Serena Williams Quotes

When I first started really playing, in '98, I was super excited to see all the people I grew up watching. ... I loved Monica Seles, Steffi Graf, and Pete Sampras.

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• The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • History
  • Nation
  • Most

• The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Way
  • Best
  • Argument

• I don't know what women are attracted to. I can't tell, but certainly I have no notion of having sex appeal or being seductive in any way.

  

  Omar Sharif
  • Women
  • Know
  • Sex

• I think something that's very relevant in real life and that they don't portray enough on TV is that when you think 'Christian,' you think 'goody two shoes' - they have to look a certain way and do certain things - and it's just not true.

  

  Samuel Larsen
  • Life
  • Real
  • True

• I'm quite claustrophobic, and I don't like everyone crowding around and shouting the same questions.

  

  Niall Horan One Direction
  • Myself
  • Shouting

• I've gone through a really hard divorce, and anyone who has gone through a divorce will speak about how hard the journey is from start to finish. It's a life-uprooting time.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Life
  • Time
  • Journey

• Sometimes, when I wake up, my soul is in another city!

  

  Bette Midler
  • Up
  • Soul
  • City

• When I cruise around, I can't help but study people's faces and emotions and wonder why they're feeling the way they are.

  

  Aaron Bruno
  • People
  • Why
  • Help

• Irrigate crops at short intervals and apply light irrigation especially in the evening.

  

  Anand Sharma
  • Light
  • Short
  • Apply

• A moral society will not set standards for becoming a parent, but it will establish irreducible minimums for maintaining that sacred status.

  

  Andrew Vachss
  • Society
  • Moral
  • Parent

• The audience swelled to six in the end and we all huddled in a corner.

  

  P. J. Kavanagh

• This unlikely story begins on a sea that was a blue dream, as colorful as blue-silk stockings, and beneath a sky as blue as the irises of children's eyes.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Children
  • Dream
  • Eyes

• Starry, starry night, flaming flowers that brightly blaze, swirling clouds in violet haze reflect Vincent's eyes of china blue.

  

  Don McLean
  • Night
  • Eyes
  • Eye

• The French are sawed-off sissies who eat snails and slugs and cheese that smells like people's feet. Utter cowards who force their own children to drink wine, they gibber like baboons even when you try to speak to them in their own wimpy language.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Children
  • Food

• Every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Enemy
  • Popular
  • Effect

• Awake, my soul, and with the sun thy daily course of duty run. Cast off dull sloth, and joyful rise to pay thy morning sacrifice. All praise to thee, who safe hast kept and hast refreshed me while I slept! Grant, Lord, when I from death shall wake, I may of endless life partake. All praise to thee, my God, this night for all the blessings of the light. Keep me, oh keep me, King of Kings, beneath Thine own almighty wings. Praise God, from Whom all blessings flow. Praise Him, all creatures here below. Praise Him above, ye heavenly host. Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.

  

  Thomas Ken
  • Life
  • Father
  • Night

• One of the first production deals I signed, the guy wanted my name to be Minaj and I fought him tooth and nail. But he convinced me. I've always hated it.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Guy
  • Firsts
  • Deals

• The beating of my heart was so violent and wild that I felt as if my life were breaking from me.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Heart
  • My Life
  • Violent

• We are not here in this world to find elegant solutions, pregnant with initiative, or to serve the ways and modes of profitable progress. No, we are here to provide for all those who are weaker and hungrier, more battered and crippled than ourselves. That is our only certain good and great purpose on earth, and if you ask me about those insoluble economic problems that may arise if the top is deprived of their initiative, I would answer 'To hell with them.' The top is greedy and mean and will always find a way to take care of themselves. They always do.

  

  Michael Foot
  • Purpose
  • Always
  • Progress

• When I first started really playing, in '98, I was super excited to see all the people I grew up watching. ... I loved Monica Seles, Steffi Graf, and Pete Sampras.

  

  Serena Williams
  • Firsts
  • Excited
  • Grew Up