Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Spurgeon

I would sooner be holy than happy if the two things could be divorced. Were it possible for a man always to sorrow and yet to be pure, I would choose the sorrow if I might win the purity, for to be free from the power of sin, to be made to love holiness, is true happiness.

Charles Peguy

It is innocence that is full and experience that is empty. It is innocence that wins and experience that loses.

Dick Van Dyke

I have also heard and read various accounts of why they [Sheldon Leonard and Carl Reiner] liked me. My favorites? I wasn't too good-looking, I walked a little funny, and I was basically kind of average and ordinary. I guess my lack of perfection turned out to be a winning hand. Let that be a lesson for future generations.

Diane Lane

I take comfort that aging happens to everybody. It's part of life. Aging offers great lessons in dignity, since the indignity wins in the end. Yes, it bothers me when I have lines or puffiness or droops. But it connects me with the human race. Like weather bringing people together, aging brings people together.

Eduardo Galeano

The division of labor among nations is that some specialize in winning and others in losing.

Ben Jonson

Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes. For they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.

Bas Rutten

I am there for the best interests of the fighters, I want them to win. If they don’t accept that, bye bye.

Eddie Vedder

If 'little George Dubya Bush' wins, we are going to apply for Canadian citizenship.

Ed McBain

I would like to win the Pulitzer Prize. I would like to win the Nobel Prize. I would like to win a Tony award for the Broadway musical I'm now working on. Aside from these, my aspirations are modest ones.

Mark Twain

Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more. Modesty died when clothes were born. Modesty died when false modesty was born.

Max von Essen

My environment is important to me. I'd rather give up other things in my life - I might not take vacations or spend a lot of money on clothes - so that I can live in a home I feel really good about.

Derrick McKenzie

Music in England is like clothes. It's a fashion thing. But we're still doing the same kind of music we were doing at the beginning. We've just matured.

Bob Mankoff

Now we have to devote the rest of our lives to cross country to validate the clothes.

Anthony Cannon

New Orleans was my home, ... Everything we own is gone now. I used to go home to Georgia and wouldn't have any clothes because everything was (in New Orleans). Now it's going to be the same way.

Hailee Steinfeld

When I was auditioning for 'True Grit,' I was on the Paramount lot. I was wearing clothes from the 1800s that were big and uncomfortable.

Tina Fey

I like to delude myself that I'm in the old-Hollywood mode. I just tailor my clothes well and try to keep my skin clear. While it would be great to work out an hour a day, there is something inherently sort of selfish about it. I can't do it.

Elisha Cuthbert

I feel like I'm one of the Simpson's' (referring to her having to wear the same clothes for an entire season of 24)

Ben Jonson

Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.

Chris Evert

Of all my achievements in tennis, I'm probably as proud of my record on clay courts as any of my Wimbledon, U.S. Open or French singles titles.

Chris Evert

Training the body to obey the mind as I have done differs from the more conventional method of getting the mind to obey the body.

Kim Clijsters

For me, tennis is important but it's not the most important thing in my life.

Elena Vesnina

I felt tight from the beginning of the match to the end. I couldn't relax.

Bill Anderson

Power thrills, consistency kills.

Chelsea Handler

I'm actually pretty good at tennis. Well, if I'm in the Special Olympics or something.

Billie Jean King

I used to be told if I talked about my sexuality in any way that we wouldn't have a tennis tour.

Billie Jean King

For me, losing a tennis match isn't failure, it's research.

Bradley Whitford

Anybody who can dial a telephone can master tennis scoring in about 15 minutes.