Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wayne Gretzky

Lifting the Stanley Cup for the first time. There's nothing like it. It's the greatest story. In my era, they used to say you couldn't be a superstar without winning one. I remember thinking when I lifted it: "Now they can't say that about me."

Wayne Gretzky

The greatest thing about playing obviously is winning, and you can't replace that experience with anything.

Wayne Gretzky

It's easier to lose than to win.

Wayne Dyer

The best way to win is to not need to.

Tony Stewart

I don't care how good you are, you have to have that feeling in your gut that you want to win every week when you go out there.

Van Jones

Come, then, let us go forward together with our united strength - and win a better future for generations to come.

Van Morrison

You can put out an album and it could be totally out of the window as far as what you want to do performance-wise.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Even in the obscure vast history of a planet the time it takes to make a forest counts. It takes a while. And not every planet can do it; it is no common effect, that tangling of the sun's first cool light in the shadow and complexity of innumberable wind-stirred branches.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Things don't have purposes, as if the universe were a machine, where every part has a useful function. What's the function of a galaxy? I don't know if our life has a purpose and I don't see that it matters. What does matter is that we're a part. Like a thread in a cloth or a grass-blade in a field. It is and we are. What we do is like wind blowing on the grass.

Tyson Chandler

Yeah, I paint in my spare time, just to relax myself and wind down a bit.

Tyra Banks

I kind of like the wind in my face. If it wasn’t there, I don’t know if I would push as hard.

Twiggy

Knitwear can play a vital part in layering. The simplicity of a lightweight cardigan makes it one of the best ways to layer outfits. I love granddad cardis for winter, worn over a vintage lace shirt, waistcoat and full skirt with slouchy boots.

Twiggy

Fluted sleeves or any sleeve that flares out before coming in again at the wrist are very feminine and a great way to distract from the dreaded 'bingo wings.'

Vitali Klitschko

I tried to be the leader ... that was my aim. But it is important to know how to win and how to lose.

Viswanathan Anand

A win is a win, which is about that particular moment.

Saul Alinsky

The preferred world can be seen any evening on television in the succession of programs where the good always wins

Saul Bellow

But she's a nut, and nuts win.

Sarah Jessica Parker

People go to casinos for the same reason they go on blind dates - hoping to hit the jackpot. But mostly, you just wind up broke or alone in a bar.

Sarah Dessen

Why does she have wings?' So she can fly.

Sarah Dessen

Macy: “In Truth,” I said, “there are no rules other than you have to tell the truth.” Wes: “How do you win?” he asked Macy: “That,” I said, “is such a boy question.

Sandra Brown

In order to win everything, a woman must know to lose.

Sandra Bullock

I think most people have that out of body experience when they win the Oscar.

Roseanne Barr

Hillary Clinton and Barack Hussein Obama cannot win, and they are put in place to assure a victory by Mitt Romney... this is the plan of all the insurance companies that are owned by Mormon interests. It is unfolding as the Mormon Church planned over the last fifty years.

Roland Barthes

Wine is a part of society because it provides a basis not only for a morality but also for an environment; it is an ornament in the slightest ceremonials of French daily life, from the snack to the feast, from the conversation at the local cafT to the speech at a formal dinner.

Roger Scruton

Wine is not just an object of pleasure, but an object of knowledge; and the pleasure depends on the knowledge.

Roger Moore

I'm not in this business to win a popularity contest, I just want to be a good actor. Well, you've failed at being a good actor. Why not try for the popularity contest?

Roger Ebert

I lost faith in the Oscars the first year I was a movie critic - the year that Bonnie and Clyde didn't win.

Rod Stewart

I'll bring the red wine, you bring the ludes.

Rod Stewart

Spread your wings and let me come inside.

Rod Stewart

I'll tell you what I love. Sending back bottles of wine that aren't right in restaurants in France! Whoa! I love the French, but I do find their wine snobbery something unbearable.

Rod Serling

Writers, like most human beings, are adaptable creatures. They can learn to accept subordination without growing fond of it. No writer can forever stand in the wings and watch other people take the curtain calls while his own contributions get lost in the shuffle.

Rod Serling

I think I'd rather win, for example, a Writer's Guild award than almost anything on earth. And the few nominations I've had with the guild, and the few awards I've had, represented to me a far more legitimate concrete achievement than anything.

Robin Leach

Whoever would have guessed that in the land of cheap sausages and mashed potatoes there could be such a change which would actually bring the French from Paris every weekend to invade Britain en masse to eat great food and drink great wine.