Famous Quotes & Sayings

Milo Hamilton

I got what I wanted. I wanted a win.

Milos Zeman

A left-wing idiot is as dangerous as a right-wing idiot.

Milton Friedman

When you start paying people to be poor, you wind up with an awful lot of poor people.

Milton Friedman

The argument for the free market is a complicated and sophisticated one and depends on demonstration of secondary effects. I have confidence market efficiency will win out.

Mike Tice

I've always learned when you win a game, no matter what the stats look like, you have to enjoy the victories because they are hard to come by.

Mike Singletary

The thing that I want to do, the most important thing to me is winning. How we do it, I really don't care.

Mike Singletary

I want winners. I want people that want to win.

Mike Shinoda

I'm going to sprout wings out of my ass one day and fly around the world.

Mike Duncan

The winds of change are blowing at the RNC.

Mike Ditka

I'm not going to make it the all - everything. Our (the Saints) goal is to get better, make the playoffs and win the Super Bowl, but I'm not gonna anguish over it like I have in the past.

Nate Silver

If the state polls are right, then Mr. Obama will win the Electoral College. If you can't acknowledge that after a day when Mr. Obama leads 19 out of 20 swing-state polls, then you should abandon the pretense that your goal is to inform rather than entertain the public.

Nancy Kerrigan

People are really sick of seeing the winner not win and what the public thinks should happen.

Nancy Kerrigan

It was never about winning medals or being famous.

Nancy Mitford

And Left-wing people are always sad because they mind dreadfully about their causes, and the causes are always going so badly.

Murray Kempton

It is a measure of the Negro's circumstance that, in America, the smallest things usually take him so very long, and that, by the time he wins them, they are no longer little things: they are miracles.

Kelly Slater

I was stuck for 16 months without a win there, and now I've had five this year. Once you break that barrier for yourself it makes it easier; you're not thinking about it... It opened up the floodgate for me.

Kathy Mattea

A gourmet meal without a glass of wine just seems tragic to me somehow.

Kathy Bates

Every time an Oscar is given out, an agent gets his wings.

Kathy Bates

After winning the Oscar, I was committed to do 'Fried Green Tomatoes,' but I didn't know what the next thing would be after that. It was a scary time. But the advantage of TV is the regular work. All you need is a hit series, I guess.

Katherine Mansfield

In the woods where snow is thick, bars of sunlight lay like pale fire.

Katherine Paterson

The last dregs of winter spoiling the taste of everything.

Kate Fleetwood

But nothing beats a Woody Allen film on a Sunday night, with a glass of wine and some leftovers.

Kate Chopin

She was flushed and felt intoxicated with the sound of her own voice and the unaccustomed taste of candor. It muddled her like wine, or like a first breath of freedom.

Kate Chopin

I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of earth, subtleties of major and minor chord that the wind strikes upon the tree branches. Have you ever heard the earth breathe?

Karin Slaughter

Even Gone With the Wind had a shocking, cold-blooded murder.

Julia Stiles

Even after such milestones as Kathryn Bigelow winning an Oscar, there still seem to be few women in leadership roles.

Julian Casablancas

Who you are vs. who you wish you were: Who wins?

Julian Assange

As always, most media aligns with the presumptive winner even though their claimed societal virtue is to investigate those in power.

Julian Barnes

Global warming is more of a blessing than a curse.

Ken Jennings

It's boring to have the same guy win. I'm actively rooting against myself.

Ken Jennings

As Jeopardy devotees know, if you're trying to win on the show, the buzzer is all. On any given night, nearly all the contestants know nearly all the answers, so it's just a matter of who masters buzzer rhythm the best.

Katie Couric

I think sometimes people project things on you, but I'm trying to handle everything that's happened to me with a certain amount of grace, dignity and good manners. You just can't necessarily win all the time.

Kim Harrison

Avoiding me, Quen downed a swallow of wine. "Trent is a fine young man," he said, watching the remaining wine swirl. "Yes... " I drawled, cautiously. "If you can call a drug lord and outlawed-medicine manufacturer a fine young man.