Cricket is an art. Like all arts it has a technical foundation. To enjoy it does not require technical knowledge, but analysis that is not technically based is mere impressionism.
I was playing baseball, and I tripped over first base - I'm very clumsy - and I fell and broke my wrist. That was pretty painful.
The NRA grades senators and representatives based on their votes on gun issues - and even on issues that have little-to-nothing to do with guns.
Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism.
McCain needs Hillary to run because that's what keeps the Republican coalition together. She helps unite the Republican base.
Joy is based on the spiritual knowledge that, while the world in which we live is shrouded in darkness, God has overcome the world.
Morals always sound like cliches, but usually cliches are based on things that are ultimate truths. Be grateful for what you have; appreciate what's right there in front of you.
Turning a culture around is very difficult to do because it's based on a series of many, many decisions, and the organization is framed by those decisions.
'The New York Times' list is a bunch of crap. They ought to call it the editor's choice. It sure isn't based on sales.
'Dead Air' is full of rants; it's a rant-based book. Yes, it's self-indulgence. I plead guilty; mea culpa.
Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.
Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven varies the melody, harmony and rhythms so beautifully.
I first pitched the idea of doing a series of cartoons based on Bible stories. They didn't much like it.
Dogma is a defence against the brain’s capacity for free thought based on the fear that such thought might lead to a scary place.
I used to be a columnist for 'Golf Monthly' and have contributed articles for national newspapers based on the humour that is in abundance in the game, which is more than can be said of tennis.
I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he's African American.
A soul-based workplace asks things of me that I didn't even know I had. It's constantly telling me that I belong to something large in the world.
I fear that this is what long term relationships are all about, at base: full-time role-playing, memorized and inhabited.
No matter what you’re facing, embrace life in trust and contentment based on your faith in Jesus.
I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.
Last year, the surgery was a tough decision, but I had to make a decision based on my career. It was a decision to get healthy, and start over with a new team at 100 percent.
