Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ernest Hemingway

A bottle of wine was good company.

Ernest Hemingway

A person with increasing knowledge and sensory education may derive infinite enjoyment from wine.

Erwin Rommel

I didn't die nor win.

Erykah Badu

I'm not trying to win an award for being the best vegetarian, just want to be healthy.

Erin Hunter

After the sharp-eyed jay and the roaring lion, peace will come on dove's gentle wing.

Flavia Pennetta

Twenty days ago my physio asked me if I was if I never think that I can win a Grand Slam or be in final of Grand Slam, and I said no.

Flavor Flav

I ain't scared to do another dating show, but I ain't really trying to... I've done enough dating on television. I'm ready to spread my wings, and go down other avenues.

Fidel Castro

If surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic event, I would win the gold medal.

Henning Mankell

We used to send whole flocks of birds shooting out of our mouths and never managed to grab them by their wings.

Henning Mankell

Many words will be written on the wind and the sand, or end up in some obscure digital vault. But the storytelling will go on until the last human being stops listening. Then we can send the great chronicle of humanity out into the endless universe.

Henny Youngman

The usual way - a little wine, a little dinner....

Henri Frederic Amiel

To win true peace, a man needs to feel himself directed, pardoned, and sustained by a supreme power, to feel himself in the right road, at the point where God would have him be - in order with God and the universe. This faith gives strength and calm.

Helen Keller

Words are the mind's wings, are they not?

Cat Stevens

I listen to the wind, the wind of my soul.

Cate Blanchett

I think probably winning these things [an Oscar] can be a bit of a curse depending on who you are and how you think. But I haven't been on a journey to get anywhere in particular, so that hasn't changed. And my criteria for choosing projects hasn't changed.

Cassandra Clare

You may have the worst timing since Napoleon decided the dead of winter was the right moment to invade Russia.

Cassandra Clare

Yes...and I'm worried that if you get into the habit of making out with your instructors, you'll wind up making out with him too." "Don't be sexist. They could find me a female instructor." "In that case, you have my permission to make out with her as long as I can watch.

Cassandra Clare

I'm not so sure about this wind and howling darkness business," Jace went on, "smells more like landfill to me. You sure you're not from Staten Island?

Cassandra Clare

I forgot," Isabelle muttered as the rest of them caught up to her. "Faeries have no sense of humor." "Oh, I wouldn't say that," said Jace. "There's a pixie nightclub downtown called Hot Wings. Not," he added, "that I have ever been there.

George Eliot

Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.

George Eliot

Wine and the sun will make vinegar without any shouting to help them.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

I know not whether there exists such a thing as a coin stamped with a pair of pinions; but I wish this were the device which monarchs put upon their dollars and ducats, to show that riches make to themselves wings, and fly away.

Gore Vidal

It is not enough merely to win; others must lose.

Gore Vidal

Next to "I win," "I told you so" are the sweetest words.

Gina Barreca

Once we hit forty, women only have about four taste buds left: one for vodka, one for wine, one for cheese, and one for chocolate.

Gillian Jacobs

My inners are not organs. They're actually mechanics, so I have a hole in my back, wind me up like the movie 'Hugo,' and then just say, 'Act,' you know?

Harvey Milk

We will not win our rights by staying quietly in our closets.

Harvey Milk

Politics is theater. It doesn't matter if you win. You make a statement. You say, "I'm here, pay attention to me

James D. Watson

I turned against the left wing because they don't like genetics, because genetics implies that sometimes in life we fail because we have bad genes. They want all failure in life to be due to the evil system.

James Blunt

I try to read everything that I can about myself because Saddam Hussein didn't read his reviews and he thought he was winning!

James Branch Cabell

The only way of rendering life endurable is to drink as much wine as one can come by.

James Bovard

Voting is no substitute for the eternal vigilance that every friend of freedom must demonstrate towards government. If our freedom is to survive, Americans must become far better informed of the dangers from Washington -- regardless of who wins the Presidency.

James Boswell

Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others. Sometimes it does. But the danger is, that while a man grows better pleased with himself, he may be growing less pleasing to others. Wine gives a man nothing. It neither gives him knowledge nor wit; it only animates a man, and enables him to bring out what a dread of the company has presented.