Famous Quotes & Sayings

Julius Erving

I've always tried to tell myself that the work itself is the thing, that win, lose, or draw, the work is really what counts.

Ouida

The radical defect in Christianity is that it tried to win the world by a bribe, and it has become a nullity.

O'Shea Jackson, Jr.

As an artist, I didn't think I was gonna get an Oscar. I've never said this, but I've never looked at it like, "We're gonna win Best Supporting Actor."

Oscar Wilde

Pleasure without Champagne is purely artificial.

Kathy Acker

Thats what the right-wing is good at: figuring out the left wing.

Kathryn Stockett

There is no trickier subject for a writer from the South than that of affection between a black person and a white one in the unequal world of segregation. For the dishonesty upon which a society is founded makes every emotion suspect, makes it impossible to know whether what flowed between two people was honest feeling or pity or pragmatism.(Howell Raines's Pulitzer Prize winning article "Grady's Gift")-Sockett admired this quote and used it in her summary...

Kanye West

Benjamin Franklin didnt win 21 Grammys right?

Kanye West

What I had to learn from Kim is how to take more of her advice and less of other people's advice. There's a lot of Kim K skills that were added. In order to win at life, you need some Kim K skills, period.

Kanye West

If I don't win, the award show loses credibility.

Kanye West

Respect my trendsetting abilities. Once that happens, everyone wins.

William Faulkner

A pair of jaybirds came up from nowhere, whirled up on the blast like gaudy scraps of cloth or paper and lodged in the mulberries, where they swung in raucous tilt and recover, screaming into the wind that ripped their harsh cries onward and away like scraps of paper or of cloth in turn.

Whittaker Chambers

I know that I am leaving the winning side for the losing side, but it is better to die on the losing side than to live under Communism.

Warren Sapp

I didn't say what I said to be controversial just because most people are picking the Patriots to win. I consider myself a pretty good judge of talent when it comes to defensive linemen and the Panthers' biggest strength is their defensive line. You win the battle of the trenches and that goes a long way to winning the game.

Saina Nehwal

After I win a match, I celebrate it by having an ice cream.

Saina Nehwal

I love winning more than I love playing badminton. Winning is everything.

Saina Nehwal

Rankings are not so important. I am only focused on winning tournaments.

Saint Augustine

A temptation arises: it is the wind. It disturbs you: it is the surging of the seas. This is the time to awaken Christ and let Him remind you of these words

Saint Francis de Sales

Big fires flare up in a wind, but little ones are blown out unless they are carried in under cover.

Saint Francis de Sales

Have patience to walk with short steps until you have wings to fly.

Saint Augustine

Poetry is devil's wine.

Saint Augustine

You have been professing yourself reluctant to throw off your load of illusion because truth was uncertain. Well, it is certain now, yet the burden still weighs you down, while other people are given wings on freer shoulders, people who have not worn themselves out with research, nor spent a decade and more reflecting on these questions.

Saint Augustine

Poetry is the Devil's wine.

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.

Wiz Khalifa

Any chick that I handle, I teach ‘em patience. How not to win the award but be glad for your nomination.

Winston Churchill

...to win by one is enough.

Winston Churchill

I liked wine, both red and white, and especially Champagne; and on very special occasions I could even drink a small glass of brandy.

Wilma Rudolph

When I was going through my transition of being famous, I tried to ask God, why was I here? What was my purpose? Surely, it wasn't just to win three gold medals. There has to be more to this life than that.

Will Rogers

Wine had such ill effects on Noah's health that it was all he could do to live 950 years. Show me a total abstainer that ever lived that long.

Will Rogers

The best thing about this group of candidates is that only one of them can win.

Seek but provision of bread and wine, fools to flatter, and clothing fine; and nothing of God shall ever be thine.

W. E. B. Du Bois

If the unemployed could eat plans and promises, they would be able to spend the winter on the Riviera.

W. E. B. Du Bois

I sit with Shakespeare and he winces not.

W. E. B. Du Bois

We cannot escape the clear fact that what is going to win in this world is reason, if this ever becomes a reasonable world.