Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ovid

Calumny ever pursues the great, even as the winds hurl themselves on high places.

Ovid

Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.

Ovid

When there is plenty of wine, sorrow and worry take wing.

Otis Williams

Bill Mitchell said he really liked it. But when he asked the other four their opinions, we all took one look at ourselves in our raggedly long winter coats and cracked up. We knew we weren't likely to tempt anyone or anything, but what the hell, it was as good a name as any.

P. C. Cast

Then, with an enormous rush of meadow-filled wind, the green candle went out, and my best friend died.

P. C. Cast

Evil will win if good people do nothing.

P. C. Cast

I prefer my water in wine form.

Patton Oswalt

A lot of nerds aren't aware they're nerds. A geek has thrown his hands up to the universe and gone, 'I speak Klingon - who am I fooling? You win! I'm just gonna openly like what I like.' Geeks tend to be a little happier with themselves.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.

Paullina Simons

Will you remember that? Anywhere you are, if you can look up and find Perseus in the sky, find that smile, and hear the galactic wind whisper your name, you'll know that it's me, calling for you... calling you back to Lazarevo. (Alexander)

Paul Valery

The wind is rising...we must attempt to live.

Paul Virilio

Digital messages and images matter less than their instantaneous delivery; the shock effect always wins out over the consideration of the informational content.

Paul Tsongas

Let's try winning and see what it feels like. If we don't like it, we can go back to our traditions.

Paul Wolfowitz

You cant win if youre chasing the wrong problem.

Paul Wellstone

Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning.

Paul Wellstone

Politics is not about power. Politics is not about money. Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning. Politics is about the improvement of people's lives.

Mel Brooks

If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.

Mel Brooks

I like people with big talents and small neuroses - not always an easy combination to find. I've discovered that if the neurosis is too big, it diminishes the talent and you wind up working too hard for what you get.

Mary Pierce

Winning a Grand Slam changes everything. There is so much off-court stuff to deal with. And there are expectations of keeping it going that make it tough

Martin Compston

A lot of the films I do go down brilliantly critically and win awards, but not a lot of people see them.

Martin Amis

Screw-top wine has improved the quality of life by about ten percent, wouldn't you say?

Pietro Metastasio

The aged oak upon the steep stands more firm and secure if assailed by angry winds; for if the winter bares its head, the more strongly it strikes its roots into the ground, acquiring strength as it loses beauty.

Flow wine, smile woman, and the universe is consoled.

Pierre Beaumarchais

The same wind that extinguishes a light can set a brazier on fire.

Pierre de Coubertin

Winning medals wasn't the point of the Olympics. It's the participating that counts.

Rachael Taylor

I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.

Rachael Ray

That's a horrible thought. I guess cheese or wine. I think I might be too depressed to eat if I had to eat only one thing for the rest of my life.

Pete Townshend

Backstage, I get sleepy, and want to curl up and snooze. I never get nervous, whatever the event. I feel quite detached until I walk on stage, and then some gear inside me clicks and off I go like a wind up doll.

Pete Coors

I supported Bob Schaffer's three races for Congress. But we all had concerns about whether he could win statewide. Then my wife suggested that I get it.

Pete du Pont

If you're going to try to win an election, you can't be 80 percent. You can't say, I'm for what my Democratic opponent is, for but not quite so much of it.

Pete Carroll

I'm talking about: Are we competing today, every minute, in everything we do in practice. Are we letting loose and daring to be great here and now? And can we sustain that? And repeat it. Trophies are great, but we're trying to win forever.

Pete Carroll

If you want to win forever, you've got to ALWAYS COMPETE.

Pete Carroll

Winning Forever is not about the final score; it's about competing and striving to be the best. If you are in this pursuit, then you're already winning.