J.M. Williams Quotes

I guess some kids around me had to grow up quickly, had all those problems. But I wasn't one of those kids, or around those kids, not at all.

Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.

Since I started playing at the Olympics in 2000, I have always wanted to do a dress based on Wonder Woman. It should be interesting to wear. And hopefully, it will get me a gold medal.

It's every Williams for themself.

The thing is, it's not good anyway for eight-year-olds to be out there playing tennis tournaments so soon in their lives. But when I did get to play in a tournament, when I was nine, I was overjoyed.

It's thrilling and it's an honor to be part of something bigger than your own self.

I love to be busy, and when I'm off the court, I do things I love.

Serena and I, we don't have anything to prove ... we still set a very high standard.

People ask me where I get my fighting qualities from, and I have to say Serena.

As long as we're fit, we just have so much to give on the court.

I say accessorize, accessorize, accessorize. If you don't accessorize, someone else will.

There is nothing like playing at Wimbledon; you can feel the footprints of the legends of the game-men and women-that have graced those courts.

I will always be the older sister. That's never going to change.

I try to update as much as possible. You don't want to be in the past.

To be a well-rounded person and know what's going on in the world around you, to have a perspective outside of your sport, is important for every athlete. I'm blessed that our parents gave us that.

Every Olympics is something special. If you're fortunate enough to play for your country - there's just so much energy. It's truly amazing.

I truly believe that whoever feels the most confident is usually the one to win.

The most fun part about working out is being done - getting through the workout, let's be honest. But that feeling afterward? Yeah, that's worth it.

I don't think there's any pop music directed at the peculiar class of anger that I know women of my age feel.

Reaching into one's own pocket to assist his fellow man is noble and worthy of praise. Reaching into another person's pocket to assist one's fellow man is despicable and worthy of condemnation.

If there's a distinct group of Americans who harbor open contempt for constitutional principles and rule of law, it's lawyers, judges and members of Congress.

It's people seeking more for themselves that has produced a better life for all Americans.

Reaching into someone else's pocket to assist one's fellow man hardly qualifies as charity.

Most of our country's serious problems can be laid at the feet of Congress and the White House and not at capitalism.

If we buy into the notion that somehow property rights are less important, or are in conflict with, human or civil rights, we give the socialists a freer hand to attack our property.

Politicians have always coveted the liberties we hold.

The founders of our nation feared paper currency because it gave government the means to steal from its citizens.

It was Thomas Jefferson who said that we should not allow the courts to have a monopoly on the interpretation of what is constitutional and what is not.

According to the Institute for International Economics, trade barriers cost American consumers $80 billion a year or more than $1,200 per family.

Most Americans, who think Congress has a right to do anything for which they can get a majority vote, ignore the clearly written constitutional restraints on Congress.

When state and religion are one, religion becomes a means for the powerful to remain in power.

Some of my ideas were shot down by Lucasfilm because they stepped on territory that has been reserved for the movies. I didn't have a problem with that.

An SF author who reads only SF will have little new to contribute, but someone with a broader experience will bring more to the table.

The mass-market paperback, for one, is too expensive.

I went to college, though I didn't take many writing courses.

I now have to find a reason to write, every single day.

Working within the limitations of the shared world generally made the writing easier, because I didn't have to invent any of the characters or background, which is usually the hardest part.

Now I have to motivate myself much more than I had previously.

I have never been one to write by rule, not even by my own rules.

Sure love is cruel and selfish and totally obtuse-- at least, blinded by the light, young love is.

A new world is only a new mind.

A new music is a new mind.

Death will be too late to bring us aid.

I'll write whatever I damn please, whenever I damn please and as I damn please and it'll be good if the authentic spirit of change is on it.

It was the love of love, the love of swallows up all else, a grateful love, a love of natural, of people, of animals, a love ingengering gentleness and goodness that moved meand that I saw in you

we, in that instant, lost, breathless to be witnesses, as if we stood ourselves refreshed among the shining fauna of that fire.

Most of the beauties of travel are due to the strange hours we keep to see them

A poem is a small machine made of words.

Covertly the hands of a great clock go round and round! Were they to move quickly and at once the whole secret would be out and the shuffling of all ants be done forever.

There's nothing sentimental about a machine, and: A poem is a small (or large) machine made of words.