Brian Lara Quotes

As our national anthem played before the match, I looked up and saw him. I knew I was part of a great occasion.

Brian Lara

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• If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed before the individual religions. The religions were only invented by people afterwards, in order to express this idea.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Good
  • History

• When it becomes hard for me not to eat bad food, I try to think about what I have to do and what is ahead of me and what I want to achieve.

  

  Sally Pearson
  • Bad
  • Think
  • Food

• I understand the common man because I understand me in that regard at least.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Man
  • Understand
  • Least

• A lot of people are like, "You're doing commercials?" And I honestly feel like those Sierra Mist commercials are better than a lot of sitcoms I get offered. It's hard work, and I'm paid a lot of money, and I do it because I love the soda.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Feels
  • Honestly
  • Sitcom

• They are Man's and they cling to me, appealing from their fathers. This boy is Ignorance and this girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Girl
  • Ignorance
  • Fathers

• Will cast the spear and leave the rest to Jove.

  

  Homer
  • Rest
  • Spear
  • Jove

• The real world is where I get to educate and entertain myself. I go and touch the real world and touch real people. That's my way into movies.

  

  Tony Scott
  • People
  • World
  • Real

• When the BBC decided to bring Doctor Who back as a feature film a few years ago, one national newspaper ran a poll to ask its readers who should be the new Doctor, and I topped it.

  

  Simon Callow
  • Film
  • Reader
  • Doctors

• It becomes no man to nurse despair, but, in the teeth of clenched antagonisms, to follow up the worthiest till he die.

  

  Alfred the Great
  • Die
  • Despair
  • Worthiest

• That zone sagged off us late in the game. We were looking for Tyler, but they had a guy sitting in his lap and a guy behind him. So it was tough to get him the ball.

  

  Bobby Frasor
  • Game
  • Ball
  • Sitting

• Stones grow, plants grow, and live, animals grow live and feel.

  

  Carl Linnaeus
  • Animals
  • Stones
  • Plants

• The Lord gave us farmers two strong hands so we could grab as much as we could with both of them.

  

  Joseph Heller
  • Work
  • Strong
  • Lord

• Whoe'er thou art, thy Lord and master see, Thou wast my Slave, thou art, or thou shalt be.

  

  George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne
  • See
  • Lord
  • Slave

• A system composed of 100,000 lines of C++ is not be sneezed at, but we don't have that much trouble developing 100,000 lines of COBOL today. The real test of OOP will come when systems of 1 to 10 million lines of code are developed.

  

  Edward Yourdon
  • Trouble
  • System
  • Code

• The Victorian world is extremely dark and extremely bright.

  

  Harry Treadaway
  • Dark
  • Bright
  • Victorian world

• The only reason I figured out I didn't like my old records to listen was I could hear how nervous I was and how uncomfortable I was. And who would want to sit around and listen to yourself being uncomfortable?

  

  John Prine
  • Reason
  • Records
  • Nervous

• Every match that I have, I always feel like I'm more nervous than the last one.

  

  Bayley
  • Nervous
  • Match
  • Last One

• As our national anthem played before the match, I looked up and saw him. I knew I was part of a great occasion.

  

  Brian Lara
  • Match
  • National Anthem