Won Quotes

I feel I'm able to get rid of any demons lurking in my psyche through my writing, which leaves me free to create all of this and to enjoy our family life, stepping away from all the fictional traumas and the dramas. If I write about family in crisis, then I won't have to live through it, I guess.

Without justice you won't have stability.

I still have a full-time day job, which is why it took me five years to write An Ear to the Ground, and why I won't have another book finished by next week.

The tea baggers. The one thing they hate is when you call them racist. The other thing they hate is black people. But they won't say it.

I like writing a lot more than I used to. I used to find it scary but now I've got used to it once it gets going. I used to find it hard to start. Fear of the blank page. The first thing you write down won't bear any relation to what's in your head and that's always disappointing.

One thing I'm not going to do is chase staying alive. You spend so much time chasing staying alive, you won't live.

Freedom is never easily won, but once established, freedom lasts, spreads and chokes out tyranny.

I won't perform in Cuba until there's no more Castro and there's a free Cuba. To me, Cuba's the biggest prison in the world, and I would be very hypocritical were I to perform there.

We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre.

One thing I won't be doing on a weekend is shopping. I just don't like it, and I haven't bought an article of clothing for a very long time. I usually just take wardrobe from shows I'm on. It's much easier.

There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them.

The battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton.

Dorothy Hamill was my big idol as a kid. She'd won the Olympics in 1976. She was America's sweetheart with her personality, her talent, her haircut.

You can't just leave out one part; the bread won't rise if the yeast isn't there.

When you don't have much money, you worry that they'll just put you in the ground someplace and your loved ones won't know where you are.

I have the same malice in my heart as far as the fight game is concerned, but outside the ring, I won't say anything a dignified man won't say.

Teens aren't just interested in getting laid. I won't believe that's all they're interested in. I have four younger sisters and they're sick of being shown how they're supposed to react in bed.

The '60s aren't over; they won't be over until the Fat Lady gets high.

It's plain hokum. If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em. It's an old political trick. But this time it won't work.

I should like to repeat what I stated recently in the Jeddah Economic Forum in Saudi Arabia: It won't be the religion, but rather the world-view of some of its followers that shall be made current.

Eventually, I won the right to attend school, but the prejudice was still there.

I got in a fight one time with a really big guy, and he said, "I'm going to mop the floor with your face." I said, "You'll be sorry." He said, "Oh, yeah? Why?" I said, "Well, you won't be able to get into the corners very well."

I have a different mentality when it comes to catering to a man, I just won't allow it. Don't get me wrong, I'll do for you but I'm not taking care of no man and catering to him for life; he better be bringing something to the table. I learned that from my mother and my grandmother.

You can talk to a fade but a hook won't listen.

And if you stop and think about it you won't believe it's true: That all the love you've been giving has all been meant for you.

I think I'm the last Democrat left in the Senate after Russ Feingold was defeated that won't take earmarks.

By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.

When I won in 2003, never in my wildest dreams did I ever think I would win Wimbledon and have my kids seeing me lift the trophy, so this is pretty surreal. And yeah, I was almost shocked in the moment that it all came together so nicely.

I don't read reviews because by then it's too late - whatever anyone says, the book won't change. It is written.

I was an all-around player - if I was just a scorer, there's no way the Hawks would have won 50 games four years in a row.