Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Harmon

As an actor, you don't always know where a role is going, and part of the fun of playing this guy is that it changes and he continues to challenge me.

Edsger Dijkstra

In their capacity as a tool, computers will be but a ripple on the surface of our culture. In their capacity as intellectual challenge, they are without precedent in the cultural history of mankind.

Larry Freed

During this critical stage in the holiday shopping season, online retailers face huge challenges to maintaining high satisfaction. Those who aren't able to meet customer expectations online during the last week or two of the holiday shopping season risk the long-term impact of lessened customer loyalty during the weeks and quarters to come.

David Butler

(Bird flu) is a smaller challenge at one level in the sense that we are better prepared, we have better knowledge, we are -- at least in our part of the world -- healthier than people were in 1918,

Ismail Haniyeh

We've handled challenges in the past and we will be able to stand up to future challenges as well.

Peter Yesawich

This speaks volumes about the challenges contemporary families have simply coordinating schedules . . . and the premium they place on the increasingly limited leisure time they spend together.

Mark Lawrence

I've always seen 'no' as a challenge rather than an answer.

George Soros

challenge the very concept of the 'war on terror.'

Chris Duncan

Chapter one is completed. It's playoff time and we look forward to the challenge that comes with being a No. 1 seed.

Jodi Picoult

As it turned out, hell wasn't watching the people you love get hurt; it was coming in during the second act, when it was already too late to stop it from happening.

Jamie Koch

The money this is coming from is already there. We're just honoring his contract.

Danny Culler

Coming to the checkered. Watch your mirror. Watch your mirror.

John Gibbons

Coming in we knew we had a good one,

David Perkins

Now, gas prices, ... they go to $10 to the gallon, we're still coming to the races.

Dave Allison

Ten to 12 kids are coming in early to drop off their gear in the event that they need some seasoning. Then they will fly to Dallas. We can always send their stuff if they get a job in Dallas.

Bill Rocco

Tech is a big part of emerging markets coming back.

Judy Reyes

Television has been very good to me. I grew up on it, and it had quite an impact on me. I'm entertaining opportunities that are coming my way.

Helen Smith

Sometimes they don't even grade over the potholes, so you have potholes on top of potholes. If somebody's coming down the other side, you have to go into the mush.

Stephen King

God always punishes us for what we can't imagine.

Dawn Brown

I can't imagine life without him. He completes our family.

Mike McLaughlin

People have put just about anything you can imagine on top of landfills.

John Vail

It triggered us to say, 'Wow, imagine if we ever had the opportunity to actually run a program online. Think of the power and the savings,'

Lauren Willig

Every young girl wants to be a princess. Then, when you find a real-life one, it's very easy to imagine yourself in that role.

Mike Wallace

I was always nosy and can you imagine a better 60 years, 40 of which or 37 of which traveling any place in the world.

Pat Boone

I've had death threats, if you can imagine.

Keith Richards

When you're 20, you can't imagine being 30. When you're 30, you can't imagine being 40. When you're 40, you can't imagine being 100.

Larry Page

Anything you can imagine probably is doable, you just have to imagine it and work on it.

Jim Lushine

Rain will be as heavy, if not heavier. You don't want to be walking around out there with possible downed power lines and debris. It's not over until it's over.

John O'Brien

PPI this morning was in line with what was expected, showing low inflation.

Reggie McNeal

We missed him a little bit, ... but whoever is the second man in line has to step up and play.

Angela Sarafyan

I prefer for things to happen serendipitously, but honestly, I also love terrible pickup lines.

Anthony Hopkins

What I do is just go over and over and over my lines and learn the script so well that I can just be easy and relaxed. That's the way I always work.

Simon Pegg

You know what, despite my complaints about The Phantom Menace and Episode II, when Episode III comes out I'll be first in line. I genuinely love it.

Russ Grimm

And no matter how good you are you have to work at it. It's non-stop every day, every day. The best the offensive line feels is when the season starts.

Miranda Hart

It's on the bucket list for sure to do a comedy film, even if it was just one line on the lot.

Darren Lightle

She was 17-of-19 from the line. She was 11-of-12 from the line in the second half.

Kelly Clarkson

Thank you so much. You have no idea how much this means to me.

Steven Forester

He'll be singing in his upper register to give the idea of what it means to be roasted on a spit.

Leon Hall

That just means we have to do everything that we need to do perfectly. Know where we need to be at, know our technique. If you mess up your technique with this guy, he can make you pay.

E. Hicks

It means a little stability, a little security.

Michael Drake

Evolutionary theory says if there is a God, then he has not made things by means of design, purpose or, in the creationist point of view, with immediacy.

Dwight Yorke

It means now that we have it all to play for and a win will seal it for us,

Brendan Gaughan

We don't need to talk about what Vegas means to our family,

Scott Anderson

We couldn't make so much noise of what we were going to do.

Edwin Way Teale

Noise is evolving not only the endurers of noise but the needers of noise.

David Ogilvy

At 60 miles an hour the loudest noise in this Rolls-Royce comes from the electric clock.

Jimmy Smith

He's what makes this offense go. When he's back there, we're at another level.

Matt Kiefer

That zone really threw us for a loop. We didn't run our offense like we should. Then Horner just went off. He was on fire. There's nothing we could do.

S. Walker

Michael's getting his offense better. He went through a stretch where he wasn't shooting it much. We told him you've got to start shooting more, scoring more.

John Gibbons

We have been swinging it well. I like the way our offense is built.

Tom Grippa

I thought our offense would do more, and we didn't. They shocked us with their offense, and once we got behind, we weren't ready to come from behind.

Greg Anderson

We have 50 percent of the units reserved and that's very exciting.

Craig Shniderman

Percentage of sales--the table contributions, which often represent about 50 percent of the table revenue--actually go up.

Melissa Etheridge

I would say I'm 97 percent back now,

Jeff Linenfelser

We put a lot of time in to get him ready. He was 100 percent ready for the fight. What are you going to do?

Pat Griffin

I'd say I spend 90 percent of my time in the Terrain Park.

John Smedley

I'd say we're about 70 percent of the way there.

Paul Reiser

He's 50 percent Peter Falk, 50 percent my own father,

Lori Anderson

We still get 100 percent of what we were owed.

Lori Lucas

About 81 percent say they plan to save later.

Randeep Hooda

I used to run away from school to my village. But later, I went to the U.S. for studies and lost touch.

Arthur Lydiard

The idea that you can't lose contact with the leaders has cut more throats than it has saved.

Aubrey McClendon

American business would be run better today if there was more alignment between CEOs' interest and the company. For example, would the financial crisis of 2008 have occurred if the CEO of Lehman and Morgan Stanley and Goldman and Citibank had to take a very small percentage of every mortgage-backed security... or every loan they made?

Brenda Ueland

running is the right thing to do! I am free, healthy with a good complexion. It is that automobile addict who should be ashamed: driving in a sealed car in warmed-over carbon monoxide and smoking a seegar. I am the Goddess! He is a bug in a monkey nut!

Jane Hamilton

This was life, I supposed, running and running and running, and realizing along the way that the phantom was getting closer.

Barry Eichengreen

As for the single market, the E.U.'s landmark achievement, there is no question that a euro zone breakup would severely disrupt its operation in the short run.

Jane Smiley

The body, the mind, and the spirit don't form a pyramid, they form a circle. Each of them runs into the other two. The body isn't below the mind and the spirit; from the point of view it's between them. if you reside too much in the mind, then you get too abstract and cut off from the world. You long for the spiritual life, but you can't get to it, and you fall into despair. The exercise of the senses frees you from abstraction and opens the way to transcendence.

bell hooks

In 2014, when Hillary Clinton was not yet running for president, I stated that I was not in agreement with her politics. More recently, when asked my thoughts about Hillary Clinton during a public conversation with Gloria Steinem, I stated, "she embodies the very best of imperialist white supremacist capitalist patriarchy, but that doesn't mean that we shouldn't vote for her."

Diana Vreeland

All people are meant to be creative in a certain way. What way? Perhaps I was cut out to be a wonderful housewife, with a marvelous sense of cooking, being with my friends, running a perfect house. But I am not ambitious towards anything.

Brandon Routh

Superman is there to unite us all, I think. I'm proud of Bryan for respecting that and not making it just about us.

Bailee Madison

I was trying to get into the business from a young age, but I don't think I really realized how much I loved it until I booked my first movie and found myself in New Zealand for six months filming Bridge to Terabithia.

Ashton Eaton

I think a challenge for myself is to see how many times I can get above 9,000. That would be a good challenge.

Azar Nafisi

A bad author can take the most moral issue and make you want to just never, ever think about that moral issue.

Azar Nafisi

I think Islam is in a sense, in crisis. It needs to question and re-question itself.

Ayn Rand

Now look at me! Take a good look! I was born and I knew I was alive and I knew what I wanted. What do you think is alive in me? Why do you think I'm alive? Because I have a stomach and eat and digest the food? Because I breathe and work and produce more food to digest? Or because I know what I want, and that something which knows how to want—isn't that life itself? And who—in this damned universe—who can tell me why I should live for anything but for that which I want?

Bertrand Russell

Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.

Jane Goodall

Every stage of my life set the scene for the next, and at each point all I had to do was say "yes" and not think too much about the consequences.

Jamie Farr

I think Canadian talent is exceptional. You continually show us up here in the States with your brilliancy.

Don Cherry

I never, ever said 'don't wear a visor,'

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The key to wealth is that it doesn't matter. Once you've had it, you don't think anything of it; you can wear cheap watches.

Natalia Kills

I really can't break away from wearing black and leather!

Harry Graf Kessler

I am utterly, consummately intense, wearing sunflowers and poppies and dahlias in my buttonhole.

Bill Young

We're wearing out our troops, we're wearing out the equipment,