John McEnroe Quotes

I got a lot of publicity, but it steamrolled. Event organizers weren't used to that kind of behavior, so later, they tightened the rules.

John McEnroe

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I was raised by an actress, and I watched all those women turn 60 and ask, Shouldn't get face work? My mother and Anne Bancroft said, We're not going to fall into that.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Work
  • Women
  • Mother

• Indonesia is hardly immune to catastrophic breakdowns, as the anti-Communist pogrom showed. But, like India, it has been relatively fortunate in evolving a mode of politics that can include many discontinuities - of class, region, ethnicity, and religion.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Religion
  • Politics
  • India

• The thing about motor neuron disease, once a muscle stops working, it doesn't start again.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Working
  • Start
  • Muscle

• Actually, I majored in marketing and I have a bachelor of science.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Science
  • Marketing
  • Bachelor

• Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Yourself
  • Motivational

• Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Believe
  • Peace
  • Path

• If you want to be happy, make others happy!

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • Happy
  • Want
  • Be Happy

• The worst excesses of the dot-com era are gone.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Worst
  • Gone
  • ERA

• Always believe what you see - with your own eyes, that is. Always believe what you see. That's the best way to go about this business. I've heard a lot of things about a lot of people, and it was never true.

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • Believe
  • Business

• When faced with the inevitable fatigue that comes with the recycling of speeches and the recycling of thoughts in a rather small stream of vortex, I am urged to not be ashamed of recycling.

  

  Barbara Amiel
  • Speeches
  • Fatigue
  • Recycling

• For me, writing is a love – hate relationship.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Writing
  • Love
  • Hate

• Make-up is all about shading; it's about tactical application.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Up
  • About
  • Application

• Look, in 1800 the sainted Thomas Jefferson arranged to hire a notorious slanderer named James Callender, who worked as a writer at a Republican newspaper in Richmond, Va. Read some of what he wrote about John Adams. This was a personal slander.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Look
  • Republican
  • Newspaper

• As governor of New Mexico, I would have - I signed a bill banning late term abortion. I've always favored parental notification. I've always favored counseling. I've always favored the notion of no public funds used for abortion.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Always
  • Abortion
  • Late

• Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Done
  • Bad
  • Day

• I'm struggling with what is epic. People decided I was epic - if by epic, do you mean a big, heavy book? 'David Copperfield' is a big book - is it epic? Amount of time covered, length, drama, or story - that's the real appeal - if the story is long you have a better chance of becoming more connected.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• I will never say the things that I want to say to you. I know the damage it would do. I love you more than I hate my loneliness and pain.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Hate
  • Pain

• In 1919 I woke up famous. I'd never guessed it. If I'd known I was famous, I'd have stolen away and wept. I was stupid. I was supposed to be intelligent. I was sensitive and very dumb.

  

  Coco Chanel
  • Up
  • Stupid
  • Famous

• I would say to my colleague that the misery index, inflation and unemployment, when added together is the lowest it has been in the last series of Presidents, even going back to Jimmy Carter. So I think the Bush administration is doing a good job.

  

  Cliff Stearns
  • Good
  • Job
  • Together

• Never own defeat in a sacred cause and make up your minds henceforth that you will be pure and that you will find a response from God.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Minds
  • Response

• Communities are suffering, children are suffering, and our immigration policy appears in disarray.

  

  Jeff Fortenberry
  • Children
  • Suffering
  • Immigration

• There are people who do things in tech that have the same skill sets that journalists have. They write, they edit, they put out press releases.

  

  Daniel Lyons
  • People

• There's so many STP songs that are just classic to me, and just so influential in my musical growth.

  

  Jeff Gutt Stone Temple Pilots
  • Growth
  • Songs
  • Influential

• I got a lot of publicity, but it steamrolled. Event organizers weren't used to that kind of behavior, so later, they tightened the rules.

  

  John McEnroe