Vikas Swarup quote: "Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket."

To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN

It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER

He is probably right (about the) longer format, one-day cricket or like Twenty20 cricket the shorter...
ADAM GILCHRIST

The Twenty20 Cup is fun cricket and basically fulfils our purpose of involving the public in domesti...
SALEEM ALTAF

It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN

I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
TED TURNER

I am Happy and satisfied with what I am. 10000 will take me wrong, 1000 will go against me, 100 will...
NEHA KOTHARI

If our mind was an ocean then every now and then we would have the perfect storm happening in it.Gar...
GARY F EVANS...

I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES

A servant who serves excellently from his whole heart with due courage and humility is never a serva...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH

The way this series has brought in spectators, viewers and listeners gives me hope that Test cricket...
JAVED MIANDAD

Test cricket is a different sort of cricket altogether. Some players who are good for one-day cricke...
KAPIL DEV

There are fans of Twenty20 cricket, and we need to ensure that we give them the cricket they want to...
RAHUL DRAVID

She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN

Like in the Packer era, West Indies cricket at its very best has been undervalued and its players un...
CLIVE LLOYD

37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married.
JAMES C. DOBSON

Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not.
SONYA.E.WILLIAMS

Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is.
MICHAEL KEATON

Cricket is a pressure game, and when it comes to an India-Pakistan match the pressure is doubled.
IMRAN KHAN

Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C.

It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delive...
DAN FLAVIN

With '10,000,' our aim was to make a film that was entertaining and a roller-coaster ride; i...
STEVEN STRAIT

Ninety percent of the revenue generated in Australian cricket is off the back of the players. To eve...
PAUL MARSH

I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes.
CRAIG GROESCHEL

Life is not all about sticking or stopping your thoughts to old memories but LIFE STARTS when you st...
NEHA KOTHARI

You get to the point where you're like, 'I'm just doing me, and if people don't like...
BEBE REXHA

One of the things that I miss the most about cricket and batting in particular is that meditation of...
MATTHEW HAYDEN

From a spectator point of view, Test cricket is not important; people hardly watch Test cricket. But...
YUVRAJ SINGH

it's always important to do what you want, Life is too short to live with Regrets.
SHELLI THOMPSON

You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently.
Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m...
SARAH J. MAAS

I never like it when a celebrity goes on Twitter and says, 'This isn't true!' It is what...
HARRY STYLES

If there is a threat to the game of cricket, that threat lies in the first class arena. One day cric...
DONALD BRADMAN

You release the pain of the past and press on. It's a new day, and God is doing a new thing. He want...
CRAIG GROESCHEL

Things don’t have significance: they only have existence.
Things are the only hidden meaning ...
ALBERTO CAEIRO

At a time when most workers in the country are receiving their annual bonuses, the cricket players a...
CLIVE FIELD

One-day cricket is an exhibition. Test cricket is an examination.
HENRY BLOFELD

You were many wonderful things to many people before you met him--don't let this one event define wh...
MARY ESSELMAN

I saw that there is no Nature,
That Nature doesn’t exist,
That there are hills, valleys,...
ALBERTO CAEIRO

In his final Test match Mahendra Singh Dhoni paid a tribute to Sachin Tendulkar who played cricket f...
APURVA GAGLANI

I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing ...
JOHN MUIR

The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison
SARAH J. MAAS

I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you.
SARAH J. MAAS

He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain...
SARAH J. MAAS

Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN

Hodor," said Hodor.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN

You do what you love, what you need
SARAH J. MAAS

I turned.
Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere...
SARAH J. MAAS

Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc jock...
FRAN LEBOWITZ

Whoever controls the media - the images - controls the culture.
ALLEN GINSBERG

We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her sta...
GROUCHO MARX

Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda cross-dress...
LINDA BOWLES

Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us t...
ANONYMOUS

Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley...
KATHERINE HEPBURN

There was no Jace Wayland more real than the one he saw in her eyes when she looked at him.
CASSANDRA CLARE

For starters, that’s a rather simple principle of Time Travel right there – and according to the...
CHRISTINA ENGELA

You should never give up a happy middle in the hopes of a happy ending, because there is no such thi...
JOHN GREEN

I think a captain is someone who captains on the cricket field but, most of the leadership that happ...
GAUTAM GAMBHIR

When I was a kid, I used to try and hit every ball out of the ground. After playing one-day cricket ...
YUVRAJ SINGH

My priority is cricket. Everything that I get apart from it is a result of the effort on the field. ...
VIRAT KOHLI

There are so many things we do in life that define the real meaning of our lives. There are so many ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH

Or maybe they just accept that it's wrong in God's eyes, although not in their own, and they'll worr...
CRAIG GROESCHEL

I’m glad I see with my eyes and not the pages I’ve read.
ALBERTO CAEIRO

The man stopped talking and was looking at the sunset.
But what does someone who hates and love...
ALBERTO CAEIRO

The way to do it is enjoy our cricket and relax, to accept that occasionally you'll have a bad day a...
GRAHAM THORPE

Cricket South Africa did indicate they would try and get me more involved with the national team and...
ALLAN DONALD

Baseball is like cricket, and I grew up in a country where they had cricket. So I understand cricket...
PATRICK SOON-SHIONG

See the world for what it is.
BEAUTIFUL!
ANTHONY T. HINCKS

Not everybody wants be texting their 15-year-old asking how his math tutor was. They would rather be...
RENEE JAMES

Tomorrow is promised to no one. Prioritize today accordingly.
GINA GREENLEE

At the very moment when people underestimate you is when you can make a breakthrough.
GERMANY KENT

Sure, cricket on a beach on the isle of Jura is different from a Test match in a stadium in Galle, 6...
ROMESH GUNESEKERA

The former cricketers had played in the era when there was little money in domestic and internationa...
AJAY JADEJA

I take the good with the bad. I always wanted to be a comic, and part of that, for me, was that I wa...
ERIK GRIFFIN

We're certainly under pressure again. England have played consistent cricket for two days in this ma...
ADAM GILCHRIST

He had a harder time helping her out though. He was asleep while she was doing stars. Without wings,...
LAURIE FRANKEL

She made a fence of phrases, which seemed a treachery to herself.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

You are the blood of the dragon. You can make a hat.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN

We are at loggerheads with Australia and the International Cricket Council is aware of it.
GERALD MAJOLA

Cricket in Greece has prospects, but more money is needed, ... The children don't get to train very ...
MOHAMMAD ASLAM

I'm not an Emontional, but how???
I live with the thought that "Nothing can be returned, it has...
DEYTH BANGER

More important, it's because God is our only true source of life.
CRAIG GROESCHEL

The idea of a BCCI channel is still alive and we are also planning an inter-city cricket league in a...
LALIT MODI

Take a chance of your life, you're risking nothing in this planet.
NAZIM AMBALATH

A mother isn’t the person who births you; it’s the person who rears you and shows you love.
RAQUEL CEPEDA

The era of playing aggressive cricket and to have the mid-on up is gone. You now try to read the min...
MAHENDRA SINGH DHONI

But eventually it is a game of cricket.
SACHIN TENDULKAR

I want to share this bed with you, though," I breathed. "I want you to hold me."
Stars flicker...
SARAH J. MAAS

Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY

I began by saying that our history will be what we make it. If we go on as we are, then history will...
EDWARD R. MURROW

For example, if you're offering a cricket service, wouldn't it be nice to know which of your subscri...
ASH KHALEK

His cricket from that moment on has been terrific, his cricket has been first class and he needs to ...
RICKY PONTING

You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I ...
SUFJAN STEVENS

When you're recording to analog tape, it captures performance and you can't necessarily mani...
DAVE GROHL

It stays on for about an hour and a half and then goes out for a few hours. Back in October, we woul...
JILL CARROLL

I wish I was home", She said miserably.
She tried so hard to be brave,
to be fierce as a...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN

I think we knew that we were the underdogs, and I think that was a great position in which to be com...
DAREN GANGA

It hasn't been at the cutthroat edge we're used to playing at. We've played periods of very good cri...
JUSTIN LANGER

I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix.
DEYTH BANGER

The Zimbabwe team has demonstrated in recent series that it is not in a position to be competitive i...
EHSAN MANI

In terms of cricket I would rather think we get on with the game now and play to our potential, than...
MARVAN ATAPATTU

Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.

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