Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Wright

I want to win a World Series. I couldn't care less about MVP.

David Wong

... life is a flickering candle we all carry around. A gust of wind, a meaningless accident, a microsecond of carelessness, and it's out. Forever.

David Ortiz

I'm a winner, I play to win, I want to make good things go on around me.

David Ogilvy

You will never win fame and fortune unless you invent big ideas.

David Malpass

To win elections, politicians have promised practically endless government spending and covered up the cost, leaving generations of taxpayers obligated to pay off the debt. Thats wrong, but neither the U.S. nor Europe has a plan to stop it.

Darren Fletcher

It was hard walking around the pitch... You do that when you win trophies. The fans were throwing flags on and that was hard to take, something which put a lump in your throat.

Danger Mouse

I have ideas all of the time from the beginning, but they never really wind up turning out like I thought they would.

Danica Patrick

My first Indy 500 was one of my high points. I ended up qualifying fourth and I finished fourth. I had a win in Japan a few years later, and then qualifying for Daytona was great as well.

Danica Patrick

You know, sometimes the little victories that I have throughout the season are not necessarily obvious on the track. Maybe they're another aspect of what I'm doing, winning little victories here and there to get everything in line to be able to perform from top to bottom on race day.

Danica Patrick

I feel like, sometimes, people, because of the amount of media, because of the amount of attention, people seem to think I have to do things. Like, I have to win right now! But I don't feel like that.

Daisy Ashford

My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind.

Daisaku Ikeda

The Earth never ceases to spin. All life is dancing : The trees, the wind, the sea. Keep dancing for the rest of your life.

Daisaku Ikeda

The darker the night, the nearer the dawn. Victory in life is decided by that last concentrated burst of energy filled with the resolve to win.

Daisaku Ikeda

It is precisely when we have suffered defeat that we can determine to win and open the path to future victory.

Daisaku Ikeda

While it is important to win, it’s even more important to remain undefeated no matter what happens.

Condoleezza Rice

I stick to playing Brahms, but I love listening to Led Zeppelin, and I've also been a big fan of Earth Wind and Fire since the Seventies and of The Gap Band since the Eighties.

Cole Porter

I get no kick from champagne. Mere alcohol doesn't thrill me at all. So, tell me why should it be true, that I get a kick out of you?

Clark Gregg

I was really sad after 'The Avengers' when I realized I was not going to have a part in 'Thor 2' or 'Captain America: The Winter Soldier.' But I'm not arguing with my fantastic plane and my really cool car.

Clarence Thomas

I'd grown up fearing the lynch mobs of the Ku Klux Klan; as an adult I was starting to wonder if I'd been afraid of the wrong white people all along - where I was being pursued not by bigots in white robes, but by left-wing zealots draped in flowing sanctimony.

Coleman Young

There is no brilliant single stroke that is going to transform the water into wine or straw into gold.

Clementine Paddleford

The day has the color and the sound of winter. Thoughts turn to chowder...chowder breathes reassurance. It steams consolation.

Cliff Floyd

I'm not coming in to teach and play the big veteran guy. I'm coming in to win games.

Cleopatra

My honour was not yielded, but conquered merely.

Cleopatra

I will not be triumphed over.

Clement Freud

If you mind losing more than you enjoy winning, don't bet.

Clement Freud

Wine buffs write and talk as though the food and wine will be in your mouth at the same time, that one is there to be poured over the other. This is bullshit. Gustatory enjoyment comes from food and wine and cigars of your liking. So far no one has said that a Monte Cristo is the only cigar to smoke after Armagnac, Romeo and Juliet after Calvados ... but the time may yet come.

Clement Attlee

I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old bottles without bursting them.

Danny Trejo

When people come at me they can't win, they think they can, but they can't. I'll just walk away.

Dante Alighieri

The splendors that belong unto the fame of earth are but a wind, that in the same direction lasts not long.

Dante Alighieri

Reason flies When following the senses, on clipped wings.

Dan Fouts

I worked the Giants win over the Texans earlier this season. The Giants ran the heck out of the ball. Eli Manning rolled out away from Watt just about every time and changed the release point on his passes. The Cowboys have a road map.

Cyril Connolly

What grape to keep its place in the sun, taught our ancestors to make wine?

Daniela Hantuchova

It was a match I lost, rather than she won [on Serena Williams winning with an apparent cramp injury at Wimbledon