Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dolly Parton

My favorite movies of all times is 'Doctor Zhivago,' and I love 'Gone With the Wind.' I'd love to play some Southern belle or something where I owned a plantation.

Dolly Parton

I've always been fascinated by everything with wings.

Dinesh D'Souza

For me, victory isn't measured by winning in the traditional sense.

Diogenes

To the question what wine he found pleasant to drink, he replied, "That for which other people pay.

Diogenes

I like best the wine drunk at the cost of others.

Dick Powell

Without individuals feeling safe and having an environment of safety, they then have reluctance of taking part in the city of being active. They wind up wanting to leave the city. Thats more detrimental.

Dick Pound

I'm very impressed. All the crowds I've seen are very enthusiastic. It's not the first time every seat hasn't been sold at the Winter Olympics.

Dick Schaap

Sugar Ray Robinson was at the top of the boxing world during the 1950's when it seemed that he would either win or lose the championship about every three or four months.

Dick Morris

Today, a politician does not just need public support to win elections; he needs it to govern.

Dick Morris

Spin is overrated. It is strategy, not spin, that wins elections.

Derek Walcott

Damn wind shift sudden as a woman mind.

Deepak Chopra

Thoughts come and go like leaves in the wind, but the core of consciousness is forever.

Dean Martin

When the world seems to shine like you've had too much wine, that's amore.

Andre Agassi

My accomplishments do not live up to my tennis game. Most people have to work really hard and win some big matches, and then they get money and popularity. For me it has been the reverse of everybody else. The exact opposite.

Andre Agassi

I always felt tennis and winning was a byproduct of doing everything right.

Andre Agassi

Freed from the thoughts of winning, I instantly play better. I stop thinking, start feeling. My shots become a half-second quicker, my decisions become the product of instinct rather than logic.

Alphonsus Liguori

True charity consists in doing good to those who do us evil, and in thus winning them over.

Wine was created with man in mind, for his pleasure and relaxation, a balm to his good health.

Andrew Roberts

What finally scuppered Napoleon's Europe was of course the fatal combination of the English Channel and the Russian winter; the same unlikely partnership that also did for Hitler's Europe.

Anacreon

Thus, while I quaff the genial wine, I live mid transports quite divine.

Anacreon

For when we quaff the gen'rous bowl, Then sleep the sorrows of our soul. Let us drink the juice divine, The gift of Bacchus, god of wine. When I take wine, my cares go to rest.

Anatoly Karpov

If the opponent offers keen play I don't object; but in such cases I get less satisfaction, even if I win, than from a game conducted according to all the rules of strategy with its ruthless logic.

Anatoli Boukreev

Honestly, I do not experience fear in the mountains. On the contraryI feel my shoulders straightening, squaring, like the birds as they straighten their wings. I enjoy the freedom and the altitude. It is only when I return to life below that I feel the world's weight on my shoulders.

Anais Nin

I was stirred only like a leaf in the wind, that is all. . .

Anais Nin

I am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.

Alton Brown

Well, you know, when you go into a restaurant, one of the scariest things is the wine list, so whenever I'm really feeling intimidated, I'll just pick a wine type, like a Chianti or Brunello or a Burgundy, and I'll pick a year that's missing and ask for that one.

Alton Brown

Wine is like women. It tempts you; it comforts you; it confuses you and can even turn on you when you least expect it. It can be your friend one day and your enemy the next.

Anne Carson

he stood against the wind and let it peel him clean

Anne Carson

Small, red, and upright he waited, gripping his new bookbag tight in one hand and touching a lucky penny inside his coat pocket with the other, while the first snows of winter floated down on his eyelashes and covered the branches around him and silenced all trace of the world.

Anne Hathaway

Oftentimes, what you wind up learning is very different than what you expect.

Anjem Choudary

When the heavens are with you, when the earth is with you, when the sea is with you, when the wind is with you. Who's going to defeat you after that? Nobody.

Ann Aguirre

Now I know there are ways to belong to someone that don’t take anything away. A relationship shouldn’t impose limits—and if it does, then it’s wrong. A lover should help you exceed your potential, not clip your wings.

Andrei Tarkovsky

Weakness is a great thing, and strength is nothing. When a man is just born, he is weak and flexible. When he dies, he is hard and insensitive. When a tree is growing, it's tender and pliant. But when it's dry and hard, it dies. Hardness and strength are death's companions. Pliancy and weakness are expressions of the freshness of being. Because what has hardened will never win.