I just try to stay positive and focused on the tennis, not let anything get to me, like crazy questions. But I'm tough, let me tell you, tough as nails.Venus Williams
I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I could do anything else. So I read and read and wrote short stories and dreamed of escape.Paul Auster
I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else. Marilyn Monroe
I know too that we Americans like to think of ourselves as cleaner than clean, a healthy nation who would never take anything when a recent poll suggested that 65 per cent of the population would risk dying in 10 years if they would be guaranteed Olympic gold. Greg Lemond
I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world. Oscar Wilde
I live by Edith Wharton's rule to get rid of anything neither useful nor beautiful. So I put the TV out on the street. Melissa Bank
I looked up to my father when I was 7 and 8. I believed it was my calling to be in the big leagues. I'd been raised by a family that always told me I could do anything I wanted. Barry Zito
I loved to read, and I think any child who loves to read will read anything, including the back of the cereal box, which I did every morning. Judy Blume
I never did allow anything to keep me from my kids. They're the most important part of my life. Willie Stargell
I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.Thomas Alva Edison
I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work. plato
I never experiment with anything in my books. Experimentation means you don't know what you're doing. Paul Auster