Geoffrey Boycott Quotes

I always loved the Yorkshire members and was passionate about playing for the county, but the people who were running the club made it at times unbearable for me. The rulers had a history of doing what they wanted and sacking players seemingly on a whim.

Geoffrey Boycott

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: athlete
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: October 21, 1940

Topics

HistoryPeopleMeLovedDoingClub

I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.

John Muir

NatureTreeTravelFastNeverSaw

I know a lot of crime writers feel very underrated, like they're not taken seriously, and they want to be just thought of as writers rather than ghettoised as crime writers, but I love being thought of firmly as a crime writer.

Sophie Hannah

LoveThoughtFeelKnowSeriously

My view is that you have to deal with who you are. It's hard work, in a way, but somebody has to do it.

Sonia Rykiel

WorkHard WorkViewYouWayHard

My high school was a private school where you went to an Ivy League. That's just what was expected of you and nothing less. So I grew up never being okay with a 'B' because a 'B' was not good enough.

Troian Bellisario

GoodSchoolNot Good EnoughEnough

In bachata, you had these guys that used to wear suits and had a really traditional style. We looked different. Baggy jeans. We had the Spanglish going on, and I knew that was going to work to our advantage.

Romeo Santos

WorkStyleSuitsYouJeansGoing

The first time I went through YC, it was smaller, and the founders were younger. The advantage of that was that the set of founders who were older than us had really seen the Web 1.0 meltdown. They brought that knowledge to us.

Michael Seibel

KnowledgeTimeFirst TimeFirstWeb

I listen to Ustad Vilayat Khan's 'Raga Khamaj' and 'Raga Jaijaiwanti' virtually every morning, a lot of Abdullah Ibrahim, Michael Kiwanuka, Savages, and contemporary Ugandan pop.

Mira Nair

MorningListenPopContemporaryKhan

I think to really be literate in nu shu you only need about 600 characters because it is phonetic. So you're able to then create many words out of one character.

Lisa See

CharacterWordsThinkYouCreate

Well, one of the things I did was recreate her home in my home.

Debbie Reynolds

HomeThingsHerWellDidRecreate

No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim.

Boris Pasternak

LoveCompassionWorldDeepStrong

My private life became public.

Brigitte Bardot

LifePrivate LifePublicPrivate

Actually, I think that 'Seinfeld' tackles the same kinds of issues as 'Six Feet Under,' just in a different way.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

FeetThinkWaySameDifferentJust

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