When you have traveled the world, won Olympic gold, and gone through a very public court battle against your parents all by the age of seventeen, surprises don't come easy.
Intelligence alone does not get us where we need to go or even necessarily where we want to go. For that, the human creature must exercise harder-won capacities of wisdom, and wise action.
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.
In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them - unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event.
In a victory speech, I like to thank the opposition, because without their help, I couldn’t have won.
And there they ring the walls, the young, the lithe. The handsome hold the graves they won in Troy; the enemy earth rides over those who conquered.
He had a nice smile. Seeing it, I felt like I’d won a prize, because he was so sparing with them.
Her hair was pulled back so severely, it would have won approval from the Spanish Inquisition as a method of torture.
I wondered who would teach me, or if a boy could learn on his won, what it means to be a man.
I profess not to know how women's hearts are wooed and won. To me they have always been matters of riddle and admiration.
Great battles that prevail in actions had been won or lost earlier in thoughts. When the mind resists change, it’s in vain the legs chase it!
The combination of razor-sharp wit (completely real) and his credentials (completely fake) had won them over in the end.
It was ridiculous really. I had just won a major race despite not being in top form, yet I was going to dope.
Freedom cannot be labeled nor won nor envied. Only when one doesn't realize what freedom is, is one truly free.
Choas errupted amoung the watchers. They didn't think it was over at all. "He cheated! He used fire!" "No, he won fairly enough!"
Why is man the being who won in the world of emptiness, dethroning all animal species? For he is closest to the perfection of emptiness.
I slept through the award presentation for Napper of the Year. They had to wake me when I won. Winning was like a dream come true.
She said she was a loser, and I argued she was a winner. I won the argument, thus losing the argument because my winning made her a loser.
Success happened little by little for me. I tasted the flavor of fame in small doses: I started at 10 years old when I won a music contest; I was performing at birthday parties, company meetings.
I always choose to remember the moment that was the best of Jeanne Cooper - those photos where she's in that wild dress triumphantly hoisting up the Emmy the night she finally won the damn thing. She was so proud, so happy.
When I was 26, I wrote my first mystery, 'The Thomas Berryman Number', and it was turned down by, I don't know, 31 publishers. Then it won an Edgar for Best First Novel. Go figure.
