Won Quotes

Some of the most interesting questions needing to be asked today can best be asked on television, or on stage, and they can be wonderful, great dramas, but they won't necessarily be blockbusters.

I'll play what you want or I won't play at all.

I'm definitely not at my best. Honestly, I'm under 50 percent. But I've won stuff under 50 percent before.

We know we cannot underestimate the importance of emergency planning in our region, nor can we assume we'll have ample warning time. If an earthquake or terrorist attack hits, we won't necessarily have advance alerts or opportunities to double- and triple-check our plans.

I think it's so wrong to play the victim. There's too many brave women out there that just won't even tolerate it, you know?

It won't take 40 years for opposition to same-sex marriage to dissipate.

The writer who can't do his job looks to his editor to do it for him, though he won't dream of sharing his royalties with that editor.

You can't tell them anything, but hopefully they will learn from the example and won't have to go through it.

Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you.

The job of arguing with the umpire belongs to the manager, because it won't hurt the team if he gets thrown out of the game.

Why do you have to translate and decode things? Just let the image be. It will have a special kind of reality that it won't once it's decoded.

I won't quit until I get run over by a truck, a producer or a critic.

It's an honor to see that green jacket in the bedroom closet, but I'm not going to become somebody else because I won the Masters.

I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence would save us, but it won't.

This was the first time a woman in Dallas had won public office of any kind - even women questioned whether or not I was qualified, whether or not I could take it.

The Arab world also won the Nobel with me. I believe that international doors have opened, and that from now on, literate people will consider Arab literature also. We deserve that recognition.

Often I'll try things that just won't happen the way I'd like them to, so hearing that they're not working saves me some wear and tear the next time around.

One thing that's great about being a character actor is that a movie doesn't rest on your shoulders. If it bombs, it won't hurt my career.

Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don't go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won't laugh at you.

I can't come on like a parent to these kids, if I do, I won't be able to have fun working with them. The good news is they all have parents. The younger ones, their parents by law have to be on set.

There's a drive in me that won't allow me to do certain things that are easy.

It took me time to realize that the men who won Olympic gold medals in the decathlon are just men, just like me.

Contrary to what the politicians and religious leaders would like us to believe, the world won't be made safer by creating barriers between people.

People say, 'Just say who you're dating. Then people will stop being so ravenous about it.' It's like, No they won't! They'll ask for specifics.

I just want to tell you what it's like not to have Planned Parenthood... you have to give your kids Ramen noodles at the end of the month to fill up their little bellies so they won't cry. You have to give them mayonnaise sandwiches. They get very few fruits and vegetables because they're expensive.

We won the European Championship last September and now the world title. That is some year for French beach soccer! Now comes the hard part. We have to keep improving and that's difficult because it's tough to do better than winning a world title.

Shortly thereafter, some friends encouraged me to try out for the Miss South Carolina World beauty pageant. To my surprise, I won - and was sent to New York City to compete nationally.

If you don't love what you do, you won't do it with much conviction or passion.

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.

I could ask the Phillies to keep me on to add to my statistics, but my love for the game won't let me do that.