Huma

“you might not be interested in politics, but politics is interested in you.”
― Wasim Akram, Sultan: A Memoir

“Yet cricket was never the problem. In some ways, challenging as it often was, it was the simplest part of my life. Bowling to Viv Richards, Sachin Tendulkar and Brian Lara or batting against Shane Warne, Malcolm Marshall or Muttiah Muralitharan was child’s play compared to handling the expectations of my nation, the turmoil of my team and the machinations of my administration.”
― Wasim Akram, Sultan: A Memoir

“It was so hard to get an idea of people you had never seen. You had to rely on other people's judgment. ... Other people's impressions were no good to you. They might be just as true as yours but you couldn't act on them. You couldn't, as it were, use
another person's angle of attack.”
― Agatha Christie, The Sittaford Mystery

“The first thing that hit their eyes was what appeared to be a coffin.
And the next four thousand nine hundred and ninety nine things that hit their eyes were also coffins.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe