Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ken Livingstone

[Pigeons are] rats with wings.

Ken Livingstone

The problem is that many MPs never see the London that exists beyond the wine bars and brothels of Westminster.

Kelly Clarkson

I'll spread my wings and I'll learn how to fly. I'll do what it takes till I touch the sky.

Kelly Clarkson

If I can wake up everyday before I die and know that I don't have to serve anyone food or drinks, I will be happy!

Kelly Clarkson

My winning is getting to perform. That's my victory.

Margaret Weis

Why you decrepit old mage! You couldn't turn water into ice in the dead of winter!

Margaret Thatcher

You don't win by just being against things, you only win by being for things and making your message perfectly clear.

Margaret Thatcher

First you win the argument, then you win the vote.

Margaret Thatcher

The desire to win is born in most of us. The will to win is a matter of training. The manner of winning is a matter of honour.

Larry the Cable Guy

I'm on the diet where you eat vegetables and drink wine. That's a good diet. I lost 10 pounds and my driver's license.

P. J. O'Rourke

What would annoy the most people most often? That is the true left-wing test of government intervention.

Pablo Picasso

I like all paintings. I always look at the paintings, good or bad, in barbershops, furniture stores, provincial hotels. I'm like a drinker who needs wine. As long as it is wine, it doesn't matter which wine.

Paul Merson

To win the Champions League with Porto, you have to be tactically acute

Paul Claudel

Gentlemen, in the little moment that remains to us between the crisis and the catastrophe, we may as well drink a glass of Champagne.

Paul Celan

With wine and being lost, with less and less of both: I rode through the snow, do you read me I rode God far--I rode God near, he sang, it was our last ride over the hurdled humans. They cowered when they heard us overhead, they wrote, they lied our neighing into one of their image-ridden languages.

Oscar Wilde

And when wind and winter harden All the loveless land, It will whisper of the garden, You will understand.

Oscar Wilde

I threw the pearl of my soul into a cup of wine. I went down the primrose path to the sound of flutes. I lived on honeycomb.

Oscar Wilde

And once, or twice, to throw the dice is a gentlemanly game, But he does not win who plays with Sin in the secret house of shame

Oscar Wilde

It is a very poor consolation to be told that the man who has given one a bad dinner, or poor wine, is irreproachable in private life. Even the cardinal virtues cannot atone for half-cold entrees.

Oscar Wilde

It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame.

Madonna Ciccone

This will be a revolution of inquiring further, of not worrying about winning other people's approval, of not wishing you were someone else but perfectly content to be who you are. Someone unique, and rare, and fearless. I want to start a revolution of love.

Mac Thornberry

For more than two centuries since winning our own freedom, we the people of the United States have repeatedly answered the call to lead the quest for freedom around the globe.

Lykke Li

I probably thought that about most of the things I did. But you wind up in situations where you have to make decisions very quickly, and you just go for it a lot of the time.

Lykke Li

I lived five years in Portugal and then spent winters in Nepal or India.

Luke Pasqualino

He [D'Artangnan] succumbs to her [Miledy Winter] level of seduction and gives into it. It's only when the series starts to progress that he realizes what she's doing, and the tables turn slightly. But that relationship really pays homage to how D'Artagnan can be easily swayed. You see him grow into somebody who can actually make a decision where he's not being used and forced into doing something that he doesn't want to do.

Lucretius

Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

The novel can't compete with cars, the movies, television, and liquor. A guy who's had a good feed and tanked up on good wine gives his old lady a kiss after supper and his day is over. Finished.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

I have never voted in my life... I have always known and understood that the idiots are in a majority so it's certain they will win.

Louis L'Amour

A ship does not sail with yesterday's wind.

Lorrie Fair

It's flattering if people think I'm attractive. If it helps, great, but it's not going to get in the way of me wanting to win. That's what I'm all about.

Lleyton Hewitt

I'm an outside chance at Roland Garros but my focus is really on Wimbledon where it is realistically between me and Roger Federer to win.

Lleyton Hewitt

I feel like when I'm match tough and match hard and played a lot of matches I got that competitive winning spirit going and I can get on some rolls like I did last year. I won San Jose, Indian Wells and made the semifinals in Miami so it can happen for me.

Lleyton Hewitt

Maybe I have to work a bit harder on clay. It's a challenge and I've always liked challenges. Whether I will ever win the French and master playing on clay, who knows? But I'll give it a shot.