Billie Jean King Quotes

There is no life for girls in team sports past Little League. I got into tennis when I realized this, and because I thought golf would be too slow for me, and I was too scared to swim.

Billie Jean King

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LifeSportsPastMeTeamThought

Every day President Bush and Congress refuse to fulfill their obligation to special ed is another day Wisconsin property taxpayers are stuck with the bill. It's unfair, irresponsible and must stop.

Jim Doyle

DayEvery DayStopSpecialUnfair

My father had always dreamed of getting a Ph.D., but certain life circumstances prevented him from following through. It was a tremendous, deep regret. The day I got my Ph.D., I saw in my father's face what it meant that I had done this.

Jhumpa Lahiri

LifeFatherDayRegretFaceDeep

Before they did all those shows on Jackson Pollock, I loved the way he formulated his paintings. I loved Basquiat - I was into the whole Beat generation, Kerouac, etc., and all those artists talked about that and Kerouac, so I just got in the middle of being spontaneous.

Matt Schulze

LovedGenerationWaySpontaneous

Suburbia is too close to the country to have anything real to do and too close to the city to admit you have nothing real to do.

Sloane Crosley

CityYouCountryAdmitNothingReal

I was guilty of judging capitalism by its operations and socialism by its hopes and aspirations; capitalism by its works and socialism by its literature.

Sidney Hook

SocialismCapitalismLiteratureHopes

The sound of the mandolin is a very curious sound because it's cheerful and melancholy at the same time, and I think it comes from that shadow string, the double strings.

Rita Dove

TimeShadowCuriousThinkSound

On the Twitter media team, we believe that tweets drive TV tune-in.

Robin Sloan

TeamDriveBelieveMediaTwitterTV

Age about 30, I stopped looking up my books in bookstores. Paying attention to the marketplace isn't a healthy thing for me.

Mary Karr

AgeMeLookingAttentionHealthyUp

If you're trout fishing in the lochs of Scotland, your catch may end up like this: batter-crusted with that ubiquitous Scottish staple, oats; and served beside a generous mound of stovies, Scottish slang for stove-roasted potatoes.

Jonathan Miles

FishingEndYouPotatoesUpMay

I absolutely love Dorothy Dunnett's 'House of Niccolo' series and the 'Lymond Chronicles.' They are so detailed.

Deborah Harkness

LoveHouseAbsolutelyDetailed

The people of Illinois sent me to Springfield to end the era of unbalanced budgets and runaway debt.

Bruce Rauner

PeopleMeEndDebtEraIllinois

If you just want instant cool and you don't want to pay a whole lot, just go to Urban Outfitters.

Bryan Greenberg

CoolYouGoWantPayUrban

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