Famous Quotes & Sayings

Neil Gaiman

It's not sipping wine. It's a mourning wine. You drain it. Like this.

Neil Gaiman

But I have always thought that these tulips must have had names. They were red, and orange and red, and red and orange and yellow, like the ember in a nursery fire of a winter's evening. I remember them.

John Muir

When I first caught sight of (Mount Shasta) over the braided folds of the Sacramento Valley I was fifty miles away and afoot, alone and weary. Yet all my blood turned to wine, and I have not been weary since.

John Muir

Winds are advertisements of all they touch, however much or little we may be able to read them; telling their wanderings even by their scents alone.

John Muir

Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!

John Waters

Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday because I don't have to do anything except bring wine and go to my sister's all day and go to the movies with the family. So, actually, Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday, but there's not much comedy material on Thanksgiving. Melatonin really isn't that funny.

John Webster

Is not old wine wholesomest, old pippins toothsomest, old wood burn brightest, old linen wash whitest? Old soldiers, sweethearts, are surest, and old lovers are soundest.

John Wesley

Wine, one of the noblest cordials in nature.

John Waters

If you can make someone laugh who's dead set against you, that's the first step to winning them over to your side.

John Thorn

Life is more about losing than winning.

John Stuart Blackie

Wine is the drink of the gods, milk the drink of babes, tea the drink of women, and water the drink of beasts.

John Sterling

Commerce has made all winds her mistress.

John Steinbeck

'I know,' said Winter, 'but they don't know.' And he went on with a thought he had been having. 'A time-minded people,' he said, 'and the time is nearly up. They think that just because they have only one leader and one head, we are all like that. They know that ten heads lopped off will destroy them, but we are a free people; we have as many heads as we have people, and in a time of need leaders pop up among us like mushrooms.'

Rafael Nadal

If I am not playing at one hundred percent, it is going to be very difficult for me to win.

Rafael Nadal

However great your dedication, you never win anything on your own

Rafael Nadal

You have to accept both losing and winning well. I've stayed calm when I'm winning and I've stayed calm when I've lost.

Rafael Nadal

My goal is to improve my game, stay healthy and be competitive. If I have that, I know I can be able to win tournaments, which in the end is what it counts.

Sherwood Boehlert

For the second straight year, craft beer is the fastest growing segment of the U.S. alcoholic beverage industry. In 2005, craft beer experienced a 9 percent increase in volume, nearly triple that of the growth experienced in the wine and spirits industry.

Sherwood Anderson

All of the people of my time were bound with chains. They had forgotten the long fields and the standing corn. They had forgotten the west winds.

Sherwood Anderson

If our family was poor, of what did our poverty consist? If our clothes were torn the torn places only let in the sun and wind. In the winter we had no overcoats, but that only meant we ran rather than loitered.

Sherry Argov

That's the big picture, your happiness. And health. You should never care what a man thinks of you -- until he demonstrates to you that he cares about making you happy. If he isn't trying to make you happy, then send him back from "whence" he came because winning him over will have no benefit. At the end of the day, happines, joy...and yes...your emotional stability...those comprise the only measuring stick you really need to have.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Stop calling your akri your daddy. It makes my wings droop. (Xirena) My akri is my daddy. He said so and it is so, so your wings can droop all they want, ‘cause it won’t change anything! (Simi)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Sweetie, in our world, fair’s got nothing to do with anything. He who has the greatest power wins. It’s why we’re all willing to kill each other off without flinching. (Solin)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Victory to the spider. Patience wins the day. And today my patience ends. (Apollymi)

Terry Pratchett

A good plan isn't one where someone wins, it's where nobody thinks they've lost.

Nigel Short

Of course I'm not a racist, but I'm certainly right wing, there's no question about that.

Nigella Lawson

I never taste the wine first in restaurants, I just ask the waiter to pour.

Nicolas Sarkozy

I committed myself totally, fully, but I didn't succeed in convincing a majority of French... I didn't succeed in making the values we share win.

Nicolas Chamfort

He who leaves the game wins it.

Nicolas Chamfort

Men whose only concern is other people's opinion of them are like actors who put on a poor performance to win the applause of people of poor taste; some of them would be capable of good acting in front of a good audience. A decent man plays his part to the best of his ability, regardless of the taste of the gallery.

Nicolas Cage

How do you say one actor is better than another actor? You can definitely say that in the Olympics if it's the same race and someone wins the race. The only way to really do it and have it be sincere would be if you get all the actors together, and they're all playing the same part, and then you rate which one made you feel the most.

Nicki Minaj

I keep 3 hos but don't call me Santa And I'm and I'm flyer than reindeers in winter

Nick Vujicic

Everybody loves winning, but we should not linger on the difference between winning and losing…But Is losing failing?