Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jean Rhys

He had discovered that people who allow themselves to be blown about by the winds of emotion and impulse are always unhappy people.

Goran Ivanisevic

Winning Wimbledon was a great feeling and it is still a great feeling. It has given me so much confidence.

Goran Ivanisevic

I don't care now if I ever win a match in my life again. Whatever I do in my life, wherever I go, I'm going to be always Wimbledon champion.

Gerald Durrell

What fools we are, eh? What fools, sitting here in the sun, singing. And of love, too! I am too old for it and you are too young, and yet we waste our time singing about it. Ah, well, let's have a glass of wine, eh?

Harriet Beecher Stowe

There are in this world two kinds of natures, - those that have wings, and those that have feet, - the winged and the walking spirits. The walking are the logicians; the winged are the instinctive and poetic.

Halle Berry

Any time you risk big you often risk losing big. You can win big but you can also lose big, but you have to be willing to take those risks.

Gregory Maguire

Before you save anyone else, you have to save yourself. otherwise, you'rejust a bundle of tics, a stringed puppet manipulated by the chance and the insensible wind.

Gregory Maguire

The melody faded like a rainbow after a storm, or like winds calming down at last; and what was left was calm, and possibility, and relief.

Hope Solo

London 2012 is all about winning a medal. Not just any medal, the gold medal.

Hope Solo

My No. 1 goal, and what I've spent my entire life striving to achieve is to win a World Cup. I want to retire so badly with that World Cup, but if I don't, then I'll retire knowing that I've done everything I could to get it.

Ieyasu Tokugawa

Remember, slow and steady wins the race.

Igor Sikorsky

According to recognized aero technical tests, the bumblebee cannot fly because of the shape and weight of his body in relation to the total wing area. The bumblebee doesn't know this, so he goes ahead and flies anyway.

Iain Banks

Political correctness is what right-wing bigots call what everybody else calls being polite

Hortense Calisher

'Ms.' is a syllable which sounds like a bumble bee is breaking wind.

Horace

Wine unlocks the breast.

Horace

Now drown care in wine. [Lat., Nunc vino pellite curas.]

Hank Azaria

You know those award shows. The cliche is that it's an honor just to be nominated, but that happens to be true. Whoever wins it in the end, I don't know, sometimes it feels arbitrary. Sometimes it feels like it's deserving.

Gore Vidal

Next to "I win," "I told you so" are the sweetest words.

Gillian Jacobs

My inners are not organs. They're actually mechanics, so I have a hole in my back, wind me up like the movie 'Hugo,' and then just say, 'Act,' you know?

James Blunt

I try to read everything that I can about myself because Saddam Hussein didn't read his reviews and he thought he was winning!

James Boswell

Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others. Sometimes it does. But the danger is, that while a man grows better pleased with himself, he may be growing less pleasing to others. Wine gives a man nothing. It neither gives him knowledge nor wit; it only animates a man, and enables him to bring out what a dread of the company has presented.

James Boswell

Nay, Sir, it was not the WINE that made your head ache, but the SENSE that I put into it' 'What, Sir! will sense make the head ache?' 'Yes, Sir, (with a smile,) when it is not used to it.

Jalen Rose

When you're not winning it's about how you're not getting it done.

Jamais Cascio

Human civilization has been changing the Earths environment for millennia, often to our detriment. Dams, deforestation and urbanization can alter water cycles and wind patterns, occasionally triggering droughts or even creating deserts.

Jamais Cascio

Trying to do what your competitors are doing but basically a little bit better is probably not going to be the winning strategy. The problem is finding what your competitors wouldnt even consider doing.

Jairam Ramesh

If there is a Nobel prize for dirt and filth, India will win it, no doubt.

Jacques Derrida

Whatever precautions you take so the photograph will look like this or that, there comes a moment when the photograph surprises you. It is the other's gaze that wins out and decides.

Jacki Weaver

I've always said about awards that they're meaningless until you win one, and then they're best thing in the world. The other thing about awards is that they engender respect from areas where it might never have come from without it.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

Society has never barred women from bread-winning roles, but only from economic roles that are profitable and respectable.

Jean Harris

Loving an old bachelor is always a no-win situation, and you come to terms with that early on, or you go away.

Gloria Allred

Minorities have never been given their rights. They have always had to wage a political and legal battle to win them.

Gloria Gaynor

One of the high points of my career was winning the Grammy for 'I Will Survive.'

Gerald R. Ford

Even though this is late in an election year, there is no way we can go forward except together and no way anybody can win except by serving the people's urgent needs. We cannot stand still or slip backwards. We must go forward now together.