Won Quotes

I won't make a movie for money ever again.

If we were the team that won out, then life was good and we felt that we were worth something.

I probably won't be able to hear it until five years from now anyway. That's when I always hear my own music. It takes five years to sit down with it after not hearing it for a couple of years.

I won all the blue ribbons for canning at the state fair.

A song must move the story ahead. A song must take the place of dialogue. If a song halts the show, pushes it back, stalls it, the audience won't buy it; they'll be unhappy.

I consciously try to end my novels at a point where I won't have to wonder about my characters ever again.

You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.

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.