John Arlott Quotes

#1. It is rather suitable for umpires to dress like dentists, since one of their tasks is to draw stumps.

John Arlott

#2. It's the way a man chooses to limit himself that determines his character. A man without habits, consistency, redundancy - and hence boredom - is not human. He's insane.

Luke Rhinehart

#3. Bill Frindall has done a bit of mental arithmetic with a calculator

John Arlott

#4. Wine is a successful effort to translate the perishable into the permanent.

John Arlott

#5. I know if I were to drop dead now, people would probably write nice things in the obit.

Martin Short

#6. The batsman's technique was like an old lady poking her umbrella at a wasp's nest.

John Arlott

#7. My hovercraft is full of eels.

John Cleese

#8. A stroke of a man knocking a thistle top with a walking stick

John Arlott

#9. Oh, how with more than dreams the soul is torn, ere sleep comes down to soothe the weary eyes.

Paul Laurence Dunbar

#10. Ray Illingworth is relieving himself in front of the pavilion.

John Arlott

#11. Fred Trueman the man has often been tactless, haphazard, crude, a creature of impulse.

John Arlott

#12. The best tribute we can pay Madiba is to ensure that our political debate focuses on issues of how best we can ensure that each South African child, whatever the circumstances of their birth, inherits freedom they can use.

Helen Zille

#13. The umpire signals a bye with the air of a weary stalk

John Arlott

#14. She was owner and captive, both, of a bitterly divided heart.

Guy Gavriel Kay

#15. Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Thomas Jefferson

#16. All my life I have had the utmost admiration for suicides. I have always considered them superior to me in every way.

Thomas Bernhard

#17. Umpire Harold Bird, having a wonderful time, signalling everything in the world, including stopping traffic coming on from behind.

John Arlott

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John Arlott

#19. It's never too late to be wise. Find someone who makes your feel like you're coming home.

Yrsa Daley-Ward

#20. Cricket is a most precarious profession; it is called a team game but, in fact, no one is so lonely as a batsman facing a bowler supported by ten fieldsmen and observed by two umpires to ensure that his error does not go unpunished.

John Arlott

#21. We take life too lightly and sport too seriously.

John Arlott

#22. I have a very basic leg. But it has a silicon cover on it. I have a flat foot leg, a high heel leg and then I have a leg which, in the winter, I have to ski in and in the summer I swap it into my roller blades.

Heather Mills

#23. Perhaps it's art; but if it isn't, at least it's something else equally interesting to me!

George Rickey

#24. I would if somebody would want to but of course nobody would want to so I wouldn't want to force anybody to want to.

Susanna Kaysen

#25. The marketplace judges technologies by their practical effectiveness, by whether they succeed or fail to do the job they are designed to do.

Freeman Dyson