Famous Quotes & Sayings

Trevor Nunn

The first big break was winning a scholarship to go to Cambridge University. I was very lucky, because my parents couldn't have afforded a university education for me. Without a scholarship I couldn't possibly have gone.

Tracy Pollan

When something's got to give, family always wins. I couldn't live with myself if it was the other way.

Sarah Dessen

Macy: “In Truth,” I said, “there are no rules other than you have to tell the truth.” Wes: “How do you win?” he asked Macy: “That,” I said, “is such a boy question.

Sandra Brown

In order to win everything, a woman must know to lose.

Sandra Bullock

I think most people have that out of body experience when they win the Oscar.

Roseanne Barr

Hillary Clinton and Barack Hussein Obama cannot win, and they are put in place to assure a victory by Mitt Romney... this is the plan of all the insurance companies that are owned by Mormon interests. It is unfolding as the Mormon Church planned over the last fifty years.

Roger Moore

I'm not in this business to win a popularity contest, I just want to be a good actor. Well, you've failed at being a good actor. Why not try for the popularity contest?

Roger Ebert

I lost faith in the Oscars the first year I was a movie critic - the year that Bonnie and Clyde didn't win.

Rod Serling

I think I'd rather win, for example, a Writer's Guild award than almost anything on earth. And the few nominations I've had with the guild, and the few awards I've had, represented to me a far more legitimate concrete achievement than anything.

Robert Lloyd

Slow and steady wins the race. 'The hare and the tortoise

Roger Goodell

The owners don't win by having a lockout. Shutting down your business is not good for anybody and it's certainly not good for the players, it's certainly not good for the fans. And that's most important to us.

Satchel Paige

Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes you get rained out.

Sania Mirza

As long as I am winning, people shouldn't care whether my skirt is six inches long or 6 feet long,

Sandy Lyle

Is winning the Open worth a million pounds? Well, it's worthwhile winning it - I would recommend it to anybody!

Sandy Koufax

There is among us a far closer relationship than the purely social one of a fraternal organization because we are bound together not only by a single interest but by a common goal. To win. Nothing else matters, and nothing else will do.

Sarah Paulson

It's OK to sit in the Golden Globe room and look around and think, 'Oh, Helen Mirren's a loser tonight, so is Nicole Kidman. Meryl Streep lost tonight. Jessica Lange didn't win.' If you're gonna be in the company of losers, that's the company to be in.

Vince Young

I can do whatever it takes to win.

Vincent Kartheiser

Being an actor is like winning the lottery. It's not really about your talent, it's right time, right place, right face.

William Howard Taft

The man with the average mentality, but with control, with a definite goal, and a clear conception of how it can be gained, and above all, with the power of application and labor, wins in the end.

William Joyce

I did not win and in fact I was called into the principal's office for a consultation with my parents. But that was the beginning of my literary career.

William Booth

If I thought I could win one more soul to the Lord by walking on my head and playing the tambourine with my toes, I'd learn how!

William Butler Yeats

I Sing what was lost and dread what was won, / I walk in a battle fought over again...

Wilhelm Steinitz

A win by an unsound combination, however showy, fills me with artistic horror

Walter Scott

Woe to the youth whom Fancy gains, Winning from Reason's hand the reins, Pity and woe! for such a mind Is soft contemplative, and kind.

Walter Dean Myers

If you know you don't have a win, then there's no use for you being in the game.

Walter Isaacson

The best and most innovative products don't always win...(it's an) aesthetic flaw in how the universe worked

Winston Churchill

If we win, nobody will care. If we lose, there will be nobody to care.

Winston Churchill

As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.

William Ruckelshaus

The best way to win an argument is to begin by being right.

William Safire

Decide on some imperfect Somebody and you will win, because the truest truism in politics is: You can't beat Somebody with Nobody.

William Jennings Bryan

If evolution wins, Christianity goes!

Woody Hayes

To hell with exciting. I'd rather be drab as hell and win.

Wladimir Klitschko

Mental strength is really important because you either win or lose in your mind. And I'm not solely talking about sporting matches, boxing events - anything you do, you do it first with your mental strength. And you can actually train and develop it, and I am responsible for what I'm saying because I have experience with that.