleSpeakAbilityPayAttentionAwarenessCoupleAll ThingsConnectedTake CareSecondsSchooledAbility To Love Author:Brooke Medicine Eagle
“I went to high school directly across the street from Carnegie Mellon, actually, and I knew people that were a couple of years older than me that went there. I was able to see shows in the drama department, and hang out there little bit, and it just felt like a natural progression. It was at the top of my list.” PeopleYearsLittlesShowsAbleSchoolFeltBitsNaturalStreetsCoupleDramaLittle BitHigh SchoolListsDepartmentHanging OutProgressionCarnegieCarnegie Mellon Author:Zachary Quinto
“You know, when your poisoning your body night after night after night, you end up chipping a couple years off your life. I've always wanted to be able to do this and now that I am, it's hard to complain.” KnowsYearsEndsHardBodyAbleWantedNightCoupleComplainingYour BodyPoisoning Author:Mac DeMarco
“I was fortunately able to avoid getting into any trouble with police. There was - I remember I was 12, and I did something really (laughter) - a couple of friends, Cinco de Mayo - we were off school, and we saw some people looking like they were having a party. And we had a little bit too much time on our hands, and so we figured, as kids, a great idea would be to throw some things over the fence and hit all these people with stuff, like eggs and everything.” PeopleLittlesIdeasHandsWould BeKidsAbleSchoolRememberStuffBitsPartySawsToo MuchTroubleCoupleLittle BitLaughterPoliceEggsFenceGreat IdeaCinco De Mayo Author:Mahershala Ali
“I was able to go over [Saxophone Competition] and work a little more in Europe. I'm thankful that those of kinds of things. Simultaneously, some nice things did come in. I got a nice festival that came in, in Virginia through that. There was a club that opened in DC in the famous Willard Hotel near the White House. And the club was called The Nest. I played there a few nights. Some musicians in Philly and D.C. kind of brought me down and got me on a couple things. So things opened up a little bit.” KindLittlesAbleNightHouseBitsWhiteNiceCoupleLittle BitMusicianEuropeDown AndCompetitionClubsHotelWhite HouseFestivalsNestsVirginiaNice ThingsSaxophoneSome NiceCouple Things Author:Jon Gordon