Players like Alastair Cook do not come around very often. To play for so long and achieve so much says everything about his fitness, concentration, discipline and skill. Jonathan Agnew Read Quote
When George Hirsch ran the New York City Marathon in 1976, the first year the course snaked through all five boroughs, the event was a lean affair. He and two thousand others dodged wayward bicycles and pedestrians on the streets, with little help from an anemic police presence. Mary Pilon Read Quote
Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who’s sorry for a gnat or girl? Elizabeth Barrett Browning Read Quote
I’m not a big celebration person, I don’t need a big party. I just want to hang. Loren Gray Read Quote
I don’t necessarily want to make people stomp and clap. I simply want to engage people. Patrick deWitt Read Quote
Despite what some investors say, older age is an advantage in the startup world. You know more about industries and markets, and have ideas for products that the world actually needs and a better ability to motivate and manage than a kid out of school does. Vivek Wadhwa Read Quote
I don’t understand my own sporadic collapses into passivity. Perhaps I never will. Helen Garner Read Quote
It might be useful to be able to predict war. But tension does not necessarily lead to war, but often to peace and to denouement. Nassim Nicholas Taleb Read Quote
