Famous Quotes & Sayings

Giordano Bruno

Since I have spread my wings to purpose high, The more beneath my feet the clouds I see, The more I give the winds my pinions free, Spurning the earth and soaring to the sky.

Gerard Depardieu

The wine I produce is not for keeping. Its the wine you want when meeting friends for a game of cards.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Because the Holy Ghost over the bent World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.

Harry S Truman

If we see that Germany is winning we ought to help Russia and if Russia is winning we ought to help Germany, and that way let them kill as many as possible.

Harry S Truman

If I want to be great, I have to win the victory over myself...self-d iscipline.

J. Paul Getty

Wealth is only a benefit of the game of money. If you win, the money will be there.

J. K. Rowling

In the end, love wins. It does win. We know it wins. When a person dies, love isn’t turned off like a faucet. It is an amazingly resilient part of us.

J. K. Rowling

Look, why don't you go talk to Ron about all this?" Harry asked. "Well, I would, but he's always asleep when I go and see him!" said Lavender fretfully. "Is he?" said Harry, surprised, for he had found Ron perfectly alert every time he had been up to the hospital wing.

J. K. Rowling

As he followed Bill back to the others a wry though came to him, born no doubt of the wine he had drunk. He seemed set on course to become just as reckless a godfather to Teddy Lupin as Sirius Black had been to him.

J. K. Rowling

Seventeen, eh!" said Hagrid as he accepted a bucket-sized glass of wine from Fred. "Six years to the day we met, Harry, d’yeh remember it?" "Vaguely," said Harry, grinning up at him. "Didn’t you smash down the front door, give Dudley a pig’s tail, and tell me I was a wizard?" "I forge’ the details," Hagrid chortled.

J. K. Rowling

Our Headmaster is taking a short break," said Professor McGonagall, pointing at the Snape-shaped hole in the window.

Nate Silver

If the state polls are right, then Mr. Obama will win the Electoral College. If you can't acknowledge that after a day when Mr. Obama leads 19 out of 20 swing-state polls, then you should abandon the pretense that your goal is to inform rather than entertain the public.

Nancy Kerrigan

People are really sick of seeing the winner not win and what the public thinks should happen.

Nancy Kerrigan

It was never about winning medals or being famous.

Nancy Mitford

And Left-wing people are always sad because they mind dreadfully about their causes, and the causes are always going so badly.

Murray Kempton

It is a measure of the Negro's circumstance that, in America, the smallest things usually take him so very long, and that, by the time he wins them, they are no longer little things: they are miracles.

Kelly Slater

I was stuck for 16 months without a win there, and now I've had five this year. Once you break that barrier for yourself it makes it easier; you're not thinking about it... It opened up the floodgate for me.

Kathy Mattea

A gourmet meal without a glass of wine just seems tragic to me somehow.

Kathy Bates

Every time an Oscar is given out, an agent gets his wings.

Kathy Bates

After winning the Oscar, I was committed to do 'Fried Green Tomatoes,' but I didn't know what the next thing would be after that. It was a scary time. But the advantage of TV is the regular work. All you need is a hit series, I guess.

Katherine Mansfield

In the woods where snow is thick, bars of sunlight lay like pale fire.

Katherine Paterson

The last dregs of winter spoiling the taste of everything.

Kate Fleetwood

But nothing beats a Woody Allen film on a Sunday night, with a glass of wine and some leftovers.

Kate Chopin

She was flushed and felt intoxicated with the sound of her own voice and the unaccustomed taste of candor. It muddled her like wine, or like a first breath of freedom.

Kate Chopin

I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of earth, subtleties of major and minor chord that the wind strikes upon the tree branches. Have you ever heard the earth breathe?

Karin Slaughter

Even Gone With the Wind had a shocking, cold-blooded murder.

Julia Stiles

Even after such milestones as Kathryn Bigelow winning an Oscar, there still seem to be few women in leadership roles.

Julian Casablancas

Who you are vs. who you wish you were: Who wins?

Julian Assange

As always, most media aligns with the presumptive winner even though their claimed societal virtue is to investigate those in power.

Julian Barnes

Global warming is more of a blessing than a curse.

Ken Jennings

It's boring to have the same guy win. I'm actively rooting against myself.

Ken Jennings

As Jeopardy devotees know, if you're trying to win on the show, the buzzer is all. On any given night, nearly all the contestants know nearly all the answers, so it's just a matter of who masters buzzer rhythm the best.

Katie Couric

I think sometimes people project things on you, but I'm trying to handle everything that's happened to me with a certain amount of grace, dignity and good manners. You just can't necessarily win all the time.