Won Quotes

You won't really get a lot of the mainstream, lovey-dovey side because that wasn't a part of my life in the beginning.

And I certainly won't lay out areas of my life that I think are just private.

It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet.

You cannot work with men who won't work with you.

A battle won is a battle which we will not acknowledge to be lost.

People accuse me of being Methody, but I'm not at all. The one thing I don't want people to see is me. I don't want them to be able to recognize my faults and failures and qualities, and I won't use those things to spark off emotions or to illustrate.

You won't do any more housework? Then you go to the bin.

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.

Praying is like a rocking chair - it'll give you something to do, but it won't get you anywhere.

I woke up this morning, and I still don't believe I won the Daytona 500.

I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe - because, like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return.

If you're serious about what you're doing, you've got to keep your head and follow your instinct. Maybe you won't reach the same dizzy heights as others, but you will get something back.

I would be willing to do almost anything to make Art happy. I care about our friendship. The only thing I won't do is change the essence of my work.

If you are given a lot of money without having to work for it, you won't appreciate it as much as if you made it yourself.

People are free to campaign and they will be free to vote. There won't be any soldiers, you know, at the queues. Anyone who has the right to vote is free to go and cast his vote anywhere in his own area, in his own constituency.

Stone-ground grits are wonderful, but because they take so long to cook, I usually go with quick cooking grits - which I also love. But I never make the instant kind - some things a Southerner just won't do!

Nobody ever won a pennant without a star shortstop.

I wanted to get really fit. I wanted to lose some weight. So I've been doing Pilates and yoga, trying to lean out my body so I won't be bulky.

If you want to write the next great novel, but you think, No, this won't work because no one will buy it or it won't be any good, then you talk yourself out of taking a risk.

I don't see why I should give my new music to iTunes or anyone else. They won't pay me an advance for it and then they get angry when they can't get it.

About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all.

Your connections might get you in the door, but it won't keep you there. And if you haven't prepared, you'll suck.

You have got to attract the brightest and the best, but the brightest and best won't stay unless they see real career options.

Sucking up to the biggies won't get us anywhere.

So I won an Oscar. It's amazing. I've got that for the rest of my life for a performance I am proud of. It nearly killed me. I am really proud of the film. That's it, moving on.

Do theater. Because you'll develop a craft that you'll always have. It'll give you a chance to really learn how to act and you won't go into the world with a few measly tricks that will only carry you so far.

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.

I'm shy. I can go on a trip for days and not go because I won't sit on a toilet seat on a plane. I'm certainly not going to go on somebody's lawn. Could you imagine, in a cocktail dress?

I'm trying to get the record that I made at my birthday party last year, trying to get that out, and the lawyers are diddling around with it and it probably won't be out until next year. I don't know.

There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.