Famous Quotes & Sayings

Saint Augustine

Poetry is the Devil's wine.

Wladimir Klitschko

Mental strength is really important because you either win or lose in your mind. And I'm not solely talking about sporting matches, boxing events - anything you do, you do it first with your mental strength. And you can actually train and develop it, and I am responsible for what I'm saying because I have experience with that.

Wiz Khalifa

Any chick that I handle, I teach ‘em patience. How not to win the award but be glad for your nomination.

Winston Churchill

...to win by one is enough.

Winston Churchill

I liked wine, both red and white, and especially Champagne; and on very special occasions I could even drink a small glass of brandy.

Wilma Rudolph

When I was going through my transition of being famous, I tried to ask God, why was I here? What was my purpose? Surely, it wasn't just to win three gold medals. There has to be more to this life than that.

Will Rogers

Wine had such ill effects on Noah's health that it was all he could do to live 950 years. Show me a total abstainer that ever lived that long.

Will Rogers

The best thing about this group of candidates is that only one of them can win.

Seek but provision of bread and wine, fools to flatter, and clothing fine; and nothing of God shall ever be thine.

W. E. B. Du Bois

If the unemployed could eat plans and promises, they would be able to spend the winter on the Riviera.

W. E. B. Du Bois

I sit with Shakespeare and he winces not.

W. E. B. Du Bois

We cannot escape the clear fact that what is going to win in this world is reason, if this ever becomes a reasonable world.

W. C. Fields

Ye Gads, no! I couldn't stand the noise.

W. C. Fields

If pigs had wings, they would be pigeons.

Virginia Woolf

There is no room for the impurities of literature in an essay.... the essay must be pure--pure like water or pure like wine, but pure from dullness, deadness, and deposits of extraneous matter.

Zora Neale Hurston

The monstropolous beast had left his bed. The two hundred miles a hour wind had loosed his chains. He seized hold of his dikes and ran forward until he met the quarters; uprooted them like grass and rushed on after his supposed-to-be conquerors, rolling the dikes, rolling the houses, rolling the people in the houses along with other timbers. The sea was walking the earth with a heavy heel.

Zaha Hadid

Women are always told, 'You're not going to make it, its too difficult, you can't do that, don't enter this competition, you'll never win it,' - they need confidence in themselves and people around them to help them to get on.

Zac Efron

I'm very competitive by nature. And I like to be the underdog - It's the best way to win. To come from behind and win is a great feeling!

Zach Braff

Bigger than the Beatles? Well, how many grammys did they win? Exactly, none, yet I have one, and I've never even released a CD.

Zach Braff

Put God and me in a cage, what do you think who will win. God, because I created him.

Zhang Yimou

To survive is to win.

Zach Braff

Over half a century on and they're still complaining about it. Compare it to the fact that Garden State didn't win an Oscar and they seem a little petty if you ask me. I guess that just goes to show what kind of people they really are.

Zach Braff

When you win your first Grammy, it's true, you really want to thank all the little people.

Zach Braff

I love signing autographs! Sometimes, when people ask me for one, I keep the photo for myself and frame it. It's a Win-Win situation really; I get an extra 25 dollars in my pocket AND another portrait for my bedroom.

Zach Braff

You know, I've occasionally tried to watch other shows besides Scrubs, but comparing them is a bit like me competing in the special Olympics. Obviously I would win without contest, but the point is that they are trying their best.

William Hague

I'm not, nor is anybody I know in government part of a nasty right wing clique.

William H. Macy

That's pretty much what every scene is about, getting people to see your point of view. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.

William Devane

The West Wing seems to be feeding the myth about how presidential politics are.

Wendelin Van Draanen

There's no winning arguments with your parents

Wendelin Van Draanen

There’s no winning arguments with your parents, so why get all pumped up over them? It is way better to dive down and get out of the way than it is to get clobbered by some parental tidal wave.

Wendell Berry

If you start a conversation with the assumption that you are right or that you must win, obviously it is difficult to talk.

Wendell Berry

I have always loved a window, especially an open one.

Walter Raleigh

Except thou desire to hasten thine end, take this for a general rule, that thou never add any artificial heat to thy body by wine or spice.