Famous Quotes & Sayings

Billy Bob Thornton

Getting the nomination is like gravy. Winning would be like whatever is better than gravy.

Bill James

You can't ultimately dodge defeat by winning close elections.

Bill Hybels

Everyone wins when a leader gets better

Edward Said

History is written by those who win and those who dominate.

Bruce Chatwin

I climbed a path and from the top looked up-stream towards Chile. I could see the river, glinting and sliding through the bone-white cliffs with strips of emerald cultivation either side. Away from the cliffs was the desert. There was no sound but the wind, whirring through thorns and whistling through dead grass, and no other sign of life but a hawk, and a black beetle easing over white stones.

Bruce Campbell

Horror I appreciate is one of the few genres that can wind the audience up and make them pay attention. I kind of like that. It's one of the few genres that can be very manipulative.

Britney Spears

I would love to win an Oscar.

Brian McKnight

I don't care how small the game. I want to win.

Brian Griese

I'm going to go out and try to be the best player I can be and help the Chicago Bears win.

Brett Gardner

Every day that goes by and we don't win a ballgame, that's a missed opportunity for us to battle back.

Brett Hull

I'm known as a winner now.

Brandon Jay McLaren

I would say just the weather in Vancouver in the winter can be kind of unforgiving.

Brandon Sanderson

That's the point, isn't it? We have to live on, no matter how hard it gets. We'll win in the end.

Boris Spassky

When you play Bobby, it is not a question if you win or lose. It is a question if you survive.

Bow Wow

I'm pretty much happy with the things that have been handed to me already. Seven albums, eight arena tours ... I think there's nothing I really would look forward to besides winning a Grammy one day if that would happen.

Archie Shepp

All the tenets that I had grown up with were thrown out the window.

Aravind Adiga

Do you know about Hanuman, sir? He was the faithful servant of the god Rama, and we worship him in our temples because he is a shining example of how to serve your masters with absolute fidelity, love, and devotion. These are the kinds of gods they have foisted on us Mr. Jiabao. Understand, now, how hard it is for a man to win his freedom in India.

Archibald MacLeish

There is no dusk to be, There is no dawn that was, Only there's now, and now, And the wind in the grass.

Ben Mendelsohn

I think that story wins out over acting and that the thing as a whole is more important than the performances therein.

Barbara Kingsolver

You know reviewers, they are the wind in their own sails.

Barbara Kingsolver

Want is a thing that unfurls unbidden like fungus, opening large upon itself, stopless, filling the sky. But needs, from one day to the next, are few enough to fit in a bucket, with room enough left to rattle like brittle brush in a dry wind.

Babe Didrikson Zaharias

I don't see any point in playing the game if you don't win, do you?

Bai Ling

I'm one of the best actresses. One day I will win an Oscar.

Babe Ruth

I learned early to drink beer, wine and whiskey. And I think I was about 5 when I first chewed tobacco.

Ashley Wagner

I love to win, honestly. ... If you love to win, you should say it. And honestly, I'm hooked on it.

This win was bigger. As much as that win meant, to get one here ...

This win really propels us into the playoffs.

Barbara Pym

She set about preparing her supper. It would have to be one of those classically simple meals, the sort that French peasants are said to eat and that enlightened English people sometimes enjoy rather self-consciously - a crusty French loaf, cheese, and lettuce and tomatoes from the garden. Of course there should have been wine and a lovingly prepared dressing of oil and vinegar, but Dulcie drank orange squash and ate mayonnaise that came from a bottle.

Apolo Ohno

I rolled the second car that I ever owned, a Toyota 4 Runner. This was winter in Colorado, two weeks before the 2002 Olympic trials. I was driving in the outside lane, and my rear tire caught some black ice, and we totally turned sideways to the point where we were heading right toward the median.

Apolo Ohno

When you are at the Olympic Games, it comes down to a ten thousandth of a hair between making the next round or winning a race or getting second or third.

Ben Roethlisberger

I'm a win-at-all-costs guy.

Ben Roethlisberger

The biggest thing isn't necessarily how I play, but that we win. That's my number-one goal. I could be the worst quarterback out there, but if we come out with a victory that's all that matters to me.

Ben Stein

If we try to engineer outcomes, if we overturn tradition to make everyone the same, we ruin society. If we upset tradition to allow for an equal shot at the starting gate, everyone wins, except for the charlatans and would be dictators.