I think you can do science fiction, but you have to ground it in some realism. People need to identify with the characters, with their plights and their issues.
I used to practice at the hockey ground on synthetic surface while I was in the sports hostel, so Test cricket is certainly going to be a challenge for me.
Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built.
If he had listened to some of his advisors and had tried to make the Marshall Plan a political dumping ground for unqualified politicians, it couldn't have been a success.
Procedures outside the stadiums and in the parking areas still need to be optimized, for example so that emergency medical services can leave the grounds on their way to the hospital faster.
Muslim leaders should ask themselves what exactly their relationship is to a political movement that encourages young men to kill and maim on religious grounds.
Mike Leigh and Ken Loach are the people I look up to. They are quality film-makers making interesting, controversial, ground-breaking movies with very little eye on the marketplace.
Autumn is the hardest season. The leaves are all falling, and they're falling like they're falling in love with the ground.
These guys live and breathe football; they get something out of going to the training ground every day.
God gave us ground we created a city, God gave us time we need to create a future.
To go through hurt, you have to stumble on the rocks in order to walk on solid ground.
Steep fall to the ground shattering like clay pigeons missed by bad shots and unsteady hands.
It has been extraordinary, wonderful, I've been three feet off the ground since I made that first record.
Walk with the dreamers, the believers, the courageous, the cheerful, the planners, the doers, the successful,people with their heads in the clouds and their feet on the ground.
Having a child keeps you very grounded. So when I decided to have a child, I made it clear to the people I work with that my job was no longer my priority.
Everything changed in Bosnia, when General Wesley Clark proved that you could fight a war with high- level precision air strikes and a bare minimum of ground action.
We can guess that the unacceptable conduct of the soldiers at Abu Ghraib resulted in part from the dangerous state of affairs on the ground in a theater of war.
AESTHETICS OF INTEGRITY For every star in the sky Someone is holding his ground.
I bought a piece of God, ground to dust and mixed with alcohol in a glass bottle the colour of molasses.
Clairey knew well that it was one thing to occupy his bed, quite another to occupy his heart.
Senses will lie as dreams wake. You are not on solid ground. Don't look down.
