Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nadia Comaneci

I hoped to win a medal and hoped it would be gold. I knew I was good but didn't know I would be the one to score something that had never been done before.

Naguib Mahfouz

Winning Nobel imposed on me a lifestyle to which I am not used and which I would not have preferred.

Miyamoto Musashi

You win battles by knowing the enemy's timing, and using a timing which the enemy does not expect.

Miyamoto Musashi

Determine that today you will overcome your self of the day before, tomorrow you will win over those of lesser skill, and later you will win over those of greater skill.

Mitt Romney

A competitive primary does not divide us, it prepares us and we will win.

Mireille Guiliano

Wine is a living, breathing thing during its time in the bottle and in the glass. It is always changing, especially in the glass. A little oxygen can really open up and release the flavors in a complex wine, as well as mellow the rougher edge of immaturity.

R. C. Sproul

We live in age of compromise, but if we stand on the bedrock of God’s truth, we will not bend with the winds of relativism and faithlessness.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Windmills installed around the world converting their direct current into alternating current and feeding the electric energy into the world network can harvest the planet Earth's prime daily energy income source-the wind--and adequately supply all the world's energy needs

Priyanka Chopra

I got into the movies by accident. When I got an offer, I thought, 'Let's try this, too.' Everything in my life has happened by trial and error. I didn't even think I would win the Miss India title, so where's the question of thinking I'd come this far.

Publilius Syrus

What valor cannot win, flattery may.

Publilius Syrus

You need not hang up the ivy branch over the wine that will sell.

Publilius Syrus

Wine has drowned more than the sea.

Prescott Bush

It is our conduct, our patriotism and belief in our American way of life, our courage that will win the final battle.

NeNe Leakes

Im coming out with a wine... Im actually a restaurateur. I have Famous Famiglia Pizzeria that has opened up in the Sacramento airport. Im also working with my business partner on opening up the Linnethia Lounge.

Kristi Yamaguchi

Everything that happened in '92 was more than I had dreamed of... winning the U.S. title for the first time and then doing so well at the Olympics... It seemed to wrap things up so perfectly. I couldn't help thinking, 'How could I top that?'

Kingsley Amis

A German wine label is one of the things life's too short for.

Kingsley Amis

[Science fiction is] that class of prose narrative treating of a situation that could not arise in the world we know, but which is hypothesised on the basis of some innovation in science or technology, or pseudo-science or pseudo-technology, whether human or extra-terrestrial in origin. It is distinguished from pure fantasy by its need to achieve verisimilitude and win the 'willing suspension of disbelief' through scientific plausibility.

Kingsley Amis

A German wine label is one of the things life's too short for, a daunting testimony to that peculiar nation's love of detail and organization.

Oliver Kahn

Of course, success is a relative term. It can be something completely different from winning the German championship eight times or making millions.

Oliver Goldsmith

No vernal blooms their torpid rocks array, But winter lingering chills the lap of May; No zephyr fondly sues the mountain's breast, But meteors glare, and stormy glooms invest.

Oliver Goldsmith

But winter lingering chills the lap of May.

Margaret Atwood

You want the truth, of course. You want me to put two and two together. But two and two doesn’t necessarily get you the truth. Two and two equals a voice outside the window. Two and two equals the wind. The living bird is not its labeled bones.

Margaret Atwood

Winning intoxicates you, and numbs you to the sufferings of others.

Margaret Atwood

Her glass wings are gone.

Marcus Samuelsson

You know that old expression "It's not whether you win or lose; it's how you play the game". That line was definitely not coined by a chef. Because for a chef, it's only about whether or not you pull through. If you fail, nobody cares how hard you tried.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

There is nothing which wings its flight so swiftly as calumny, nothing is uttered with more ease; nothing is listened to with more readiness, nothing disbursed more widely.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is the soul itself which sees and hears, and not those parts which are, as it were, but windows to the soul.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

If wisdom be attainable, let us not only win but enjoy it.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

As in the case of wines that improve with age, the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful.

Marcel Hirscher

If you want to be among the greatest skiers, you have to win in Kitzbuehel at least once.

Marcel Duchamp

All this twaddle, the existence of God, atheism, determinism, liberation, societies, death, etc., are pieces of a chess game called language, and they are amusing only if one does not preoccupy oneself with 'winning or losing this game of chess.

Manuel Pellegrini

I don't know the parameters for the Ballon d'Or. I only know that Messi deserves to win every trophy

Kinky Friedman

We're first on executions. We're 49th in funding public education. We're in a race with Mississippi for the bottom, and we're winning.