Richie Benaud Quotes

Gatting at fine leg - that's a contradiction in terms.

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• We've become slaves to words like 'local,' 'fresh,' and 'seasonal.' We all want to be Thomas Jefferson's agrarian hero, but sustainable food is a difficult beast.

  

  Barton Seaver
  • Words
  • Food
  • Hero

• Yes, I did try acting when I was in high school and I was terrible at it. So I definitely have had the experience of being bad at artistic endeavor.

  

  Dana Spiotta
  • School
  • Experience
  • Bad

• 'You’re confusing me.''But not deliberately so,' Coyote says. 'Let it go on record that any confusion arose simply because we lacked certain commonalities of reference.'

  

  Charles de Lint

• We must prepare ourselves to assist the missionaries in finding those of our Heavenly Father's children who will embrace the message of the Restoration.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • Children
  • Father
  • Restoration

• Scrabble - The game is available in Braille. That’s a nice fact. This makes me feel better about humanity for some reason. I can’t really explain why.

  

  A. J. Jacobs
  • Why
  • Game
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• I’ve come to the conclusion that people who wear headphones while they walk, are much happier, more confident, and more beautiful individuals than someone making the solitary drudge to work without acknowledging their own interests and power.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • People
  • Work
  • Music

• We were born with a natural tendency to focus on love. Our imaginations were creative and flourishing, and we knew how to use them. We were connected to a richer world, a world full of enchantment and a sense of the miraculous. What happened?

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • World
  • Born
  • Sense

• There is no problem with the opening of new houses of prayer for Lutherans and Pentecostals.

  

  Vladimir Zhirinovsky
  • House
  • Problem
  • Prayer

• It's always funny to me when people use the phrase 'Best guitar player in the world'. There are too many variables such as technique, uniqueness, emotional investment in the notes, etc. But If I had to pick one, it would be Tommy Emmanuel. Watching him perform can be a study in artistic and virtuosic human achievement.

  

  Steven Siro Vai Alcatrazz
  • People
  • Player
  • Study

• Carrying The Beatles' or the Sixties' dream around all your life is like carrying the Second World War and Glenn Miller around. That's not to say you can't enjoy Glenn Miller or The Beatles, but to live in that dream is the twilight zone. It's not living now. It's an illusion.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Life
  • Dream
  • The Beatles

• It's got fewer miles than any of the other ambulances.

  

  Sam Reed
  • Miles
  • Fewer
  • Ambulances

• Everybody should have health care, on the one hand. But on the other hand, if you ask Americans, "Are you willing to pay for it?," they say no. So I've never been able to understand this contradiction.

  

  Uwe Reinhardt
  • Health
  • Hand
  • Care

• My job is not to predict everything that might happen in the future, but to address what we can do today.

  

  Wolfgang Schauble
  • Today
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• Gatting at fine leg - that's a contradiction in terms.

  

  Richie Benaud
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