Stumps Quotes

Stumps Quote of the day

I am the batsman and the bat, / I am the bowler and the ball, / The umpire, the pavilion cat, / The roller, pitch, and stumps, and all.

You can cut the tension with a cricket stump.

Every science is a mutilated octopus. If its tentacles were not clipped to stumps, it would feel its way into disturbing contacts.

If I didn't have fake nails, my fingers would be bloody stumps.

It is rather suitable for umpires to dress like dentists, since one of their tasks is to draw stumps.

I forged myself out of a vacuum. I crawl along the highway on hacked off stumps year after year. Some wonder how and why. I never do.

The problems seem so easy out there on the stump. Deficits shrink with a rhetorical flourish.

The Conservatives played like England cricketers - too many rash strokes and run-outs, dropped catches and bowling anywhere but the stumps.

This Forest eats itself and lives forever.

Mud and water and the stumps of trees. In every direction that was all there was. Bodies fell, but the trees died standing up.

I'd like to see him go out and bat one day with a stump. I tell you that's what he's been doing all this while

Don't let despair mutate your flesh Look at my twisted stumps of thought See the fingers, listen to the voice I am slowly becoming the end of the line.

Criminals are dumb as stumps. If they were smart they could go be investment bankers. Or judges.