Famous Quotes & Sayings

Samuel Lover

What is wine? It is the grape present in another form; its essence is there, though the fruit which produced it grew thousands of miles away, and perished years ago. So the object of many a tender thought may be spiritually present, in defiance of space - and fond recollections cherished in defiance of time.

Samuel L. Jackson

Not everything's made to win an Academy Award.

Samuel Beckett

In my head there are several windows, that I do know, but perhaps it is always the same one, open variously on the parading universe.

Salman Khurshid

In democracy, every election is a learning process. You learn from every election, the one that you win and the one that you lose. And then you prepare for the next one.

Salvador Dali

Who knows how to taste wine never drinks wine again, but tastes secrets instead

Salvador Dali

The connoisseur does not drink wine but tastes its secrets

Salvador Dali

Qui sait déguster ne boit plus jamais de vin, mais goûte des secrets

Salma Hayek

If you love food and you love red wine and they put you in France, you're in a good place and you're in a bad place at the same time. You have to weigh yourself every day, and you have to have an alarm number. When you get to that number, you have to start putting it in reverse.

Salman Rushdie

As though she had entered a fable, as though she were no more than words crawling along a dry page, or as though she were becoming that page itself, that surface on which her story would be written and across which there blew a hot and merciless wind, turning her body to papyrus, her skin to parchment, her soul to paper.

Salman Rushdie

To be born again,' sang Gibreal Farishta tumbling from the heaveans, 'first you have to die. Ho ji! Ho ji! To land upon the bosomy earth, first one needs to fly Tat-taa! Takatun! How to ever smile again, if first you won't cry? How to win the darling's love mister, without a sigh?

Ryan Reynolds

Each time I take a role, I'm always nervous about it at the beginning and I'm always afraid what if that, what if this. Every time I take a role and I'm somewhat terrified at the beginning and I get into it and I start working, that's a big win for me. So, really it is stepping forward in the face of whatever fears that I've created for myself and going forward anyway and those are always big moments for me.

W. S. Gilbert

A popular speaker, however unpopular and insignificant, has only to wind up his speech with half-a-dozen lines of Shakespeare (and to make it clearly understood that they are Shakespeare's) and he will sit down amid thunders of applause.

Virgil Goode

Both candidates for president talk about balancing the budget ten years from now. Even if they win, they won't be in office then.

Virginia Madsen

I like how wine continues to evolve, like if I opened a bottle of wine today it would taste different than if I'd opened it on any other day, because a bottle of wine is actually alive. And it's constantly evolving and gaining complexity.

W. H. Auden

Swans in the winter air A white perfection have

William Congreve

To converse with Scandal is to play at Losing Loadum, you must lose a good name to him, before you can win it for yourself.

William Cowper

O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!

William Cowper

In the vast, and the minute, we see The unambiguous footsteps of the God, Who gives its lustre to an insect's wing And wheels His throne upon the rolling worlds.

William Cowper

The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.

Wayne Huizenga

Despite winning the world championship, it has not altered the reality of the situation.

Wayne Gretzky

Competitive spirit is still at a premium. The more you win, the better you play, the more money you make, so they all have that in mind.

Wayne Gretzky

Lifting the Stanley Cup for the first time. There's nothing like it. It's the greatest story. In my era, they used to say you couldn't be a superstar without winning one. I remember thinking when I lifted it: "Now they can't say that about me."

Wayne Gretzky

The greatest thing about playing obviously is winning, and you can't replace that experience with anything.

Wayne Gretzky

It's easier to lose than to win.

Wayne Dyer

The best way to win is to not need to.

Tony Stewart

I don't care how good you are, you have to have that feeling in your gut that you want to win every week when you go out there.

Van Jones

Come, then, let us go forward together with our united strength - and win a better future for generations to come.

Van Morrison

You can put out an album and it could be totally out of the window as far as what you want to do performance-wise.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Even in the obscure vast history of a planet the time it takes to make a forest counts. It takes a while. And not every planet can do it; it is no common effect, that tangling of the sun's first cool light in the shadow and complexity of innumberable wind-stirred branches.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Things don't have purposes, as if the universe were a machine, where every part has a useful function. What's the function of a galaxy? I don't know if our life has a purpose and I don't see that it matters. What does matter is that we're a part. Like a thread in a cloth or a grass-blade in a field. It is and we are. What we do is like wind blowing on the grass.

Tyson Chandler

Yeah, I paint in my spare time, just to relax myself and wind down a bit.

Tyra Banks

I kind of like the wind in my face. If it wasn’t there, I don’t know if I would push as hard.

Twiggy

Knitwear can play a vital part in layering. The simplicity of a lightweight cardigan makes it one of the best ways to layer outfits. I love granddad cardis for winter, worn over a vintage lace shirt, waistcoat and full skirt with slouchy boots.