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,

Jason Terry

We were down big and it was just real gutsy for us to be able to come back. We challenged ourselves in the huddle. We knew we hadn't played good 'D' at all, and for three quarters there we played lock-down, solid defense. That was huge, it was big for our confidence. That was our mission and our goal going into this trip, to win each game, and we did that.

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.

Ray Gant

There's not much trickery. They run straight at you. It's definitely a challenge for us. We have to step up and clog things up.

Mark Lawrence

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

Q'orianka Kilcher

I always wanted to be a singer, and so, when I was 5 years old, I started acting classes so I could be a better performer. I wanted to have a powerful voice so I could be heard.

Jason Clarke

I was a designer at the University of Louisville taking classes (in the early 1990s) and working there and the Web happened. I was interested enough (in the Internet) to pursue it and learn about it. It was at a time that there was no education about Web design and Web development.

Laura Harper

I haven't made my schedule yet for next semester, but whatever classes 'Lang' is taking I am taking. She is very, very smart and she motivates me in the classroom and forces me to work harder. I like that.

Jerry Paul

It's highly unusual when a company combines two share classes into one.

Jeffrey Lubell

The incomes of working families simply have not kept pace with rising housing prices. And this is despite low interest rates and new mortgage products designed to make homes more affordable.

Mikhail Kalashnikov

We had grain but no mills, so I designed a special mill of wood so we could make flour.

James Krouse

The introduction of several programs designed to review systems and program performance has resulted in efficiencies and cost-saving efforts.

P. J. Harvey

There's also a level of discipline I use as a writer, designed to get better at what I'm doing, that requires quite a lot of study and quite a lot of hard work as well.

John Murphy

This researched and thoughtfully designed garden can be a source of healing for those suffering from a number of mental and physical limitations.

Matthew Long

There is a big difference in this facility regarding the parking and storage of vehicles. We designed the route to have mostly driver side turns for safety issues.

Stephanie McDonald

As far as day-to-day life, he's a very happy baby. He's not miserable. He loves music. Knowing that he's not in any pain and that he can express his feelings is wonderful. It relieves us a lot. All we want is for him to enjoy his life.

Adrian Gonzalez

As long as the kids can get to enjoy this, they can take it back to their school and tell their friends about it, and get their friends to do well so they can come back here next year.

Jerome Flynn

I've always enjoyed the physical side of acting.

Stan Gaines

You hear all types of things and you try to not listen to it. I was shocked when he told us this morning. I enjoyed playing for him. I don't know what standard he's being judged by, but I can say nothing but good things about him.

Jon Purnell

This way I might get to teach less and enjoy it more.

Randy Fisher

We don't want to stop people from having a good time, but we want them to respect the other people who want to enjoy their visit.

Scott Sweeten

You get to a point where you just want to just stop, especially after a state championship meet. You want to just stop and savor watching the kids interact, especially since we had all of our seniors in the last four events. I wanted to sit back and watch them enjoy it.

Sharon Cerny

We just try to make it special, make it more of an event. When people come they think it's a special thing taking place and we try to pick the times of year people would enjoy the gardens most.

Alan Curbishley

Let's enjoy it, especially to win it here. Winning as well made it a fantastic day.

Bruce Forsyth

If I go out one night, I must stay in the next. It's the same with my golf. If I play one day, I don't play the next. I try to pace myself.

Brian Weiss

I was on in two.... then again on four...

Ben Hogan

Good golf begins with a good grip.

Ben Hogan

Selecting a stroke is like selecting a wife. To each his own.

Alistair Cooke

It is a wonderful tribute to the game or to the dottiness of the people who play it that for some people somewhere there is no such thing as an insurmountable obstacle, an unplayable course, the wrong time of the day or year.

Alistair Cooke

They have been playing golf for 800 years and nobody has satisfactorily said why.

Alistair Cooke

The best thing about Eisenhower's Presidency was his Jeffersonian conviction that there should be as little government and as much golf as possible.

Larry Penley

We want to be the toughest team mentally there. We want to play 45 holes of golf and get ourselves in position to win, and then whatever happens that last nine holes happens.

Alex Karras

My best score ever was 103, but I've only been playing 15 years.

Shirley Pogue

We have improved the quality of life for so many people.

Zach Malvik

This shows us what we need to improve on and what we need to get better at. That game's over. We have to be ready for (today).

Mike Greene

You look at it and then you wonder if you're just being a scapegoat. But then you just go back and re-evaluate yourself. You don't look at it like that. You just try to improve on things you did wrong.

Ben Forbes

We just had a little too much talent. They're on the young side and they played well. They will improve and get better.

Albert Lin

But they need to improve their relationship with Motorola for this product to succeed.

Gene Meyers

Nancy did well. She improved with every throw.

Venus Williams

I think I'll just improve on that, and each match at this point is important for me to get a rhythm and start dominating.

Aaron Nida

I think (Martens) can improve and be more competitive at the state level.

Bruce Campbell

I can't think of any organization where there isn't room for improvement.

Brandon Sanderson

For now, I only wish to make a simple acknowledgement of the woman who held the power just before me. Of all of us who touched it, I feel she was the most worthy.

Dennis Ritchie

Unix is simple and coherent, but it takes a genius (or at any rate, a programmer) to understand and appreciate the simplicity..

Arizona Muse

I'm lucky with my skin - it doesn't require a lot of attention, so I keep things simple. And I drink a lot of water.

Charles Bukowski

Intellectuals say simple things in difficult ways. Artists say difficult things in simple ways.

Charles Bukowski

An artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way

Dave Morin

Simple and intuitive design is what inspires and drives me.

Christopher McCandless

I've decided I'm going to live this life for some time to come. The freedom and simple beauty is just too good to pass up.

Alvar Aalto

We should work for simple, good, undecorated things

Andrew Shue

Unfortunately, there are so many people who live their whole life in a place that is safe and protected and simple and they don't really have that strength inside to fly.

Ray LaHood

Portal Bridge is based on a design from the 1840s and was already obsolete shortly after it was completed in 1910. It's a swing bridge that needs to be opened several times a week so barges can pass up and down the river. It takes about a half an hour. The problem is it fails to lock back into place on a regular basis.

Ruta Sepetys

I felt as if I were riding a pendulum. Just as I would swing into the abyss of hopelessness, the pendulum would swing back with some small goodness.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Yeah, well, I guess I feel like all of us misfits need to hang together. At least that way we don't swing along. (Tabitha)

Huston Smith

The crisis that the world finds itself in as it swings on the hinge of a new millennium is located in something deeper than particular ways of organizing political systems and economies.

Louis Armstrong

A lot of the musicians asked me if when I hit my high-Cs on the records I had a clarinet take the notes. Some [thought] I had invented some kind of gadget so I could play high register. They weren't satisfied until they handed me a trumpet that they had with them and had me swing it. Then they cheered.

Azar Nafisi

I believe in empathy. I believe in the kind of empathy that is created through imagination and through intimate, personal relationships. I am a writer and a teacher, so much of my time is spent interpreting stories and connecting to other individuals. It is the urge to know more about ourselves and others that creates empathy. Through imagination and our desire for rapport, we transcend our limitations, freshen our eyes, and are able to look at ourselves and the world through a new and alternative lens.

Ben Goldacre

I'd like to submit to Bad Science my teacher who gave us a handout which says that 'Water is best absorbed by the body when provided in frequent small amounts.' What I want to know is this. If I drink too much in one go, will it leak out off my arsehole instead? Thank you. Anton.

Catherine McAuley

Teach me to do your will, for you are my God.

Jason Aldean

I only took about five guitar lessons in my life from an actual teacher. I learned fast that that wasn't for me. I didn't have the attention span to learn that way. So I learned the basics from my dad, then just from playing on stage, and watching other guitar players.

Daniel Handler

Most schools have a loud system of loud bells, which startle the students and teachers at regular intervals and remind them that time is passing even more slowly than it seems.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

I am a part of all whom I have met.

Robert Kiyosaki

Success is a poor teacher

Diane Sawyer

What did you have to teach him about prosecuting a case?

Don Crawford

We teach them to read in kindergarten, which makes a difference.