Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Retief Goosen

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

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.

Woody Allen

I have no regard for that kind of ceremony. I just don't think they know what they're doing. When you see who wins those things-or who doesn't win them-you can see how meaningless this Oscar thing is.

Woody Allen

You'll find as you go through life that great depth and smoldering sensuality don't always win.

William J. Clinton

If ever there comes a time when everyone you vote for wins and they do everything you think they should do, there will still be a gap between what is and what ought to be.

Will Ferrell

I’m just a big, hairy, American winning machine!

Ron Wistrom

He was exasperating at times, but he was always a joy.

Ronnie Barker

To me singing is a joy. Choral singing is a delight. Welsh Choral singing is more than a delight. The Treorchy Male Choir is the best in choral singing. How then can they be described except in superlatives? They are without equal.

Rex Stout

To read of a detective's daring finesse or ingenious stratagem is a rare joy.

Sara Zarr

The world was full of beauty. She wanted to grab hold of it and take it down into her bones. Yet always it seemed beyond her grasp. Sometimes only by a little, like now. The thinnest membrane. Usually, though, by miles. She couldn’t expect to be that kind of happy all the time. She knew that. But sometimes you could. Sometimes you should be allowed a tiny bit of joy that should stay with you for more than five minutes. That wasn’t too much to ask. To have a moment like this, and be able to hold on to it. To cross that membrane, and feel alive.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.

Robert Rauschenberg

Work is my joy... Work is my therapy, I don't know anybody who loves work as much as I do.

Vittorio Alfieri

Joy surfeited turns to sorrow.

Virgil

Perhaps the day may come when we shall remember these sufferings with joy.

Willard Gaylin

Life is to be enjoyed, not simply endured. Pleasure and goodness and joy support the pursuit of survival.

Rosemarie Truglio

We took a long time and did a lot of research and preparation. We wanted to make sure we did this right.

Will Wright

I typically go overboard when I research new projects.

James Franco

I become kind of obsessive about research.

Patrick Rothfuss

I want to learn how to pick locks, swordfight, throw pottery - it's all research. It's like the curious person's version of James Bond's license to kill. I've got a license to learn.

Shinya Yamanaka

I like the freedom of research. Plus, if I fail in science, I know I can always survive because I have an M.D. This has been my insurance policy.

Geoff Mulgan

Huge sums are invested globally in medical research and development - and with good reason.

David Horowitz

Never before in the history of the modern research university have entire departments and fields been devoted to purely ideological pursuits.

Chet Atkins

Copying one person is stealing. Copying ten is research.

Edwin Land

Do not do anything that anyone else can do readily.