Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Petty

If you ain't trying to cheat a little, you ain't likely to win much.

Richard Petty

No one wants to quit when he's losing and no one wants to quit when he's winning.

Richard P. Feynman

Winning a Nobel Prize is no big deal, but winning it with an IQ of 124 is really something.

Richelle Mead

This isn’t a game. We don’t want mediocre employees who can keep the status quo. We want souls. We want to win. And you’ve spent most of your time here being mediocre.

Retief Goosen

You can't really measure your game. You can shoot seven under and lose and you can shoot even and win.

Ronaldinho

My best has to be for Barcelona against Villarreal in 2006 - that is the one I am asked most about, and it is the one I am most proud of. Xavi chipped the ball to me, I chested it down, twisted and hit an overhead kick. It was the final goal in a 4-0 win.

Ronda Rousey

The Olympics is a once-in-a-lifetime thing. I was lucky enough to go twice, but most people only get one chance. And in judo you can train your whole life and it'll come down to a split second: You can lose everything or win anything.

Rick Cook

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.

Woodrow Wilson

I have no happy fairyland vision that she can win.

Richard Perle

When you gaze into souls, it's something you should update periodically, because souls can change.

Richelle Mead

Poor Martin. Geek or no, committing his soul to eternal damnation was a helluva price to pay for six minutes.

Richelle Mead

I left her there crying as I walked toward the gate. A piece of my soul had died when Dimitri had fallen. Turning my back on her now, I felt another piece die as well. Soon there wouldn't be anything left inside me.

Richard Bach

What was the question? ...Oh. Where do I get my crazy ideas? Answer: sleep-fairy, walk-fairy, shower-fairy. Book-fairy. And in these last few years, from my wife. Now when I have questions I ask her and she tells me the answer. If you haven't already, I'd suggest you want to find your soulmate, as soon as you can. Next question?

William S. Burroughs

I read Mailer's Ancient Evenings with great interest because I was interested in . . . the seven souls structure, which was very helpful to me in Western Lands. And also in Place of Dead Roads. So that's Mailer.

William Law

The sun meets not the springing bud that stretches towards him with half the certainty that God, the source of all good, communicates himself to the soul that longs to partake of him.

William Wordsworth

The gods approve The depth, and not the tumult, of the soul.

Richard Flanagan

What you're constantly seeking isn't a style, but a transparency between your soul and the words. And your soul is ever in flux, so therefore you have to constantly find new forms of words that might be able to register these changes in the soul.

Tori Amos

When soulmates come and go, you're never alone, even when you're standing just you and your shoes, because you carry them with you.

Joni Mitchell

Depression can be the sand that makes the pearl. Most of my best work came out of it.

Noam Chomsky

The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things. If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia - that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.

Karl Marx

So far no chemist has ever discovered exchange-value either in a pearl or a diamond.

Mikhail Gorbachev

Montreal, this wonderful town… Pearl of Canada, Pearl of the world.

P. C. Cast

Value them; they are pearls of great price

Coco Chanel

A women needs ropes and ropes of pearls.

Confucius

From a grain of sand in the Pearl comes.

Robert Kennedy

I now know how Tojo felt when he was planning Pearl Harbor.

Robert A. Heinlein

Never cast pearls before swine.