Quotes About Lenglen

#1. I've never cared that much for cementing my place in history. Sports is so transitory, so ephemeral. It just seems like so much nonsense comparing me to Helen Wills Moody or Suzanne Lenglen or anybody else from some other time. One lesson you learn from sports is that life goes on without you.

Billie Jean King

#2. Many times I've lied, many times I've listened, many times I've wondered how much there is to know.

Led Zeppelin

#3. Because I do enjoy winning, because I do have something nobody can copy, something nobody else can have; I'm me; I'm one of the best.

Iain M. Banks

#4. One of the French lords says, "To lose gracefully is an art that every gentleman cultivates." "I hope to cultivate it too," he says. "If you see an example I might follow, please point it out.

Hilary Mantel

#5. How in hell can you handle love without turning your life upside down? That's what love does, it changes everything.

Lauren Bacall

#6. She felt about a love set as a painter does about his masterpiece; each ace serve was a form of brushwork to her, and her fantastically accurate shot-placing was certainly a study in composition.

Janet Flanner

#7. Watch Die Hard films until the day started making sense again.

Jonathan Maberry

#8. Neagley hated physical contact. No one knew why. But it was a recognized issue.

Lee Child

#9. She had storms all her life, but she died peacefully.

Janet Flanner

#10. I was surrounded by phonies ... They were coming in the goddam window.

J.D. Salinger

#11. If I get a script that's set in the jungle it goes to the bottom of the pile because I don't think the playgrounds are going to be very good there! I'm really aware of how lucky I am but I have the kind of job where I can bring my child to work.

Kate Beckinsale

#12. The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.

Ralph Fiennes