Talk Quotes

If he can’t hear you when you’re silent, he won’t hear you when you’re not.

It’s hard to be someone that people talk about and write about, you know? They don’t know me.

I do not abuse players. I talk to myself; I abuse myself. It’s my way of letting off steam. I do it after every century; I do not do it always. I keep telling myself: ‘Improve, improve from the previous match, the previous shot. You can do it.’

Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.

Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade.

I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.

When I speak to kids I tell them, ‘Hey, you think your parents are a pain in the ass now, but they’re going to get smarter as you get older.’

Speak but little, and that little only when thy own purposes require it. Heaven has given thee two ears but only one tongue, which means: listen to two things, but be not the first to propose one.

When I was a boy, cricket was very, very English. Anyone who spoke English and anyone from a big town could play. And that was it.

A theory deeply etched in our law is that a free society prefers to punish the few who abuse the rights of free speech after they break the law rather than to throttle them and all others beforehand.