Famous Quotes & Sayings

Laurell K. Hamilton

Never argue when you're winning.

Landon Donovan

Americans love winners, so if we win we know we'll get a lot of support.

Langston Hughes

I've been scared and battered. My hopes the wind done scattered. Snow has friz me, Sun has baked me, Looks like between 'em they done Tried to make me Stop laughin', stop lovin', stop livin'-- But I don't care! I'm still here!

Kurt Warner

I want to win. That's the most important thing.

Kurt Warner

It changed my life in an extreme way. I dont know if you could calculate just how much it does [change your life]. There was so much notoriety for me in my first season, and to finish by winning the Super Bowl and get the MVP set my place in history. It cements it and its very special. There is something that comes with it, something everyone recognizes and knows. No one can ever take it away from you.

John Kasich

And, frankly, what happens out of Washington is, it creates a wind in my face, uncertainty over Obamacare, uncertainty over their tax policy, uncertainty over the regulatory policy.

John Keats

Souls of poets dead and gone, What Elysium have ye known, Happy field or mossy cavern, Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern? Have ye tippled drink more fine Than mine host's Canary wine?

John Keats

Give me women, wine and snuff Until I cry out 'hold, enough!' You may do so san objection Till the day of resurrection; For bless my beard then aye shall be My beloved Trinity.

John Keats

Knowledge enormous makes a God of me. Names, deeds, gray legends, dire events, rebellions, Majesties, sovran voices, agonies, Creations and destroyings, all at once Pour into the wide hollows of my brain, And deify me, as if some blithe wine Or bright elixir peerless I had drunk, And so become immortal.

John Keats

On a lone winter evening, when the frost Has wrought a silence.

John Keats

Sometimes goldfinches one by one will drop From low hung branches; little space they stop; But sip, and twitter, and their feathers sleek; Then off at once, as in a wanton freak: Or perhaps, to show their black, and golden wings Pausing upon their yellow flutterings.

John Daly

I don't care what anybody says. The first tournament is not the hardest one to win. It's always the second one.

John D. Rockefeller

The success of each is dependent upon the success of the other.

Lisa Kleypas

I'm not that complicated, Haven. The truth is, I've wanted you ever since I met you in that damned wine cellar. Because I got a bigger charge out of that five minutes than I have with any woman before or since...

Gayle Forman

(P)eople’s good intentions can wind up putting us in boxes as confining as coffins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

If there's no game, isn't winning a pretty meaningless concept?

Lois McMaster Bujold

One corner of his mouth crooked up, then the quirk vanished in a thoughtful pursing of his lips. "He's bisexual, you know." He took a delicate sip of his wine. "Was bisexual," she corrected absently, looking fondly across the room. "Now he's monogamous." Vordarian choked, sputtering.

Lyn Nofziger

If George W. Bush really has the courage of his convictions the United States very soon will either wind up dominating the United Nations (as it should) or rendering it impotent (which would probably be even better).

Lynda Obst

The lack of women directors is a sad fact of life. Kathryn Bigelows thrilling Best Director win may help turn things around.

Lyndon B. Johnson

The time has come when we cannot be so careless. Unless we do better, we may suffer through a stark emergency of the environment. We may create a hostile world: a world to bruise ourselves against; a world of sprawling cities, unplanned or badly planned; a world whose water is full of sludge, whose winds are full of soot; a world whose landscape has been totally neglected, stripped, marred, and wasted. All of this need not happen if we choose well, and particularly if we plan well and if we act well.

Luke Ford

In my right-wing politics of the time, I held that unemployment was usually the fault of the unemployed.

Lucas Grabeel

I'm competitive with myself, but not with other people. I set goals for myself. I don't really care about winning or losing as long as I do my best.

Lowell Bergman

The fact that wealthy people or people from privileged backgrounds may wind up in a violent terrorist organization is not new.

Louise Penny

In winter the very ground seemed to reach up and grab the elderly, yanking them to earth as though hungry for them.

Louis Bacon

The ability to manage large assets well - it's like being Michael Jordan or winning the gold in the Olympics; it's what you aspire to.

Louis Aragon

What on earth is modern exegesis up to? Oh, little lazy one! Some red wine and up! Off you go, brandishing your fork, stripped of Ophelia's useless ornaments, fire in your large nostrils, out to rake the muck of metaphors.

Lori Greiner

Dear optimist, pessimist, and realist--while you guys were busy arguing about the glass of wine, I drank it! Sincerely, the opportunist!

Loretta Lynn

Because Olivia Newton-John wasn't from Nashville, they didn't like her winning our awards. I've got no complaints.

Lord Byron

Maidens, like moths, are ever caught, by glare, And Mammon wins his way where seraphs might despair.

Lord Byron

Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain

Lord Byron

Marriage, from love, like vinegar from wine-- A sad, sour sober beverage--by time Is sharpened from its high celestial flavor Down to a very homely household savor.

Lord Byron

The sight of blood to crowds begets the thirst of more, As the first wine-cup leads to the long revel.

Lord Byron

This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction.