Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eugene Field

There is a glorious candor in an honest quart of wine, A certain inspitation which I cannot well define.

Ivana Trump

I want great food and wine, and friends to enjoy it all.

Iqbal Quadir

China has an almost infinite need for energy, and frankly, the world would be better off if much of that need goes in the direction of wind power.

Imelda Marcos

Win or lose, we go shopping after the election.

Jack McDevitt

Technological civilizations don't last long. You're all right until you get a printing press. Then a race starts between technology and common sense. And maybe technology always wins.

Jack McDevitt

Of course, they (i. e., demons) had always been observed with some regularity, but that could usually be ascribed to an overabundance of piety or wine or imagination. Take your pick.

Jack Ma

Global vision, local win.

Jack Nicklaus

I'd rather be two strokes ahead going into the last day than two strokes behind. Having said that, it's probably easier to win coming from behind. There is no fear in chasing. There is fear in being chased.

Jack Nicklaus

1960, I was 20 years old, and I was leading the U.S. Open. Now, I wasn't leading by several strokes, but I was leading the U.S. Open and playing with Ben Hogan, had a very good chance to win, nine holes to go, I was leading. I was still leading with six holes to play.

Jack Nicklaus

Any golfer worth his salt has to cross the sea and try to win the British Open.

Jack Nicklaus

But if I played well and prepared myself properly, then all I had to do was control myself and put myself in a position to win.

Jack Nicklaus

Tom Watson, Tom Watson blew, what, two PGA Championships and a U.S. Open. Did it destroy his life? No, it didn't destroy his life. He learned from it. He went on to win a lot of major championships and obviously became one of the world's great players.

Jack Nicklaus

As long as I'm prepared, I always expect to win.

Jack Nicklaus

I'm more proud of the good rounds I've played while hitting the ball badly than of the great rounds while hitting the ball well. I understand my swing well enough to get myself through a tournament and win it. I've made it work.

Jack Kent Cooke

I've always had a will to succeed, to win, however you phrase it.

Jack Kemp

Winning is like shaving - you do it every day or you wind up looking like a bum.

Jack Johnson

We could park the van and walk to town, find cheapest bottle of wine that we could find. And talk about the road behind, how getting lost is not a waste of time.

Jack Kerouac

LA is the loneliest and most brutal of American cities; NY gets god-awful cold in the winter but there's a feeling of wacky comradeship somewhere in some streets. LA is a jungle.

Jack Kerouac

Aw I don't wanta go to no such thing, I just wanta drink in alleys.'... But you'll miss all that, just for some old wine.' There's wisdom in wine, goddam it!' I yelled. 'Have a shot!

Jack Kerouac

February dawn -- frost on the path Where I paced all winter.

Jack Kerouac

I don't wanta hear all your word descriptions of words words words you made up all winter, man I wanta be enlightened by actions.

Jack Kerouac

Oh my God, sociability is just a big smile and a big smile is nothing but teeth, I wish I could just stay up here and rest and be kind." But somebody brought up some wine and that started me off.

Jack Kerouac

There's wisdom in wine.

Jack Kerouac

It is possible for the human spirit to win after all.

Jack Kerouac

In my medicine cabinet, the winter fly has died of old age.

J. C. Ryle

Churches may decay and perish; riches may make themselves wings and fly away-but he who builds their happiness on Christ crucified and union with Him by faith, that person is standing on a foundation which shall never be moved, and will know something of true peace.

Isaac Newton

The monarchy of the Greeks for want of an heir was broken into several kingdoms; four of which, seated to the four winds of heaven, were very eminent. For Ptolemy reigned over Egypt, Lybia and Ethiopia ; Antigonus over Syria and the lesser Asia; Lysimachus over Thrace ; and Cassander over Macedon, Greece and Epirus .

Isabel Allende

His calls for justice were lost at the mercy of the wind and human indifference.

Irving Langmuir

Happy indeed is the scientist who not only has the pleasures which I have enumerated, but who also wins the recognition of fellow scientists and of the mankind which ultimately benefits from his endeavors.

Irving Kristol

...only liberal organizations are clearly designated [in the press] as "nonpatisan, nonprofit." Non-liberal research organizations are always identified as "right-wing" or "conservative."

He yelled at us a little bit. He told us if we wanted to win the game, we had to be more aggressive.

Hannibal Buress

There's no room for failure performing [stand-up] for a black audience. If you don't get them right away it's tough winning them back even if you're doing top-notch material. If you didn't win them right when you walked out there, it's tough.

Guy Ritchie

I'm not politically motivated. I used to be - passionately. I used to be very Left wing. Then I went very Right wing, and now I rest somewhere in the middle.