Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Robbins

The winter passed as slowly and peacefully as a boa constrictor digesting a valium addict.

Tom Robbins

A spirit cannot soar with only one wing.

Tom Kristensen

Le Mans takes the best out of everyone. Winning is important but it's not everything. It's such a big and great event in motorsport. You do more kilometres in that one race than Formula One do in a season, and probably a higher average speed. We average about 220km/h including pit stops and cover nearly 5000km.

Tom Landry

...even after you've just won the Super Bowl -- especially after you've just won the Super Bowl -- there's always next year. If Winning isn't everything; it's the only thing, then the only thing is nothing -- emptiness, the nightmare of life without ultimate meaning.

Steve Prefontaine

If you can't win your race, make sure the guy ahead of you breaks the record.

Shirley Jackson

The number of people who expected Mrs. Hutchinson to win a Bendix washer would amaze you.

Shelley Winters

I did a picture in England one winter and it was so cold I almost got married.

Shaun White

Usually the thing that signifies that I'm done with the winter and all that is that I start skateboarding.

Scott Walker

Mitt Romney turned businesses around in the private sector. He saved the Winter Olympics.

Steven Weber

The GOP/corporate right-wing, it seems, never really considers the consequences of their actions.

Rainer Maria Rilke

We wasters of sorrows! How we stare away into sad endurance beyond them, trying to foresee their end! Whereas they are nothing else than our winter foliage, our sombre evergreen, one of the seasons of our interior year.

Michelle Malkin

Who needs enemies when you've got Republican Surrenderists for Obamacare waiting in the wings?

Michelle Malkin

The newspaper is under fire for refusing to kowtow to left-wing word police and militant propagandists who demand unfettered illegal immigration. Last week, in the wake of angry protests against the publication, vandals threw paint bombs and spray-painted graffiti on its offices.

Sherman Alexie

Seems like the cold would never go away and winter would be like the bottom of my feet but then it is gone in one night and in its place comes the sun so large and laughable.

Scott Dixon

I want to win a championship and to win the Indy 500 makes me want it so much more.

Michael Medved

For many celebrities, securing the publics votes can prove even more reassuring than winning an election by members of the Motion Picture Academy.

John Milton

Him that yon soars on golden wing, guiding the fiery-wheelèd throne, the Cherub Contemplation.

Miguel de Cervantes

Wine in excess keeps neither secrets nor promises.

Theodore Roosevelt

The highest form of success comes to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship or from bitter toil, and who, out of these, wins the splendid ultimate triumph.

Melissa Etheridge

You are digging for the answers until your fingers bleed, to satisfy the hunger, to satiate the need.... And as you pray in your darkness for wings to set you free, you are bound to your silent legacy.

Michelangelo

Love lent me wings; my path was like a stair; A lamp unto my feet, that sun was given; And death was safety and great joy to find; But dying now, I shall not climb to Heaven.

If global warming meant temperatures rose by one or two degrees, France would become a desert, which would be no bad thing. The Scots would grow wine and make buffalo mozzarella.

Matt Mullenweg

I drive a Prius and drink $10k bottles of wine. The wine isnt on Instagram. The Prius is.

Pat Paulsen

Actually, my wine was served at the White House twice. Reagan must have been asleep when he ordered it.

Pat Paulsen

I am neither left wing nor right wing. I am middle-of-the-bird.

Plautus

Without feathers it isn't easy to fly: my wings have got no feathers. [Lat., Sine pennis volare hau facilest: meae alae pennas non habent.] [Alt., Flying without feathers is not easy; my wings have no feathers.]

Plato

Music gives wings to the mind and flight to the imagination.

LeBron James

But put my body through a lot, you know, but it's the price for your body feeling this way for winning. Did I win? I didn't win a championship, but I've done a lot of good things in this first year back, and hopefully I can continue it.

Lauryn Hill

How you gon' win when you ain't right within. Uh uh come again

Lisa See

In every message she spoke of birds, of flight, of the world away. Even back then, she flew against what was presented to her. I wanted to cling to her wings and soar, no matter how intimidated I was.

John Ridley

I never wanted to show up and just say, "Okay, what are we doing today? Let's wing it!"

John Pilger

I love irony in pictures. There's one photograph from Vietnam by Philip Jones Griffiths that shows a very large GI having his pocket picked by a tiny Vietnamese woman. It told the whole story of the clash of two cultures and how the invader could never win.

Martin Luther

Do not suppose that abuses are eliminated by destroying the object which is abused. Men can go wrong with wine and women. Shall we then prohibit and abolish women?