Famous Quotes & Sayings

Graham Greene

You think it more difficult to turn air into wine than to turn wine into blood?.

Goose Gossage

There is nobody that wants to win more than George Steinbrenner.

Goran Ivanisevic

Winning Wimbledon was a great feeling and it is still a great feeling. It has given me so much confidence.

Goran Ivanisevic

When you are winning too much, sometimes you think you should never lose again. I am learning to lose.

Goran Ivanisevic

I don't care now if I ever win a match in my life again. Whatever I do in my life, wherever I go, I'm going to be always Wimbledon champion.

Gil Hodges

There are only two kinds of managers. Winning managers and ex-managers.

Gerald Durrell

What fools we are, eh? What fools, sitting here in the sun, singing. And of love, too! I am too old for it and you are too young, and yet we waste our time singing about it. Ah, well, let's have a glass of wine, eh?

Harriet Beecher Stowe

There are in this world two kinds of natures, - those that have wings, and those that have feet, - the winged and the walking spirits. The walking are the logicians; the winged are the instinctive and poetic.

Harper Lee

Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win.

Harper Lee

You rarely win, but sometimes you do.

Hale Irwin

I still have the desire to succeed, and I've always felt success is measured by what you've done in the win column, not top 10s.

Halle Berry

Any time you risk big you often risk losing big. You can win big but you can also lose big, but you have to be willing to take those risks.

Gregory Corso

Anyway, I lived on the streets and did pretty good until I got caught stealing, what was it? I kicked in a restaurant window, went in and took all the food that I wanted, and while coming out I was grabbed.

Gregory David Roberts

Sometimes you have to surrender before you win.

Gregory David Roberts

Sometimes you have to lose to win

Gregory David Roberts

A man has to find a good woman, and when he finds her he has to win her love. then he has to earn her respect. then he has to cherish her trust. and then he has to, like, go on doing that for as long as they live. Until they both die. That's what it's all about. That's the most important thing in the world. That's what a man is, Yaar. A man is truly a man when he wins the love of a good woman, earns her respect, and keeps her trust. Until you do that, you're not a man.

Gregory Maguire

Before you save anyone else, you have to save yourself. otherwise, you'rejust a bundle of tics, a stringed puppet manipulated by the chance and the insensible wind.

Gregory Maguire

The melody faded like a rainbow after a storm, or like winds calming down at last; and what was left was calm, and possibility, and relief.

Homer

Far from me be the gift of Bacchus--pernicious, inflaming wine, that weakens both body and mind.

Homer

Wine gives strength to weary men.

Hope Solo

I've learned that winning isn't everything, and it's more about the journey. But at the end of the day, I just want to stand on the podium with the gold medal.

Hope Solo

London 2012 is all about winning a medal. Not just any medal, the gold medal.

Hope Solo

My No. 1 goal, and what I've spent my entire life striving to achieve is to win a World Cup. I want to retire so badly with that World Cup, but if I don't, then I'll retire knowing that I've done everything I could to get it.

Ieyasu Tokugawa

Remember, slow and steady wins the race.

Igor Sikorsky

According to recognized aero technical tests, the bumblebee cannot fly because of the shape and weight of his body in relation to the total wing area. The bumblebee doesn't know this, so he goes ahead and flies anyway.

Ian Somerhalder

You don’t always win, but every time you lose, you get better.

Iain Banks

Political correctness is what right-wing bigots call what everybody else calls being polite

Howard Hodgkin

You keep on balancing and balancing and balancing until the picture wins, because then the subject's turned into the picture.

Hortense Calisher

'Ms.' is a syllable which sounds like a bumble bee is breaking wind.

Horace

Let those who drink not, but austerely dine, dry up in law; the Muses smell of wine.

Horace

Smooth out with wine the worries of a wrinkled brow.

Horace

The drunkard is convicted by his praises of wine.

Horace

The cask will long retain the flavour of the wine with which it was first seasoned.