Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elizabeth Janeway

By setting the passenger seat of my car far back, and opening the glove compartment, I nestle in a very large sheet of thick fiberboard. It's big enough to hold a table easel, my big palette and a water container. Winter is not going to lock me indoors!

Ashley Benson

I love Michelle Williams and Natalie Portman - those are the careers I want. My goal is to win an Oscar, and I'm going to take the steps to get there.

Ashleigh Brilliant

Sometimes the only way you can win is to stay out of the game.

Ashleigh Brilliant

The surest way to remain a winner is to win once, and then not play any more.

Ashleigh Brilliant

To be sure of winning, invent your own game, and never tell any other player the rules.

Arlen Specter

It costs about $27 million to win a seat in the United States Senate, so when you win one, you like to sit down.

Arlen Specter

My definition of winning at squash is playing and surviving, and I've never lost a match.

Arlen Specter

If enough people would come out the right wing, the extremists couldn't dominate.

Apolo Ohno

I rolled the second car that I ever owned, a Toyota 4 Runner. This was winter in Colorado, two weeks before the 2002 Olympic trials. I was driving in the outside lane, and my rear tire caught some black ice, and we totally turned sideways to the point where we were heading right toward the median.

Apolo Ohno

When you are at the Olympic Games, it comes down to a ten thousandth of a hair between making the next round or winning a race or getting second or third.

Ben Roethlisberger

I'm a win-at-all-costs guy.

Ben Roethlisberger

The biggest thing isn't necessarily how I play, but that we win. That's my number-one goal. I could be the worst quarterback out there, but if we come out with a victory that's all that matters to me.

Ben Stein

If we try to engineer outcomes, if we overturn tradition to make everyone the same, we ruin society. If we upset tradition to allow for an equal shot at the starting gate, everyone wins, except for the charlatans and would be dictators.

Ben Stein

The poor black people in it make the black people in Gone With the Wind look like Malcolm X.

Ben Stein

You cannot win if you're not at the table. You have to be where the action is.

Bayard Taylor

From the desert I come to thee, On a stallion shod with fire; And the winds are left behind In the speed of my desire.

Bear Bryant

If it is worth playing, it is worth paying the price to win.

Bear Bryant

When you win, there's glory enough for everybody. When you lose, there's glory for none.

Bear Bryant

Winning isn't imperative, but getting tougher in the fourth quarter is.

Bear Bryant

Recognize winners. They come in all forms.

Bear Bryant

You're still going to win with preparation and dedication and plain old desire. If you don't have genuine desire, you won't be dedicated enough to prepare properly.

Bear Bryant

Offense sells tickets, but defense wins championships.

Avi

A sailor may choose the wind to ride out of seaport, but the wind has a mind of it's own.

Avi

A sailor chooses the wind that takes the ship from a safe port. Ah, yes, but once you're abroad, as you have seen, winds have a mind of their own. Be careful, Charlotte, careful of the wind you choose.

Avery Johnson

I just want to help people become winners. That's what I'm about. I'm about winning.

Despair is vinegar from the wine of hope.

Many a man wins glory for prudence by seeking advice, then seeking advice as to what advice would be best to take, and finally following appetite.

John Avlon

A wingnut is someone on the far-right wing or far-left wing of the political spectrum - the professional partisans, the unhinged activists and the paranoid conspiracy theorists. They're the people who always try to divide rather than unite us.

The only way you can win is to get your movie seen.

We're 2-0-1 in the tournament, we're still in first place. If we win on Wednesday, we'll be the champion.

We didn't win in the playoffs, but we made it there. That's one step.

Arthur Blank

We were disappointed that we didn't win in Philadelphia,

Charles Bukowski

the psyche has been burned and left us senseless, the world has been darker than lights-out in a closet full of hungry bats, and the whiskey and wine entered our veins when blood was too weak to carry on