Quotes About A Bowler

#1. To escape jury duty in England, wear a bowler hat and carry a copy of the Daily telegraph.

John Mortimer

#2. The trouble with you, dear, is that you think an angel of the Lord as a creature with wings, whereas he is probably a scruffy little man with a bowler hat.

Josephine Tey

#3. I like to be a bowler because I can't bat properly. After 17 years of cricket I have got the opportunities and made the wickets fall.

Muttiah Muralitharan

#4. 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

#5. If I had a bowler hat, I'd take it off to the author of this beautifully crafted steampunk novel.

Chris D'Lacey

#6. My turn . . ." Ron peered into Harry's teacup, his forehead wrinkled with effort. "There's a blob a bit like a bowler hat," he said. "Maybe you're going to work for the Ministry of Magic. . . ." He

J.K. Rowling

#7. A bowler is his own captain. I know what needs to be done, what the ball is doing. If you don't know where you are going to bowl and where you think the batsman will hit, then how can you tell the captain what you want? You are the judge.

Harbhajan Singh

#8. A bowler can make or break a chap.

John Newton

#9. Even Mahatma Gandhi - hardly a comfortable character - always wore a bowler hat with his loin cloth when practising as a barrister in London.

William Donaldson

#10. As a cure for the cold, take your toddy to bed, put one bowler hat at the foot, and drink until you see two.

R. H. Bruce Lockhart

#11. Diana wore a men's bowler with the intials H. W. S. sewn into the lining and an old French army coat.

Anna Godbersen

#12. Paul Harris is a buffet bowler - you just help yourself.

Geoffrey Boycott

#13. For recreation, Lincoln took up bowling with his fellow boarders. Though a clumsy bowler, according to Dr. Busey, Lincoln "played the game with great zest and spirit" and "accepted success and defeat with like good nature and humor.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#14. I was a really avid bowler when I was a teenager. I had about a 210-220 average. I had blisters on my fingers.

Dennis Quaid

#15. I forget it's Shane Warne and just think of him as any old bowler lobbing down a lump of leather.

Brian Lara

#16. I even had the illusion, for a very short time, that I could become a medium pace bowler.

Perry Christie

#17. I would say I am an ordinary bowler but one with a really big heart, and that's what has stood me in good stead in all these years.

Harbhajan Singh

#18. In fact, as a spin bowler, you have to work on the batsman over after over.

Richie Benaud

#19. I feel like I swallowed a Magritte. Like on the inside, I'm made of clouds and floating eyes, green apples, and slowly rising men in bowler hats.

Libba Bray

#20. The bowler approached the wicket at a lope, a trot, and then a run. He suddenly exploded in a flurry of arms and legs, out of which flew a ball.

Douglas Adams

#21. While the liberal media elite depict the bowler as a chubby guy with a comb-over and polyester pants, the reality is that bowling is one of the most tech-heavy sports today. Robotic pinsetters and computerized scoring were just the beginning.

Chris Hardwick

#22. Sabina was now by herself. She went back to the mirror, still in her underwear. She put the bowler hat back on her head and had a long look at herself. She was amazed at the number of years she had spent pursuing one lost moment.

Milan Kundera

#23. Harmy is a class bowler and I think he's one of the main reasons why England have improved over the last 18 months.

Glenn McGrath

#24. Watching me play, Stormy had once said that if I were to become a regular bowler, I would spend far more time in the gutter than would the average alcoholic hobo.

Dean Koontz

#25. Now I do bowling, golf, and tennis. I want to be a good bowler.

Andy Lau

#26. I'm about a 160, 170 bowler so I feel like I'm pretty good - I'm average, but I don't stink, you know?

Warren Moon

#27. To be a great fast bowler, you need a big heart and a big bottom.

Fred Trueman

#28. Like the periwig and the bowler hat, the plus-four and the bow-tie, the blazer is on the way out, and those who persist in wearing it do so with a smattering of self-consciousness, a touch of obstinacy, even a pinch of camp.

Craig Brown

#29. I'm a great bowler. I was in a couple of leagues as a kid.

Matthew Morrison

#30. If this bloke's a Test match bowler, then my backside is a fire engine

David Lloyd

#31. And do I look like the kind of man that can be intimidated?" barked Uncle Vernon.
"Well ... " said Moody, pushing back his bowler hat to reveal his sinisterly revolving eye. Uncle Vernon lept backward in horror and collided painfully with a luggage trolley. "Yes, I'd have to say you do, Dursley.

J.K. Rowling

#32. New Zealand's Daniel Vettori is a very good bowler.

Sachin Tendulkar

#33. I headed out to have a breather at the stage door, dressed in my tramp costume. I had my bowler hat between my feet and there were passers-by, and one of them turned back and said, 'Do you need help, brother?' And $1 fell into my hat!

Ian McKellen