Jennifer Capriati Quotes

I had an instinct before and maybe now I don't have that instinct as much as knowing what to do, what shots to hit, where to place the ball, things like that.

Jennifer Capriati

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• I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Improve
  • Manners
  • Sugar

• In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.

  

  Nancy Astor
  • Time
  • Woman
  • Chance

• There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • Mind
  • Society
  • Single

• Fans tend to get too excited by streaks of either kind and I think the press does too. There should be a happy medium.

  

  Walt Alston
  • Happy
  • Think
  • Kind

• The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Book
  • Words
  • Nothing

• I'm lucky to have a wife and a child that keep me grounded.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Wife
  • Child
  • Lucky

• I have a tendency, just because I'm an ambitious person, to get impatient with things and want them to be moving faster then they are.

  

  Pablo Schreiber
  • Want
  • Moving
  • Just Because

• My tomb shall bless and speak to the needs of my devotees.

  

  Sai Baba
  • Needs
  • Speak
  • Bless

• When I was a child, one of my first games was a time machine which I made for my brother - a big box covered in silver and bits of cellophane. I'd close him up in it and joggle him and say, 'We're in Victorian times now... and now we're in Egyptian times, and I can see all these pyramids and pharaohs.'

  

  Kate Williams
  • Up
  • Time
  • Brother

• It is not our sexual preferences, the color of our skin, the language we speak, nor the religion we practice that creates friction, hatred and wars amongst in society. It is our words and the words of our leaders that can create that disparity.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Society
  • Words
  • Practice

• I just don't like to do a lot of the normal things expected of other artists. I'm not trying to be difficult; I'm just trying to stick with what it is I want to do.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Trying
  • Want
  • Difficult

• I am not a good enough writer to have an agenda or come up with a message and try to put it into a song. It's more like you write what comes to you... You try to reflect the mood of the songs.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Song
  • Mood
  • Writer

• O thin men of Haddam, Why do you imagine golden birds? Do you not see how the blackbird Walks around the feet Of the women about you?

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Men
  • Women
  • Why

• To me, it's extremely interesting that men, perfectly honest, enthusiastic over their work, can so completely fool themselves.

  

  Irving Langmuir
  • Work
  • Men
  • Interesting

• Be still, my soul, be still; the arms you bear are brittle,Earth and high heaven are fixt of old and founded strong.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • High
  • Soul
  • Earth

• People who want to rise above a well-cooked meal and a well-tailored garment, are out of their spiritual minds.

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • People
  • Spiritual

• There ought to be but one large art warehouse in the world, to which the artist could carry his art-works, and from which he could carry away whatever he needed. As it is, one must be half a tradesman.

  

  Ludwig van Beethoven
  • World
  • Art

• Above all, he wanted to stop being a child without using the cheap disguise of becoming a parent.

  

  Edward St Aubyn
  • Stop

• I love long sentences. My big heroes of fiction writing are Henry James and Proust - people who recognise that life doesn't consist of declarative statements, but rather modifications, qualifications and feelings.

  

  John Burnside
  • People
  • Life
  • Long

• Researchers have found that the brain definitely sends nerves directly to organs of the immune system and not just to the heart and the lower gut. In that way, too, the brain is influencing the body.

  

  Elizabeth Blackburn
  • Heart
  • Brain

• I think it's a mother's dream come true to see it work out that way. Not just the mother, but certainly parents, to know that their children have a very solid moral foundation and religious foundation.

  

  Erika Slezak
  • Thinking
  • Religious
  • Dreams

• It was a mistake. I was wrong, but I discovered this many years later. I was acting on the basis of this mandate given me by the most important leaders of the world: President Bush's father, prime minister of France, President Mitterand, the Chinese, everybody.

  

  Boutros Boutros-Ghali
  • World
  • Important
  • Father

• I had an instinct before and maybe now I don't have that instinct as much as knowing what to do, what shots to hit, where to place the ball, things like that.

  

  Jennifer Capriati