Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Jordan

I smoked my first cigar in 1991, when we won the championship. Up to that point, I had never smoked a cigar, never smoked anything.

Martha Plimpton

Being nominated is the win. For me, being nominated is winning. It's just unbelievable.

Mark Richt

Winning 9 games is very respectable.

Mark Richt

The only thing that helps you win the game is preparation and getting your mind ready to go to battle. That's what you've got to do.

Mark Carwardine

China is responsible for a lot of the major conservation issues we're facing. It's the main market for rhino horn. Tigers are being killed for tiger bone wine. They're driving the tropical timber trade and illegal logging in Indonesia, and the trade in tropical reef fish.

Oscar Wilde

And when wind and winter harden All the loveless land, It will whisper of the garden, You will understand.

Oscar Wilde

And once, or twice, to throw the dice is a gentlemanly game, But he does not win who plays with Sin in the secret house of shame

Oscar Wilde

It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame.

Madonna Ciccone

This will be a revolution of inquiring further, of not worrying about winning other people's approval, of not wishing you were someone else but perfectly content to be who you are. Someone unique, and rare, and fearless. I want to start a revolution of love.

Mac Thornberry

For more than two centuries since winning our own freedom, we the people of the United States have repeatedly answered the call to lead the quest for freedom around the globe.

Lykke Li

I probably thought that about most of the things I did. But you wind up in situations where you have to make decisions very quickly, and you just go for it a lot of the time.

Lykke Li

I lived five years in Portugal and then spent winters in Nepal or India.

Luke Pasqualino

He [D'Artangnan] succumbs to her [Miledy Winter] level of seduction and gives into it. It's only when the series starts to progress that he realizes what she's doing, and the tables turn slightly. But that relationship really pays homage to how D'Artagnan can be easily swayed. You see him grow into somebody who can actually make a decision where he's not being used and forced into doing something that he doesn't want to do.

Lucretius

Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

I have never voted in my life... I have always known and understood that the idiots are in a majority so it's certain they will win.

Louis L'Amour

A ship does not sail with yesterday's wind.

Lorrie Fair

It's flattering if people think I'm attractive. If it helps, great, but it's not going to get in the way of me wanting to win. That's what I'm all about.

Lleyton Hewitt

I'm an outside chance at Roland Garros but my focus is really on Wimbledon where it is realistically between me and Roger Federer to win.

Lleyton Hewitt

I feel like when I'm match tough and match hard and played a lot of matches I got that competitive winning spirit going and I can get on some rolls like I did last year. I won San Jose, Indian Wells and made the semifinals in Miami so it can happen for me.

Lleyton Hewitt

Maybe I have to work a bit harder on clay. It's a challenge and I've always liked challenges. Whether I will ever win the French and master playing on clay, who knows? But I'll give it a shot.

Lleyton Hewitt

I was lucky enough to win the Davis Cup in my first year in 1999. I won my first slam at the U.S. Open in 2001 and became world No. 1 later that year. By the age of 20, I'd done it all.

Lleyton Hewitt

That's when you've got to grit your teeth and hang in there and try and find a way to win when you're not playing your best tennis - that's what I can be proud of

Liz Phair

That's what music is to me. Like, stuff that I really like to play loud. And I've got my quiet CDs, too, that I listen to around the house, but if you can't go there, then... Everyone gets so upset with me, I can't win

Michael Jordan

I missed 9000 shots in my career, lost almost 300 games and missed the shot to win the game 26 times.

Michael Jordan

Winning isn't always championships.

Mia Hamm

We play because we love the game, we love each other, and we love to win.

Mehmet Oz

If you change your lifestyle, remember it's not a wind sprint, but it's a marathon you're embarked on, and you'll be able to stay there.

Michel de Montaigne

Diogenes was asked what wine he liked best; and he answered as I would have done when he said, "Somebody else's".

Michel de Montaigne

Intoxication is calculated to put heart into the elderly and give them delight in dancing.

Michel de Montaigne

Wine is the benevolent god, who gives back gaiety to men and restores youth to the old.

Michel de Montaigne

One open way of speaking introduces another open way of speaking, and draws out discoveries, like wine and love.

Michel de Montaigne

If your doctor does not think it good for you to sleep, to drink wine, or to eat of a particular dish, do not worry; I will find you another who will not agree with him.

Michael Schur

There's going to be a lot of people that don't like you, and there's nothing you can do about it. Instead of trying to win them over one by one, you need to do things that are getting huge swaths of votes [in the elections].