C.R. Gibson Quotes

When I knocked a guy down, there was no second part to the story.

If you're not happy about how you look, you have to question how much self-love you have.

After about 20 years of marriage, I'm finally starting to scratch the surface of what women want. And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate.

Zionists are the source of destructions, I wish I can fight against them.

You know what happens when you don't take a risk? Nothing.

In a world filled with hate, prejudice, and protest, I find that I too am filled with hate, prejudice, and protest.

A good conspiracy is unprovable. I mean, if you can prove it, it means they screwed up somewhere along the line.

Winning once can be a fluke; winning twice proves you are the best.

You must learn to overcome your very natural and appropriate revulsion for your own work.

Pain is the precursor to change.

What a thing is and what it means are not separate, the former being physical and the latter mental as we are accustomed to believe.

There are a lot of directors who make big money and do big things and then move out of the 'hood

I think everything is pretty well preordained - even your mistakes.

Old habits die hard, I guess. If you dont kick them, they kick you.

I could be a real jerk on the days I was pitching.

I think I've already got the main thing I've always wanted, which is to be somebody, to have an identify. I'm Althea Gibson, the tennis champion. I hope it makes me happy.

I embrace the abstract in photography and exist on a few bits of order extracted from the chaos of reality.

We're living in a future that's weirder than anybody except possibly.

It's all happening too fast. I've got to put the brakes on or I'll smack into something.

Five hours' New York jet lag and Cayce Pollard wakes in Camden Town to the dire and ever-circling wolves of disrupted circadian rhythm.

It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information.

The blessings we evoke for another descend upon ourselves.

One should not worry about the future, particularly if it hasn't happened yet.

Rules or no rules, pitchers are going to throw spitters. It's a matter of survival.

When I gave up a grand slam to Pete LaCock, I knew it was time to quit.

A great catch is like watching girls go by. The last one you see is always the prettiest.

My pitching philosophy is simple. I believe in getting the ball over the plate and not walking a lot of men.

It is not something I earned or acquired or bought (the ability to pitch). It is a gift. It is something that was given to me - just like the color of my skin.

I don't consciously beat the drums for any cause, not even the negro in the United States.

From 143rd Street in Harlem to the center court at Wimbledon is about as far as one can travel.

Sometimes, I feel like a time traveller, cause the only way that we can really travel in time is just to get older.

Charleston has something for everyone, rain or shine. Its architecture is unparalleled. Carriage rides are great for seeing the city and hearing the history behind certain houses and the area.

The 'Net is a waste of time.

The future is not Google-able.

Excuses sound best to the person that's making 'em up!

I'm interested in producing truncated shapes in proportion to the frame and composition, shapes that are preferably luminous. I'm not interested in the full-figure. I want to abstract forms.

You can't live up to what people expect. Nobody can. But I guess that's my problem, not theirs.

A curve ball is not something you can pick up overnight. It took me years to perfect mine.

The meaning or value of a thing consists of what it affords.

Psychology is still trying to explain the perception of the position of an object in space, along with its shape, size, and so on, and to understand the sensations of color.

Fishing is one of the greatest things that you can do, it has the power to relax you like nothing else and there's nothing quite like the thrill of the catch.

We who are left, how shall we look again Happily on the sun or feel the rain Without remembering how they who went Ungrudgingly and spent Their lives for us loved, too, the sun and rain?

Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We're dreamers, you see, but we're also realists, of a sort.

Every man dies. Not every man truly lives.

I'm too impatient to use a tripod.

The Internet is part of this ongoing, species-long project we've been working on since we climbed down out of the trees in the savanna. We've been working on it without really knowing it.

Gadgets are usually the last thing I think about, and if there's something new, I'll get to the store for the final shipment of the first generation when it's on sale. So I have last year's stuff.

I owe the public just one thing - a good performance.

Stand high long enough and your lightning will come.

I don't have to write about the future. For most people, the present is enough like the future to be pretty scary.