Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Lita Ford

Last night we challenged him in front of the whole team because I think in the last few games he didn't give us the games he should have. He responded and that's what I'm excited about. Some guys can't take getting called out in front of the team, but the guys that can use it as a motivational factor come out with games like he had tonight.

Reed Sorenson

I think the main challenge will be running 800 miles every weekend, but I'm looking forward to it. I think I needed to run both, just being a (Busch series) rookie last year. There'll be times when I wish I hadn't done it, but I needed to do it so I'll live with the decision.

Michael Carty

The challenge for stocks next week is going to be getting through more Iraq news.

Adam Boone

They're playing very well. They're top of the Big Ten and they have an experienced team. We know it's going to be a challenge for us.

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.

Arnold H. Glasow

Happy is the person who knows what to remember of the past, what to enjoy in the present, and what to plan for in the future.

Bobby Long

Imagine what we can do if we took this tournament to 1.3 million people as opposed to just Greensboro. There's a huge market for this golf tournament that's just waiting to be tapped into.

Ellen DeGeneres

I always worry when someone's a good golfer. It's like you shouldn't have time to be good at anything. You should just be a politician and you shouldn't have time to practice golf.

Johnny Miller

Golf's Holy Grail - a genius course.

Johnny Miller

Pebble is a piece of sacred ground. They say it's the greatest meeting of land and water in the world. This course was heaven designed - just the way it fits on the land.

Johnny Miller

When Nicklaus plays wells well, he wins. When he plays badly, he finishes second. When he plays terribly, he finishes third.

John Cena

I'm a huge car guy, I cannot wait to see it [Ferrari World]. I hear there is also unbelievable golf which I'd like to sample and I'm looking forward to seeing what the gym facilities are like

Steve Spurrier

You can only play so much golf and lay around the beach,

O. Singh

You've got to hit the fairway, ... but at the same time, you've got to putt well. The guy that putts well is going to win the golf tournament.

Randy Owen

The golf team is off to a strong start.

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

Rod Serling

a basic “must” for every writer: A simple solitude-physical & mental.

Winston Churchill

You haven't learned life's lesson very well if you haven't noticed that you can give the tone or colour, or decide the reaction you want of people in advance. It's unbelievable simply. If you want them to take an interest in you, take an interest in them first. If you want to make them nervous, become nervous yourself...It's as simple as that. People will treat you as you treat them. It's no secret. Look about you. You can prove it with the next person you meet.

Will Oldham

We always keep things very, very simple. We can make a respectable living playing a smaller room that somebody else couldn't, because they're spending a lot of money. If we can't get a show up and deliver with what we almost intrinsically have in our brains and our pockets, then I don't really want to do it.

W. E. B. Du Bois

No people can more exactly interpret the inmost meaning of the present situation in Ireland than the American Negro. The scheme is simple. You knock a man down and then have him arrested for assault. You kill a man and then hang the corpse.

W. E. B. Du Bois

We black men seem the sole oasis of simple faith and reverence in a dusty desert of dollars and smartness.

W. C. Fields

So long as the presence of death lurks with anyone who goes through the simple act of swallowing, I will make mine whiskey.

Zadie Smith

The secret to editing your work is simple: you need to become its reader instead of its writer.

Nick Harkaway

People don't want children to know what they need to know. They want their kids to know what they ought to need to know. If you're a teacher you're in a constant battle with mildly deluded adults who think the world will get better if you imagine it is better. You want to teach about sex? Fine, but only when they're old enough to do it. You want to talk politics? Sure, but nothing modern. Religion? So long as you don't actually think about it. Otherwise some furious mob will come to your house and burn you for a witch.

Michael Jackson

The teacher always used me as an example to the class of good English and good storytelling because we all had to write the same stories. But she used to make me go out front - which I hated - and read my story to the class and I would get huge applause. Not because of who I was but because they truly enjoyed the stories I wrote.

William Arthur Ward

A good teacher explains, while a great teacher inspires

Walter Savage Landor

Experience is our only teacher both in war and peace.

Yo-Yo Ma

My teacher, my great cello teacher Leonard Rose, was such a great cellist, and nurturing man, very patient. But I grew up not only admiring him, but obviously Casals, Rostrotovich, Jacqueline du Pre, and many others, including many of my peers and contemporaries.

Yo-Yo Ma

I think there are so many ways to become interested in music. I believe signs of sustained interest gives a sense of the right time. Music, if thought of as a language, would perhaps indicate that as early as possible is not so bad. I do believe that a really nurturing first teacher that makes the child love something is crucial.

Yo-Yo Ma

One of the marks of a great teacher lies not only in an ability to impart knowledge but also in knowing when to encourage a student to go off on his own.

Win Butler

My favorite English teacher in high school showed me 'Brazil' when I was 15 and it blew my mind. It's one of those movies that's revealed itself in different ways as I've gone back to it over the years.

Winifred Holtby

Teachers have power. We may cripple them by petty economics; by Government regulations, by the foolish criticism of an uninformed press; but their power exists for good or evil ...