«Next door, there's an old man who lived to his nineties and one day passed away in his sleep. And his wife, she stayed for a couple of days and passed away. I'm sorry, I know that's a strange way to tell you that I know we belong.»

«If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.»

«It's weird that photographers spend years or even a whole lifetime, trying to capture moments that added together, don't even amount to a couple of hours.»

«Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen and I was three.»

«If GE's strategy of investment in China is wrong, it represents a loss of a billion dollars, perhaps a couple of billion dollars. If it is right, it is the future of this company for the next century.»

«Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.»

«If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a lot of overlapping.»

«If you start throwing hedgehogs under me, I shall throw a couple of porcupines under you.»

«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.»

«I know black women in Tennessee who have worked all their lives, from the time they were twelve years old to the day they died. These women don't listen to the women's liberation rhetoric because they know that it's nothing but a bunch of white women who had certain life-styles and who want to change those life-styles. They say things like they don't want men opening doors for them anymore, and they don't want men lighting their cigarettes for them anymore. Big deal. Black women have been opening doors for themselves and lighting their own cigarettes for a couple centuries in this country. Black women don't quibble about things that are not important.»