Famous Quotes & Sayings

Karl Rove

It's been just a year since the RNC committed to revamp the way they help our candidates with its 'Growth and Opportunity Project,' and already there are signs of improvement. From new leadership and initiatives in the digital arena, to improving the GOP ground game (as we just saw with David Jolly's victory in FL-13), to the historic decision to restructure the primary calendar and primary debates, the RNC's steps will help keep the House and to take the Senate in 2014, win the White House in 2016, and build for the future. Looking forward to more progress in the months ahead.

Karl Pilkington

Pigeons: They've got wings, but they walk a lot...

Karl Pilkington

I say have the night and give people the awards, but why do people want to watch people win awards? What are they getting out of it? I don't quite get it. Because they have awards all the time; there's awards for butchers, the best meat served, but they don't televise it. I don't know why they do it for films or TV programs.

Julio Iglesias

Love is like wine. To sip is fine, but to empty the bottle is a headache.

Julio Cortazar

The novel wins by points, the short story by knockout.

Julie Klausner

Having one of your like dumb sort of stream of consciousness tweets used against you on a right wing website is the ultimate compliment.

Julie Garwood

In a low whisper she was certain only her friend could hear, she said, "I specifically remember we both promised never to drink from any man's goblet of wine. From the looks of you, Frances Catherine, I'm thinking you broke your word.

Joseph Goebbels

To attract people, to win over people to that which I have realized as being true, that is called propaganda.

Joseph Goebbels

The essence of propaganda consists in winning people over to an idea so sincerely, so vitally, that in the end they succumb to it utterly and can never escape from it.

Jules Renard

To succeed you must add water to your wine, until there is no more wine.

Joshua Slocum

To know the laws that govern the winds, and to know that you know them, will give you an easy mind on your voyage round the world; otherwise you may tremble at the appearance of every cloud.

Josh Billings

As in a game of cards, so in the game of life, we must play what is dealt to us, and the glory consists, not so much in winning as in playing a poor hand well.

Karen MacNeil

There are some amazingly good wines for five dollars a bottle.

Karen MacNeil

A wine is ready when you can't bear to wait for it any longer.

Karen MacNeil

Beaujolais is the only white wine that happens to be red.

Karen MacNeil

You could say one wine is like Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz while another is like the mature Judy Garland, or that a big voluptuous chardonnay is like Marilyn Monroe -round, bosomy - you can remember that chardonnay, If you say a wine is snappy and lively, like Robin Williams, that's very different than the Anthony Hopkins of wine - urbane, sophisticated, measured, considered.

Karen Kingsbury

Never be passive. Victories happen when you take charge of a game. You can't win by playing not to lose".

Justin Theroux

It's like, once you've seen Tom Hanks win the Golden Globes, the Oscars, you've seen his wife, what kind of car he drives, when you watch his movies, you can't fully get really lost in them.

Judith Thurman

Even after several hospitalizations for alcohol and drug-related nervous breakdowns, poet Edna St. Vincent Millay defined sobriety as restricting her daily intake of liquor to a liter and a half of wine.

Josh Schwartz

Like they said about The West Wing, you can't do a show about Washington until you can.

Josh Peck

Some people won, some people lost [the Grammys] but Taylor Swift gets to wake up as Taylor Swift so she's winning.

Joseph Conrad

The East Wind, an interloper in the dominions of Westerly Weather, is an impassive-faced tyrant with a sharp poniard held behind his back for a treacherous stab.

Joseph Conrad

It is a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine.

Kate Moss

It's all about the blanket. Blanket, pillow, and red wine. You should always be asleep on a plane.

Kasey Kahne

I'm excited to win a pole at Atlanta, one of the tracks you look forward to qualifying at every single year, and really happy to beat Ryan Newman, who is hard to beat here.

Karrie Webb

You see that a handful of times every year where a person that hasn't been playing that well pops up and wins

Karrie Webb

I try to win every tournament.

Leonard Cohen

A sip of wine, a cigarette, And then it’s time to go. I tidied up the kitchenette; I tuned the old banjo. I’m wanted at the traffic-jam. They’re saving me a seat.

Leonard Cohen

The winter has not killed usagain!

Leonard Cohen

You win a while, and then it’s done - Your little winning streak.

Leonard Cohen

Only in Canada could somebody with a voice like mine win 'Vocalist of the Year'.

Laz Alonso

I like speed, so I like taking the jet skis out and hitting the water, or hitting the lake. In the winter, unfortunately, I used to ski a lot but I haven't been able to ski in the past few years because thank God I've been working, so that's a good reason not to.

Lawrence Tierney

I don’t like gambling very much. I don’t like being at the mercy of those little white squares that roll around and decide whether you win or lose. I like to have the say-so myself.