“I like to razz the Trekkies a little bit. Who doesn't? It's trainspotting, isn't it? But they are very well-meaning, actually. I've done a couple of Star Trek conventions, and they've only been really welcoming.” WellsLittlesDoneStarsBitsCoupleLittle BitWelcomeConventionsTrainspotting Author:Malcolm McDowell
“When I'm writing, which is 8-9 months out of the year, I'm in a concerted writing pace, where I work 5 days a week for at least a few hours a day, maybe a little bit more. But I won't work for more than 2 hours at a time. I'll work for a couple hours and take a break.” WritingYearsLittlesBitsHoursBreakWeekMonthsCoupleLittle BitPace Author:Amy Ray
“I'm consciously aware, specifically with the comic book world, where there's a built-in fanbase. But, there's a little bit of leniency because there are a couple different universes.” WorldLittlesBookDifferentUniverseBitsCoupleLittle BitBuiltComicComic BookLeniencyDifferent Universes Author:Jeremy Renner
“I've never gone out with a guy who is older than me by more than a couple years. Usually it's my age, a little bit older, or even a little bit younger. But not a 15- or 20-year difference.” YearsLittlesAgeGuyBitsDifferencesGoneCoupleLittle Bit Author:Sofia Vergara
“In the next couple of years, part of every film's process is going to be to adjust the images. And it'll be to change the color of an actor's tie or change the little smirky thing he's doing with his mouth. Or you can put in more clouds or move the tree a little bit.” YearsLittlesFilmMovingNextActorsBitsProcessTreeColorCoupleLittle BitMouthsCloudsTies Author:Robert Zemeckis
“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
“Spiritual growth is like learning to walk. We stand up, fall, stand up, fall, take a step, fall, take a couple of steps, fall, walk a little better, wobble a bit, fall, run, and finally, eventually fly.” LittlesRunningSpiritualFallBitsGrowthWalksStepsCoupleSpiritual Growth Book:Stumbling Toward Enlightenment Source: Stumbling Toward Enlightenment
“Anyone who's got a guitar, you like to pick it up. I can play a couple of songs, some '50s rock and roll, a bit of Elvis. That's it, really - I'm not a musician, I'm not a singer.” I CanPlaySongBitsRocksCoupleMusicianPicksGuitarSingersRock And Roll Author:Aaron Taylor-Johnson
“Maybe further down the road in my career, in a couple of years when I'm maybe not that fast any more around the court, then maybe it would be good to come to the net a little bit more often” YearsLittlesWould BeBitsCareersCoupleLittle BitCourtBe GoodDown The Road Author:Roger Federer
“When there is some fear about accounting and growth and the economy, food stocks are a decent place to be, ... This company has been through a bit of a restructuring the last couple of years. Management is doing a great job. The company is improving and people are buying chocolate. So, what a great week to buy it.” PeopleYearsHas BeensJobsLastsBitsGrowthCompanyEconomyWeekCoupleManagementDecentBuyingChocolateImprovingAccountingGreat JobRestructuring Author:Liz Miller
“I'm going to just sit down for a couple of weeks and do nothing but read who-dunnits and Art books. I feel my work is getting a bit dull and mechanical and this proposed resting should work up some enthusiasm in me.” FeelsShouldArtBookBitsWeekCoupleEnthusiasmDullRelaxationResting And Relaxation Author:E. J. Hughes
“I can make a damn pork chop. My best dish is actually lasagna, which I do a couple times a year. My wife wishes I cooked a little bit more often, but I can put a frozen pizza in the oven and I make a good salad.” YearsLittlesI CanWishBitsWifeCoupleLittle BitMy WifeDamnDishesFrozenPizzaSaladPorkOvensPork ChopsLasagna Author:Ed Harris
“The Angels shows are really intense. We play for a couple hours at a time. They're very theatrical and full of audience interaction and emotion. I've seen a lot of people crying and stuff. It's a little bit like church, but it's very secular.” PeopleLittlesPlayShowsStuffBitsHoursChurchEmotionAudienceCryCoupleLittle BitAngelIntenseInteractionSecularTheatrical Author:Tom DeLonge
“if you want to be a little bit solitary and work very hard, you can do it more easily in New York than in a town like Paris or London. Because you depend so much for human relationships here on the phone. If you don't answer your phone, you are quite a lonely couple.” IfsWantHumansLittlesHardBitsCan DoAnswersNew YorkDependsCoupleSolitudeLittle BitLonelyTownsPhonesLondonParisSolitaryYou Can Do ItHuman RelationsHuman Relationships Author:Arman
“For the last year and a half, I went from being a crazy workout girl to sort of saying, "My body wants a little bit a of break." So I kind of stay with more simple stuff and taking walks and not being neurotic about working out and eating right. I started to enjoy life a little bit more. The only downside to that is there's that couple extra pounds and about 4,000 pregnancy rumors, but you know, other than that, it feels great.” KnowsWantFeelsYearsKindLittlesBodyLastsGirlStuffBitsEnjoySimpleWalksHalfBreakCrazyCoupleEatingLittle BitWork OutExtrasPoundsPregnancyLast YearWorkoutEnjoy LifeRumorNeuroticEating Right Author:Jennifer Aniston
“I really love doing nothing. I really love just being at home and taking a couple of days, you know, doing nothing. You know what I mean? Just getting up, being around the house, going outside the back yard, coming back in; I really like to do nothing because I travel a lot. There's a lot of travelling. There's a lot of on the phone all the time. There's a lot of looking at papers and reading things and so you don't want to read magazines and you don't want to do anything; you don't want to read books, you just want to just kind of shut down a little bit.” KnowsWantKindMeanLittlesBookHomeReadingHouseBitsCouplePaperLittle BitPhonesMagazinesJust BeingYardsPapersComing BackDoing Nothing Author:Jennifer Lopez
“Syria has allowed its soil to be transited by foreign fighters who have come from a variety of source countries in the Gulf area and in the - in North African countries.There are some signs that that may have been reduced somewhat in the last couple of months. We need to watch that a bit and see if that is the case.” IfsNeedsMayHas BeensCountryLastsBitsWatchesCasesSourceMonthsCoupleAreasFighterVarietySoilSyria Author:David Petraeus
“Cigarettes and chocolate milk These are just a couple of my cravings Everything it seems I like's a little bit stronger A little bit thicker A little bit harmful for me.” LittlesSeemsBitsCoupleLittle BitStrongerChocolateMilkCigaretteCravingChocolate Milk Author:Rufus Wainwright
“I've been trained in dancing and I used to be quite good, though I am a bit rusty right now. But I could probably brush up in a couple of months.” UsedBitsMonthsCoupleRight NowDancingUsed To BeBrushes Author:Brittany Murphy
“Writers are much better behaved nowadays, for a couple of reasons. Once upon a time nobody was thinking of a career, unless you lived in New York, so there wasn't as much pressure to present a respectable exterior. And secondly, there was no social media. So if you were found face down on the floor - people did do that quite a bit; usually men, but not always - or fell through plate glass windows or got into scrapes, it became a rumor, and rumors are hard to pin down.” PeopleIfsThinkingMenWritingHardReasonFacesFoundSocialBitsCareersMediaNew YorkCoupleWindowPressureGlassesSocial MediaPlatesRumorPinsRespectableOnce Upon A TimeExterior Author:Margaret Atwood
“Any fool can make a quilt; and, after we had made a couple of dozen over twenty years ago, we quit the business with a conviction that nobody but a fool would spend so much time in cutting bits of dry goods into yet small bits and sewing them together again, just for the sake of making believe that they were busy at practical work.” YearsBelieveMadeTogetherBitsCuttingFoolCoupleYears AgoTwentiesBusySakeConvictionQuittingPracticalsDryGoodsDozenSewingTogether AgainQuilts Book:Yours for Liberty Source: Yours for Liberty
“There were a couple of years where I got a bit lost - I went out too much, I was a bit heartbroken, thought I was a bit more of a dude than I really was. I would love to go back and have a strong word with myself.” YearsLostStrongBitsToo MuchCoupleHeartbrokenStrong Words Author:James Corden
“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.” FunBitsCoupleHaving FunDesignerWornCarpetLauren Author:Darby Stanchfield
“It's a little bit odd. The first time you do the play, you kind of throw yourself into it, trying to get the most out of all the individual moments. Then, a few hours later, you're still there, wondering what you could possibly do differently than what you just did a couple hours ago.” TryingFirstsKindLittlesStillsPlayMomentsIndividualBitsHoursWonderCoupleLittle BitFirst TimeOdd Author:Michael Shannon
“I kind of was shoveled onto a boat at 11 and went to England. I didn't have any parent watching over me. It was very free and may have been a bit of a scary time for me, but I really don't remember much about the voyage apart from playing ping-pong a lot with a couple friends.” KindMayHas BeensRememberBitsParentCoupleEnglandScaryBoatVoyagesPingPing Pong Author:Michael Ondaatje
“I don't go to an office, so I write at home. I like to write in the morning, if possible; that's when my mind is freshest. I might write for a couple of hours, and then I head out to have lunch and read the paper. Then I write for a little bit longer if I can, then probably go to the library or make some phone calls. Every day is a little bit different. I'm not highly routinized, so I spend a lot of time wandering around New York City with my laptop in my bag, wondering where I'm going to end up next. It's a fairly idyllic life for someone who likes writing.” IfsWritingMindLittlesI CanDifferentEndsHomeMightNextBitsHoursCitiesWonderMorningNew YorkCoupleOfficePaperLittle BitLibraryPhonesLikesWanderBagsNew York CityLunchPhone CallsLaptopsWandering AroundIdyllic Author:Malcolm Gladwell
“Sometimes I just start humming something, find a melody I like a lot, and if it sticks around for a couple days, a few words will lock themselves into place. I might just get the first line. Then words just keep falling into the syllables. The choruses kind of write themselves and verses I have to work at a little bit.” IfsWritingFirstsKindLittlesSometimesMightFallBitsLinesCoupleLittle BitSticksMelodyVersesLocksChorusSyllablesFew WordsHumming Author:Jack Johnson
“I always have a guitar with me. Actually, I've got several, I play every day. And I enjoy it. I'm never very far away from them. I swear I only ever get a couple days when I'm away from a guitar, and I never like it! There's always one close by, and I play every day. Or I'll be working on something in the studio and play around a bit. It's an extension of me, really.” PlayBitsEnjoyCoupleGuitarStudiosFar AwaySwearExtensions Author:Andy Summers
“I've been trained in dancing and I used to be quite good, though I am a bit rusty right now. But I could probably brush up in a couple of months. The funny thing is that I actually took classes from Savion Glover, who worked in Happy Feet, when I was a kid. Isn't that wild? I was part of a selected group that was brought into New York from New Jersey (which is where I'm from) to study, every Saturday: ballet, jazz and tap. It was a musical comedy group.” KidsUsedBitsClassStudyComedyGroupsFeetNew YorkMonthsCoupleRight NowDancingJazzMusicalUsed To BeBalletSaturdayBrushesJerseyFunny ThingsSelectedNew JerseyHappy Feet Author:Brittany Murphy
“Normally with any of the races, we go a bit early to get used to the time zone and acclimatize. We'll have a couple of days to see the places. My favorites so far are Montreal and Abu Dhabi. With Abu Dhabi, the facilities are excellent and the weather is always good.” UsedBitsRaceCoupleWeatherExcellentZoneFacilityMontrealTime Zones Author:Valtteri Bottas
“In terms of driving, I actually don't have a driver's license, and it's kind of ridiculous. I've lived in Los Angeles for a couple of years and just have somehow managed to avoid taking the test, which I did last week and failed. I couldn't find the honker. I felt bad about it, but it's just a little bit embarrassing, I guess, to be in this film and not have a license.” YearsKindLittlesLastsFilmFeltBitsTermWeekCoupleLittle BitTestsRidiculousDrivingLos AngelesDriversEmbarrassingLicense Author:Imogen Poots
“For me in a film, almost every scene you end up cutting a bit of the start of it out, and some of the end of it out because there's always...once you've rehearsed it and shot it, it feels like a couple of times and you can always get out sooner.” FeelsEndsFilmBitsCuttingCoupleSceneShots Author:Brian Helgeland
“I'll generally write out every scene that's in the film on a couple of pieces of paper, just with a little one-line. And then I can scan it a bit and go, 'This first third of the film, generally, I'm kind of calm.' Then I might do something on one piece of paper that just relates to the energy of the character.” WritingFirstsKindLittlesI CanCharacterMightFilmEnergyBitsLinesPiecesCoupleScenePaperThirdsCalmRelateOne PieceOne Line Author:Guy Pearce
“In the Jewish tradition of the Bible it says, "Speak to her softly, so that she will want to engage in sexual activity." In today's world, there's a little bit of a danger in that people don't really talk to each other. You see couples walking in the street, each one of them texting someone else. That worries me.” PeopleWorldWantLittlesTodaySpeakBitsWorryStreetsDangerCoupleWalkingActivityLittle BitTraditionTextingToday's WorldJewish Tradition Author:Ruth Westheimer
“[The movies] glamorize game day a little bit too much. It's such a focus. They miss a lot of the nuts and bolts, and the time that goes into the preparation each week, or each couple of days in basketball.” LittlesGamesBitsToo MuchFocusWeekMissingCoupleBasketballLittle BitPreparationNutsBoltsNuts And BoltsGame Day Author:Vince Kehres
“Lego was our fourth film, because we did two Cloudys, so yeah there's a little bit of shorthand that's involved and then you can anticipate things- because for me it's like, I get a script for a movie and I go, "Wow that's a pretty good script", then you sign on and a couple months later they show you the first cut and you're like, "Whoa, how did that happen?"” FirstsLittlesTwoShowsHappensFilmBitsCuttingMonthsCoupleInvolvedLittle BitYeahScriptsWowFourthAnticipateShorthandLegos Author:Mark Mothersbaugh
“I just saw Titanic, which is a $200 million film about a real-life disaster at sea, but according to Hollywood Logic, none of the actual passengers was interesting enough, so the writer-director had to invent a Romeo and Juliet-style fictional couple to heat up the catastrophe. This seems a tiny bit like giving Anne Frank a wacky best friend, to perk up that attic.” GivingRealEnoughSeemsFilmBitsInterestingMillionsSawsSeaStyleCoupleDirectorsLogicHollywoodTinyDisasterReal LifeHeatFrankCatastrophePassengersJulietPerksAtticsWacky Author:Paul Rudnick
“When you're working on something where there's usually one sex scene in the film, it all gets a little bit of a gray area and people get a bit uncomfortable and awkward. You just get through it. But, it became very clear on this that that can't happen. There can't be any gray areas on this because there are actors and actresses coming in for a day or a couple of days, as well as people who are there regularly.” PeopleWellsLittlesHappensFilmActorsSexBitsClearCoupleSceneLittle BitAreasActressesUncomfortableGrayAwkwardGray AreaActors And Actresses Author:Michael Sheen
“When I'm writing I've been playing something for a couple of hours and I'm almost in a trance. At two or three in the morning you can actually see bits of inspiration floating about and grab them.” WritingTwoInspirationThreeBitsHoursMorningCoupleFloatingTrance Author:Kate Bush
“There were a couple of times that we did end up moving the set [of Helix] outside to shoot some of the outside scenes, just because we needed a bit more space, and that ended up being a little bit more helpful and easier to breathe, when you're dealing with some of the fake snow stuff. It was a lot of fun, and it looks amazing.” LooksLittlesEndsMovingFunStuffBitsSpaceCoupleNeededEasierSceneLittle BitBreatheSnowFakeHelpful Author:Kyra Zagorsky
“I tried to read The Dubliners, when I went to Dublin a couple of years ago. I think I only go thurogh the first story. Gnomon is such an interesting word. So many different uses for a word nooone has heard of, or uses these days. I googled some pictures of sundials to check that it was the tall shadow casting bit (it is) and then discovered that Saint Sulpice in Paris has a rather fascinating large gnomon- which I shall endeavour to see on my next visit to that fair city. Thanks for such a great word, which I shall try to remember.” ThinkingTryingYearsFirstsDifferentStoriesUseRememberNextBitsInterestingCitiesHeardCoupleShadowFairsYears AgoSaintChecksThanksThese DaysParisFascinatingTallCastingEndeavourDublinSundials Author:Brian D. McLaren
“Well, my boyfriend's from California so it's kind of a bit of California countryside but closer to home. It just takes a couple of hours to get there. I don't know, it's just very laid back, nobody knows who we are really. We've just got our friends there who are kind of outside Erasure and everything. It's just very nice” KnowsWellsKindHomeBitsHoursNiceCoupleCaliforniaWho We AreVery NiceNobody KnowsCountrysideMy BoyfriendLaid Back Author:Andy Bell
“Usually I will hear a sample, think of a theme and then it will take me a couple of days to write down some lyrics. Then I will decide that I hate those lyrics and rewrite. Then I will change all the music around. Then I will rewrite all the lyrics again. I am a bit of a perfectionist although you would never know it because all my songs are like chopped up and @#$%& up, but you see that's on purpose.” ThinkingKnowsWritingPurposeHateSongBitsCoupleI HateThemeTake MePerfectionistSample Author:Princess Superstar
“My game wasn't where it should have been at all at the start of the year. I got into a couple of bad habits on my swing, and it just took me a little bit of time to get out of them.” ShouldYearsLittlesHas BeensGamesBitsCoupleHabitLittle BitShould HaveSwingsShould Have BeenBad Habits Author:Rory McIlroy
“In North America, hip-hop and urban music are much more developed than it could be in Europe, except for a couple of markets like France, for example, or Germany, they're a little bit more aware.” LittlesAmericaBitsExampleCoupleLittle BitEuropeHip HopHipsFranceGermanyHopsUrbanNorth AmericaUrban Music Author:K-Maro
“I really liked Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls and a couple of others, but with these kinds of movies the best part is the 'talking about it over a beer afterwards' bit - and once is kind of enough.” KindEnoughBitsTalkingCoupleBeerValleysDolls Author:Bent Saether
“So for a long time, I did a lot of freelance writing in addition to writing fiction and such - I was a food critic for a magazine for a bit, I did writing for nonprofits and political things, I was the editorial consultant for another magazine for a couple years, all sorts of jobs.” WritingYearsLongJobsPoliticalBitsFictionCoupleLong TimeCriticsMagazinesEditorialsWriting FictionConsultantsNonprofits Author:Tod Goldberg
“I've had a couple of ghost experiences, but I'm not a big fan of the spiritual side of things, of the ghost type thing. I don't know why, maybe it freaks me out a bit, or I'm more into tangible, physical beings rather than things that can pass through walls.” KnowsBigsSpiritualBitsSidesFansWallTypeCoupleGhostFreakTangible Author:Rhys Darby
“It makes me wonder sometimes. Remember a couple years ago, when Mexicans went on strike? It was talked about a little bit but not that much. But some old white people, and there aren't even that many, they put bonnets on, and then they control the news.” PeopleYearsLittlesSometimesRememberBitsWhiteWonderCoupleLittle BitNewsYears AgoStrikesBonnets Author:David Sedaris
“I only do children's films now! I think when you go to LA some people feel you've defected a little bit and that's not really the case. Ideally, I would love to work here and to work in America. That's in an ideal world. In fact, I came back to Britain recently to do an ITV1 drama that will be out in April for a couple of months! But I'm flying back to LA to do a pilot season. So, to work in both places is great.” PeopleThinkingWorldFeelsChildrenLittlesFactsAmericaFilmBitsCasesMonthsCoupleDramaLittle BitIdealsSeasonsFlyingBritainPilotsAprilIdeal World Author:Ashley Jensen