Score Quotes - Page 38

• There will be killing till the score is paid.

  Homer

  Killing, Paid

  Homer (1998). “The Odyssey: The Fitzgerald Translation”, p.411, Macmillan

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• Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You're by no means alone on that score, you'll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You'll learn from them—if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry.

  J. D. Salinger

  Beautiful, Confused, Mean

  J. D. SALINGER (1951). “THE CATCHER IN THE RYE”

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• Palindrome as well. My sister's name is Hannah. Father liked word games. He was fourteen times World Scrabble Champion. When he died, we buried him at Queenzieburn to make use of the triple word score.

  Jasper Fforde

  Father, Games, Names

  Jasper Fforde (2006). “The Big Over Easy: A Nursery Crime”, p.86, Penguin

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• works of art feel towards human beings exactly as we do towards ghosts. The transparency of spectres, the diffuseness in space which lets them drift through doors and walls, and their smell of death, disgust us not more than we disgust works of art by our meaninglessness, our diffuseness in time which lets us drift through three score years and ten without a quarter as much significance as a picture establishes instantaneously.

  Rebecca West

  Art, Wall, Doors

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• There are scores of people waiting for someone just like us to come along; people who will appreciate our compassion, our encouragement, who will need our unique talents. Someone who will live a happier life merely because we took the time to share what we had to give.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Encouragement, Unique, Compassion

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• We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.

  Azar Nafisi

  Pay, Crime, Settling

  Azar Nafisi (2003). “Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books”, p.119, Random House

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• The (photographic) negative is the equivalent of the composers score and the print is the equivalent of the conductors performance.

  Ansel Adams

  Negative, Composer, Print

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• Why should the railroad employees be parceled out among a score of different organizations? They are all employed in the same service. Their interests are mutual. They ought to be able to act together as one. But they divide according to craft and calling, and if you were to propose today to unite them that they might actually do something to advance their collective and individual interests as workers, you would be opposed by every grand officer of these organizations.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Organization, Together, Different

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• All the f------ experts in America, everybody who thinks they know about soccer, they can all look at the score tonight and let's see what they have to say now. Nobody has any respect for what we do, for what goes on on the inside, so let them all talk now.

  Michael Bradley

  Soccer, Thinking, America

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• You cannot go around and keep score. If you keep score on the good things and the bad things, you'll find out that you're a very miserable person. God gave man the ability to forget, which is one of the greatest attributes you have. Because if you remember everything that's happened to you, you generally remember that which is the most unfortunate.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Men, Remembers Everything, Miserable Person

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• You must realize that honorary degrees are given generally to people whose SAT scores were too low to get them into schools the regular way. As a matter of fact, it was my SAT scores that led me into my present vocation in life, comedy.

  Neil Simon

  Graduation, School, People

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• Children can take lessons in that school via the Internet and can score extra points like e.g. in Geography or History. That sounds very promising and is a fantastic basis for future steps.

  Anatoly Karpov

  Children, School, Steps

  "Anatoly Karpov speaks his mind". Interview with Hartmut Metz, en.chessbase.com. July 6, 2005.

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• Keep writing, because not only does practice improve skill, it gives you more chances to score on the market. I did that for eight years before making my first sale.

  Piers Anthony

  Writing, Eight, Years

  Interview with Dag R., www.sffworld.com. June 5, 2000.

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• A modern girls' school, equipped as scores are now equipped throughout the country, was of course not to be found in 1858, when I first became a school boarder, or in 1867, when I ceased to be one.

  Mary Augusta Ward

  Girl, Country, School

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• Now is the time to show maximum responsibility. It is not the time to pay off old scores nor for sterile partisan recriminations. It is time to re-establish a climate of calmness and mutual respect.

  Giorgio Napolitano

  Responsibility, Climate, Pay

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• I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person. I have clearly stated in prior interviews that I abhor racial discrimination and would have worked to end segregation. Even though this matter was settled when I was 2, and no serious people are seeking to revisit it except to score cheap political points, I unequivocally state that I will not support any efforts to repeal the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

  Rand Paul

  Believe, Rights, Racism

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• I don’t watch a lot of other basketball away from the gym. But I do look at LeBron’s box score. I want to see how many points, rebounds and assists he had, and how he shot from the field. If he had 30 points, nine rebounds and eight assists, I can tell you exactly how he did it, what type of shots he made and who he passed to.

  Kevin Durant

  Basketball, Eight, Fields

  "If You Care About Basketball, This Kevin Durant Quote About LeBron James Will Make You Giddy" by Tom Manfred, www.businessinsider.com. April 24, 2013.

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• I feel like nobody can stop me off the dribble. At crunch time, we're looking for somebody to score and I definitely want to be the guy who has the ball in his hands.

  Rajon Rondo

  Hands, Guy, Balls

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• My grandson sees me as Lois on TV every Christmas, and that scores me points.

  Margot Kidder

  Christmas, Tvs, Grandson

  "No kidding" by Chris Roberts, www.theguardian.com. April 8, 2005.

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• He leaned forward and opened his door, politely standing aside to let me by before following me in. There are some advantages to dating a guy from another era, I thought. Though I am a big believer in gender equality, chivalry scores high in my book.

  Amy Plum

  Book, Men, Doors

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• I am the person you'll see everyday training when everyone else has gone home. I live for the one moment of glory when I save that goal or sink that 3-point shot and score the winning basket. I am the sport, I am the glory, nothing can change that. I am an athlete, no one can forget that.

  Alexa Wilkinson

  Inspirational, Success, Sports

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• A wise player ought to accept his throws and score them, not bewail his luck.

  Sophocles

  Wise, Player, Luck

  "Phædra". Play by Sophocles, Fragment 947,

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• We can beat anyone on our day - so long as we score.

  Alex Totten

  Football, Long, Beats

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• [About the great synthesis of atomic physics in the 1920s:] It was a heroic time. It was not the doing of any one man; it involved the collaboration of scores of scientists from many different lands. But from the first to last the deeply creative, subtle and critical spirit of Niels Bohr guided, restrained, deepened and finally transmuted the enterprise.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  Creativity, Science, Men

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• I don't see the world as you see it.
  I see it as a game, and my aim is to complete it.
  What you live for is what you die for:
  To make a little name, grab some fame and the high score.

  MURS

  Rap, Games, Names

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