Allan Border Quotes

There is a possibility that your ability as a player may well be analysed by future generations on your one day statistics. That's the day I dread most.

Allan Border

• Ability
• Generations
• Analysed

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I'm feeling incredibly Botox-tempted as my face collapses around my shoulders.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Feeling
  • Face
  • Shoulders

• I have lots of friends and, like me, they're not married. So my kids have lots of godparents - men and women, gay and straight. My loft is always filled with people helping me out with them and loving them.

  

  Edie Falco
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• If you spend 72 hours in a place you've never been, talking to people whose language you don't speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don't understand, and you come back as the world's biggest know-it-all, you're a reporter. Either that or you're President Obama.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • World
  • Political

• The combination of lentils with rice or bulgur is the absolute height of Levantine comfort food. I could eat it every day.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Food
  • Day
  • Everyday

• Being a celebrity can be very intoxicating and very addicting. And I've always been afraid of that, because I've grown up post-almost every child star out there who has gone wayward.

  

  Malcolm-Jamal Warner
  • Up
  • Star
  • Child

• You will have found Christ when you are concerned with other people’s sufferings and not your own.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • People
  • Suffering
  • Christ

• I've been in the business since I was 16, so I've had a 14-year career. I've always had acting in my blood. Doing this, whatever it is, was something I was drawn to since my earliest memories. Ironically, I lived in Hollywood, but never understood that all it took was getting an agent and being persistent.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Business
  • Career
  • Memories

• Often I think writing is a sheer paring away of oneself leaving always something thinner, barer, more meagre.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Writing
  • Leaving

• We live fragmented, compartmentalized lives in which contradictions are carefully sealed off from each other. We have been taught to think linearly rather than comprehensively, and we do this not through conscious design or because we are not intelligent or capable, but because of the way in which deep cultural undercurrents structure life in subtle but highly consistent ways that are not consciously formulated.

  

  Edward T. Hall
  • Life
  • Live
  • Deep

• I'm not an experimental artist. I have no talent for that. I need a certain kind of antecedent form to follow.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • Kind
  • Artist
  • Talent

• I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Life
  • Reason
  • Enjoy

• THE TRAIN came out of the long tunnel into the snow country.

  

  Yasunari Kawabata
  • Long
  • Country
  • Snow

• Dianetics is an adventure. It is an exploration into Terra Incognita, the human mind, that vast and hitherto unknown realm half an inch back of

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Mind
  • Adventure
  • Unknown

• Is there anything more insane in this life than being called Pablo Neruda?

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Insane
  • This Life

• You always think, "Oh, I'm sure I could have done that better." But generally speaking, I am very proud of this.

  

  Tom Hollander
  • Thinking
  • Done
  • Proud

• The ability to find meaning in the most difficult times, I think, is one of the most important skills of life.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Difficult

• I find that the skills and the muscularity required to be on stage, you need to keep those up - I do, personally, in order to maintain your ability to perform on screen. You don't want to always be working in the one medium.

  

  Cate Blanchett
  • Ability
  • Stage
  • Skills

• I feel more like a father to a child: my Cube inspired thousands of 'twisty puzzles,' and I'm amazed how it continues to excite new generations.

  

  Erno Rubik
  • Father
  • Child
  • Inspired

• There is a possibility that your ability as a player may well be analysed by future generations on your one day statistics. That's the day I dread most.

  

  Allan Border
  • Ability
  • Generations
  • Analysed