Dave McPherson Quotes

Nothing is etched in stone in tennis until the final point has been played. That's why we watch.

Dave McPherson

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• I didn't dictate sections of 'Visions of Cody'. I typed up a segment of taped conversation with Neal Cassady, or Cody, talking about his early adventures in L.A. It's four chapters.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Up
  • Conversation
  • Talking

• If Wanda can control more than 20 per cent of the world's three most important film markets - the United States, Europe and China - then it will have an empire with great voice in the industry.

  

  Wang Jianlin
  • World
  • Great
  • Important

• Football is good, but family, close friends, my brothers - I have family everywhere - is the most important thing.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Good
  • Important
  • Family

• I enjoyed working as a model a lot as it let me travel and I got to do some really interesting projects.

  

  Patricia Velasquez
  • Interesting
  • Me
  • Travel

• In every relationship, the work is never just in the positive actions we do for each other, but in the follow up.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Up
  • Work
  • Relationship

• Conversations are the most direct way to connect with people.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • People
  • Way
  • Most

• We never wore burkas because Somalis had our own culture.

  

  Iman
  • Culture
  • Never
  • Own

• You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • You
  • Know
  • Selfish

• To write a book about improvisation is partly a contradiction in terms. Improvisation is spontaneous. It's in the moment.

  

  Sally Schneider
  • Book
  • Moment
  • Spontaneous

• In this situation I was constantly exposed to danger and death.

  

  Daniel Boone
  • Death
  • Situation
  • Danger

• I like what Oliver Lakes does on the saxophone. The saxophone comes pretty close to the sound of the human voice and when Oliver plays with other sax players, it's like a dialogue.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Pretty
  • Human
  • Voice

• It's not so much religion per se, it's false certainty that worries me, and religion just has more than its fair share of false certainty or dogmatism. I'm really concerned when I see people pretending to know things they clearly cannot know.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • Religion
  • Concerned

• For me, when I picture the person I want to end up with, I don't think about what their career is, or what they look like. I picture the feeling I get when I'm with them.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Career
  • Feeling
  • Person

• The month of Ramadan is the world's most widespread fast and yet its teachings are minimised, neglected and even betrayed (through literal application of rules that overlooks their ultimate objective).

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • World
  • Rules
  • Month

• We probably haven't seen the variety and diversity of threats to Americans' safety and well-being and our national security in a long, long time. Some have said it almost makes you yearn for the Cold War days when you knew who the bad guys were and who the good guys were, and there was a wall dividing us.

  

  Dan Coats
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• I was forbidden to talk to my fellow hostages.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Talk
  • Fellow
  • Forbidden

• You know, Castle's the kind of guy that when he meets somebody, that's a connection for him. He remains connected to the people that he meets. That's the kind of guy he is, be they criminals, gangster rappers, mafia guys, art thieves, whoever it is, he nurtures those relationships.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • People
  • Art
  • Guy

• I have tried every diet to lose weight. When you restrict yourself, you're setting yourself up for failure.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Up
  • Failure
  • Yourself

• Tennis is a psychological sport, you have to keep a clear head. That is why I stopped playing.

  

  Boris Becker
  • Why
  • Tennis

• Probably around 14, when I was finishing primary school. I'm coming from a pretty small city in Croatia, not too many options to train, not too many players. So I had to either choose to stay at home to do more school or move to Zagreb to the national training center. That was when I made decisions to do something better in tennis.

  

  Marin Cilic
  • School
  • Home
  • Pretty

• I'm a filmmaker, so I always think: When is the breaking point? Sometimes you've got to go beyond the breaking point, and then you catch it. When is long enough? It's one of those things you have to look at, walk away, and go home and find out what it is.

  

  Steven Rodney McQueen
  • Point
  • Walk
  • Filmmaker

• Around my house, I won't even speak to my family unless they first address me by my official Berzerker name, Godred Crovan, Victor of Sky-Hill and Ruler of Man and the Isles. And now that I think of it, that's probably why nobody speaks to me unless it's time to feed the dogs or take out the garbage.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Time
  • Family
  • Why

• The tradition and style of the 'New York Times' make it very difficult to have objective coverage of China. If we could purchase it, its tone might turn around.

  

  Chen Guangbiao
  • Style

• Nothing is etched in stone in tennis until the final point has been played. That's why we watch.

  

  Dave McPherson
  • Nothing
  • Tennis
  • Point