Roger Federer Quotes

I have to fit holidays around tournaments, particularly the grand slams, in Melbourne, Paris, London and New York.

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• If you haven't got it. Fake it! Too short? Wear big high heels, but do practice walking!

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • High
  • Practice
  • Walking

• It would be nice to be on the charts again, nice to be recognised.

  

  Nancy Sinatra
  • Nice
  • Again
  • Be Nice

• And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.

  

  Larry David
  • Writing
  • Me
  • Version

• All the religious wars that have caused blood to be shed for centuries arise from passionate feelings and facile counter-positions, such as Us and Them, good and bad, white and black.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Black

• I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Night
  • Best
  • Silence

• People still do fall in and out of love and can and cannot express what they feel and are very much pained because the person they love is with somebody else. That's happening the whole world over, and I think it always has been.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • People
  • World
  • Always

• As the youngest of three girls, most of my childhood works were revenge fantasies against my older sisters, so of course the sisters in 'Pretty Girls' share some similarities to my own.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Pretty
  • Childhood
  • Revenge

• I think any time people behave in a way that's truly them, then they'll never fail. You get in trouble when you try to copy others.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • People
  • Time
  • Think

• I think the varied backgrounds in the beginning were a plus. It took a while for people to understand what they were trying to do and get started, but it did provide for a lot of new ideas.

  

  Jack Kilby
  • People
  • Trying
  • Ideas

• Writing is immensely difficult. The short forms especially.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Writing
  • Difficult
  • Short

• I have thousands and thousands of hats. Some are the most outrageous hats in the world. They are my disguise. I hide beneath them.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • World
  • Hide
  • Hats

• I have my aluminum siding business, and that's going like a house afire.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • Business
  • House
  • Like

• The photographs of Iraqi prisoners being subjected to degrading and humiliating treatment by their captors, and the reports of acts of sexual abuse, physical abuse, and other acts of maltreatment shock the conscience.

  

  Ed Markey
  • Abuse
  • Conscience
  • Physical

• I really liked to perform. My mother always tells this story: I was five. They had a party, and they'd put me to bed. I heard everyone on the rooftop, and I went upstairs. No one paid any attention to me, so I took a hose and sprayed everyone. Very elegant, right? 'It's me! Look at me!' I loved the attention.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Mother
  • Attention
  • Story

• Everything in my life - family, friends, even my fiance - are all second to soccer. And I've won every tournament where I haven't had anyone there. It just seems to work for me. I don't think I'm going to change that.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Life
  • Work
  • Family

• Always remember, Peggy, it's matrimonial suicide to be jealous when you have a really good reason.

  

  Clare Boothe Luce
  • Good
  • Remember
  • Suicide

• Each time I'm training and sparring, I'm always pushing myself to submit my training partners.

  

  Demetrious Johnson
  • Time
  • Training

• 'Taxi Driver' was the best thing that ever happened to me, and I didn't become a weirdo and squawk like a chicken.

  

  Jodie Foster

• When I was a kid, my father would go to our school in the summer to sweep, mop, and wax the floors, room by room, hall by hall, week after week.

  

  Jill Lepore
  • School
  • Father
  • Summer

• I'm not going to go on Twitter and rant about something.

  

  Ansel Elgort

• Clear out 800,000 people and preserve it as a museum piece.

  

  Frank Lloyd Wright
  • People

• Christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed, and the rejected.

  

  Jimmy Cannon
  • Christmas
  • Lonely
  • Holiday

• You see. . . it's really quite strenuous doing nothing all day, so once a week we take a holiday and go nowhere, which was just where we were going when you came along. Would you care to join us?

  

  Norton Juster
  • Care
  • Week
  • Holiday

• I have to fit holidays around tournaments, particularly the grand slams, in Melbourne, Paris, London and New York.

  

  Roger Federer
  • Holiday
  • Tournaments