Famous Quotes & Sayings

Demi Moore

There's something about smoking a cigar that feels like a celebration. It's like a fine wine. There's a quality, a workmanship, a passion that goes into the smoking of a fine cigar.

Demetri Martin

I'd love to win trophies, be in movies, have a body of work I'm proud of and find a way to enjoy it along the way. Success is probably a more of a complicated thing than that.

Dean Koontz

In the wind, the trees, like agitated lions preparing to roar, shook their great green manes.

Dean Koontz

You can't always win arguments as a writer, but you have to just go ahead and say, well, I'm doing it that way anyway.

Bob Dole

The wind doesn't bother me. I'm in the US Senate.

Bob Dylan

For the loser now Will be later to win

Bob Dylan

In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upward mobile and the rest of us are f--ed until we can put our acts together: not necessarily to win, but mainly to keep from losing completely. We owe that to ourselves and our crippled self-image as something better than a nation of panicked sheep.

Bob Dylan

Businessmen, they drink my wine, plowmen dig my earth. None of them along the line know what any of it is worth.

Bob Dylan

Advertising signs: they con you into thinking you're the one That can do what's never been done That can win what's never been won Meantime life outside goes on all around you

Bob Dylan

Proud to steal her anything she sees, but you will wind up peeking through her key hole down upon your knees.

Bob Dylan

The answer is blowin' in the wind.

Bob Dylan

If I had wings, no one would ask me: should I fly?

Billy Collins

You will always be the bread and the knife, not to mention the crystal goblet and—somehow—the wine.

Billy Collins

A sentence starts out like a lone traveler heading into a blizzard at midnight, tilting into the wind, one arm shielding his face, the tails of his thin coat flapping behind him.

Billy Connolly

For me, it's about the desire to win. My audience becomes a crowd of wild animals and I have to be the lion-tamer or be eaten.

Billy Corgan

As a citizen of the great city of Chicago, I find it impossible to root against the White Sox. The White Sox organization has been much more consistent, in my lifetime at least, at putting a winning ballclub on the field.

Bode Miller

Obviously, you always want to win, but you want to win by skiing a race that you're proud of and you feel like you really challenged yourself and left it all out there.

Bode Miller

There's so many guys skiing so fast right now that you really have to be willing to take a lot of risks if you want to give yourself a chance to win. I'm prepared to do it; it's just a matter of if I can make it work.

Bode Miller

That feeling is the same whether you're on either side of the hundredths. Obviously, it's great to win the world championship, but if you put down that kind of skiing, it's awesome either way.

Bode Miller

Despite all the pressure and the caliber of accomplishment, I still can honestly say that it's not all about winning.

Bode Miller

The way I judge myself is not on how many World Cups I can win in a row.

Bode Miller

Sometimes it's all about the win, sometimes it's about the skiing.

Bodhidharma

Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.

Bobby Fischer

If you don't win, it's not a great tragedy - the worst that happens is that you lose a game.

Bobby Fischer

The Russians have held my title for ten years and they're going to be in for it when I win the Championship. They're going to have to wait and play under my conditions.

Bobby Fischer

If I win a tournament, I win it by myself. I do the playing. Nobody helps me

Bobby Fischer

The turning point in my career came with the realization that Black should play to win instead of just steering for equality.

Bruce Coville

If you don’t jump, the wings never come.

Bruce Feiler

You don't need a grand plan, you don't need to go back to the ancestors and rewrite the rules. You just need to take small steps and accumulate small wins.

Brigitte Bardot

Champagne is the one thing that gives me zest when I am tired.

Brendon Burchard

Fear wins or Freedom wins, and I choose Freedom.

I think a lot of us are looking for the same thing. I feel very lucky to have a definitive moment where I know everything shifted in me, and it was the moment I read that quote. Because I thought, A. That's everything I know about vulnerability. It's not winning, it's not losing, it's showing up and being seen. B. That's who I want to be.

Vulnerability is not about winning, and it's not about losing. It's about having the courage to show up and be seen.