Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Madden

You can't win a game if you don't score any points.

John Lyly

Things of greatest profit are set forth with least price. Where the wine is neat there needeth no live blush.

John Lyly

To love women and never enjoy them, is as much to love wine and never taste it.

John Lyly

To give reason for fancy were to weigh the fire, and measure the wind.

John Lyly

None but the lark so shrill and clear; Now at heaven's gate she claps her wings, The morn not waking till she sings.

John Lyly

Whatsoever is in the heart of the sober man, is in the mouth of the drunkard.

John Malkovich

And if you say a word about this over the radio, the next wings you see will belong to the flies buzzing over your rotting corpse.

John Lone

I am not well educated or bright enough to be politically clued in, but I hope in the film that I'm going to shock a few people, win a lot of people over.

John Lubbock

We must be careful what we read, and not, like the sailors of Ulysses, take bags of wind for sacks of treasure.

John Lydon

Any kind of history you read is basically the winning side telling you the others were bad.

John Lydon

I love Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart because they're bringing irony back into American humor, which is a delicious treat. The entire Colbert persona of being extreme right-wing when he's not at all is highly amusing. He does it so well, but sometimes a little too well. My wife is convinced he's completely that way.

John Locke

If we will disbelieve everything, because we cannot certainly know all things, we shall do much what as wisely as he who would not use his legs, but sit still and perish, because he had no wings to fly.

John Leo

Compared with other Americans, journalists are more likely to live in upscale neighborhoods, have maids, own Mercedes and trade stocks, and less likely to go to church, do volunteer work or put down roots in a community. Journalists are over-represented in ZIP code areas where residents are twice as likely as other Americans to rent foreign movies, drink Chablis, own an espresso maker and read magazines such as Architectural Digest and Food & Wine.

John Leo

If winning is the only value, why debate when you can suppress?

John Lennon

We are all Christ and Hitler. Yoko and I want Christ to win.

John Lee Hancock

Someone is going to win and someone is going to lose. That's also what happens in almost every movie - someone is going to win and someone is going to lose.

John le Carre

There was nothing dishonourable in not being blown about by every little modern wind. Better to have worth, to entrench, to be an oak of one's own generation.

John Lahr

I was the first critic ever to win a Tony - for co-authoring 'Elaine Stritch at Liberty.' Criticism is a life without risk; the critic is risking his opinion, the maker is risking his life. It's a humbling thought but important for the critic to keep it in mind - a thought he can only know if he's made something himself.

John Baldessari

I always felt like I was right out of Dickens, looking in the window of the Christmas feast, but not at the feast.

Jimmy Connors

I think my greatest victory was every time I walked out there, I gave it everything I had. I left everything out there. That's what I'm most proud of. I can't go win Wimbledon anymore, so if what I've done in the past is not good enough, let it go. Because I'm certainly not sitting around thinking about it.

Jimmy Connors

Nothing is like being out there and playing and performing and winning - nothing. But to have an interest in the player? The nerves and everything that goes with it? Seeing what he's learned and how he's done it? That's the second best thing to playing. I think.

Jimmy Connors

Greatest thing in life: Winning a tennis match. Second greatest thing in life: Losing a tennis match

Jimmy Carr

Even if you're doing the national insurance awards, there's still that excitement when you wonder who is going to win, er, best premiums.

Jim Leyland

It's well known that I interviewed with Philadelphia last winter, and I'd like to manage again,

Jim Otto

It's not that difficult to win. It's more difficult to win consistently and stay on top.

Jim Lehrer

I always wear blue shirts and I like wine or purple ties.

Jim Parsons

You can look at the Emmys two ways in you're nominated. It's either win-win or lose-lose. If things go very well and I win, you still have to get up in front of a group of people and risk having God knows what come out of your mouth. If you won't win, you have to breathe deeply and smile and clap with a camera in your face.

Jim Rohn

Care enough to make a difference. Care enough to turn somebody around. Care enough to change. Care enough to win.

George Matthew Adams

It is easier to win than to fail. Everybody sides with the winner. But the failure walks alone.

George MacDonald

Affliction is but the shadow of God's wing.

George Kotsiopoulos

Winter dressing is all about having chic outerwear.

George Leigh Mallory

We will stomp to the top with the wind in our teeth.

Emily Robison

I just know that I could never spend a winter in Chicago or some place like that. Im just not a cold weather person.