The whole of our national sport is not doing very well.

The whole of our national sport is not doing very well.

Sympathetic cracks. A term frequently used by architects and surveyors in terms of ageing houses. I know what they mean.

I think we are all slightly down in the dumps after another loss. We may be in the wrong sign... Venus may be in the wrong juxtaposition with somewhere else.

Endless cricket, like endless anything else, simply grinds you down.

Once again our cricketers have flattered to deceive in Australia.

But if you are going to wear blinders then you do not know the world.

Music is a very big participant in everything I do, from the moment I wake up to the moment I go to bed.

I don't think any collector knows his true motivation.

In my late teenage years, I developed a real passion for it, and wrote a lot of poetry.

The meaning of the Street in all ways and at all times is the need for sharing life with others and the search for community.

Despite the metadata attached to each tweet, and despite trails of retweets and 'favorite' tweets, the Twitter corpus lacks the latticework of hyperlinks that makes Google's algorithms so potent. Twitter's famous hashtags - #sandyhook or #fiscalcliff or #girls - are the crudest sort of signposts, not much help for smart searching.

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

If the United Nations does not attempt to chart a course for the world's people in the first decades of the new millennium, who will?

Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man.

I have a certain taste, and I might be like, 'I like this,' when other people are like, 'I can't wear that.' And in basketball, I might be able to do things other guys might not.

The sentimentalist ages far more quickly than the person who loves his work and enjoys new challenges.

Designers have a reputation for setting the tone for what people - and especially women - are supposed to wear. How long their skirts should be, things like that. I have a different philosophy: put something out there with humour; let people see that and come around to it on their own.

I'm more a 1950s hourglass shape.

Though your game is hardly the best, you can fray your opponent's nerves, by methodically bouncing the ball, at least ten times before your serves.

I don't think I'm a flaming radical.

We have a huge tech following that do nothing but Digg tech stories, and then there's another pool of users that remove the tech section from their view of Digg, because you can go on and customize your own experience and remove sections you don't like.

Michael John's music is soul-stirring. It gets inside the deepest part of you; it's almost a chemical reaction.

Africa is to be pitied, worshipped or dominated.

I love grocery shopping when I'm home. That's what makes me feel totally normal. I love both the idea of home as in being with my family and friends, and also the idea of exploration. I think those two are probably my great interests.

My mom would have liked it that I patterned myself more after Jimmy Reed.

I have to admit, like so many women, I always knew there was a chance. But like so many women, I never thought it would be me. I never thought I'd hear those devastating words: 'You have breast cancer.'

I can only get my drummer in the winter; he plays with Grand Funk all summer.

A lot of people don't realize it, but I've a lot less success than I've have had success.

If the civil authorities refuse to protect me, I must look to God, and if I die, I have determined to make my grave in Alton.