Petra Kvitova Quotes

'House' was such a special part of my life.

It's your glove, your baseball glove. It's got a soul, a memory all its own, and a future that never fades because it has never let go of the grasp the past has on you and so many others.

There are friends with whom we share neither interests nor any particular experiences, friends with whom we never correspond, whom we seldom meet and then only by chance, but whose existence nonetheless has for us a special if uncanny meaning. For me the Eiffel Tower is just such a friend, and not merely because it happens to be the symbol of a city, for Paris leaves me neither hot nor cold. I first became aware of this attachment of mine when reading in the paper about plans for its demolition, the mere thought of which filled me with alarm.

Everything in the least connected with him has value for me; if someone even mentions his name it is like a little present to me-and I long to mention it myself

The thing for me though, is that songs are good depending on the memories I have with them.

I had funny memories, too, but the music was more important to me than anything else.

I like wearing my dad's sweaters because I knew that he wore them when he held me when I was a baby.

I tend to look out for things with a resonance to my youth - artists or objects that seemed romantic all those years ago. I never buy anything purely for its value. I like possessions that smile back at me.

A lot of the reasons why something is a favorite thing are all things you don't necessarily see, the place, the people, the time, where you are, what it meant to you at the time.

If I were to save one possession in a fire, it would have to be my dad's camera, an old, broken Nikon. I always keep it with me - his personal things mean a lot.

For a long time, I resisted seeing 'The Sound of Music,' but when I finally did, I cried.

And out of all the movies, I don't know what it is, I'll always sit down and watch our 'Footloose'. I cry, I get excited, I cheer, my heart pounds. I really enjoy it.

'Smallville' was my first love and it is always close to my heart.

Theodore Roethke was a poet I was raised with so he has a lot of sentimental value for me.

The guys in my band buy instruments and sell and trade them. But if I have something I hang onto it. Everything is sentimental to me.

Minneapolis has always been a very special place for me.

My memories mean a lot to me, and I hold them close to my heart.

My Beijing jersey means more to me than any of them.

For me, Minneapolis will always have a special place in my heart.

Singapore has always held a special place in my heart.

You can't change what Memphis means to me, what Memphis has meant to me. It's a special place for me. There's no doubt.

Most of my rings are not expensive at all; they're just things that remind me of people that gave 'em to me. And they all have their own stories, their own meanings.

Jardim Peri will be always marked in my life, and I'm always going to bring it with me. It will not only be on a tattoo on my body - but also in my heart.

There is a great good in returning to a landscape that has had extraordinary meaning in one's life. It happens that we return to such places in our minds irresistibly. There are certain villages and towns, mountains and plains that, having seen them walked in them lived in them even for a day, we keep forever in the mind's eye. They become indispensable to our well-being; they define us, and we say, I am who I am because I have been there, or there.

The objects that we have known in better days are the main props that sustain the weight of our affections, and give us strength to await our future lot.