Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kevin Starr

In the luxuriance of a bowl of grapes set out in ritual display, in a bottle of wine, the soil and sunshine of California reached millions for whom that distant place would henceforth be envisioned as a sun-graced land resplendent with the goodness of the fruitful earth.

Michael Lewis

If you had to point to one thing that made it less likely that the Red Sox would win the World Series, I would say it was those people that go to Fenway Park to watch the games. And then the media around it.

Michael Lewis

The incentive for the outsider is to attack the system right up to the moment he is co-opted by it. The incentive for the insider -and this took some getting used to- is to allow yourself to be attacked, and then co-opt your most ferocious attackers, and their best ideas. The effect on the system as a whole is to make it more stable, because everyone winds up working on its behalf.

Michael Lewis

The pleasure of rooting for Goliath is that you can expect to win. The pleasure of rooting for David is that, while you don’t know what to expect, you stand at least a chance of being inspired.

Michael Bloomberg

You're going to see a million people here who have the courage to come and not let terrorists win, and that's exactly what we should all do.

Melissa Walker

Maybe you're getting into the rhythm of sailing life," says James. He looks out at the waves that are rolling in to lap against the dock. "You know, the tides going in and then out, the wind blowing east and then west, the high of a perfect day out on the water, the low of a thunderstorm or a wind that won't go your way.

Melky Cabrera

I have no wish to win an award that would be tainted,

Melissa Etheridge

You are digging for the answers until your fingers bleed, to satisfy the hunger, to satiate the need.... And as you pray in your darkness for wings to set you free, you are bound to your silent legacy.

Michelle Branch

Eventually my goal is get a place in Ojai where I can have animals and a big garden. Just drink wine all day and hang in my garden.

Michelangelo

If the wine is not good, then throw it out!

Michelangelo

I feast on wine and bread, and feasts they are.

Michelangelo

Love lent me wings; my path was like a stair; A lamp unto my feet, that sun was given; And death was safety and great joy to find; But dying now, I shall not climb to Heaven.

Michael Strahan

I always have a lot of personal goals, but primarily my main goal each year is to obviously win a Super Bowl.

Michael Strahan

You want to win and you want the [NFL] ring. But when you win and you get the ring, you never really wear it.

The French have never produced a great philosopher. Great wine maybe, but no great philosophers.

If global warming meant temperatures rose by one or two degrees, France would become a desert, which would be no bad thing. The Scots would grow wine and make buffalo mozzarella.

Michael Owen

You need people who score goals. That's how you win games

If there is a regret, it's that we didn't win the world championship,

I think about getting the wins to put us atop of the conference. That overshadows everything else.

I think all of us want to get that win for the seniors.

If I win this race, that will show (them) I'm a winner.

Kim Clijsters

If I win it, yes, then I'll think about it. For now, that's not important.

I had to get something going for us to win this.

Neal Shusterman

History is written by the victors--and when there is no victors, it all winds up in the corporate shredders.

Neale Donald Walsch

Stop trying to figure out what is 'best' for you (how you can win the most, lose the least, get what you want) and start going with what feels like Who You Are.

Neale Donald Walsch

And if we're all one, we need to stop our competition with each other. Most of the decisions we make are about survival and winning.

Neale Donald Walsch

Not to decide is to decide. Letting something go until it 'decides itself' is Life by Default. You don't want to live that way. So choose. Choose right now. Stop worrying about what you can 'lose' or how you can 'win' and just follow your joy. Where does your joy say you should go?

Neale Donald Walsch

Life begins at the end of your comfort zone. You won't find glory at the center of safety, but at its edge. You won't find love at a place where you are covered, but in the space where you are exposed. You gotta take some risks. You have to not only pick up the dice, but roll'em. So go ahead, take the gamble. You have nothing to lose except the chance to win. Life is not long enough to spend it on the sidelines.

Neale Donald Walsch

Life is not about win-and-lose. Life is about being or not being, expressing or not expressing, who you are.

Nancy Pelosi

Elect us, hold us accountable, and make a judgment and then go from there. But I do tell you that if the Democrats win, and have substantial majorities, the Congress of the United States will be more bipartisan.

Nancy Pelosi

Civilization as we know it today would be in jeopardy if the Republicans win the Senate.

Morgan Wootten

The big thing is to make a winning effort. Im not obsessed with wins.

Morgan Wootten

You learn more from losing than winning. You learn how to keep going.