Mike Scully Quotes

Five years is a good run for a sitcom; seven is good, but usually, it's a couple years of staying past your welcome.

Mike Scully

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• If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Time
  • Universe
  • Couple

• Any time you make more than a couple of friends at an event, I think that you actually made no friends.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Think

• My last two records that I made were both quite pointed in one direction and I think I do my best stuff when it's all over the map, when there's a couple traditional things, a couple pretty rocking things.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • Best

• It's not the last one. Five's out, six is coming out in November, that's a single chapter, and then seven is the big horrifying one. And I think a couple after that to wrap the thing up.

  

  Eddie Campbell
  • Up
  • Think
  • Single

• One in four children being victimized? That's about seven children in every classroom. That's a significant proportion of the population.

  

  Wendy Craig
  • Children
  • Seven
  • Classroom

• I wanted to play rocking country music, and when I started out in the late Seventies, it took me a couple of albums to figure out how to do that.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Music
  • Country
  • Play

• I'd played in about four or five bands before we started up, only a couple of which did club dates.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
  • Up
  • Couple
  • Before

• We've been back since July, but I spent some time with the family in the south of France over the summer. We rented a house with another couple and took it easy.

  

  Laura Innes
  • Time
  • Family
  • House

• There is kind of a typical experience as a premier. You go in, you win a couple, you get out. Go serve on boards, take your head out of the political ringer and take on a much more private life.

  

  Dalton McGuinty
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Political

• When I was I kid, there were so many different things that I wanted to be. As an actor, I get a chance to be all of those things, at least for a couple of days, which is fun.

  

  Navid Negahban
  • Different
  • Fun
  • Couple

• Doing 'Magnificent Seven' was a no-brainer.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Doing
  • Seven
  • Magnificent

• A couple of taxi drivers have asked me if we can survive financially as an independent nation. I say, how come we are more stupid than Denmark or Finland or Sweden? They've all got the same amount of people. Are we all going to down tools? Is everybody in Scotland going to stop working?

  

  Eddi Reader
  • People
  • Stop
  • Couple

• I used to really want to go on the stage and then the last couple of years I've done some presenting at some award shows. I was so nervous I thought I was going to be sick, so I don't think me on stage for any length of time would work too well.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Time
  • Work
  • Done

• I don't want to see any taxpayer funding going towards... a couple that is not married.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Want
  • Couple
  • See

• I feel like by me putting on a couple more pounds will help my game tremendously. Putting on 10-15 pounds will help me stop the run better and be a more dominant pass rusher.

  

  Gaines Adams
  • Help
  • Game
  • Me

• I was total trailer trash, babe. I can’t remember any real tornadoes, although there were a couple of times when we had to tie our bicycles to trees to keep them from blowing away.

  

  Cameron Richardson
  • Real
  • Remember
  • Couple

• I arrived in New York in 1986, when I was 28. The market here was nothing. In the Union Square farmers' market, it was a couple of potatoes, everything from California. So the only place I was comfortable shopping was in Chinatown, because it all came from Hong Kong.

  

  Jean-Georges Vongerichten
  • Couple
  • California
  • Shopping

• I'm down to act a little bit - go on a couple auditions or make one of those three-second cameos with one line.

  

  Charlie Puth
  • Couple

• Four world titles is a good swath at the top of the podium. The Olympics didn't work out for a couple of reasons, but it feels good when people say 'four world titles.'

  

  Kurt Browning
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• Honestly, humans are social creatures that really crave intimacy, and I think that the friends I have who are trying to somehow go it alone are suffering for it.

  

  James Mercer Broken Bells
  • Trying
  • Friends
  • Alone

• I can't believe we've got away with becoming this huge band. And we still haven't done anything I think is that good yet.

  

  Chris Martin Coldplay
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Done

• As I look out there and see the culture of baseball, a lot of blacks and Latins, it's given me a lot of joy to know that Jackie started that. If Jackie hadn't come in '47, me and Ron Santo wouldn't have played in Double-A and all those years in the big leagues.

  

  Billy Williams
  • Culture
  • Joy
  • Baseball

• Full Frame is where I had the first showing of my first film, 'Street Fight.' I have a fond memory of pacing around outside the theater, nervously trying to keep from throwing up. It's a magical festival, well curated, with a warm and generous spirit.

  

  Marshall Curry
  • Up
  • Trying

• Five years is a good run for a sitcom; seven is good, but usually, it's a couple years of staying past your welcome.

  

  Mike Scully
  • Couple
  • Seven
  • Staying