Famous Quotes & Sayings

Angela Davis

Black women have had to develop a larger vision of our society than perhaps any other group. They have had to understand white men, white women, and black men. And they have had to understand themselves. When black women win victories, it is a boost for virtually every segment of society.

Althea Gibson

Winning once can be a fluke; winning twice proves you are the best.

Alonzo Mourning

A win is a win, regardless of how you look at it.

Allison Janney

Someone said I wasn't attractive enough. People say those things, but they make you stronger. Then you can win an Emmy and think, ha, ha, ha.

Anne Sexton

The ground has on its clothes. The trees poke out of sheets and each branch wears the sock of God.

Anne Sexton

Everyone in me is a bird I am beating all my wings

Anne Sexton

I have forgiven all the old actors for dying. A new one comes on with the same lines, like large white growths, in his mouth. The dancers come on from the wings, perfectly mated.

Anita Brookner

All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.

Andrew Luck

No one prepares to lose ... we prepare to win.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

I think the thing's that perhaps sad really is that younger people haven't come in and I think it must have been absolutely fantastic to have worked in the 50's when you had all of the great Broadway composers and when West Side Story didn't win the Tony Award.

Amelie Mauresmo

When I finished the juniors I felt, perhaps for about a year and a half, that everything was going to be the same and that I would be able to go out there and win any match. But it wasnt the case. I struggled.

Andy Kindler

I was recently voted best standup never to win a major.

Andy Murray

This year its just about winning the big matches because if youre going to get into the top 20 then youve got to do well at the Masters Series and the grand slams. I dont have any ranking points to defend for the first few months of the year so if I do well over the next few weeks then Ive got a chance of doing it.

Andy Murray

I proved that I can win the Grand Slams. I proved that I can last four and a half hours and come out on top against one of the strongest guys physically that tennis had probably seen especially on this surface. So they would probably be the things that I would say I have learned tonight: To not doubt myself physically and mentally from now on.

Andy Murray

It's hard because you want to be able to just, okay, focus your energy on trying to win the match, but you need to then have tactics as to how you're going to deal with how you're feeling.

Ambrose Bierce

An old wine-bibber having been smashed in a railway collision, some wine was poured on his lips to revive him.

Ambrose Bierce

Hail, high Excess especially in wine, To thee in worship do I bend the knee Who preach abstemiousness unto me My skull thy pulpit, as my paunch thy shrine. Precept on precept, aye, and line on line, Could ne'er persuade so sweetly to agree With reason as thy touch, exact and free, Upon my forehead and along my spine. At thy command eschewing pleasure's cup, With the hot grape I warm no more my wit; When on thy stool of penitence I sit I'm quite converted, for I can't get up. Ungrateful he who afterward would falter To make new sacrifices at thine altar!

Ambrose Bierce

Definition: CONNOISSEUR, n. A specialist who knows everything about something and nothing about anything else.

Ambrose Bierce

Wine, madam, is God's next best gift to man.

Ambrose Bierce

APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom. The flabby wine-skin of his brain Yields to some pathologic strain, And voids from its unstored abysm The driblet of an aphorism. "The Mad Philosopher," 1697

Anthony Holden

Thatcher came under pressure from right wing backbenchers to shut up the Prince of Wales and there was a deal done between them where he did actually shut up in the end.

Anthony Holden

The winner is not the player who wins the most pots. The winner is the player who wins the most money.

Pope John

That was a really big win for Kerry,

That was a real big win for us. We're pretty excited. To be 5-0 (in league) right now is awesome.

Maria Sharapova

I wasn't winning that match. She was doing the right things and I wasn't.

I was nervous, ... And you think about Utah, and all the wins they've had, it makes you more nervous. But I did what I had to do.

I would look over there and say all is well. Win or lose, all is well.

Anna Quindlen

Sure smokers have made personal choices. And they pay for those choices every day, whether sitting through an airline flight dyingfor a smoke, or dying for a smoke in the oncology wing of a hospital. The tobacco companies have not paid nearly enough for the killing.

Angelo Dundee

Notice who is in the locker room after you lose, not after you win.

Donald Trump

Now you [Hillary Clinton] want to approve Trans-Pacific Partnership. You were totally in favor of it. Then you heard what I was saying, how bad it is, and you said, I can't win that debate.

Chuck Noll

In order to WIN the game, you must first not LOSE it.

Chuck Noll

Before you can win a game, you have to not lose it.

Chuck Noll

The thrill isn't in the winning, it's in the doing.