Serena Williams Quotes

I just could never have imagined that I would be mentioned with Chris Evert or with Martina Navratilova, because I was just a kid with a dream and a racquet. Living in Compton, you know, this never happened before.

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• Woodstock had a tremendous impact on American artistic life.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Life
  • American
  • Impact

• It was at Inver Slane, to the north of Leinster, the sons of Gaedhal of the Shining Armour, the Very Gentle, that were called afterwards the Sons of the Gael, made their first attempt to land in Ireland to avenge Ith, one of their race that had come there one time and had met with his death.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Time
  • Death
  • Race

• I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Time
  • May
  • Winning

• I had this 'War and Peace' thing of wanting to experience war as a kind of incredible human enterprise. I even applied to Officer Candidate School. Then the practical side of me kicked in and I thought, 'I really don't want to get drafted.' So I went down to the physical and checked every psychological disorder and drug on the medical history form.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • School
  • Experience
  • War

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

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • People
  • Want
  • Know

• Balance is so important in our lives. In our busy world, we can give ourselves balance between thinking and feeling.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Important

• Me writing about tennis is like a baker baking bread.

  

  Ion Tiriac
  • Writing
  • Tennis
  • Bread

• When you love somebody, and they have a child, you love their child. You just accept it as a part of who they are, and you care about them and theirs.

  

  Nathan Parsons
  • Love
  • Care
  • Child

• It's kind of comfortable portraying characters who are kind of unsavoury and not so nice. That can be refreshing sometimes.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Nice
  • Kind
  • Sometimes

• When it comes to women, there has been a tendency to define women in sports in the context of their relationships - they watch games because their husbands watch. They're interested because their kids play a sport. They buy tickets to a sporting event because it's a way to spend time with family.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Time
  • Women
  • Family

• I would prefer to have a more appealing job. If I could still change careers, I would prefer it. This unfortunate art is made for long beards and ugly faces rather than for a relatively well-endowed woman.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Long
  • Art
  • Job

• I'm not afraid of change, let's put it that way.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Way
  • Change
  • Afraid

• Japan is the largest creditor country in the world, so we have made contributions to the stability of international markets and we want this IMF meeting to confirm that we will continue to contribute.

  

  Yoshihiko Noda
  • World
  • Country
  • Want

• Twitter means all my friends are in my computer. All my ideas are in my computer. I can do whatever I want in there; I'm kind of... bionic.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Friends
  • Want
  • Ideas

• I'm always working. I work wherever I am.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Work
  • Always

• I have 18 cars, but I never had a Rolls-Royce.

  

  Ion Tiriac
  • Never
  • Had

• My father was a tailor. He worked from seven o'clock in the morning until seven at night. At least when he got home, my mother always cooked him a very good dinner. Lots of potatoes, I remember; he used to knock them down like a dose of salts. He needed it, after a 12-hour day.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Good
  • Home
  • Remember

• I don't think there are too many traditional media guys who really understood what the new digital media is about.

  

  Randy Falco
  • Think
  • Media
  • Digital

• The attempts to command the climate and decide about the temperature on our planet are wrong and arrogant. I wrote a book about it which was published in English under the title 'Blue Planet in Green Shackles.'

  

  Vaclav Klaus
  • Book
  • English
  • Green

• Some Muslim children, both male and female, have little choice in who to marry, what to study, what their careers will be, and who they can socialise with. Their lives are constrained under the expectations of family 'honour.'

  

  Deeyah Khan
  • Children
  • Family
  • Study

• Jesus' life was a storm of controversy. The apostles, like the prophets before them, could hardly go a day without controversy. Paul said that he debated daily in the marketplace. To avoid controversy is to avoid Christ. We can have peace, but it is a servile and carnal peace where truth is slain in the streets.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Peace

• Tupac is taking the message to black kids and a lot of white kids, going 'This shit's happening on the streets.' Well, I'm from a different part of the black community. Why is Orleans Woods in Charleston, South Carolina, less 'valid' than Compton?

  

  Darius Rucker Hootie & the Blowfish
  • Different
  • Why
  • Kids

• The reality of life is that we are exposed to a multiplicity of toxic substances.

  

  Al Meyerhoff
  • Reality
  • Exposed
  • Toxic

• I just could never have imagined that I would be mentioned with Chris Evert or with Martina Navratilova, because I was just a kid with a dream and a racquet. Living in Compton, you know, this never happened before.

  

  Serena Williams
  • Kids
  • Dream
  • Happened