All Quotes

Cricket is a pressure game, and when it comes to an India-Pakistan match the pressure is doubled.
‐‐ Imran Khan

Cricket is a self-sustaining industry; but corporates need to realise that other sports don't have that luxury. This is the time when they need to invest, and keep the faith. Every sport has the potential to create world champions. Imagine India as a country full of world champions. Why imagine? Let's just make it happen.
‐‐ Gagan Narang

Cricket is basically baseball on valium.
‐‐ Robin Williams

Cricket is just something that I am good at, just like various people are good at various things. What's lucky is that cricket gets enormous publicity.
‐‐ Rahul Dravid

Cricket is my first love.
‐‐ Yohan Blake

Cricket is my life. Before the cancer, I was happy-go-lucky. I used to think about my career and worry about the future. But post it, my thinking has completely changed. I'm happy to eat and breathe normally. I'm happy to have my life back.
‐‐ Yuvraj Singh

Cricket is my passion; it is my first love. So I will not act in my movies, as they will just be a side business for me.
‐‐ Harbhajan Singh

Cricket is not a rational sport in India, and we go overboard.
‐‐ Harsha Bhogle

Cricket is very simple... you play till you can sustain.
‐‐ Kapil Dev

Cricket, like all sport, offers glory to few and a lifetime of it to even fewer. For the investment it demands, it offers short careers that end when people in other professions are starting to flourish.
‐‐ Harsha Bhogle

Cricket makes no sense to me. I find it beautiful to watch and I like that they break for tea. That is very cool, but I don't understand. My friends from The Clash tried to explain it years and years ago, but I didn't understand what they were talking about.
‐‐ Jim Jarmusch

Cricket needs brightening up a bit. My solution is to let the players drink at the beginning of the game, not after. It always works in our picnic matches.
‐‐ Paul Hogan

Cricket pays well, so a lot of people are naturally drawn towards the game. But to carve a niche in non-cricket sports is not easy. So state governments need to be proactive. Indians need to be made aware of the power of an Olympic medal. It should be treated at par with an Oscars or a Nobel Prize.
‐‐ Gagan Narang

Cricket the world over, I don't think, will ever know how different things would be without Kerry Packer.
‐‐ Tony Greig

Cricket was my reason for living.
‐‐ Harold Larwood

Cricketers are made to feel that they are very special. That is okay as long as cricketers realise they are only as good as their last innings.
‐‐ Harsha Bhogle

Crikey means gee whiz, wow!
‐‐ Steve Irwin

Crim has baggage: expectation, history, responsibility.
‐‐ Pat Mastelotto

Crime against the individual is the equivalent of crime against humanity.
‐‐ Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
‐‐ H. G. Wells

Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime.
‐‐ Maximilien Robespierre

Crime cases tend to be fascinating until you figure out what happened.
‐‐ Bill James

Crime does not pay as well as politics.
‐‐ Alfred Newman

Crime dramas will never go away as long as people turn to television for, among other things, reassurance and comfort.
‐‐ Tom Shales

Crime fiction, especially noir and hardboiled, is the literature of the proletariat.
‐‐ Adrian McKinty

Crime fiction has always been what I wanted to read, so when I sat down to write my first book, it was naturally the way that I was going to go.
‐‐ Mark Billingham

Crime fiction is a way of satisfying that nosy need to know.
‐‐ Sophie Hannah

Crime fiction is the fiction of social history. Societies get the crimes they deserve.
‐‐ Denise Mina

Crime fiction is the new rock n' roll.
‐‐ Ken Bruen

Crime fiction makes money. It may be harder for writers to get published, but crime is doing better than most of what we like to call CanLit. It's elementary, plot-driven, character-rich story-telling at its best.
‐‐ Linwood Barclay

Crime in full glory consolidates authority by the sacred fear it inspires.
‐‐ Emile M. Cioran

Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone, but it is above all the secret aspect, impenetrable and hidden. Crime hides, and by far the most terrifying things are those which elude us.
‐‐ Georges Bataille

Crime is a job and it's boring. It's also unpleasant.
‐‐ Andrew Dominik

Crime is a product of social excess.
‐‐ Vladimir Lenin

Crime is a very hard genre to feminise. If you have a female protagonist she is going to be looking after her mum when she gets older; she is going to be worried about her brother and sister; she will be making a living while bringing up kids.
‐‐ Denise Mina

Crime is actually less in places where people own guns. Washington, D.C., is a case in point. It has the strictest gun laws, but who has the highest crime rate in the country? Washington, D.C.
‐‐ Luke Scott

Crime is interesting. It's huge and fascinating, and it's what my business, TV and film, is largely based on. But the realities are tragic, and in crime drama you rarely see the pain of bereavement or any consequences. It's reduced to a chess game.
‐‐ Peter Capaldi

Crime is naught but misdirected energy.
‐‐ Emma Goldman

Crime is one of the leads of the show. If there's ever anything that deals with a character's personal life, you don't have to worry about it getting too crazy. People don't have to worry about character arcs. Each episode is a self-contained unit.
‐‐ Christopher Meloni

Crime is only the worst example, but it is a paradigm for other Labour policy disasters. No one tells the voters that crime is falling: let them stay scared senseless.
‐‐ Polly Toynbee

Crime is sexy.
‐‐ Shia LaBeouf

Crime is stupid, lazy and weak. You can only exploit it and make money out of it.
‐‐ Gregory David Roberts

Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.
‐‐ Agatha Christie

Crime is the biggest genre in libraries and in bookshops, and it is hugely varied.
‐‐ Mark Billingham

Crime is the price society pays for abandoning character.
‐‐ James Q. Wilson

Crime, money, power, drugs - are all linked.
‐‐ Matthew Vaughn

Crime novelists do really well with Los Angeles.
‐‐ Janet Fitch

Crime novels have a clear beginning, middle, and end: a mystery, its investigation, and its resolution. The reader expects events to play out logically and efficiently, and these expectations force the writer to spend a good deal of time working on macrostructure rather than prettifying individual sentences.
‐‐ Jesse Kellerman

Crime novels, it has been said, show the human psyche under pressure.
‐‐ Vicki Delany