Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexis de Tocqueville

The legislator is like the navigator of a ship on the high seas. He can steer the vessel on which he sails, but he cannot alter its construction, raise the wind, or stop the waves from swelling beneath his feet.

Alexandre Dumas

So much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have some bad thoughts which they are afraid the liquor will extract from their hearts.

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

Winter blues are cured every time with a potato gratin paired with a roast chicken.

We didn't play well and we didn't win the ballgame. That's what happens. I really don't know what else to say about it.

Vicente Fox

We are going to win this battle. We'll see who is tougher, we'll see who is more stubborn,

It's true, some wine improves with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.

Samuel Butler

Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.

Samuel Butler

Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.

Shaquille O'Neal

It matters in a fatherly way.

Junior Seau

We did what we had to do. Getting a win was key.

James Long

When the window shattered, you can't see through it.

Alec Waugh

We need not be intimidated by the wine snob because we know that, in the last analysis, he is only putting on a front. He may know more than we do, but how little he knows in comparison with what there is to know Wine, a hobby as fascinating and as human as one can find. One of the most fascinating aspects of the wine-hobby is the extent to which you learn all the time

Alec Waugh

By comparing what we know today with what the ancients appear to have known we can guess at the kinds of wine they drank.

Albert Einstein

In any conflict between humanity and technology, humanity will win.

Alfred Stieglitz

My picture, Fifth Avenue, Winter is the result of a three hours' stand during a fierce snow-storm on February 22nd 1893, awaiting the proper moment. My patience was duly rewarded. Of course, the result contained an element of chance, as I might have stood there for hours without succeeding in getting the desired pictures.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

For whom all winds are quiet as the sun,/ All waters as the shore.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

A little soul scarce fledged for earth Takes wing with heaven again for goal, Even while we hailed as fresh from birth A little soul.

I really don't know one plane from the other. To me they are just marginal costs with wings.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

I wind about, and in and out, - With here a blossom sailing, - And here and there a lusty trout, - And here and there a grayling...

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Courtesy wins woman all as well. As valor may, but he that closes both is perfect.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

After-dinner talk Across the walnuts and the wine.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Willows whiten, aspens quiver, Little breezes dusk and shiver.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Woman is the lesser man, and all thy passions, match'd with mine, Are as moonlight unto sunlight, and as water unto wine.

Alexander Fleming

If penicillin can cure those that are ill, Spanish sherry can bring the dead back to life.

Alexander Fleming

Penicillin cures, but wine makes people happy.

Alex Ferguson

The most important thing in a game like that is to win it.

Alex Ferguson

Manchester United might not win Premier League every year, but we'd always be up there competing for it every year.

Alex Ferguson

I always used to say to players at half-time, 'Be patient. The last fifteen minutes throw the kitchen sink at them. It's worth a gamble'. You are going to lose the game anyway. There is nothing better than when you get to that last fifteen minutes and you actually win the game late on. The fans are going out of the gates I gave it a try and it worked.

Alex Ferguson

There was one or two offers that did come along during my time at United, but I always came back to this point; why would you leave United? Where is the bigger challenge? And the thing about challenges is, once you have won something, you can't live on that. Not at Manchester United - you have got to win the next one. And that's the challenge. Maintaining that consistency of winning which is a mentality that I have had.

Alex Ferguson

Attack wins you games, defence wins you titles.

Alex Ferguson

We once went 13 games without winning. There's always pressure here. Winning is always important here. How do you handle yourself and compose yourself is important. (on Manchester United)

Alcaeus

One that hath wine as a chain about his wits, such a one lives no life at all.

Alcaeus

Wine is a peep-hole on a man.