I was not depressed when they got me out. I have always taken my dismissals as part of the game.

Still, I believe it is only a passing phase and cricket will one day produce an abundance of great players.

It is amazing how the public steadfastly refuse to attend the third day of a match when so often the last day produces the best and most exciting cricket.

We always had to play the game and play for the team. It is a Kent tradition.

It was never a policy of the Kent team that the pitch must be occupied all day after winning the toss.

I don't think I ever worked harder at any match during my career to get runs as I did then, nor did I ever have to face in one game such consistently fast bowlers as the Australian pair, Gregory and McDonald.

Square cuts which ordinarily would have flashed to the boundary earned only two, and I believe that those two innings would have been worth 150 apiece in a county match.

I was not depressed when they got me out. I have always taken my dismissals as part of the game.

In the old days we were probably educated in cricket in a far more serious way than now.

Those were the great days when plenty of amateurs could spare time for cricket.

I cannot let this opportunity pass without placing on record how much I have enjoyed my cricket with Kent.

Lots of times I was out through forcing the game.

I want you for always days years eternities.

So you shouldn't really flatter yourself that they want to be your buddy. They don't. Generally. They want you for some reason or other, and you just have to fend that off all the time.

Profit or perish... There are only two ways to make money: increase sales and decrease costs.

As a society we should be encouraging people out of the debt-culture mindset, not promoting it.

We should not replicate the situation where one country is in a situation to hijack the rest of Europe because they organize a referendum.

I try to live intentionally, and the things that move me, I'm going to throw myself at them. I want to see what my potential is. I'm always curious to see what the edge is.

Here's the problem if you keep raising tax rates: You slow down economic growth.

People will dig their heels in and fight for the things they love and against the things they hate.

The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.

Dreams make those eyes more enchanting than mascara ever can.

I didn't have any pets growing up.

I'm not what you'd call a Method actor.

That's why, to experience that, you know for a fact that a human being is capable of so much more, because to go to that place and to step outside yourself and observe yourself do these things, while the rest of the world is moving in slow motion, is really incredible.

Human nature is such that people are born with a love of profit If they follow these inclinations, they will struggle and snatch from each other, and inclinations to defer or yield will die.

Your life does not get better by chance; it gets better by change.

I wrote 'All is Lost' while editing 'Margin Call'. I did that long before I knew if I was ever going to get to make another movie.

I love milk so much! I make a point of drinking a glass of milk every day. So now anyone who did those milk ads with the milk mustaches, they're my heroes.

I am autobiographical in the way a dream transforms experience and emotions all the time.

I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.

A stitch in time saves nine

A man must be strong in that profession, he must have vigor of body and mind, yet I am all out of breath if I walk up a hill; I have not the heart to crush even a fly.

I don't think the goal is, 'How big a star did you ever become?' I think the goal is, 'Were you able to express yourself?' And if you're able to say yes, in any field, you've won. If you paint, write, do mosaics, knit - if it's solving that part of your brain saying, 'I need to do this,' you've won.

Wisdom is a blaze, kindled by a leaping spark.

When I go back into education, I'm going to do business studies.