Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eric Cantona

I prefer to play and lose rather than win, because I know in advance I'm going to win.

Enrico Fermi

When asked what characteristics Nobel prize winning physicists had in common ؛ I cannot think of a single one, not even intelligence

Eoin Colfer

Butler,” he called, his voice thin and childlike in the wind. “Yes, Artemis, what?” “If something goes wrong, wait for me. No matter how it looks, I will return. I will bring them all back.

Geoffrey Chaucer

Remember in the forms of speech comes change Within a thousand years, and words that then Were well esteemed, seem foolish now and strange; And yet they spake them so, time and again, And thrived in love as well as any men; And so to win their loves in sundry days, In sundry lands there are as many ways.

Geoffrey Chaucer

To keep demands as much skill as to win.

Gary Player

Wind is part of the British Open. It is an examination and it took me a long time to pass the examination. Eighty per cent of the fellows out there have not passed the test.

Gary Player

We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts.

Franz Wright

literature will lose, sunlight will win, don't worry.

Frank Robinson

No, I don't think my presence will cause an increase in black attendance at Cleveland. People come out to see the players. When do you see a manager anyway? When he's out on the field arguing with the umpires, making a fool of himself and you know you can't win, and when he brings out the line-up card.

Frank Borman

We have to earn our Wings every day.

George Horace Lorimer

The solution to our energy needs must go through a show of respect for nature, not, once again, a policy that does violence to our hills.

George Jean Nathan

Musicals are to the theater what wines are to a substantial dinner.

George Herbert

He that passeth a winters day escapes an enemy.

George Herbert

He that is surprized with the first frost feeles it all the winter after.

George Herbert

He plaies well that winnes. [He plays well that wins.]

George Herbert

Gaming, women, and wine, while they laugh they make men pine.

George Herbert

Words and feathers the wind carries away.

George Herbert

Wine makes all sorts of creatures at table.

George Herbert

You cannot know wine by the barrell.

Chris Hardwick

You can't touch the strippers. Why are you paying to not touch someone? That is weird. How do you win in that situation? That is like walking into a deli, starving, and being like, 'Here's $300 - can I stare at the roast beef? Better yet, I'll sit down in this chair and you can mash it around my mouth and balls.

Christopher Cross

Well, it's not far down to paradise, at least it's not for me And if the wind is right you can sail away and find tranquility...

Christine Lahti

I was a fighter and very determined. There was no way I was going to back out without winning.

Christine Lahti

I'm more proud of quitting smoking than of anything else I've done in my life, including winning an Oscar.

Christine Feehan

Are you going to win every argument?" He was pretty certain he'd asked her that once before. May be twice. "Only the important ones.

Christine Feehan

-She is like the wind, open and free. If I cage the wind, would it die? -Then don't cage it, Mikhail. Trust it to stay beside you.

Christie Rampone

If we score, we might win. If they never score, we can't lose.

Vanity in an old man is charming. It is a proof of an open, nature. Eighty winters have not frozen him up, or taught him concealments. In a young person it is simply allowable; we do not expect him to be above it.

Winter is the night of vegetation.

Wine is a treacherous friend who you must always be on guard for.

Chris Wedge

You win the Oscar, you get to go into just about anybody's office for a month. I had a lot of meetings.

Chris Patten

Hong Kong's people will get what they want, despite China's objections. Freedom invariably wins in the end.

Chris Paul

I've been a winner my whole life.

Chris Paul

Whatever I have to do to help us win, I'll do.