Mostly, though, college was me trying to look cooler than I was. There were definitely some Carhartt jeans and backward kangol caps in my repertoire.
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.
We remember not the scores and the results in after years; it is the men who remain in our minds, in our imagination.
There ought to be some other means of reckoning quality in this the best and loveliest of games; the scoreboard is an ass.
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'.
Evolution is an inference from thousands of independent sources, the only conceptual structure that can make unified sense of all this disparate information.
Our national security is at risk when we rely on foreign oil to keep our economy moving forward.
I knew enough about adults to know that if did tell them what had happened, I would not be believed. Adults rarely seemed to believe me when I told the truth anyway.
Not to know what happened before you were born is always to remain a child. For what is a man’s life if it is not linked with the life of future generations by memories of the past?