Match Report Quotes

#1. It's extremely difficult to describe interestingly what happens on the pitch. Thousands of journalists write millions of words every week trying to do it, so your chances of avoiding cliche are very slim. And you're trying to write fiction, not a match report.

Mal Peet

#2. Enjoy in happiness the pleasures which each hour brings with it.

Horace

#3. A lie, as you probably know, has a taste all its own. Blocky and bitter and never quite right, like when you pop a piece of fancy chocolate into your mouth expecting toffee filling and you get lemon zest instead.

Jodi Picoult

#4. We imagine that things come into existence, endure for a while, and then pass out of existence

Steve Hagen

#5. If the past year were offered me again,
And choice of good and ill before me set
Would I accept the pleasure with the pain
Or dare to wish that we had never met?

Lady Augusta Gregory

#6. With so many people lulled into believing everything they found on the Web, he expected computer shrines to pop up in homes soon. Worship the new Oracle of Dell-phi.

B.V. Lawson

#7. Passion is momentary; love is enduring.

John Wooden

#8. I had no real idea I was going to become a writer. It was just a game for me. I just liked pretending, daydreaming and imagining.

Rabindranath Maharaj

#9. Oratory is the art of making a loud noise sound like a deep thought.

Bennett Cerf

#10. You're undressing me," he said thickly.
"It can't be helped."
"Wasn't complaining.

Tessa Dare

#11. If the birth of a genius resembles that of an idiot, the end of a Havana Corona resembles that of a 5-cent cigar.

Sacha Guitry

#12. I know now that this isn't true love or perfection or happily ever after. It's not even meant to be. This is a broken condom at the end of a drunken night. This is a generational walk of shame with two hundred spectators

Christina Meredith

#13. -perhaps by sitting down to enjoy one of the microwavable organic TV dinners(four words I never expected to see conjoined)stacked in the frozen food case.

Michael Pollan

#14. Worms have played a more important part in the history of the world than humans would at first suppose.

Charles Darwin