Cricket Ashes Quotes & Sayings

I'm sure a lot of the hardcore folks are going to be up in arms and I'm really looking forward to getting into that discussion with them. I don't believe I'm compromising on my gameplay ideals at all. [But] any artist who doesn't want his or her work in front of the largest audience possible is nuts. — Warren Spector

I guess we speak pretty loosely, don't we, about looking forward to the Ashes and all that - and we are, but it's not with both eyes. We've got one eye on that and one eye on what we need to get in place to make sure we're the best team we can be for November. — Ricky Ponting

In the first Test of the 1938 Ashes series, Eddie Paynter and Stan McCabe became the first players on opposing sides to score double-centuries in the same match. Bill Brown and Wally Hammond repeated the feat in the very next Test at Lord's. How quickly the once-unprecedented accumulates its precedents. — Rodney Ulyate

It is far easier to fight with sin in public - than to pray against it in private. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

I love Africa in general South Africa and West Africa, they are both great countries. — Paris Hilton

She was not a woman she was a world. — Robert Goolrick

Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality. No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him. By his love he is enabled to see the essential traits and features in the beloved person; and even more, he sees that which is potential in him, which is not yet actualized but yet ought to be actualized. Furthermore, by his love, the loving person enables the beloved person to actualize these potentialities. By making him aware of what he can be and of what he should become, he makes these potentialities come true. — Viktor E. Frankl

the next time he
points out the
hair on your legs is
growing back remind
that boy your body
is not his home
he is a guest
warn him to
never outstep
his welcome again — Rupi Kaur

Mare, don't be such a brat all the time, and stop beating up that Warren boy. — Victoria Aveyard

I have a lot of people to thank but they're none of them here so I'm not going to bother. — Emma Thompson

I am far, far away from here. I am myself again. — Susannah Cahalan

The best value for money in cooking equipment, in my mind, is first a digital scale and digital thermometer. They're both about $20. They help you cook so much more accurately that they're both enormously valuable. — Nathan Myhrvold

The captains of England and Australia can barely exchange pleasantries these days without a body-language expert immediately declaiming on the angle of their handshakes. — Lawrence Booth

A dress or a hairstyle wouldn't change a lifetime of indifference. — Ann Aguirre

There's a lot of good things about England, but I don't want to tell you too many of them. — Michael Clarke

If every nation gets the government it deserves, every generation writes the history which corresponds with its view of the world. — Elizabeth Janeway

The Aussies have spent so much time basking in the glory of the last generation that they have forgotten to plan for this one. It's just like the West Indies again; once their great names from the 1970s and 80s retired, the whole thing fell apart.

The way things are going, the next Ashes series cannot come too quickly for England. What a shame that we have to wait until 2013 to play this lot again. — Geoffrey Boycott