Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nick Saban

You can't win together if you don't work together.

Nick Offerman

I don't get nominated, and I have to say, I've probably gotten the greatest mass of press in my life through not getting nominated. It's definitely been a winning situation as far as I'm concerned.

Nick Hornby

...I feel as though I made a face and the wind changed, and now I have to go through life grimacing in this horrible way.

Nick Hornby

I'm still not a very good white wine, but I'm drinkable - you could put me in a punch, anyway.

Matt Gonzalez

As a young boy I won a few dollars in 1972 when Riva Ridge won the Kentucky Derby. I had overheard someone say he was going to win, and I guess that made an impression on me.

Mary McCarthy

I was going to get myself recognized at any price. If I could not win fame by goodness, I was ready to do it by badness.

Marva Collins

Mr. Meant-to has a friend, his name is Didn't-Do. Have you met them? They live together in a house called Never-Win. And I am told that it is haunted by the Ghost of Might-have-Been.

Marvin Gaye

If you escape from people too often,, you wind up escaping from yourself.

Mark Twain

Custom is custom: it is built of brass, boiler-iron, granite; facts, reasonings, arguments have no more effect upon it than the idle winds have upon Gibraltar.

Nicholas Stern

We will not overcome world poverty unless we manage climate change successfully. I've spent my life as a development economist, and it's crystal clear that we succeed or fail on winning the battle against world poverty and managing climate change together. If we fail on one, we fail on the other.

Nicholas Sparks

Working on a novel is very solitary and I get to be the boss. I'm the dictator, so I win every battle. So, in that sense, novels are easier because you don't have to answer to anyone. And then, you go into something like film and there are more cooks in the kitchen, so to speak.

John Green

She taught me everything I knew about crawfish and kissing and pink wine and poetry. She made me different.

Pat Schneider

And what is more generous than a window?

Pat Summitt

Our emphasis is on execution, not winning.

Pat Summitt

Coaches who start listening to fans often wind up sitting next to them.

Pat Summitt

My parents taught me a long time ago that you win in life with people, and that's important, because if you hang with winners, you stand a great chance of being a winner.

Pat Robertson

There are thirty to forty thousand left-wing professors in the United States who are racists, murderers, sexual deviants and supporters of Al-Qaeda.

P. J. O'Rourke

Asia is the continent rhythm forgot. At best Asian music is off-brand American pop, like Sonny Bono in a karaoke bar. At worst Asian music sounds as if a truck full of wind chimes collided with a stack of empty oil drums during a birdcall contest.

P. J. O'Rourke

Never Refuse Wine. It is an odd but universally held opinion that anyone who doesn't drink must be an alcoholic.

Ozzy Osbourne

You're chasing the dragon, you're chasing the high. A bird with one wing, who's still trying to fly.

P. G. Wodehouse

I shoved on a dressing-gown, and flew downstairs like a mighty, rushing wind.

P. G. Wodehouse

Bicky rocked, like a jelly in a high wind.

P. G. Wodehouse

The storm is over, there is sunlight in my heart. I have a glass of wine and sit thinking of what has passed.

Ovid

When disposition wins us, the features please.

Ovid

Wine stimulates the mind and makes it quick with heat; care flees and is dissolved in much drink.

Ovid

Who gives to Aristaeus honey; Or wine to Bacchus, or Triptolemus Earth's fruits, or apples to Alcinous?

Ovid

It warms the blood, adds luster to the eyes, and wine and love have ever been allies.

Paul Pierce

When you win a championship, it is a great feeling, and you really don't want that feeling to go away.

Paul Pierce

Who cares who gets the last shot or scores the most points? Who cares who gets the credit? If we win, we're all winners.

Paul Pierce

At the end of the day, the ultimate goal is winning the ballgame.

Paul Newman

Winning isn't everything.... it's just all there is.

Paul Brown

Feathered with hoarfrost, skeletal trees loom closer; fog shrouded arches.

Paul Begala

I was the guy that told Bill Clinton he was going to win. I had gotten the final polling numbers. He had a comfortable lead. He was not going to lose.