Famous quotes containing the word couple:
“Said an ape as he swung by his tail
To his offspring both female and male,
From your children, my dears,
In a couple of years
May evolve a professor at Yale.”
—Anonymous.
“Parents can fail to cheer your successes as wildly as you expected, pointing out that you are sharing your Nobel Prize with a couple of other people, or that your Oscar was for supporting actress, not really for a starring role. More subtly, they can cheer your successes too wildly, forcing you into the awkward realization that your achievement of merely graduating or getting the promotion did not warrant the fireworks and brass band.”
—Frank Pittman (20th century)
“Im like Cat here. Were a couple of no-name slobs. We belong to nobody and nobody belongs to us. We dont even belong to each other.”
—George Axelrod (b. 1922)