Alastair Cook quote: "It was a great feeling to see that ball go through for four, it was unbelievable. It might be a cliche, but this really is a dream come true."

Kevin took the pressure off me, I just played my own game and watched from the other end.
ALASTAIR COOK

Wicket has not spun as we thought it would. But the signs are there (that it will turn tomorrow). If...
ALASTAIR COOK

I enjoyed the great experience of playing against India on its own ground, with the fans cheering al...
ALASTAIR COOK

Sometimes opportunities come and you've got to try and take it.
ALASTAIR COOK

David told me I was going as cover for Vaughan and to enjoy it,
ALASTAIR COOK

It's unfortunate for Vaughan to be injured but a great opportunity for me and I will make the most o...
ALASTAIR COOK

I'm very excited about it and can't wait to get together with the rest of the squad.
ALASTAIR COOK

He has been fantastic. It is great, he every now and then takes you aside and gives you little bits ...
ALASTAIR COOK

Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would be heading to Pakistan,
ALASTAIR COOK

He had an outstanding game with two fifties and four wickets to round off a week in which he became ...
ALASTAIR COOK

He is a fantastic captain to have and we all have just been following him.
ALASTAIR COOK

Like most meaningful activities, campaigns are team games.
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

We've created an impression that life is risk-free, and it's not.
ALASTAIR WOOD

We try to teach them how to make a presentation so that it's valuable to people, so they deliver a m...
ALASTAIR WOOD

I thought my Beatles LPs sounded pretty good on a record player, but that was before I had heard a C...
ALASTAIR WOOD

I think we need to think beyond the issue of absolute risk.
ALASTAIR WOOD

I see my job as being to facilitate the life of clinical researchers so that they can be more produc...
ALASTAIR WOOD

Even then, Vanderbilt was the premiere place for clinical pharmacology.
ALASTAIR WOOD

A generation of arrogance. We didn't trust anyone over 30. We believed we could fix all the prejudic...
ALASTAIR WOOD

and that risk is not trivial.
ALASTAIR WOOD

There's no evidence they are a good value,
ALASTAIR WOOD

It seems improbable to me that ... politics hasn't trumped science here, which is a tragedy,
ALASTAIR WOOD

It's such an in-your-face country. Probably the best individual moment was getting to Cape Town, get...
ALASTAIR HUMPHREYS

The first year I found really quite lonely and quite hard. It was awful. I was in this horrible hote...
ALASTAIR HUMPHREYS

I didn't want to get a job. I wanted to see all these places and all that obvious stuff, but mostly ...
ALASTAIR HUMPHREYS

I was at university and it was pretty easy, trundling along towards getting a job after that, I just...
ALASTAIR HUMPHREYS

The suspension didn't come at a good time for me because I'd just holed another big putt and then I ...
ALASTAIR FORSYTH

I was a bit nervous at the start and no doubt I will be tomorrow because there are good players brea...
ALASTAIR FORSYTH

It was not a good time for me to stop because I just birdied 11 and 13, but I more than made up for ...
ALASTAIR FORSYTH

I was pretty nervous at the start but handled it well. Tomorrow (Sunday) will be a tough day, though...
ALASTAIR FORSYTH

The (new structure) will allow us to create a faster and stronger multidisciplinary team, which can ...
ALASTAIR CURTIS

The Nokia 8800 is as much an object of art and desire, as it is an advanced piece of technology.
ALASTAIR CURTIS

The Nokia 8800 has clearly found an audience with individuals who appreciate quality materials and w...
ALASTAIR CURTIS

For many consumers, the mobile phone has truly become an extension of their personal style. Every de...
ALASTAIR CURTIS

I'm not sure what exactly the medical people have got planned for him, but I'd imagine he'd play a h...
ALASTAIR CLARKSON

Certainly the stats so far suggest Carlton aren't going as long as what they did previously. We need...
ALASTAIR CLARKSON

He's got belief in himself and we've got belief in him, so we move forward and he's playing and he's...
ALASTAIR CLARKSON

It will depend on what the supply is like. There are so many variables.
ALASTAIR CLARKSON

Their work over the whole game was great, but that third quarter was the difference between the two ...
ALASTAIR CLARKSON

He hurt his shoulder about six weeks ago and he hasn't played any matches since then, so we thought ...
ALASTAIR CLARKSON

He has said he is going to stay for a full term and I think it is absolutely right that he does that...
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

The EU is Russia's largest trading partner, and we are increasingly interdependent. It is on our int...
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

If it's a fundamental principle, the length of the grass doesn't matter.
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

When your lordships carefully and critically examine the evidence, they will be driven by that to co...
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

It is going to need a lot of continuing work talking to the parties before we can get to the stage o...
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

He found it hilarious that some of the press - the more one-eyed of the NZ media - were blaming me f...
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

A huge character, Gareth would bring a very different, perhaps more warlike approach,
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

time to move on and do other things.
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

The reality is, there is no point denying this, that Tony has taken a big political hit as a result ...
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

We don?t do God, I am sorry.' - when asked by an American reporter about Tony Blair?s religious view...
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

We should confine booing in sports arenas to sport. I love a good boo as much as the next football f...
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

The thing about politicians in Britain is that they are out there, you can lobby them, get close to ...
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

My closest friend, who died not long ago, is buried near Marx's grave in Highgate cemetery, so I...
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

My public caricature - that of a self-confident alpha male - is only partly accurate.
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

May I share with you my earliest memory of a political row? It was with my mother, about the Queen -...
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

We've had science fiction novels where China is dominant; we've had novels where India is do...
ALASTAIR REYNOLDS

So here is one of my theories on happiness: we cannot know if we have lived a truly happy life until...
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

I hold no candle for George Osborne whatsoever. He has no strategic skills, is a hopeless chancellor...
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

I don't know." That was typical Sajaki; like all the genuinely clever people Sylveste had met he kne...
ALASTAIR REYNOLDS

The media are obsessed with spin doctors and with portraying them as a bad thing, yet seem addicted ...
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

The day of the daredevil reporter who refuses to see obstacles to getting the truth, and seeing it w...
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

In an ideal world, it would not take a film star to get the media focused on mental illness.
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

I couldn't ever write a straight crime novel: there'd be an intrusion of weirdness at some p...
ALASTAIR REYNOLDS

Can we drop the ‘artificial intelligence’? It’s a bit like me calling you a meat-based process...
ALASTAIR REYNOLDS

may have killed the cat; more likely
the cat was just unlucky, or else curious
to see what d...
ALASTAIR REID

Children are entitled to their otherness, as anyone is; and when we reach them, as we sometimes do, ...
ALASTAIR REID

We may see prices coming off. We're seeing less demand for gold in jewelry.
ALASTAIR MCINTYRE

We're having a bit of consolidation as the dollar strengthens a bit. But there's no change in the tr...
ALASTAIR MCINTYRE

Anytime we've got above $900, the real demand for platinum in terms of discretionary buying has, if ...
ALASTAIR MCINTYRE

The takeover vehicles being created tend to be high risk because they are exposed to a lot of debt. ...
ALASTAIR GUNN

Associated British Ports has got an asset base in the ports, a security of income and a consistency ...
ALASTAIR GUNN

Freedom is when the people can speak, democracy is when the government listens.
ALASTAIR FARRUGIA

In Palestinian eyes we can no longer be considered an honest broker.
ALASTAIR CROOKE

As soon as the defendant found out the story was untrue _ it had been picked up from another newspap...
ALASTAIR BRETT

South Korea and India are key markets for diesel growth in Asia, and the market in China is continuo...
ALASTAIR BEDWELL

As a proven, cost-effective and 'off-the-shelf' solution, diesel has a head start over other emergin...
ALASTAIR BEDWELL

Enjoy it, kid. Enjoy feeling that you can make a difference.' Floyd flashed him a smile. 'It won't l...
ALASTAIR REYNOLDS

Furious activity is no substitute for analytical thought.
ALASTAIR PILKINGTON

When you're writing stuff that's already clotted with neologisms and trying to get across fa...
ALASTAIR REYNOLDS

There is going to have to be another leader in place when the next election comes and you would have...
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

He included plenty of references of specific points of anxiety relating to the training and the day ...
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

That is just something that he is prepared to take because he thinks the benefits to the country out...
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

A city's only ever three hot meals away from anarchy.
ALASTAIR REYNOLDS

For the entire period I worked for Tony Blair, almost a decade, I did not use a computer. This was n...
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

I'm not a morning person: I can't function until I've had a coffee - or several.
ALASTAIR REYNOLDS

And what cats have to tell
on each return from hell
is this: that dying is what the living...
ALASTAIR REID

It has been raining here for ten years.I keep an accurate record of time and can state this with no ...
ALASTAIR BRUCE

Genetics is very much about having large numbers of animals so you can select the elite population a...
ALASTAIR NELSON

But beyond a certain scale vast was simply vast.
ALASTAIR REYNOLDS

Friends have suggested that I am the least qualified person to talk about happiness, because I am of...
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

There are many reasons for the decline in royal esteem. One is that so many of the royals are thick.
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

Clinton is a big personality who has led a big life, and for some of the media conventional wisdom t...
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

Nightside, cities glistened in chains, and a spray of tinkertoy habitats girdled the planet. Gossame...
ALASTAIR REYNOLDS

My dad, Donald, was a vet and had a practice in Yorkshire. Cats and dogs were his bread and butter, ...
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

My aunty says I'm the double of my father. He was a workaholic, which I've definitely inheri...
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

Only an evolutionary eyeblink separated Kanu from the savannah, and that was just as true for the Ri...
ALASTAIR REYNOLDS

I'm always a little bit cautious around invented terminology because so much science fiction is ...
ALASTAIR REYNOLDS

I'm certainly driven, I hate losing, I can be ruthless and short-tempered and terribly competiti...
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

Making love was a game of echoes. We had shared memories so many times that when I made love to her,...
ALASTAIR REYNOLDS

Yves Klein said it was the essence of colour itself: the colour that stood for all other colours. A ...
ALASTAIR REYNOLDS

To see something marvellous with your own eyes –that’s wonderful enough.

But when tw...
ALASTAIR REYNOLDS

We've created an impression that life is risk-free, and it's not.
ALASTAIR WOOD

I think the danger with using the term 'trilogy' is that it sets up particular expectations ...
ALASTAIR REYNOLDS

If there's a story I absolutely cannot tell without faster-than-light travel, then I am quite pr...
ALASTAIR REYNOLDS

I always say that keeping abreast of science should never be seen as a chore. It should be something...
ALASTAIR REYNOLDS

I am playing in a playground that's already been played in. I am always aware that a lot of the ...
ALASTAIR REYNOLDS

When I look back at many of the moments of wonder, awe, or terror that I've got from science fic...
ALASTAIR REYNOLDS

To be remembered at all is an achievement of sorts.
ALASTAIR REYNOLDS

I'm not massively fond of right-wing nutters or war criminals.
ALASTAIR REYNOLDS

I'm still bothered by the threat of nuclear war.
ALASTAIR REYNOLDS

One of the big breakthroughs I had as a writer was when I stopped agonising over every word.
ALASTAIR REYNOLDS

I've never had much interest in spinoffery - the idea of writing in someone else's universe ...
ALASTAIR REYNOLDS

I'm fascinated by steam engines and with Victorian engineering generally, and as a corollary to ...
ALASTAIR REYNOLDS

I was never strong at maths, but I eventually got onto a university physics/astronomy course, and th...
ALASTAIR REYNOLDS

I think I set myself on a course to become a scientist around about the time that Carl Sagan's &...
ALASTAIR REYNOLDS

I prioritise story over science, but not at the expense of being really stupid about it.
ALASTAIR REYNOLDS

The pressures to get the story first, if wrong, are greater sometimes than the pressures to get the ...
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

I want to write more books, see my first novel made into a film, fight more campaigns, work in more ...
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

The bad news for journalists today is that the media, however seriously people who are in the public...
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

By asking the question 'Am I happy?,' and via the answer setting out what I mean by happines...
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

I think I'm highly loveable.
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

There has been a shift to what may be defined as a culture of negativity which goes well beyond cove...
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

I had a happy childhood.
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

One in four of us will have a mental illness at some point. That is a lot of people.
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

Don't accept that you are in crisis just because everyone says you are.
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

All I can say for certain is that, beneath the scrambled chaos of my memories, I feel a driving impe...
ALASTAIR REYNOLDS

When Clive announced the team to play Southland on Tuesday, it was a rare occasion where players wer...
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

Enslavement can come in many guises and the denial of knowledge is one such tragic example inflicted...
ALASTAIR R. AGUTTER

Love can come from enduring ones life journey, where from such a venture, you will learn compassion ...
ALASTAIR R. AGUTTER

The Arts, Hobbies, Interests and Pastimes, have served as a measurement of a civilized society over ...
ALASTAIR R. AGUTTER

I think the iPhone is the best consumer product ever. That's what I feel about it. And it's ...
TIM COOK

We collectively, to get things done, work together as a team. Because the work really happens horizo...
TIM COOK

I'm able to use this spring training to really prepare for the season, where normally I'd have to co...
AARON COOK

I know the situation and would be happy to talk with him, but I'm not going to call him out of the b...
AARON COOK

Everybody's finding their roles. It's like the pieces of the puzzle are coming together for us.
AARON COOK

That's something people like to talk about a lot, and I know it would be a great honor to get the ba...
AARON COOK

I went after them with my sinker and mixed in some sliders and changeups. I kept them off balance.
AARON COOK

Once the doctors told me I was healthy, I knew it was just a matter of time before I was able to get...
AARON COOK

It's been aggravating for me at times going through struggles and seeing other guys go through strug...
AARON COOK

It's not like anyone in this division is overpowering. If teams take us for granted, we're going to ...
AARON COOK

It wasn't my best. You take the bad with the good. Sometimes the bad is good enough.
AARON COOK

I kinda made it tough on them, pitching only five innings. I tip my hat to them, they had to do a lo...
AARON COOK

We're going to go on a reconnaissance mission to see how other cities are handling this problem, tal...
AL COOK

We have every reason to believe our existing suppliers will expand.
AL COOK

It's a common problem with older shopping centers.
AL COOK

We've been in contact with the developer who owns the shopping center for the past two or three week...
AL COOK

In the short term, any time a big deal like this happens nearby, it puts pressure on other businesse...
AL COOK

My view is that music and arts and the things we bring through the arts council are like the glue th...
AL COOK

Many of them are men who began to learn very young and showed extraordinary ability. Some have been ...
AL COOK

We've made it a practice to go to jazz events across the country, and we're careful to get people wh...
AL COOK

It's a first-class lineup of some of the greatest jazz players in the whole country.
AL COOK

We've got to keep working with these developers and encouraging them to revitalize. We keep our fing...
AL COOK

I am very bullish on India because of its people, its culture, and the leadership. I love the cultur...
TIM COOK

Mutual funds were created to make investing easy, so consumers wouldn't have to be burdened with...
SCOTT COOK

It is a niche opportunity for National Savings, it won't have a big impact on us.
ALAN COOK

Ultimately, they still had to sell. You have to give them credit for realizing they weren't going to...
ALAN COOK

The problem before was that the chapter was in over its head with this building,
ALAN COOK

In our discussions, part of the plan is to put into writing a memorandum of understanding that the m...
ALAN COOK

He likes to dribble a lot, ... so I told our defenders to just stay on his back, don't let him turn....
ALAN COOK

All of the paintings in the Museum Art Online collection are known to have a status of world-wide fa...
ALAN COOK

It turns out that people - in every country in the world, there's a segment of buyer that wants ...
TIM COOK

Young people who are just starting out somehow need to let you know they know how to sing.
BARBARA COOK

I remember feeling that. I couldn't do, nor did I want to do, the kinds of roles I'd been do...
BARBARA COOK

I look back at photographs and I remember at the time I thought I was not very attractive.
BARBARA COOK

On Saturday afternoons, there was a film, of course, and then we did about four shows between the fi...
BARBARA COOK

I sang for my family. And I think probably the first time I sang and got paid for it, I was about 6 ...
BARBARA COOK

New Year's Eve, we're going to be doing a concert with the Philadelphia Orchestra in Symphon...
BARBARA COOK

Even within the last three or four years, I have a greater ability to communicate, I think. I have m...
BARBARA COOK

I have absolutely no desire and no thought of quitting ever.
BARBARA COOK

The opera ain't over till the fat lady sings.
DAN COOK

As a comedian, I am obligated to tell you the truth, my truth. To share with you my beliefs, my pers...
DANE COOK

My mother had a lot of phobias. She's pregnant with me and she was a very phobic person. So I wa...
DANE COOK

I did stand-up comedy for seventeen years. I need to explore other things.
DANE COOK

I have new ideas every day, and I always want to take on new challenges.
DANE COOK

Vince Vaughn is a genuine person, awesome guy. He'll come to a lot of my shows. It's not tha...
DANE COOK

I always thought that if I got no love at all early in my standup career, or I was god awful, I thou...
DANE COOK

Nothing is a better icebreaker than a great joke.
DANE COOK

When you are doing stand-up comedy, you are the writer, producer, director, sometimes bouncer.
DANE COOK

I grew up very self-loathing. I was a phobic. I had anxiety. I had panic attacks.
DANE COOK

I was not a silly kid or outgoing. In fact, I suffered from quite a bit of anxiety. I used to have p...
DANE COOK

I say it with my tongue firmly planted in cheek but there's truth to it - being a comedian is ve...
DANE COOK

No one wants to drown. Drowning would be the worst. Cause everyone knows that feeling. That feeling,...
DANE COOK

My professional dreams were coming true while I was living a personal nightmare.
DANE COOK

Anger has a way of seeping into every other emotion and planting itself in there.
DANE COOK

I am an observer, I like to watch people. I am into psychology and people - how they act and such.
DANE COOK

In school I was pretty quiet. Kinda shy until my junior year. But at home I was a freak.
DANE COOK

I always wanted to be a snake. Every time I saw a snake on TV. I'd always say 'Why not me?&#...
DANE COOK

We all hope for breakthrough rebirth moments.
DANE COOK

I'm a late-night guy.
DANE COOK

My mom and dad passed away from cancer. Within nine months, I lost both of my folks. Immediately aft...
DANE COOK

My nickname for my mom was 'The Compass.'
DANE COOK

If haters or whatever want to find you - I mean, some of them are so tenacious. You want to hire the...
DANE COOK

Ready yourselves!' Mullone heard himself say, which was strange, he thought, for he knew his men wer...
DAVID COOK

More evil gets done in the name of righteousness than any other way.
GLEN COOK

If you can't do anything about it, laugh like hell.
DAVID COOK

I'm your friend, and friends don't let friends die.
C.B. COOK

Oh, how cruelly sweet are the echoes that start when memory plays an old tune on the heart!
ELIZA COOK

You need to have enough immediate profits that you can finance the long-range growth without dilutin...
PAUL COOK

Better build schoolrooms for the boy, than cells and gibbets for the man.
ELIZA COOK

Of all my wife's relations I like myself the best.
JOSEPH COOK

It was a great feeling to see that ball go through for four, it was unbelievable. It might be a cliche, but this really is a dream come true.

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