Racket Quotes - Page 4

• Wherever there's a system, there's a racket to beat it.

  Jerome Ravetz

  Beats

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• Poetry requires deliberate movement in its direction, a filament of faith in its persistence, receptivity to its fundamental worthwhileness. Within its unanesthetized heart there is quite a racket going on. Choices have to be made with respect to every mark. Not every mistake should be erased. Nor shall the unintelligible be left out. Order is there to be wrenched from the tangles of words. Results are impossible to measure. A clearing is drawn around the perimeter as if by a stick with a nail on the end.

  C.D. Wright

  Mistake, Heart, Persistence

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• In this mob of I's inside, which one is me? Hear me out. I know I'm wandering, but don't start putting a lid on this racket. No telling what I'll do then. Every moment I'm thrown by your story. One moment it's happy, and I'm singing. One moment it's sad, and I'm weeping. It turns bitter, and I pull away. But then you spill a little grace, and just like that, I'm all light. It's not so bad, this arrangement, actually.

  Rumi

  Light, Grace, Singing

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• I don't think I've ever held a racket in my hand ... There's got to be somebody in the US who isn't trying to play tennis and stinking up the court.

  Isaac Asimov

  Thinking, Hands, Play

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• Manners are manners. Jimmy Connors and Ilie Nastase have no respect. I don't want my kid seeing Nastase play. The demeanor you show on the court is important to tennis.... Maybe we (yesterday's stars) were too stereotyped. But we were told to behave or they'd take our racket away.

  Rod Laver

  Stars, Kids, Play

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• She [Monica Seles] has so much control of the racket with those double-handed wrists.

  Virginia Wade

  Tennis, Wrists, Monica

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• One day when a linesman starts to laugh I swear I will hit the guy over the head with my racket. I think it will be the end of my career, but I will be happy.

  Ilie Nastase

  Thinking, Careers, Laughing

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• The mere fact that you belong to a certain ethnic group makes you eternally guilty, according to the twisted logic of Zionism. If Germans who were not even born before 1945 must pay reparations to the State of Israel, which did not exist until 1948, then you can be included in the Zionist racket of reparations and revenge.

  Ernst Zundel

  Revenge, Israel, Holocaust

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• The Victorians pioneered numbers of commercial rackets about which their descendants complain (the manufacturers of Bovril, it appears, were virtually official sponsors of the Boer War).

  D. J. Taylor

  War, Numbers, History

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• It's a racket. Those stock market guys are crooked.

  Al Capone

  Guy, Crooked

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• As things get worse and the State seems powerless to help, the State will seem less and less legitimate. People will lose their moral connection to it. Laws will seem more like revenue traps and shakedowns. The state will start to seem more like another extortion racket, and, as in Mexico, people will have a harder time telling the good guys from the bad guys.

  Jack Donovan

  Law, People, Guy

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• And then it was like, wait, you can go to college and study theater? And act in plays? This is almost a racket, you know. And then when the opportunity came along to do it professionally, I thought I'd won the lottery.

  Tom Hanks

  Opportunity, College, Play

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• I used to cut guitars out of a piece of cardboard to copy the Strat look. I used a backwards tennis racket for a while and graduated to the cardboard cutout.

  Rick Springfield

  Cutting, Guitar, Tennis

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• To Serve and Protect..."- Traditional Motto of Protection Rackets

  Robert Asprin

  Protection, Motto, Traditional

  Robert Asprin (1990). “M.Y.T.H. Inc. in action”

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• You seem a lot like me," he said. "You don't gawk at me like I'm a freak." "I'll kick anyone who does." "I think you already did. Or at least smacked him with a tennis racket." -Alexander and Raven, Vampire Kisses, Pg.127, The Beginning

  Ellen Schreiber

  Kissing, Thinking, Ravens

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• The two dozen commonplace childhood photographs - snowsuit, pony, tennis racket, looming fender of a Dodge - were an inexhaustible source of wonder for him, at her having existed before he met her, and of sadness for his possessing nothing of the ten million minutes of that black-and-white scallop-edged existence save these few proofs.

  Michael Chabon

  Sadness, Black And White, Two

  "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay". Book by Michael Chabon, September 19, 2000.

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• Darling, my darling, don't think that I don't love you or that I didn't love you, but it's precisely because I love you that I couldn't have become what I am today if you were still here. It's impossible to have a child and despise the world as it is, because that's the world we've put the child into. The child makes us care about the world, think about it's future, willingly join in its racket and its turmoils, take its incurable stupidity seriously.

  Milan Kundera

  Children, Love You, Thinking

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• My rackets are run on strictly American lines and they're going to stay that way.

  Al Capone

  Funny, Running, Humor

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• Reading student papers, blue books, etc., a form of torture ... a matter of rubbing an iron file over one's teeth, or holding urine in one's mouth, or having the racket of a bulldozer in one's ear for an hour or two on end.

  Newton Arvin

  Book, Reading, Blue

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• I had a swell racket. I was rewarded with honors, medals, promotions. l might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate a racket in three city districts. The Marines operated on three continents.

  Smedley Butler

  Marine, Cities, Honor

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• War traumatizes soldier and civilian alike; warfare is a profit-making racket; warfare resolves nothing that negotiations can't resolve better; the weapons we have now make non-violence the only option to planetary annihilation.

  Madeline Taylor

  War, Soldier, Weapons

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• Boys have their soft and gentle moods too. You would suppose by the morning racket that nothing could be more foreign to their nature than romance and vague sadness. . . . But boys have hours of great sinking and sadness, when kindness and fondness are peculiarly needful to them.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Nature, Morning, Kindness

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and ears”, p.69

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• The words of the social critic Eric Hoffer were ringing true: "Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and turns into a racket."

  Christopher McDougall

  Running, Causes, Eric

  Christopher McDougall (2010). “Born to Run: The hidden tribe, the ultra-runners, and the greatest race the world has never seen”, p.182, Profile Books

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• Where there is so much racket there must be something out of kilter.

  Sojourner Truth

  "Ain't I A Woman?". Sojourner Truth's speech at the Women's Rights Convention at Old Stone Church in Akron, Ohio, www.nps.gov. May 29, 1851.

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• Printing currency for foreigners to buy is the best racket a government can get into.

  Lee Child

  Government, Printing, Currency

  Lee Child (2006). “Killing Floor: A Jack Reacher Novel”, p.285, Penguin

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