J.M. Williams Quotes

With my website, I'm really interactive. I've written a lot of things about me.

If I ever asked you about love, you'd probably quote me a sonnet. But you've never looked a woman and been totally vulnerable.

It's not what you play, it's how you play it.

What can any of us do with his talent but try to develop his vision, so that through frequent failures we may learn better what we have missed in the past.

The money is what made me miserable. I want to be free of that stress.

Honestly, I could get in a car accident today and never play tennis again, and then I wouldn't have anything to fall back on. But fortunately enough, I do.

No one can avoid a challenge in life without breeding regret, and regret is the arsenic of life.

You don't need cocaine! There's another way to get real high, and really mess your mind up, it's called marathon running!

Writing 'February' made me realize that breaking form is a way of letting the song be human.

To forgive and to be forgiven are the two points of holy magnificence and holy modesty; round these two centres the whole doctrine of largesse revolves.

How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven't I done time enough, haven't I served my term? can't I apply for a-pardon?

And if I had a camera Showing all the light we give And showing where the light extends I'd give it to my friends

The framers gave us the Second Amendment not so we could go deer or duck hunting but to give us a modicum of protection against congressional tyranny.

Vote for me. I'll use my office to take another American's money and give it to you.

No one wakes up one day and decides they want to become a drug dealer or they want to be a stick-up kid. Those decisions are made after a series of events have happened in one's life.

Golf is one of the few sports where a white man can dress like a black pimp and not look bad.

If you smile things will work out.

Politicians exploit economic illiteracy.

Believe it or not, there are interesting elements in everyone. So, if I can't talk to everybody for at least 7 to 10 minutes, then I'm in the wrong profession.

If you listen real close, you can hear them whisper their legacy to you. Go on, lean in. Listen, you hear it? Carpe diem, seize the day boys, make your lives extraordinary.

The best work comes from people who are motivated by crisis. When something stops their original idea, they respond by coming up with something even better.

Some people say there's nothing new under the sun. I still think that there's room to create, you know. And intuition doesn't necessarily come from under this sun. It comes from within.

Someone like Billie Jean King is completely my idol.

The perfect man? A poet on a motorcycle.

A man has to have goals - for a day, for a lifetime.

The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.

You've got to be ready for the fastball.

To be a Christian is to believe we are commanded and authorised to say certain things to the world; to say things that will make disciples of all nations.

I never left my roots. You can identify me as someone that didn't become high and mighty. Humility is a defining [trait] all of us can forever learn, and I try to be as humble as anyone can be.

How beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken.

Love breaks your heart, love takes no less than everything. Love makes it hard, and it fades away so easily.

Luck has nothing to do with it.

Salsa is a phenomenal way to stay fit, have a great time with your friends and listen to great music.

Every time we tell a lie, the thing we fear grows stronger.

The planet should not be used as a warehouse of resources to serve humanity's selfishness

Nerves are normal. You can't be cured from them unless you're a machine.

As far as everyone else's opinion, I mean, if I would have thought that everyone was right, I probably wouldn't have left Compton, so I don't get too caught up on what the next person thinks.

Sometimes you have to disclaim your country and inhabit another before you can return to your own.

intelligence is intuitive you needn't learn to love unless you've been taught to fear and hate

I don't come to tournaments to make friends, to go to parties, to hold conversations. I come to be the best, and I'm not mean and cruel and dirty.

No man is an island; but some are peninsulas.

I would have to go back to being a dog. I've called myself a dog for many years.

Greatness is the willingness to choose in the midst of intensity.

Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one's own character to himself.

Want to be one of a kind? Be yourself.

You can travel through literature, and you can expand your mind through literature. It's so cheap to buy that kind of ticket.

That is the most confusing and insane thing to me, when people get offended on behalf of another group.

Sometimes with a comedy it's just having the instinct of how real you play it and what level you want it.

Carpe per diem - seize the check.

Knowledge comes from learning. Wisdom comes from living.