Venus Williams Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
A bowler is his own captain. I know what needs to be done, what the ball is doing. If you don't know where you are going to bowl and where you think the batsman will hit, then how can you tell the captain what you want? You are the judge.
-
Nashville is the place where I first realized how impossible it is to look at someone and know what is inside them, what special something they possess.
-
I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
-
It is not the strong who are dangerous to the world and to themselves. It is the weak and the inadequate who threaten - and sometimes destroy - mankind's peace and prosperity.
-
Well, mostly I just want to be an actor. I love being an actor, and I don't want to be a spokesman for anything, I don't want to do anything crazy or fancy like that.
-
I didn't want to be one of those arty nutcases.
-
When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.
-
I do and re-do things that I used to do in a flash, because I want to be more perfectionist about these things. Maybe it sounds pompous and pretentious, but that's the way I feel.
-
I've always been like this - insecure - because I'm striving for something that can't be attained. I don't just want to be OK at this: I want to be the best at it, and I've never achieved that in my mind.
-
I am an emotional and fragile person. I observe life, I am perceptive and can read a person's body language. I have a strong journalistic streak in me, and had I not been a filmmaker, I would have become a film journalist. I have combined my perceptive and journalistic traits to create my own brand of cinema.
-
My favorite animal is a polar bear. They're going extinct, and I really don't want that to happen.
-
A strong economy depends on a strong middle class, but George Bush has put the middle class in a hole, and John McCain has a plan to keep digging that hole with George Bush's shovel.
-
I never really wanted kids. I didn't not want them, but motherhood just wasn't something that pulled at me.
-
I'm very close with my higher power. I have a very strong connection with it.
-
Don't look for approval in what everyone else is doing; look for approval from Almighty God.
-
I naturally want to be provocative.
-
If you want the government off your back, get your hands out of its pockets.
-
I want to play in as many theatres as possible, work with as many brilliant people as possible, but definitely do a new play.
-
Obviously, it's a great privilege and pleasure to be here at the Yale Law School Sesquicentennial Convocation. And I defy anyone to say that and chew gum at the same time.
-
It's funny. When I saw the script in my inbox and it said 'Sparkle,' I thought, 'For real? It's really called 'Sparkle?' I was wondering, too, how does 'Jordin Sparks as Sparkle' sound?
-
Sometimes corruption is slowed by shedding light into what was previously shadowed.
-
Going back to a simpler life based on living by sufficiency rather than excess is not a step backward. Rather, returning to a simpler way allows us to regain our dignity, puts us in touch with the land, and makes us value human contact again.
-
I just think about what I am doing on my side of the net, which requires focus. Even after all the years I've been playing, I still get butterflies before each match.
-
Of course I want to look well and fit - and as an athlete, I want to look strong.
