Tickets Quotes - Page 5

• I won't apologize for ticket prices. I think we're well worth it. We consider ourselves in the elite touring acts, like the Stones, Elton John, Paul McCartney.

  Glenn Frey

  Apology, Thinking, Stones

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• Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Success, Mistake, Congratulations

  Speech by Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, Maxime Verhagen, at Second Conference on Chemical Weapons Treaty Review, www.government.nl. April 07, 2008.

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• I used to stand outside the theater knowing the truant officer was looking for me. I would stand there 'til someone came along and then ask them to buy my ticket.

  Moe Howard

  Knowing, Standing Out, Used

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• I've seen the ticket, and I still can't believe it. When I see the money, I hope I don't hit the floor.

  Judy Garland

  Believe, Stills

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• I'm an entertainer. If people are paying good money for tickets they deserve the best show they can see. I don't get into lighting stuff on fire, but I do believe in going the extra mile.

  Bryan White

  Money, Believe, Fire

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• I think anti-Semitism is the meal ticket of the organizations that fight it.

  Arthur Hertzberg

  Fighting, Thinking, Organization

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• The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it.

  T. S. Eliot

  Funeral, Done, Programming

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• Why is it good for football to take the excitement away from fans by overcharging them for tickets to see their team?

  Sepp Blatter

  Football, Team, Fans

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• I am a season ticket holder to Dodger games. I go to every Dodger game I can go to. Every single one.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Games, Dodgers, Seasons

  "Shia LaBeouf and Jon Heder Interview - SURF'S UP". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. June 5, 2007.

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• I don't go on set with an army of people because the most expensive elements of a movie production are the plane tickets, the hotel rooms, food and gasoline. If you're willing to discover new colleagues in the place that you are, you can save a ton of money.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Army, People, Elements

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• You think I'm going to ask these sweet 14 year olds to ask their parents to buy a $100 ticket then run around in latex and lip sync? No way.

  Lady Gaga

  Running, Sweet, Thinking

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• Most political journalists come to Washington because they're snappy writers, big thinkers, or news breakers. Me? My ticket to the big leagues had little to do with talent. It was mostly about the governor I was covering, Bill Clinton.

  Ron Fournier

  League, Political, Covering

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• I have always advocated doing everything possible to pay off credit card balances; it's good financial management and the ticket to a strong FICO credit score.

  Suze Orman

  Strong, Balance, Cards

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• Well, I think that when I perform on the road I always thank the audience for buying a ticket because it's a big deal to buy a ticket for a live entertainment, get a baby-sitter and pay for the meal, the parking, whatever.

  Kathy Griffin

  Baby, Thinking, Entertainment

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• There's a tacit agreement between myself and the audience that I will entertain them when they buy their ticket, and I've been the one that has screwed that up. Once in while I indulge myself and try something else, and I keep my fingers crossed that it will come out good and there'll be enough people who will enjoy it, but that doesn't often happen.

  Woody Allen

  Agreement, People, Trying

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2001.

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• If you live your life and don't confess your sins to God Almighty through the authority of Christ and His blood, I'm going to say this very plainly, you're going straight to hell with a nonstop ticket.

  John Hagee

  Blood, Live Your Life, Sin

  "Perry Says He Believes Non-Christians Will Go to Hell; Rivals Pounce". Dallas Morning News, November 06, 2006.

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• The whole idea of re-releasing old movies does bother me a little bit. If they're going to re-release an old movie, I should be able to get in with my old ticket.

  Craig Ferguson

  Ideas, Doe, Littles

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• When I got into comedy, which was really for acting, I would see the guys who would be considered great today. They were great, but after a few minutes I could get kind of bored because they wouldn't move around. The dress code was boring to me. I didn't want to see the guy next door when I'm watching a performer. I wanted to see someone I would pay a ticket for.

  Andrew Dice Clay

  Moving, Doors, Bored

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• My policy is to be able to take a ticket at Victoria station and go anywhere I damn well please!

  Ernest Bevin

  Able, Damn, Please

  In 'Spectator' 20 April 1951, p. 514

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• The arts were a big part of my childhood. We went to the theatre and opera a lot as a family. We were not at all wealthy, but it was at a time when the arts were publicly funded and there were free tickets available. For someone like myself who wasn't that academically inclined, it was a great escape.

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  Art, Childhood, Theatre

  "The Family Stone - Sarah Jessica Parker interview" by Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Most of my fans are young; they pay for their own tickets and work really hard to be able to come, and so I want to give all of them the best show.

  Miley Cyrus

  Giving, Fans, Want

  "Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman: the Two Sides of Miley Cyrus". Interview with Tavi Gevinson, www.elle.com. April 30, 2014.

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• [Ed Grimley] lives in a retirement home in New Jersey. It's called the Retirement Home in New Jersey for Characters Who Were Interesting in the '80s for About an Hour. He's there with the Whiners, Gumby and Jon Lovitz's 'That's the ticket' guy.

  Martin Short

  Retirement, Character, Home

  "Hot Seat". Time Out New York, Issue 565, August 02, 2006.

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• If the law imposed the death penalty for parking tickets, we'd not only have fewer parking tickets, we'd also have much less driving.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Law, Death Penalty, Driving

  Lawrence Lessig (2004). “Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity”, p.192, Penguin

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• How incredibly avaricious the whole operation was, the way they made the Jews pay for their tickets in the railway cars to the death camps. Yeah, and the rates for a third-class ticket, one way. And half price for children.... It was a kind of exploration of evil. Just how bad can we get?

  Martin Amis

  Children, Class, Car

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• I'll preach anywhere. If it's a round trip ticket to preach in hell, I'll take it-as long as it's round trip.

  Mark Driscoll

  Long, Hell, Rounds

  "Bible Study Anywhere" by John D. Barry, Bible Study Magazine, March-April 2009.

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