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

• I believe women should be independent and have their own life. But I also think that when a couple decides to have a family, things change because you need to live in unison.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Women

• 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 haven't physically attacked anyone in a couple of years.

  

  John Malkovich
  • Couple

• In fact, on a side note, after the success of the first record, I got asked to write for some pop artists, as everybody does, and I did a couple songs for some of these massive stars and the review that I got back was, "This artist likes the song but it's too POP-y for them." I was like, "What do you mean, I thought I was writing for a pop star."

  

  Aaron Bruno
  • Writing
  • Success
  • Song

• More and more we are into communications; and less and less into communication.

  

  Studs Terkel
  • Communication

• It is pleasant to notice that the harmony between the naturalists and officers of the "Blake" was not for an instant disturbed during the time they were working in common. Everything in the way of naval routine was sacrificed for the time to the objects of the cruise, and the appearance of the deck and bow of the Blake was often more that of a mud-scow than of a vessel in the service of the United States.

  

  Alexander Agassiz
  • Vessel
  • Cruise
  • Naval

• I carried out my orders until arrested. I had no sense that I was spying, and I ask that this be taken into account in deciding my verdict.

  

  Witold Pilecki
  • Sense
  • Account
  • Orders

• 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