#coup

And that's how I start myself. I usually go back a couple of pages, maybe to the beginning of the chapter, and I start reading. And as I'm reading, I'm tweaking - putting in a different word, changing the syntax, putting that clause over there, you know that sort of thing. ↗

— Jean M. Auel

#beginning #changing #chapter #clause #couple

What I had later learned was that the FBI knew I was going to New York a couple days after the raid. ↗

— Sherman Austin

#couple #days #fbi #going #had

In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward. ↗

— Charles Babbage

#attraction #cannot #circumstance #coupled #england

What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to live there but also to grow trees and cockroaches right on the premises. ↗

— Russell Baker

#calls #closets #cockroaches #couple #grow

I produced and directed a movie a couple years ago that won some awards that Samuel Goldwyn released called 'The Last Good Time'. I wrote, produced and directed it, but I wasn't in it. ↗

— Bob Balaban

#awards #called #couple #directed #good

I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall. ↗

— Adam Baldwin

#i #pilots #said #tall #tested

I could count my modeling jobs on my hands and toes. When I graduated from college, I moved to New York specifically to study acting, and I needed to pay the bills, and it's better to make a couple thousand dollars in one day than to wait tables six days a week. ↗

— William Baldwin

#better #bills #college #could #count

I miss horribly those couple of hours before the performance when you get into the theater and you see people. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#couple #get #horribly #hours #i

He's a couple sandwiches short of a picnic. ↗

— Lance Bass

#picnic #sandwiches #short

Obviously, I did a couple of things right on the old casting couch. ↗

— Jason Bateman

#couch #couple #did #i #obviously