Cardus Quotes & Sayings

To feel today what one felt yesterday isn't to feel - it's to remember today what was felt yesterday, to be today's living corpse of what yesterday was lived and lost. — Fernando Pessoa

The goal is to have fun with my friends.And that means sometimes talking about things that you care about. — Stephen Colbert

Call me a bad private eye, but I came to the conclusion that nobody is happy with what they've got. You have a healthy relationship, then, you look for a spicy one. You have an unhealthy relationship, your struggle is to find a peaceful one. — Merce Cardus

Beauty just implies truth. — Merce Cardus

Whoever makes you laugh hard, he will make you cry madly. — Merce Cardus

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. — Neville Cardus

Excessive hype, bankruptcy, cash burning like autumn leaves - such is the stuff of short-selling. — Gary Weiss

The Australian temper is at bottom grim. It is as though the sun has dried up his nature. — Neville Cardus

It is far more than a game, this cricket. — Neville Cardus

A great composition to me is.. an incarnation of a genius, of all that was ever in him of the slightest consequence. — Neville Cardus

The laws of cricket tell of the English love of compromise between a particular freedom and a general orderliness, or legality. — Neville Cardus

Cricket more than any other game is inclined towards sentimentalism and cant. — Neville Cardus

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

I understand now that a Trojan of literary achievement writes out of passion, out of necessity. — Merce Cardus

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

Such reproductions may not interest the reader; but after all, this is my autobiography, not his; he is under no obligation to read further in it; he was under none to begin. A modest or inhibited autobiography is written without entertainment to the writer and read with distrust by the reader. — Neville Cardus

HELEN HAYES: "Which part of The Divine Comedy do you like the most, Tiziano?"
TIZIANO CONTI: "The fifth Canto."
HELEN HAYES: "The Hell, huh?"
TIZIANO CONTI: "L'inferno depicts the truth. — Merce Cardus

But if you loved me Why'd you leave me? — Steve Garrigan

The elements are cricket's presiding geniuses. — Neville Cardus

I can't beat you, I can't join you. — Harper Lee

Every time he left, I shattered apart. — Rachel Higginson

Even an ordinary broken chord is made to disclose rare beauties; we are reminded of the fairies' hazelnuts in which diamonds were concealed but you could break the shell only if your hands were blessed. — Neville Cardus

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. — Neville Cardus

Professional psychologists seem to think that they are the only people who make sense out of human actions. The rest of us know that everybody tries to do just this. What else is gossip? — Dorothy Canfield Fisher

There ought to be some other means of reckoning quality in this the best and loveliest of games; the scoreboard is an ass. — Neville Cardus

When I gave up a grand slam to Pete LaCock, I knew it was time to quit. — Bob Gibson

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. — Neville Cardus

Retiring is a strange word. I'm 27 years old. I've still got stuff to do. — Aaron Peirsol

If a German or an Austrian, a Greek or a Bashibazouk, had composed Gerontius, the whole world would have by now admitted its qualities. — Neville Cardus

No matter where we come from, a little sugar is what everybody demands in life, what everybody needs in life. It's perhaps the main ingredient that keeps us alive. — Merce Cardus

There was something about Ash that made every hormone in her body stand up and pant for more — Sherrilyn Kenyon

The great passions had never been moved by a perfect body but by an evolved mind. — Merce Cardus

[Showing the apartment to Tiziano ]
MARLEEN WALKER: "Let me alert you that animals are banned in this building."
TIZIANO CONTI: "Am I breaking the law right now? — Merce Cardus

Real life ... it was an ambiguous world, where actions sometimes had no meaning, where chaos reigned and no one was allowed to see the big picture, only their small portion of it. — Bentley Little

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

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. — Neville Cardus

Stern observes that unformulated experience is not only a source of defense, but also a source of creativity. We must allow the unformulated to organize itself. — Elizabeth F. Howell

To love is to risk. — Merce Cardus

endured - how I endured! - for one day I knew her services would no longer be required and I would make my come-out and at least I would have a brief time when I could meet girls of my own age. But Miss Stamp was raised to the rank of companion and still had the schooling — Marion Chesney

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

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

One of the big things about space exploration is that it is as expensive as it is complicated, and you need all the countries of the world to help if you want to accomplish big goals. — Ellen Stofan