Jimmy Connors Quotes

New Yorkers love it when you spill your guts out there. Spill your guts at Wimbledon and they make you stop and clean it up.

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• The billable hours is a classic case of restricted autonomy. I mean, you're working on - I mean, sometimes on these six-minute increments. So you're not focused on doing a good job. You're focused on hitting your numbers. It's one reason why lawyers typically are so unhappy. And I want a world of happy lawyers.

  

  Dan Pink
  • World
  • Good
  • Why

• People should know what they want, not just what they don't want.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • People
  • Want
  • Know

• The best time to release a film is on a festive date like Divali or Eid, or at a time when there are no big films three to four weeks before or after.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Time
  • Best
  • Three

• The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Advice
  • Give
  • Someone

• From Syria even to Rome I fight with wild beasts, by land and sea, by night and by day, being bound amidst ten leopards, even a company of soldiers, who only grow worse when they are kindly treated.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
  • Night
  • Day
  • Sea

• Yes, my parents are strict about me having a childhood. I go ice skating and sledding, and swimming in the summer.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Parents
  • Childhood
  • Summer

• Engagement means that in the future there will be a lot more ways for our audience to interact with Univision content.

  

  Randy Falco
  • Future
  • Audience
  • Engagement

• It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Fun
  • Role
  • Bull

• I don't feel that I've had a life of abuse or that I am a victim in any way. My life is pretty typical of a lot of Americans of my generation who grew up in the sixties in families like mine that were sort of unconventional.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Life
  • Generation
  • Abuse

• I always say: To be well dressed you must be well naked.

  

  Oscar de la Renta
  • You
  • Always
  • Naked

• Time is important to me because I want to sing long enough to leave a message. I'm used to singing in churches where nobody would dare stop me until the Lord arrives!

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Time
  • Important
  • Long

• My first film 'Saawariya' was a flop; I don't regret it.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Film
  • Regret
  • First

• Fighting bitterness can be a full-time job.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Time
  • Job
  • Fighting

• Take time to enjoy the flight - read a good book, watch a film, catch up on emails and sleep.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• When I talked to him on the phone yesterday. I called him George rather than Mr. Vice President. But, in public, it's Mr. Vice President, because that is who he is.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Him
  • Phone
  • Yesterday

• Hip-hop is such a disposable art form from a business standpoint. It never treats its artists as art; it never treats its product as art.

  

  Questlove
  • Art
  • Business
  • Hip Hop

• Poisonous frogs feast on insects that don't even have names. Tropical lizards disappear into the cracks of trees whose branches spread out as wide as their trunks climb high. This is the real Florida, as it was before people, and probably will be after us, too.

  

  Nancy Pickard
  • People
  • Real
  • High

• I do work-related stuff on airplanes. Then, when I'm in the hotel room or just vegging out, I read for pleasure.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Work
  • Pleasure
  • Room

• We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • World

• My own child, one of them, died of AIDS. A brilliant boy.

  

  Kenneth Kaunda
  • Boy

• The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Up
  • True
  • Past

• When I do see a picture of myself that has been touched up too much, I do get a bit sad... it makes me look like a hypocrite. It breaks my heart. I would rather shoot a magazine and shoot my flaws, but that's not up to me.

  

  Kendra Wilkinson
  • Up
  • Heart
  • Picture

• It's like Liverpool. Everybody went for the music. All the young musicians seemed to gravitate to Asbury Park.

  

  Clarence Clemons
  • Music

• New Yorkers love it when you spill your guts out there. Spill your guts at Wimbledon and they make you stop and clean it up.

  

  Jimmy Connors
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