Winners Are Grinners Quotes & Sayings

I played on the boy's teams until I was 12. I just loved it and had a passion for it. You couldn't get a soccer ball away from my foot. — Lauren Holiday

I almost never have a plan for myself ... I'm not ambitious in that way. — Martha Plimpton

Bismarck had cunningly taught the parties not to aim at national appeal but to represent interests. They remained class or sectional pressure-groups under the Republic. This was fatal, for it made the party system, and with it democratic parliamentarianism, seem a divisive rather than a unifying factor. Worse: it meant the parties never produced a leader who appealed beyond the narrow limits of his own following. — Paul Johnson

The balls were dry as wood, you had to lick and suck at them before they tasted like sour cherries. If you chewed them well, the pit felt very smooth and hot on the tongue. Those night cherries were a happy thing, but they only sharpened our hunger. — Herta Muller

Art is one of the few products that is almost a totally emotional buy. It is a mystery what contributes to a person's personal taste. However, being educated about the artist and his/her career may influence your decision regarding a purchase. — Ernest West Basden

A boy once told me that love without heartbreak is just a pretty myth. — Leila Sales

I'd love to work in America, some of my favourite films come from America. — Cillian Murphy

In one thing you have not changed, dear friend," said Aragorn: "you still speak in riddles."
"What? In riddles?" said Gandalf. "No! For I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to; the long explanations needed by the young are wearying. — J.R.R. Tolkien

She prefers books to jewels and saris. She believes as I do. — Jhumpa Lahiri

Being mean won't make you cool, being rich won't make you cool, and having the right clothes, while it may help, won't make you cool. It's cool to be kind. It's cool to be weird. It's cool to be honest and to be secure with yourself. Cool is the girl at a party who strikes up a conversation with you when she notices you don't seem to know many people there. — Sophia Amoruso

Until we're rotten, we cannot be ripe. — Geoffrey Chaucer

But I think I know just as many creative people who've never taken drugs in their life as I do who have taken a lot of drugs. — John Frusciante

It is the impulse of our century, with its nearly religious belief in magnitude, to fling an institution into every void. — Shirley Hazzard