Umpire Harold Bird, having a wonderful time, signalling everything in the world, including stopping traffic coming on from behind.

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The batsman's technique was like an old lady poking her umbrella at a wasp's nest.

Wine is a successful effort to translate the perishable into the permanent.

We take life too lightly and sport too seriously.

A stroke of a man knocking a thistle top with a walking stick

Bill Frindall has done a bit of mental arithmetic with a calculator

It is rather suitable for umpires to dress like dentists, since one of their tasks is to draw stumps.

The umpire signals a bye with the air of a weary stalk

Ray Illingworth is relieving himself in front of the pavilion.

Fred Trueman the man has often been tactless, haphazard, crude, a creature of impulse.

Look at him now, poor fellow. That's what a dose of reality does for you...Never touch the stuff myself, you understand. Find it gets in the way of the hallucinations.

A child can die even in the safest place on earth- its mother's womb!

Pan took the joke good-naturedly, probably deciding it wasn't a good idea to argue with a fifteen-year-old who had just pulled two people up ten feet.

It's always tough for me to make a movie, and then sit on an airplane and watch somebody watch it on their phone.

Aid should shift to investment. This will help countries stand on their own.

Little vicious minds abound with anger and revenge and are incapable of feeling te pleasure of forgiving their enemies.

Prends l'e loquence et tords-lui son cou! Take eloquence and break its neck!

Violent pleasures which reach the soul through the body are generally of this sort-they are reliefs of pain.

There are seductions that should be in the Smithsonian Institute, right next to The Spirit of St. Louis.

My problem is desserts. I am obsessed with desserts.