The truth is I hate cocktail parties when the only person I know is my supposed date, and he abandons me the minute we come in the door. Mary Higgins Clark
The first four months of writing the book, my mental image is scratching with my hands through granite. My other image is pushing a train up the mountain, and it's icy, and I'm in bare feet. Mary Higgins Clark
I don't want to be put on a pedestal. I just want to be reasonably successful and live a normal life with all the conveniences to make it so. Althea Gibson
Most of us who aspire to be tops in our fields don't really consider the amount of work required to stay tops. Althea Gibson
I always wanted to be somebody. If I made it, it's half because I was game enough to take a lot of punishment along the way and half because there were a lot of people who cared enough to help me. Althea Gibson
Shaking hands with the Queen of England was a long way from being forced to sit in the colored section of the bus going into downtown Wilmington, North Carolina. Althea Gibson
Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster. Joe Adcock
Our 'neoconservatives' are neither new nor conservative, but old as Bablyon and evil as Hell. Edward abbey