A snick by Jack Hobbs is a sort of disturbance of a cosmic orderliness.

A true batsman should in most of his strokes tell the truth about himself.

Sibelius justified the austerity of his old age by saying that while other composers were engaged in manufacturing cocktails, he offered the public pure cold water.

We remember not the scores and the results in after years; it is the men who remain in our minds, in our imagination.

Often in this our life do we begin by cursing men and end by loving them. A sense of the common fallibility of all flesh makes us kin. No man is lovable who is invincible.

Like the British constitution, cricket was not made: it has 'grown'.

In cricket, as in no other game, a great master may well go back to the pavilion scoreless.... In no other game does the law of averages get to work so potently, so mysteriously.

The umpire... is like the geyser in the bathroom; we cannot do without it, yet we notice it only when it is out of order.

It is far more than a game, this cricket.

The elements are cricket's presiding geniuses.

Dear, lovely game of cricket that can stir us so profoundly, that can lift up our hearts and break them.

When you go to see the lake, you also see the hippos.

It took us in this country 11 years to get from the Declaration of Independence to the Constitution.

Michele Bachmann says God made the earthquake and hurricane to punish us. Untrue - he made Michele Bachmann for that.

I studied Tom Cruise running in all the Mission Impossibles. I think he's one of the best screen runners.

Treat praise like criticism: refuse to accept either.

When you're feeling your worst, that's when you get to know yourself the best.

Pakistan is a nation, which, if it falls apart, if it becomes a failed state, there are nuclear weapons there and you've got terrorists there who could grab their hands onto those nuclear weapons.

Deb Zane, our casting director on the Hunger Games was very sanguine, from the beginning, about just blocking out what everybody else says that they want.

Childhood friendship is the most beautiful memory that can't ever be replaced.