Tickets Quotes - Page 8

• They went down the list of every known charge conceivable to man - rackeering, skimming, kickback, ticket scalping. fixing fights, preordaining fights, vitaiting officials, corrupting judges, all the way down to laundering money. Everything but the Lindbergh baby.

  Don King

  Baby, Fighting, Men

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• After all, the world is not a stage-not to me: nor a theatre: nor a show-house of any sort. And art, especially novels, are not little theatres where the reader sits aloft and watches...and sighs, commiserates, condones and smiles. That's what you want a book to be: because it leaves you so safe and superior, with your two-dollar ticket to the show. And that's what my books are not and never will be...Whoever reads me will be in the thick of the scrimmage, and if he doesn't like it if he wants a safe seat in the audience-let him read someone else.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Art, Book, Reading

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• I'm saying there is no way that I will do this, because it's really not me. I know my strengths, and governor Romney needs to find someone who wants to run with him. There are many people who will do it very, very well, and I'll support the ticket.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Running, People, Support

  "CNN Newsroom" with Suzanne Malveaux, www.cnn.com. July 13, 2012.

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• Ever been to Disneyland? That was definitely an E ticket!

  Sally Ride

  Disneyland

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• Sometimes I feel like . . . the world is a place I bought a ticket to. It’s a big show for me, as if it wouldn’t happen if I wasn’t there with a camera.

  Garry Winogrand

  Cameras, World, Sometimes

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• To watch an American on a beach, or crowding into a subway, or buying a theatre ticket, or sitting at home with his radio on, tells you something about one aspect of the American character: the capacity to withstand a great deal of outside interference, so to speak; a willing acceptance of frenzy which, though it's never self-conscious, amounts to a willingness to let other people have and assert their own lively, and even offensive, character. They are a tough race in this.

  Alistair Cooke

  Beach, Character, Home

  "Letter from America, 1946-2004".

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• It seems absolutely wrong that people should be able to profit in this cynical way from an event that is designed to highlight the need for action on poverty in Africa, and for which so many artists and others are donating their valuable time for nothing [on people selling Live8 concert tickets on eBay]

  James Purnell

  Artist, Ebay, People

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• To put a woman on the ticket would challenge the loyalty of women everywhere to their sex, because it would be made to seem that the defeat of the ticket meant the defeat for a hundred years of women's chance to be truly equal with men in politics.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Loyalty, Sex, Men

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• It's promising and seductive, that huge Italian family, sitting around the dinner table, surrounded by olive trees. But it's not my family and I am not their family, and no amount of birthing sons, and cooking dinner and raking leaves or planting the gardens or paying for the plane tickets is going to change that. If I don't come back in eleven months, I will not be missed, and no one will write me or call me to acknowledge my absence. Which is not an accusation, just a small truth about clan and bloodline.

  Gabrielle Hamilton

  Writing, Son, Garden

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• I got a smile that'll make the mirror crack,
  And I seem to stay under clouds that's pitch black.
  So when it rains, it pours, and when it pours, I'm soaked.
  I contracted lung cancer from third hand smoke,
  And I'm like the frog that's dying to be a prince,
  The boy who cried wolf and no one was convinced.
  The man who hit lotto and lost his ticket,
  In a rainstorm...and struck by lightning trying to get it.

  GZA

  Cancer, Rain, Rap

  Song: Life Is a Movie

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• The reality is that most of us sit at home and read about the Super Bowl and the 1,000 parties, and we won't have an opportunity to participate. When I look at a 400 ticket, I blanch. This allows everyday people to get involved.

  Charlie Anderson

  Party, Home, Opportunity

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• She clutched the train ticket tighter and waited for the sense of escape to come over her as it had a dozen times before, that heady sensation of having just scooted through the clanging gate, of eluding the thrown net. It didn't come. She was running again, but she wasn't escaping. She'd been chased to ground a long, long time ago.

  Connie Brockway

  Running, Escaping, Long

  Connie Brockway (2007). “The Bridal Season: A Loveswept Classic Romance”, Loveswept

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• Forgiveness is a stunning principle, your ticket out of hate and fear and chaos. ... I know what regret feels like; I've earned my credentials. But I also know what forgiveness feels like, because God has so graciously forgiven me.

  Barbara Johnson

  Regret, Hate, Past

  "Boomerang Joy: Joy That Goes Around, Comes Around".

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• The outgoing and spontaneous person that the world knew while I was boxing was a persona that I created to sell tickets and promote my career. In my private life, I am quiet and reflective by nature.

  Muhammad Ali

  Careers, Boxing, World

  Muhammad Ali, Hana Yasmeen Ali (2013). “The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey”, p.70, Simon and Schuster

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• After all, your chances of winning a lottery and of affecting an election are pretty similar. From a financial perspective, playing the lottery is a bad investment. But it's fun and relatively cheap: for the price of a ticket, you buy the right to fantasize how you'd spend the winnings - much as you get to fantasize that your vote will have some impact on policy.

  Steven Levitt

  Fun, Winning, Impact

  Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner (2006). “Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything”, p.190, Penguin UK

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• It is written on the gate of heaven: Nothing in existence is more powerful than destiny. And destiny brought you here, to this page, which is part of your ticket-as all things are-to return to God.

  Hafez

  Powerful, Destiny, Heaven

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• Destiny, quite often, is a determined parent. Mozart was hardly some naive prodigy who sat down at the keyboard and, with God whispering in his ears, let music flow from his fingertips. It's a nice image for selling tickets to movies, but whether or not God has kissed your brow, you still have to work. Without learning and preparation, you won't know how to harness the power of that kiss.

  Twyla Tharp

  Nice, Kissing, Destiny

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• Mary Mackey joins other visionary poets of dpaysement . . . recovering a lost part of herself in the edgy lyricism of the tropics, haunted by fado, forr, and death. The lines are tense with the vulnerability of lovers, strangers, and travelers with no ticket home.

  Dennis Nurkse

  Home, Visionaries, Lines

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• The occupational hazard of making a spectacle of yourself, over the long haul, is that at some point you buy a ticket too.

  Thomas McGuane

  Long, Hazards, Haul

  Thomas McGuane (2015). “Panama”, p.46, Macmillan

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• Offense sells tickets, but defense wins championships.

  Bear Bryant

  Winning, Defense, Championship

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• To ward off a feeling of failure, she joked that she could wallpaper her bathroom with rejection slips, which she chose not to see as messages to stop, but rather as tickets to the game.

  Anita Shreve

  Games, Rejection, Feelings

  Anita Shreve (2002). “The Last Time They Met”, Large Print Press

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• Gianfranco Zola once sent Gary Pallister the wrong way to such an extent that he needed a ticket to get back in.

  Alex Ferguson

  Zola, Way, Needed

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• A startup is the largest endeavor over which you can have definite mastery. You can have agency not just over your own life, but over a small and important part of the world. It begins by rejecting the unjust tyranny of Chance. You are not a lottery ticket.

  Peter Thiel

  Agency, Over You, Important

  Peter Thiel, Blake Masters (2014). “Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future”, p.64, Crown Business

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• It was a battle all day with our M&M's Camry. I don't know why, we just didn't have what we needed. We never seemed to have the ticket we needed today. We got better all day, which was a positive and salvaged something out of nothing -- so all things considering it was okay. It's so late in the year, you're just running laps now and getting what you can get and seeing if you can win next weekend at Homestead to finish the year.

  Kyle Busch

  Running, Weekend, Winning

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• Our first single, 'Ticket To Ride', was a kind of half-hit, half flop: in some places it was number one, in others it was ash-tray material.

  Karen Carpenter

  Numbers, Ashes, Half

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