Top 16 Alastair Cook Cricket Quotes
#1. Men, generally going with the stream, seldom judge for themselves, and purity of taste is almost as rare as talent.
Voltaire
#2. Down with a world in which the guarantee that we will not die of starvation has been purchased with the guarantee that we will die of boredom.
Raoul Vaneigem
#3. There is a place where Contrarieties are equally True ...
William Blake
#4. He has played some outstanding innings in the past, and I've got no [sic] confidence whatsoever that he'll come back and play very well in the near future.
Andrew Strauss
#5. If she could've found the will power to speak, the brain cells to construct thought, she would've told Clay he was a god. It was a good thing she was too wiped out or he would never let her forget it
Nalini Singh
#6. I will be gutted if Roy does go because I would far rather he stayed at Old Trafford.
(on Roy Keane leaving Manchester United)
Rio Ferdinand
#7. If you get a ticket, you can go to traffic school, and they make you watch movies for like eight hours: head-on collisions, mannequins flying out the windshield. At the end of the movie, the instructor goes, 'Now what have we learned by this?' Never let a mannequin drive your car.
Robert Schimmel
#8. As long as you live under my roof, you'll do what I say!" he shouted.
Then I'll find another roof, I thought.
"You understand me?" he said.
"Yes sir, I understand" I said, and I did too. I understand that a new rooftop would do wonders for me.
Sue Monk Kidd
#9. In general, people chose friends of similar age and race. But if the friend lived down the hall, then age and race became a lot less important. Proximity overpowered similarity.
Anonymous
#10. Toil and pleasure, in their natures opposite, are yet linked together in a kind of necessary connection.
Livy
#11. I'm now asking an idle question of my own: which is better
cheap happiness, or lofty suffering? Well, which is better?
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#12. For me, it's always about what's on the page. I have tremendous respect for writing. When you recognize good writing, and you're lucky enough to get it, like with 'Lost,' that's what I follow.
Nestor Carbonell
#13. There are no limits to God's compassion with Paradises over their one universally felt want: he immediately created other animals besides. God's first blunder: Man didn't find the animals amusing, - he dominated them and didn't even want to be an 'animal.'
Friedrich Nietzsche
#15. The secret of a person's success is discovered in their daily agenda.
John C. Maxwell
#16. I'm such a generalist. I love everything. If I had the opportunity, I think I would do about 10 different degrees, five different master's degrees, probably as many Ph.D.s, and you can't do that.
Elise Andrew