“I hope he’ll go nice and easy – caught in the covers or bowled middle stump. I just hope he doesn’t get his pads in the way or his bat’s wide enough to get a thin edge [on Steve Waugh’s last innings]”

Hip-hop artists, especially the older ones, are the ones who knew hip-hop was a worldwide phenomenon before the mainstream caught on, so hip-hop artists are forward thinkers. We want to stay with the new.

When you are completely absorbed or caught up in something, you become oblivious to things around you, or to the passage of time. It is this absorption in what you are doing that frees your unconscious and releases your creative imagination.

There are long periods when life seems a small, dull round, a petty business with no point, and then suddenly we are caught up in some great event which gives us a glimpse of the solid and durable foundations of our existence.

I think we’ve got caught up in the weeds of Brexit, and… the approach has been to try and compromise and split the difference. And that to me is not what Brexit is about.

I don’t understand if you get caught in a fight, but take it out on a room, how that implies some psychiatric disorder.

The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes.

People are so caught in a routine, doing the same things over and over.

The other day my house caught fire.