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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon. I think that's created a healthy environment. The comparisons to "ER" were maddening and there was this assumption that the two of us were looking at each other with rage and resentment, which was also not the case. It is not only the living who are killed in war. The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights. In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints. I am ashamed the law is such an ass. It is better to believe that a man does possess good qualities than to assert that he does not. A man in my situation, my lords, has not only to encounter the difficulties of fortune. and the force of power over minds which it has corrupted or subjugated. but the difficulties of established prejudice: the man dies, but his memory lives. There is no point in launching technology before customers are ready to use it. If you own a home with wheels on it and several cars without, you just might be a redneck. I think crime writing is my link with trying to preserve a sort of order. I don't linger on the fact that Dawn Fraser was a great swimmer 40 years ago. That was in the past. I did break 41 world records, but I don't live on that today. We don't have to go that far to sell our beer because our immediate accounts sell so much. Places that sold 10 cases before, now they're selling 30. If way to the better there be, it exacts a full look at the worst. We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. I'd like to feel that an advertiser gets something extra when they advertise with us - a certain humanity that comes from upbeat and positive human interest letters and success stories. An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning. Light is the symbol of truth. The homosexual community wants me to be gay. The heterosexual community wants me to be straight. Every writer thinks, I'm the journalist who's going to make him talk. I pray for them. I pray that they get a life and stop living mine! Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through anyone that suits you. They need help, and we have helped, and we are here to help. And we are helping, and we're going to continue to help. But what you could perhaps do with in these days is a word of most sincere sympathy. Your movement is carried internally by so strong a truth and necessity that victory in one form or another cannot elude you for long. There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass. I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live. Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that to-day is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity. 'Battle For The Planet Of The Apes', was just a film for kids and didn't have any deep meaning. I have two doctors, my left leg and my right. I think it's healthy for couples to be away from each other for short periods. Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life? Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
- Sophocles

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Ian Botham

Genghis Khan was a fascinating man and way ahead of his time.

- Ian Botham


I can remember running around at the age of 3, wanting to play golf, cricket and football. I was always active, one way or another, driving my parents mad.

- Ian Botham


I half knew what to expect when I saw the cricket ground in the morning. It was when I started to talk to people working out there, I began to find what I was looking for.

- Ian Botham


I think I'd struggle to get excited by synchronised swimming.

- Ian Botham


I think we are going to see exciting cricket all the way. We are watching the two best teams in the world-and I think England will eventually go on to pip Australia by a single Test.

- Ian Botham


I watched children dying. That will be the image that will stay with me.

- Ian Botham


I'm not a great one for looking back.

- Ian Botham


If you can change three lives in 10, three lives in a hundred, that's got to be good, hasn't it?

- Ian Botham


Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.

- Ian Botham


Soccer and cricket were my main sports growing up. I had trials as a soccer player with a few clubs interested, Crystal Palace being one, but it was cricket which became my chosen profession.

- Ian Botham


Sir Ian Terence Botham, OBE is a former England Test cricketer and Test team captain, and current cricket commentator. He was a genuine all-rounder with 14 centuries and 383 wickets in Test cricket, and remains well known by his nickname "Beefy" While a controversial player both on and off the field at times, Botham also held a number of Test cricket records, and still holds the record for the highest number of wickets taken by an England bowler.
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