Brian Lara Quotes

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

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• I'm used to having a lot of criticism. It's normal. It's normal when you come from South America, when you have a country pushing very hard in your back.

  

  Pastor Maldonado
  • Country
  • America
  • Criticism

• Maybe black and white is the best medium for landscapes, I don't know.

  

  Fay Godwin
  • Black
  • Best
  • Black-and-white

• My first Broadway show wasn't until I was a freshman in high school. It was my first trip to New York. I came with a group of theatre kids, and we saw four shows. The very first one was 'Contact.'

  

  Laura Osnes
  • School
  • Kids
  • High

• We have to prove to the disinherited majority of the world that ecology and conservation will not work against their interest but will bring an improvement in their lives.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • World
  • Work
  • Improvement

• If Madonna asks anybody to go and hang out with them for a month, they'd all do it.

  

  Vicky McClure
  • Anybody
  • Month
  • Hang

• The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Time
  • Help
  • Scholars

• Language, after all, is organic. You can't force words into existence. You can't force new meanings into words. And some words can't or won't or shouldn't be laundered or neutered. Language develops naturally.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Words
  • Language
  • Existence

• As he had so many times before, Taleswapper addressed a few silent words to God, which always came down to this question: Why do you put us to so much trouble, when it all comes to naught in the end?...And, as usual, God had nothing much to say to Taleswapper when his questioning was done.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • God
  • Done
  • Why

• Men are socialized to trust women until evidence to the contrary surfaces; women are socialized to be suspicious of men until an individual man earns trust.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Trust

• Susie and I choose the vegetarian way of life because for us, there really is no other choice. We must evolve as a race and as a planet, and evolution includes learning and changing from our mistakes. We will never truly grow until we as a whole come to the realization that all beings on this Earth should be treated with love and respect.

  

  Corey Feldman
  • Life
  • Earth
  • Respect

• Please do not assume that you can change governments. Young people don’t understand this.

  

  Lee Kuan Yew
  • People

• The Truth Apparent, apparent to everyone's eyes who are not blinded by dogmatism, is that men are perhaps weary of liberty. They have a surfeit of it. Liberty is no longer the virgin, chaste and severe, to be fought for … we have buried the putrid corpse of liberty … the Italian people are a race of sheep.

  

  Benito Mussolini
  • People
  • Men
  • Truth

• If you can’t distinguish people from lap-dogs, you shouldn’t undertake philanthropic work.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • People
  • Work

• Force always attracts men of low morality.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Men
  • Force
  • Morality

• I've never done anything but what I wanted to do with my life. I don't think too many people can say that. I wrote the songs I wanted to write, for me. I had no idea that 'American Pie' would relate to anybody.

  

  Don McLean
  • People
  • Life
  • Done

• If you really get into a particular character, you also want to do your own stunts.

  

  Coco Martin
  • Character

• My stepmom's from Somalia, my baby sister is African American, my dad was always English, I'm a white man... You may have noticed.

  

  Duncan Jones
  • May
  • American
  • Dad

• It took me years to get out of the bargain basement. I always wanted to walk into a men's store and buy a cashmere sweater.

  

  Jamie Farr
  • Men

• I am a loyal man.

  

  Claudio Ranieri

• I can never understand why I should eat at one or sleep at eleven, if it is, as it often is, my one and my eleven and nobody else's. For, as between the clock and me alone, one and eleven and all other o'clocks are mine and I am not theirs. But I have known men and women living in hotels who would interrupt a sunset to go to dine, or wave away the stars in their courses to go to sleep, merely because the hour had struck.

  

  Zona Gale
  • Time
  • Men
  • Sleep

• I'm interested in Scotland now and then, how it's changed. I want to get the reader to think about that by thinking about something from the past. How has society changed, how has policing changed, have we changed philosophically, psychologically, culturally, spiritually?

  

  Ian Rankin
  • Thinking
  • Society
  • Past

• For the first twenty years, we in Guinea have concentrated on developing the mentality of our people. Now we are ready to move on to other business.

  

  Ahmed Sekou Toure
  • Ready
  • Developing
  • Mentality

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

  

  Brian Lara
  • Shane Warne
  • Lump of leather