#ma

I love the feel of hitting the ball hard, the pleasure of a rally. It is these things that make tennis the delightful game that it is. ↗

— Helen Wills Moody

#delightful #feel #game #hard #hitting

My feelings, as the last ball travelled over the net, and as I realized that the final match was mine, I cannot describe. I felt that here was a prize for all the games I had ever played. ↗

— Helen Wills Moody

#cannot #describe #ever #feelings #felt

No player can become accustomed to New York's climate in August in a few days. The playing conditions, the courts in New York and France are very different. ↗

— Helen Wills Moody

#august #become #climate #conditions #courts

When I play, I become entirely absorbed in the game. It may be a form of concentration. ↗

— Helen Wills Moody

#concentration #entirely #form #game #i

Hard to be a physics major at Rice University if you have flunked calculus. ↗

— Elizabeth Moon

#flunked #hard #major #physics #rice

In the United States three new methods of transportation made their appearance at almost the same time - the steamboat, the canal boat, and the rail car. ↗

— John Moody

#appearance #boat #canal #car #made

Many of the railroad evils were inherent in the situation; they were explained by the fact that both managers and public were dealing with a new agency whose laws they did not completely understand. ↗

— John Moody

#both #completely #dealing #did #evils

The construction of extensive railways, however, and particularly the consolidation of small, experimental lines into large systems, dates from the days of the discovery of gold in California. ↗

— John Moody

#consolidation #construction #dates #days #discovery

The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose, is hardwired into my personality. ↗

— Rick Moody

#composition #good #good prose #into #make

The United States as we know it today is largely the result of mechanical inventions, and in particular of agricultural machinery and the railroad. ↗

— John Moody

#inventions #know #largely #machinery #mechanical