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When cars honk and hoot and drunks squeeze out of car windows and scream, you can be sure that football is in the air. Craig Brown
You Car Air Hoot Out Windows Football Drunks Sure Squeeze Scream
How I hate the Beautiful Game! I hate its cry-baby players and its gruff, joyless managers, its blokish supporters and its sinister owners, its whistle-peeping referees and its chippy little linesmen, its excitable commentators and - perhaps most of all - its unpluggable 'analysts.' Craig Brown
Beautiful Game Hate Analyst Supporters Perhaps Most How Sinister Managers Owners Little Players
Personally, I belong to the speedy school of golf. If it were left up to me, I would introduce a new rule that said every golf ball has to stay in motion from the moment it leaves the tee to the moment it plops into the hole, thus obliging each player to run along after his ball and give it another whack before it stops rolling. Craig Brown
Me School Before Every Speedy Rule Run Introduce Would Stay Give Thus New Along Another Ball Said Motion Leaves Were His Left Up Whack Rolling Stops After Golf Golf Ball Hole Personally Moment Each Player Belong Tee
It strikes me that golf's great virtue is that it gets you out of the house, away from everyday bothers, away from the endless round of looking for this, that and the other. Craig Brown
Great Me You Looking Other Everyday Virtue Strikes Out Bothers House Gets Endless Golf Round Away
Alan Whicker may be the last Briton to have worn a silver-buttoned blazer with complete confidence. Craig Brown
Confidence Worn Complete Blazer May Alan Last
Many people see the chance to eat something for nothing, without the need to cook or wash up, as the great consolation of going out to dinner. But they forget quite how difficult it is to talk to a stranger and eat at the same time. Craig Brown
Time Great People Dinner Nothing Difficult Consolation Out See Eat Something Talk Without How Up Forget Same Going Quite Same Time Cook Stranger Many Wash Chance Need
By and large, the artistic establishment disapproved of Margaret Thatcher. Craig Brown
Thatcher Artistic Establishment Large Margaret Margaret Thatcher
Often, I grow irritated before the first tile has been placed on the Scrabble board. This generally occurs when one of my opponents has insisted upon bringing a dictionary to the table, making it clear that he will be consulting it throughout the game. Craig Brown
Game Will First Before Has-Been Table Insisted Throughout Consulting Generally He Clear Making Opponents Occurs Been Dictionary Scrabble Often Irritated Placed Board Grow Bringing
When I tell people I don't own a mobile phone and wouldn't know how to text, they react as though I have just confessed that I can't read. Craig Brown
People Phone Own Though Tell Know React Read How Mobile Text Just
What would we do without plaques to tell us who lived where and when? They introduce the past into the present, and are the quickest and most interesting way of reminding us that our streets exist above and beyond the here-and-now. Craig Brown
Past Our Way Tell Introduce Would Above Reminding Beyond Most Without Exist Where Interesting Interesting Way Us Who Lived Streets Present
Men know something that women don't know. Never ask directions of a stranger. Craig Brown
Women Men Something Directions Never Know Ask Stranger
I'm retiring because my time is up. Dave Hickey
Time My Time Retiring Because Up
I hate all that woozy political and psychotherapeutic crap applied to books and art. Dave Hickey
Art Hate Political Books Crap Applied
Martha Stewart contributes more to our civility than the Baptist church. Dave Hickey
Church Our Martha Martha Stewart More Civility Than Baptist
It used to be that if you stood in front of a painting you didn't understand, you'd have some obligation to guess. Now you don't. Dave Hickey
You Obligation Painting Guess Some Understand Front Stood Used Now
It might be argued that genuine spontaneity is not really possible or desirable so long as printed scores of great works exist. All modern musicians are, for better or worse, prisoners of Gutenberg. Donal Henahan
Great Musicians Better Long Worse Possible Gutenberg Argued Spontaneity Printed Genuine Prisoners Exist Scores Modern Might Really Works Desirable
The human brain can soften as a result of incessant listening to music with an intent to commit prose. Donal Henahan
Music Result Listening Soften Prose Brain Commit Intent Human Human Brain Incessant
It is useless to contend with the irresistible power of Time, which goes on continually creating by a process of constant destruction. E. T. A. Hoffmann
Time Destruction Power Constant Contend Continually Goes Irresistible Process Which Creating Useless
Not a single man on earth knows from his own experience the how and where of his birth, only from tradition, which is often very uncertain. E. T. A. Hoffmann
Man Experience Single Own Birth Earth Uncertain Only Knows Single Man How Tradition His Very Often Where Which
Boys should not play with weapons more dangerous than they understand. E. T. A. Hoffmann
Dangerous Weapons More Understand Boy Than Should Play
Once you are dancing with the devil, the prettiest capers won't help you. E. T. A. Hoffmann
You Devil Dancing Once Prettiest Help
If I could only remember that the days were, not bricks to be laid row on row, to be built into a solid house, where one might dwell in safety and peace, but only food for the fires of the heart. Edmund Wilson
Food Peace Heart Remember Safety Solid Only Could Fires Days House Built Were Dwell Where Laid Might If I Could Bricks Row
No two persons ever read the same book. Edmund Wilson
Book Read Same Persons Ever Two
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income. Edmund Wilson
Nothing Adequate More Small Demoralizing Than Income
All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely. Edmund Wilson
Corrupts Absolute Absolutely Hollywood
Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine. Edmund Wilson
Genius Will Moral Insight Real Motor Any Which Engine Start
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