Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Zell Miller

I wish we lived in the day where you could challenge a person to a duel.

Herb Harris

Riley is the kind of kid who likes challenges like that. He's always willing to step in and give it a shot.

David Obey

represents yet another effort to conceal the full costs of meeting the challenges in Iraq until after the election.

Butch Buchholz

Part of the problem they had in negotiating this thing was a lot of players wanted unlimited challenges. That would have been a problem. That would take forever to play a match.

Brad Feld

While I'm a venture capitalist who invests in early-stage tech companies, I often feel like a professional emailer and conference call maker. I try to spend most of my time doing whatever the companies we are investors in need me to do.

Janet Jackson

I've never been into what am I going to do next, trying to reinvent myself.

Miley Cyrus

I've never just been able to be alone, and I'm obsessed with being alone and hearing my thoughts. I'm trying to take this alone time — the five minutes I do have a day — to learn as much as I can.

Miley Cyrus

Maybe it's your time to lift off and fly You won't know if you never try.

Colin Mochrie

As I get older, I'm trying to accept improvisation into my day-to-day living.

Jayne Anne Phillips

Divinity. That's what I'm trying to get at, in everything I write.

Maria Mitchell

I am just through with a summer, and a summer is to me always a trying ordeal.

Matthew Weiner

This sounds really craven on some level, but on some level, a lot of what I'm doing is trying to not do a typical TV show.

Jano Cabrera

We're strong. But we're trying to keep pace.

Gu Yuan

The strikes and good economic indicators from China are supporting this round of the rally. The positive aspects of fundamentals are attracting more hedge funds, pension funds into metals and other commodities.

Jennette McCurdy

For me, 'Sam & Cat' is cool because it's got this buddy-comedy aspect that 'iCarly' or 'Victorious' didn't have.

Dick Bryant

If we can introduce basketball to these young people and show them that there's a lot to offer in this field, then we can give them confidence. And confidence carries through to all aspects of life. That's what makes you successful. If they can look in the mirror and think that they are proud of themselves and confident, then that will carry them a long way.

David Dye

MSHA and the industry have worked long and hard together to take care of many of the obvious physical hazards, the ones that could be fixed with better engineering, better equipment, and better technology. We're now down to the hardest thing of all to fix, the human aspect of safety.

Martin Filler

One reason I've never been a fan of graphic novels is because a central aspect of literature for me has always been imagining what the things I'm reading about look like.

James Franco

One of the things I've learned as a filmmaker is to have some aspect of the movie be something that I admire greatly, whether that's an actor I'm working with, the subject matter, or a book.

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

One of the strangest results of having your name on a book jacket is the proliferation of people who know one narrow aspect of your life and are suddenly surprised to learn there's more.

Andrew Brown

One key aspect of the fuel is its low smog formation.

John G. D. Clark

One aspect of this is the way we have come during recent centuries to appreciate that the world and indeed the very universe in which we live have evolved over immense periods of time.