Venus Williams Quotes
That's what you feel as an athlete. Pretty much our job is to make the impossible happen every day. It's like magic, you know. I like that.
Quotes to Explore
-
I rarely stay at home when I'm in New York. I'm always doing things. It brings you so much energy.
-
I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
-
Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you're flying high at first, but it won't take long before you feel the impact.
-
Obviously, I don't have a high IQ, but I've always liked nerds and quirky guys.
-
My attitude is govern as if you've run your last race. That's not to say I've run my last race, but govern with a liberation and a freedom; change your mind frame to operate that way.
-
A lot of people said I was a rebel. I wasn't.
-
My maternal grandmother, Penelope, was a very big figure in my life. She was a child of the Raj, born in India, a debutante who hobnobbed with royals, then married a Canadian, Bill Aitken, who became MP for Bury St Edmunds.
-
Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.
-
I think the new generation is much more demanding about respect for the environment than we have ever imagined.
-
I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.
-
I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992.
-
I'd been touring for so long, seven years. For a year and a half I'd just been curious about what it was like not to tour. It's like if you were to lift a 100-pound barbell with your right arm for seven years, eventually you'd get really curious about what your left arm was capable of.
-
I think what has helped me is that I've never thought of myself as a child star. If you think of yourself like that, you might have problems!
-
When you're fighting with a stunt person, your intent is to miss.
-
I had a good guitar, and I was a young, young kid.
-
I can only hope that my future movies will do well.
-
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
-
I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.
-
In the 1960s, my father chose to introduce Italian-style clothing into a world that was filled with boxy Brooks Brothers suits. So if you were dressing in his clothes in New York or California, you were breaking a rule. And my mother, Risha, who is still living, has always been an activist. I don't think my mom has met a cause she doesn't like.
-
Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.
-
Be easy on yourself. Have fun. Only hang around people that are positive and make you feel good. Anybody who doesn't make you feel good, kick them to the curb. And the earlier you start in your life the better. The minute anybody makes you feel weird and non-included or not supported, you know, either beat it or tell them to beat it.
-
Americans don't believe that we have a surplus of jobs. They believe that we have a surplus of job seekers, and they are competing for these jobs.
-
That's what you feel as an athlete. Pretty much our job is to make the impossible happen every day. It's like magic, you know. I like that.
