Lots of times I was out through forcing 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.

It's amazing that people love 'Family Guy' as much as they do. It's great.

I know a baseball star who wouldn't report the theft of his wife's credit cards because the thief spends less than she does.

You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.

The need to treat ourselves as well as we treat others. Its womens version of the Golden Rule.

A voice expressing emotion in a musical way moves on. It's like the finale of the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) - the world turns in on itself, as a universe unto itself, in the shape of one human being.

E-books present the greatest opportunity readers have ever had to find each other. It's a chance for stories written for paper to find new life and a chance for new stories to appear, freed from the constraints of paper publishing.

I like animals. I like natural history. The travel bit is not the important bit. The travel bit is what you have to do in order to go and look at animals.

Flirting is a womans trade one must keep in practice.

I only started concentrating on football as a career when I left school at 18. I played golf for the Scottish and British boys' teams.

The people of Cleveland hate soccer. But it's my favourite thing and I follow the U.S. men's national team around when they play whenever I can.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

I think that's what the most fascinating part of getting to know someone is - to see how they do things, and how their way of doing things is different from your way of doing things, and the fun of trying to do it their way and to see what value there is in looking at things from their perspective.

Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.

It's not a bad thing fighting for equality and helping the poor. It's not a bad thing to have on your professional tombstone: 'He believed in equality and he helped the poor.'

The fundamental difficulty in myothermic observations is the smallness of the changes involved and their rapidity.

Angels shine from without because their spirits are lit from within by the light of God.

Today's a new day. It's your day. You shape it. Don't let it be shaped by someone else's ignorance or fear.

I come from very conservative parents, and we weren't particularly wealthy, but we were comfortable.

I do think that we are an overmedicated society.

If my life was a song the title would probably be 'Clumsy', 'cause I'm clumsy.

Chronic pain shatters productive lives. Chronic pain almost always is accompanied by depression anxiety frustration fatigue isolation and lowered self esteem.

I just have work to do; I just do it.

My early business ventures included growing Christmas trees and breeding birds.

It wasn't until I was an adult reader that I began to fathom the influence of fairy tales on writers I was in love with over the years, from Louisa May Alcott to Bernard Malamud to John Cheever to Anne Frank to Joy Williams.