Billie Jean King Quotes

Women get the attention when we get into the men's arena, and that's sad.

Billie Jean King

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: athlete
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 22, 1943

Topics

WomenSadMenAttentionGetArena

Honestly, it's terrible, but I don't know if I've ever really read a Stephen King novel.

Jim Rash

KingKnowTerribleReadNovelEver

In truth, in the fairy-tale version of bailing out Lehman, the next domino, A.I.G., would have fallen even harder. If the politics of bailing out Lehman were bad, the politics of bailing out A.I.G. would have been worse. And the systemic risk that a failure of A.I.G. posed was orders of magnitude greater than Lehman's collapse.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

FailureTruthPoliticsBadRiskOut

Strategic Work is all about the big questions: Who? What? When? Where? Why? Tactical Work is all about answers: This is the system we use to do each task. This is how we do it, how we measure it, how we monitor it.

Michael Gerber

WorkQuestionsMeasureWhyTaskBig

My problem was that I was blond. There were no heroes with blond hair. Robert Taylor and Henry Fonda, they all had dark hair. The only one I found was Van Johnson, who wasn't too cool. He was a nice, homely American boy. So I created my own image. It worked.

Michael Caine

CoolHairAmericanProblemDarkBoy

Most scientific revelations happened after the pursuit of knowledge quit being secret and hermetic.

John Perry Barlow

KnowledgeQuitSecretBeingPursuit

Not all single women want to be married. Not all boys like football. Not all homemakers like to cook. Not all messy people are lazy. And not all the obese are gluttons. There are glands and diabetes and a dozen conditions you never heard of that may account for things. Put your sermon through the counter-stereotype sieve.

John Piper

WomenFootballPeopleYouLazyWant

We now see numerous examples of brands working together to address issues such as environmental degradations, climate control, pollution, poverty and disease.

Simon Mainwaring

Working TogetherTogetherControlNow

I can't deal with a lot of spice but I have to eat it. I pay the price - I'm on medication for heartburn, so that's how I deal with it.

Tom Colicchio

PriceSpiceEatPayMedicationDeal

It is amazing to have the UFC to come here to Perth... it is great for Australian Mixed Martial Arts and great for the sport, and it is going to be great for Perth to have such a world-wide event, through pay-per-view, hosted here.

Robert Whittaker

GreatAmazingThroughArtsGoing

Sudan has been an experiment that resonated across Africa: if we, the largest country on the continent, reaching from the Sahara to the Congo, bridging religions, cultures and a multitude of ethnicities, were able to construct a prosperous and peaceful state from our diverse citizenry, so too could the rest of Africa.

Mo Ibrahim

RestPeacefulCountryAfricaBeen

I was never very interested in my own experience, I think, in fact, if my films have a common link, maybe it's being a foreigner - it's common for people who are born abroad - they don't know so well where they belong.

Claire Denis

ExperiencePeopleThinkBornKnow

Everything is so unstable in these times of progress at any cost, and social customs and methods of life alter so rapidly, that a few years now suffice to change completely the face of usages which, at their inception, bade fair to outlive the age - so enthusiastically were they welcomed by the public.

Auguste Escoffier

LifeChangeAgeProgressFaceNow

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by Billie Jean King