Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wind is caused by the trees waving their branches.

Too much Chablis can make you whablis.

Og Mandino

The master of a single trade can support a family. The master of seven trades cannot support himself. The wind is never for the sailor who knows not to what port he is bound.

Og Mandino

You can never win when you wear the ugly cloak of self-pity and the sour sound of whining.

Og Mandino

The wind is never for the sailor who knows not to what port he is bound.

Norman Mailer

On a late-winter evening in 1983, while driving through fog along the Maine coast, recollections of old campfires began to drift into the March mist, and I thought of the Abnaki Indians of the Algonquin tribe who dwelt near Bangor a thousand years ago.

Norman Mailer

If only gravity were working, the path would be symmetrical, it is the wind resistance that produces the tragic curve.

Norman Ralph Augustine

Law Number XXXVI: The thickness of the proposal required to win a multimillion dollar contract is about one millimeter per million dollars. If all the proposals conforming to this standard were piled on top of each other at the bottom of the Grand Canyon it would probably be a good idea.

Orson Welles

We will sell no wine before its time.

Oriana Fallaci

No matter what system you live under, there is no escaping the law that it's always the strongest, the cruellest, the least generous who win.

Olympia Dukakis

Winning is everything in Hollywood.

Omar Khayyam

Into this universe, and why not knowing Nor whence, like water willy-nilly flowing; And out of it, as wind along the wate, I know not whither, willy-nilly blowing.

Omar Khayyam

I wonder what the vintners buy one half so precious as the stuff they sell.

Omar Khayyam

Here's to the man Who owns the land That bears the grapes That makes the wine That tastes as good As this does.

Omar Khayyam

A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou.

Omar Khayyam

Drink wine. This is life eternal. This is all that youth will give you. It is the season for wine, roses and drunken friends. Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.

O. Henry

It is said that love makes the world go 'round - the announcement lacks verification. It's wind from the dinner horn that does it.

Novak Djokovic

I lost to a better player who played some courageous tennis and deserved to win.

Novak Djokovic

Tennis is my life, obviously; I need to focus, I need to win. But it's not the only thing. I'm not going to play forever.

Novak Djokovic

I always tried to win. I was as competitive as I am today.

Emilio Estevez

I'm not a Luddite, but I'm outside more than I'm on my computer. We have a micro-farm - it's a step up from a garden. We have a pretty extensive vineyard. We grow about 60 percent of our own food, make our own wine, have chickens for eggs.

Ellen Glasgow

Mediocrity would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity.

Ellen Glasgow

The surest way of winning love is to look as if you didn't need it.

Eric Ripert

California is lucky, the East Coast is lucky because we get great seafood and a lot of produce from Florida, locally in good weather, but in the winter we have to buy it.

Eric S. Raymond

Free markets select for winning solutions.

Eric Ries

A head start is rarely large enough to matter, and time spent in stealth mode-away from customers-is unlikely to provide a head start. The only way to win is to learn faster than anyone else.

Eric Ries

The only way to win is to learn faster than anyone else.

Eric Schmidt

The trend has been mobile was winning. It's now won.

Eric Allman

I like to eat good food. I cook and collect wine. I like going for long walks when I can.

Eric Alterman

The word liberal has been employed as the political equivalent of an untreatable but potentially containable social disease -- the kind that could be contracted merely by going to a foreign movie or ordering a decaf latte, or worse, a glass of French wine.

Eric Alterman

Ironically, tendency to ignore inconvenient facts and unwelcome evidence is actually President Reagan's true legacy, as I noted in 'The Nation' back in 2000, before the current right-wing mania for President Reagan gained its full force.

Epictetus

So you wish to conquer in the Olympic Games, my friend? And I, too... But first mark the conditions and the consequences. You will have to put yourself under discipline; to eat by rule, to avoid cakes and sweetmeats; to take exercise at the appointed hour whether you like it or not, in cold and heat; to abstain from cold drinks and wine at your will. Then, in the conflict itself you are likely enough to dislocate your wrist or twist your ankle, to swallow a great deal of dust, to be severely thrashed, and after all of these things, to be defeated.

Emily Bronte

I lingered round them, under that benign sky; watched the moths fluttering among the heath and hare-bells; listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass; and wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth.