Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hunter S. Thompson

One thing I have learned in my painful career as a gambler is that bragging when you get lucky and win a few games will plunge you into gloom and unacceptable beatings very soon. It happens every time.

Hunter S. Thompson

There was madness in any direction, at any hour. You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning.

Howard Stern

Don't let the government win.

Honore de Balzac

He hesitated till the last moment, but finally dropped them in the box, saying, "I shall win!"--the cry of a gambler, the cry of the great general, the compulsive cry that has ruined more men than it has ever saved.

Ice T

Being cool is when you win, you don't get too happy; and when you lose, you don't get too mad.

Ice Cube

A good movie is a movie that you could see over and over again, not a movie that wins a Oscar, or a movie that makes a lot of money. It's a movie that you personally can watch over and over again. That, to me, is a measure of a good movie.

Jay Leno

The other night, President Bush's press conference was pre-empted by 'American Idol.' You know the difference between President Bush and 'American Idol?' See, on 'American Idol,' the one with the most votes wins.

Jay Leno

Kerry is well on his way to reaching his magic number of 2,162. That's the total number of delegates he needs to win the Democratic nomination. See for President Bush it's different - his magic number is 5. That's the number of Supreme Court judges needed to win.

Jay Leno

Twenty-one years ago today Saddam Hussein was first elected president of Iraq and he has been re-elected ever since. Apparently they have the same electoral process we do, you don't need the popular vote to win.

Jay Leno

Mitt Romney has a new fundraising gimmick. If you donate $3 or more to his campaign, your name will be entered into a drawing to win a dinner with Mitt Romney and Donald Trump. If you donate more than $10, you get to sit at a different table.

Jay Leno

Actually, Joe Biden looked pretty good. In fact, Joe's popularity has gone from 1% to 2% last week to 3% today. At this rate, he could win the nomination by the year 2032.

Jay Bilas

Entitlement never wins Championships, Investment wins Championships.

Buzz Aldrin

There are a lot of people that get interested in something, and they hear about it, and they read about it, and then they watch it happen, and that's why I had quite an interest in the lottery because you'd interest a lot of people, and then just a few would win a chance to do something.

Bryan Cranston

People would love to be rich, but they're looking for the easy way. Who wouldn't want to win the lottery? Just to score.

Buck Owens

Satan's gotta get along without me. Since I've broke the chain of sin I know for sure that he can't win.

Bubba Watson

I’m here to win a championship. I’m not here to goof around

Bubba Watson

Winning the green jacket is great - I can pay for all the diapers I'm going to have to get.

Bubba Watson

When I got my tour card I cried. When I got my first win - and my first pay check - I cried. All these things make me cry.

James Hetfield

Live to win, dare to fail.

Jared Jordan

It's horrible. We had an eight-game win streak going. We were all high and happy and everything is good. It's kind of a reality check. We have to get back and start working again. ... We just didn't bring it tonight.

Esther Williams

We can't all win Olympic medals. Even I never won one.

Caron Butler

Right now we're winning games. That's all that matters.

That's important. We want to be a winning franchise, and to do that, first you've got to have a winning season.

That's more what we should be about than winning or losing.

Barry Bonds

They're winning their division, ... There's no need ... there's really no need.

There's a lot more to it than just winning the division.

Chris Froome

I've got a little boy coming and I can't wait. It's going to be the biggest thing that has happened to me in my life so far. Bigger than any Tour de France win.

Chris Hadfield

I'm not a wealthy person and I don't think that I would be able to prioritize that much money to go for a ride to a place that I have already lived. But if the price comes down or I win a lottery or something, why not?

Chris Hedges

I'm not saying we're going to win. I am saying rebellion becomes a way to protect your own dignity. Corporations are, theologically speaking, institutions of death. They commodify everything - the natural world, human beings - that they exploit until exhaustion or collapse. They know no limits.

Gertrude Stein

It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.

Hans Eysenck

If you admit that to silence your opponent by force is to win an intellectual argument, then you admit the right to silence people by force.

Hans Christian Andersen

A mermaid has not an immortal soul, nor can she obtain one unless she wins the love of a human being. On the power of another hangs her eternal destiny.

Gordon Brown

I don't see politics as one or two people just making or delivering announcements - it's also about winning public support and the public enthusiasm. You've got to win public support.