Richie Benaud Quotes

From our broadcasting box you can't see any grass at all. It is simply a carpet of humanity.

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• I'd love to see a good script of one of my books, in these years of animations and comic book sequels, and had so many written over the years, but none quite clicked.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Good
  • Books
  • Written

• I love Mount Fuji and I think it is my love of the mountains in Japan that led me to seek other mountains around the world.

  

  Tamae Watanabe
  • World
  • Love
  • Me

• Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • You
  • Swimming
  • Naked

• I see myself as a hip-hop artist, but I never wanted to make music for a specifically white audience. That's not what I grew up around.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Up
  • Music
  • Myself

• Jellicle Cats come out tonight, Jellicle Cats come one come all: The Jellicle Moon is shining bright - Jellicles come to the Jellicle Ball.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Moon

• You can keep the dining room clean by eating in the kitchen.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Kitchen

• Most comic writers like to think they could play it straight if only their public would let them. Waugh is able to be grave without difficulty for he has always been comic for serious reasons. He has his own, almost romantic sense of propriety.

  

  V. S. Pritchett
  • Serious
  • Romantic

• Indeed the Idols I have loved so long Have done my credit in this World much wrong: Have drown'd my Glory in a shallow Cup And sold my Reputation for a Song.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • World
  • Long
  • Done

• The worst programs are the ones where the programmers doing the original work don't lay a solid foundation, and then they're not involved in the program in the future.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Work
  • Future

• Indeed, it is not intellect, but intuition which advances humanity. Intuition tells man his purpose in this life.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Life
  • Purpose
  • Humanity

• If you look - look at - I mean, look at what's going on with your gasoline prices. They're going to go to $5, $6, $7 and we don't have anybody in Washington that calls OPEC and says, 'Fellas, it's time. It's over. You're not going to do it anymore.'

  

  Donald Trump
  • Time

• People wouldn't hire me for comedies. They would say, 'Oh, he doesn't do comedy,' and now it's really all I do.

  

  Kevin Dillon
  • People
  • Comedy

• I started to perform when I was 12... I don't talk too much. I let the music do the talking.

  

  Patty Loveless
  • Music

• I wasn't interested in having children of my own. I know what would have happened - I'd have been left at home to look after the kids, and my career would have been over while my husband travelled the world.

  

  Marie Helvin
  • World
  • Children
  • Home

• With my first pay cheque I sent my parents to Jamaica, so they actually got passports! They're pretty grounded; it wasn't until they saw the trailer for 'Battleship' that they were like, 'Ooh, this is a big movie, isn't it?'

  

  Brooklyn Decker
  • Movie
  • Pretty
  • Parents

• One of my favourite things about living in the U.K. is having that chance to go to festivals.

  

  Katherine Ryan

• I am fascinated by the Royal Family because they are shrouded in mystique, and the Queen, and to a certain extent William, represent fabulous blank canvases. I find the Prince of Wales less fascinating because he spills the beans and we know too much about him.

  

  Alison Jackson
  • Family
  • Prince

• I love presents, But since I've gotten older, I haven't really wanted anything. Christmas is about family.

  

  Jacob Latimore
  • Family
  • Christmas

• Finals are not to be played; they are to be won.

  

  Alfredo Di Stefano
  • Played
  • Won
  • Finals

• Yeah, I have a tough-girl image.

  

  Miranda Lambert
  • Girl

• I've never directed before, so I need to make sure that people know that I can. The movie that I've written, 'The Sophisticates,' is a... small ensemble comedy and I hope it's charming and funny.

  

  Lena Headey
  • People
  • Movie
  • Hope

• There have been various pesticides that have been properly tested, that have been registered and then have been used and later on they've been discoveredthat they can create harm, like in the case of this Oftanol that was being used here (in Sacramento, against the Japanese beetle). Now they find that it can cause problems at least to animals. So we stopped using it.

  

  George Deukmejian
  • Problem
  • Animal
  • Cases

• Four is a powerful figure in literature and physical form

  

  Miles Teller
  • Powerful
  • Literature
  • Figures

• From our broadcasting box you can't see any grass at all. It is simply a carpet of humanity.

  

  Richie Benaud
  • Humanity
  • Cricket
  • Boxes