Tickets Quotes:

Language is the ticket to plot and character, after all, because both are built out of language.

- Aimee Bender

topic: Character, Plot, Tickets

I see myself as a comic but the acting helps sell tickets for gigs.

- Alan Davies

topic: Acting, Gigs, Tickets

As long as I'm still able to have a hit on the radio and sell a few albums and some tickets, I don't see that it would be worth retiring.

- Alan Jackson

topic: Long, Funny Retirement, Tickets

We're given the springboard of the text, a plane ticket, told to report to Alabama, and there's a group of people all ready to make a film and it's a marvelous life.

- Albert Finney

source: Interview with Paul Fischer, Dark Horizons, December 2, 2003.

topic: People, Tickets, Groups, Springboards

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

- Alex Ferguson

topic: Way, Tickets, Zola

I get tickets all the time and can't stay under the speed limit. I'm bad at that.

- Amber Heard

topic: Limits, Tickets, Speed, Speed Limits

There is no filmmaking legislation because distributors are not interested in sharing their money with the film industry - for instance, by giving a percentage of ticket sales back to filmmakers.

- Andrzej Wajda

topic: Giving, Tickets, Film

Well you can't win the lottery if you don't have a ticket

- Andy Gray

topic: Winning, Tickets, Lottery

A postsecondary education is the ticket to economic success in America.

- Arne Duncan

source: "Lower Student Loan Interest Rates" by Sec. Arne Duncan, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 27, 2012.

topic: America, Tickets, Economic, Economic Success

Marriage is the most expensive ticket to nowhere

- Aryn Kyle

source: Aryn Kyle (2008). “The God of Animals: A Novel”, p.312, Simon and Schuster

topic: Tickets

We've created a multitrillion-dollar edifice for dispensing the medical equivalent of lottery tickets - and have only the rudiments of a system to prepare patients for the near certainty that those tickets will not win. Hope is not a plan, but hope is our plan.

- Atul Gawande

topic: Winning, Dollars, Tickets, Edifice, Lottery Ticket

What police officer would dare ticket Death's minivan?

- Augusten Burroughs

topic: Police, Tickets, Dare, Minivans

Ticketmaster does not set prices. Live Nation does not set ticket prices. Artists set ticket prices.

- Barry Diller

topic: Artist, Doe, Tickets

Romney-Ryan is likely the best matched 'team' that has been on a national ticket in a very long time.

- Bob Beauprez

topic: Team, Long, Tickets

The only batsman I would love to see by paying for the tickets and sitting in the stand just to watch him is none other than Sachin Tendulkar

- Brian Lara

source: "Sachin Tendulkar Retires: Famous Quotes on the Master". www.news18.com. October 10, 2013.

topic: Watches, Sitting, Tickets, Tendulkar

I coulda' had class. I coulda' been a contender! But instead I got a one way ticket to Palookaville.

- Budd Schulberg

topic: Class, Way, Tickets

A NASA-funded study estimates that if the price of a ticket to space approached $100,000, close to a million people would buy one. That's a $100 billion industry. Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen gave me $20 million in startup funding to go after that market.

- Burt Rutan

source: "After the X Prize". www.wired.com. December 1, 2004.

topic: Space, People, Tickets

My driving record is not exemplary, but I have never had a speeding ticket over 100 m.p.h. I can say that unequivocally.

- Carl Hiaasen

topic: Records, Tickets, Driving, Speeding Tickets, Speeding

The greatest multiplex in the universe is inside your mind, and the only ticket you need is a good, well-written novel.

- Carlos Ruiz Zafon

topic: Mind, Tickets, Needs

If I bet on humanity, I'd never cash a ticket.

- Charles Bukowski

topic: Humanity, Cash, Tickets

The things that got me through grade school are helping me out later in life. It's like, I show up on time. If you buy a ticket to one of my shows, I'll show up. I'll be there. And if it says 10:00, I'll be on stage at 10:00.

- Chris Isaak

topic: School, Tickets, Helping

I understand it all. I can write my own ticket for one or two movies. But if they're not the right ones, my ticket gets yanked. I understand that's how it works, and I'm okay with it.

- Cuba Gooding, Jr.

topic: Writing, Two, Tickets

The foolishness of faith is the winning ticket in life

- David Oyedepo

topic: Winning, Tickets, Foolishness

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

topic: Home, Lines, Tickets, Tropics, Edgy

The center will not hold if it has been spot-welded by an operator whose deepest concern is not with the weld but with his lottery ticket.

- Donald Barthelme

source: Donald Barthelme (1981). “Sixty stories”, Putnam Adult

topic: Tickets, Spots, Lottery Ticket, Operators

Lottery tickets are a surtax on desperation.

- Douglas Coupland

topic: Tickets, Desperation, Lottery Ticket

Be your own hero, it's cheaper than a movie ticket.

- Douglas Horton

topic: Hero, Tickets, Cynicism, Being A Hero

I don't think anyone can calculate the effect of having a Jew on the ticket.

- Ed Rendell

source: "Gore's Leap Of Faith" by Eric Pooley, www.cnn.com. August 14, 2000.

topic: Thinking, Tickets, Jew

Reimbursement may be sometimes small, but then great ability can never be measured by the tickets at the gate.

- Eddie Harris

topic: May, Tickets, Sometimes, Reimbursement

Faith is the ticket to the feast, not the feast.

- Edwin Louis Cole

topic: Tickets

The list of women to potentially be on a major party ticket, in both parties, is embarrassingly short.

- Eleanor Clift

topic: Party, Lists, Tickets

I never felt I was quite the ticket academically. I always felt I had to put in an enormous amount of effort not to be disappointing. So I worked really hard, but at the time it suited me, because I didn't do very much else.

- Emily Mortimer

topic: Effort, Tickets, Disappointing

My victory is when the audience buys a ticket to watch my film. I am extremely thrilled when they give it a thumbs-up.

- Emraan Hashmi

topic: Giving, Victory, Tickets, Thumbs Up

If I wanted the ticket to be a $200 ticket, I'd have made it a $200 ticket, but I don't want it to be that.

- Eric Church

topic: Want, Tickets, Made

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

- Ernest Bevin

source: In 'Spectator' 20 April 1951, p. 514

topic: Able, Tickets, Policy

Cops pull me over just to get a better look. They never give me a ticket, even if I'm speeding, but they will ask to take pictures.

- Ernest Cline

topic: Giving, Looks, Tickets

Don't forget the prices are so high in theater; it isn't really where a young person can go on a date and buy two tickets and take someone out anymore.

- Estelle

topic: Two, Goes On, Tickets

We're constantly buying airplane tickets; we travel on the Concorde.

- Eva Herzigova

topic: Airplane, Buying, Tickets, Concorde, Aeroplanes

Being famous gets me good concert tickets, good tables in restaurants, good seats at sporting events and that's really about it.

- Fran Drescher

topic: Events, Tables, Tickets, Sporting Events

I am 1,000 percent for Tom Eagleton and I have no intention of dropping him from the ticket.

- George McGovern

topic: Tickets, Intention, Dropping

When I perform on stage, you have to remember my performance or buy another ticket to the party! In television and film, you can see it over and over again.

- Giancarlo Esposito

topic: Party, Television, Tickets

I traveled with my mother, Lela, and there was never enough money. I always had to roll down my silk stockings and carry a doll when we bought train tickets so I could go half-fare. If we had $3, we always figured how to tip for the trunks and still eat.

- Ginger Rogers

topic: Mother, Tickets, Dolls

Classical music in Venezuela is now something like a pop concert. You can see people screaming or crying because they don't have a ticket.

- Gustavo Dudamel

topic: People, Tickets, Venezuela

I have consistently made it very clear that I will vote a straight Democratic ticket, just like I do every election. From the local Constable to the President, I will be voting for every Democrat on the ballot.

- Henry Cuellar

source: "Texas Rep. Henry Cuellar plans to vote Obama" by Marin Cogan, www.politico.com. November 18, 2011.

topic: Voting, President, Tickets

If I'm a game show host, will someone buy a ticket to see me do standup? To do a dramatic role in a movie?

- Howie Mandel

source: "Howie Mandel's gamble on 'Deal' pays off". The Associated Press, www.today.com. January 23, 2006.

topic: Games, Roles, Tickets, Game Shows

Buy the ticket, take the ride.

- Hunter S. Thompson

topic: Fun, Scrapbooking, Tickets

I haven't been to a movie since somebody gave me free tickets to Star Wars, which I went to.

- Jack Vance

topic: Stars, War, Tickets

Being a reporter seems a ticket out to the world.

- Jackie Kennedy

topic: World, Tickets

Education is the ticket to success

- Jaime Escalante

topic: Tickets

Anytime you put your name on a ticket with nothing else attached to it, that's the true testament to where you are in your career - how many tickets are sold.

- Jake Owen

topic: Names, Careers, Tickets

In 2008, Barack Obama did get Democrats hyperventilating, whipped up to a creamy froth, while John McCain creaked ahead like a cranky granddad whom Republicans let move to the front of the buffet line, deferring to seniority, as they had in 1996, when Bob Dole turtled to the top of the ticket.

- James Wolcott

topic: Moving, Buffets, Tickets, Mccain, Seniority

Stock prices aren't real things. They're just froth on a wave. The wave is the only real thing, which investors forget when they're watching the ticket slither by.

- Jane Bryant Quinn

topic: Real, Tickets, Forget, Stock Price

Republicans are calling the Bush-Cheney ticket the 'Wizard of Oz' ticket. One needs a heart and the other needs a brain.

- Jay Leno

topic: Heart, Brain, Tickets

If any movie people are watching this show, please, for me, have some respect. You wanna sell some tickets, act like you know what you're talking about.

- Jeff Goldblum

topic: Talking, People, Tickets

Birth is life's first lottery ticket.

- Jeffrey Archer

source: Jeffrey Archer (2014). “Be Careful What You Wish For”, p.96, Pan Macmillan

topic: Firsts, Tickets, Birth, Lottery Ticket

I used to buy lottery tickets every week until I realised you could watch it on TV for nothing.

- Jimmy Carr

topic: Watches, Tvs, Tickets, Lottery Ticket

Time remorselessly rambles down the corridors and streets of our lives. but it is not until autumn that most of us become aware that our tickets are stamped with a terminal destination.

- Joe L. Wheeler

topic: Autumn, Tickets, Destination, Corridors

The only riots were the people trying to get tickets.

- John Guare

topic: People, Trying, Tickets

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

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

topic: Blood, Live Your Life, Tickets

It's hard to get concert tickets.

- John Hawkes

topic: Tickets, Concerts

Charging a man with murder in this place was like handing out speeding tickets at the Indy 500.

- John Milius

source: "Fictional character: Willard". "Apocalypse Now", www.imdb.com. 1979.

topic: Men, Tickets, Murder, Speeding Tickets, Speeding

Royalties are not how most writers or musicians make their living. Musicians by and large make a living with a relationship with an audience that is economically harnessed through performance and ticket sales.

- John Perry Barlow

topic: Musician, Tickets, Royalty

When you play for ticket-holders, you are already validated. I have no sense that I need to be accepted. I'm already accepted.

- Joshua Bell

topic: Play, Needs, Tickets

Life is like a huge lottery in which only the winning tickets are visible.

- Jostein Gaarder

topic: Winning, Life Is Like, Tickets

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

topic: Believe, Tickets, Stills

Minority views expressed in films simply don't sell tickets.

- Karel Reisz

topic: Views, Minorities, Tickets

... there is nothing so debilitating to a naturally weak sense of humor as selling tickets behind a grating ...

- Kate Douglas Wiggin

source: Kate Douglas Wiggin (2005). “Penelope's Progress”, p.8, Cosimo, Inc.

topic: Tickets, Sense Of Humor, Selling

People come to see the players. Nobody ever bought a ticket to see a manager.

- Larry Goetz

topic: Player, People, Tickets

I wanted to go to Jupiter. That was my plan from day one, and David Lynch gave me the ticket.

- Laura Dern

topic: Jupiter, Tickets, Plans

The more tickets you have in a lottery, the worse your chance. And it is the same of virtues, in the lottery of life.

- Laurence Sterne

topic: Tickets, Chance, Virtue

They can't fire me because my family buys too many tickets.

- LaVell Edwards

topic: Fire, Tickets, My Family

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

topic: Law, Tickets, Death Penalty

For there is a price ticket on everything that puts a whizz into life, and adventure follows the rule. It's distressing, but there you are.

- Leslie Charteris

topic: Adventure, Tickets, Funny Travel, Distressing

Jimmy says he'll never tell a lie. Well, I lie all the time. 1 have to - to balance the family ticket.

- Lillian Gordy Carter

topic: Lying, Balance, Tickets

You could buy 100 lottery tickets and not win, or you could buy one and get it,

- Luis Gonzalez

topic: Winning, Tickets, Lottery Ticket

Every time you buy tickets on Ticketmaster, you help to digitize a book.

- Luis von Ahn

topic: Book, Technology, Tickets

I think certainly after every show I headline, I will be available to the fans. When I'm headlining a show, I don't walk off stage. I'll walk to the front of the stage and sign hats and shirts and tickets for 15 to 30 minutes, until everyone has everything signed.

- Luke Bryan

topic: Thinking, Tickets, Hats

You get weird, funny requests on Twitter. With our fan club, I was seeing a lot of fans were having some issue with the way the fan club tickets were being handled in one of the shows. So I was able to correspond with that fan, and be like, 'Listen, we'll be on it.'

- Luke Bryan

topic: Issues, Tickets, Fans

I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.

- M. Ward

topic: Happiness, Long, Tickets

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

topic: Long, Tickets, Hell

Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.

- Mary Schmich

source: "Now Boarding At Any Newspaper, Magazine Or Book". articles.chicagotribune.com. October 28, 1998.

topic: Reading, Tickets, Discounts

If I get a parking ticket, there is always a parallel universe where I didn't. On the other hand, there is yet another universe where my car was stolen.

- Max Tegmark

source: "What is Reality?". BBC Horizons, January 17, 2011.

topic: Hands, Car, Tickets, Parallel Universe

I get speeding ticket like everybody else. If the restaurant is full I'm waiting in line like everybody else.

- Mikhail Baryshnikov

topic: Waiting, Lines, Tickets, Speeding Tickets, Waiting In Line

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

topic: Knowing, Tickets, Standing Out

Well, I bought a ticket to the circus. I don't know why I was surprised to see elephants.

- Norris Church Mailer

source: "Norris Church Mailer: The Last Wife" by Alex Witchel, www.nytimes.com. April 1, 2010.

topic: Elephants, Circus, Tickets

I did send a girl a plane ticket asking her for a visit, I guess that's quite romantic.

- Orlando Bloom

topic: Girl, Tickets, Asking, Aeroplanes

Although it's easy to forget sometimes, a share is not a lottery ticket... it's part-ownership of a business.

- Peter Lynch

topic: Intelligent, Investing, Tickets, Lottery Ticket, Financial Investment

No man was ever taken to hell by a woman unless he already had a ticket in his pocket.

- Rex Stout

source: Rex Stout (2010). “Some Buried Caesar”, p.51, Crimeline

topic: Women, Taken, Tickets

If you can't sell tickets you'll struggle.

- Ricky Hatton

topic: Motivation, Struggle, Tickets

When you buy a lottery ticket, you don't know how tickets have been sold. But sold they have been. And there is an underlying distribution for the game.

- Robert Haugen

source: "The Inefficient Stock Market - What Pays Off And Why". Book by Robert Haugen, ch. 3, Estimating Portfolio Risk and Expected Return with Ad Hoc Factor Models, p. 29, 1999.

topic: Games, Tickets, Lottery Ticket

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

- Sally Ride

topic: Tickets, Disneyland

The best thing about being an actress is getting good concert tickets.

- Sara Gilbert

topic: Tickets, Actresses, Concerts

It is a bad business, dealing in lottery tickets ... Riches got in such a hasty manner never wear well.

- Sarah Josepha Hale

topic: Gambling, Riches, Tickets, Lottery Ticket, Bad Business

I'm gonna see 'Mission Impossible' Part 9 because I like Tom Cruise movies! But just because the box office has that one receipt from the ticket I purchased, doesn't mean it represents someone who liked it.

- Sean Patrick Flanery

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Mean, Office, Tickets, Receipts, Box Office

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

- Sepp Blatter

topic: Football, Team, Tickets, Overcharging

Art, for me, has always been a ticket for experience.

- Shahzia Sikander

topic: Art, Tickets

I've spent more on my Dodger tickets that I did on my car.

- Shia LaBeouf

topic: Car, Tickets, Dodgers

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

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

topic: Long, Tickets, Hazards, Occupational Hazards

I really like John McCain. He's an awesome dude and was a lot of fun when he hosted "SNL." I'd love to see a McCain-Giuliani "rage" ticket.

- Tina Fey

topic: Fun, Tickets, Rage, Snl

Think of it as your ticket to change the world.

- Tom Brokaw

topic: Thinking, Tickets, World

The government has become a mechanism for distributing largess, and your census form is your ticket.

- Tom G. Palmer

source: Tom G. Palmer (2009). “Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice”, p.403, Cato Institute

topic: Government, Tickets, Census

The reason the government sells the census as your ticket to getting goodies - rather than as your civic duty - is that distributing goodies is now all the government does.

- Tom G. Palmer

source: Tom G. Palmer (2009). “Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice”, p.401, Cato Institute

topic: Government, Tickets, Doe, Census, Civics

Usually, someone who's in a show gets me a ticket. I feel cornered. I can't walk out if I don't like it.

- Uta Hagen

topic: Tickets, Feels, Walks, Cornered

Agents are still asking for millions of dollars for actors that don't sell one ticket.

- Uwe Boll

topic: Actors, Agents, Tickets

Luck is not as random as you think. Before that lottery ticket won the jackpot, someone had to buy it.

- Vera Nazarian

topic: Thinking, Luck, Tickets, Jackpot, Lottery Ticket

I'm not sayin' she's a bragger, but if you've been to Paradise, she's got a season ticket.

- Willy Russell

source: Willy Russell (2016). “Willy Russell Plays: 2: Blood Brothers; Our Day Out - The Musical; Shirley Valentine; John, Paul, George, Ringo . . . and Bert”, p.248, Bloomsbury Publishing

topic: Paradise, Tickets

A polo handicap is a persons ticket to the world.

- Winston Churchill

topic: Horse, Tickets, World, Polo

I'm a season ticket holder to the Washington Wizards, and I love going to Washington Nationals and Redskins games.

- Wolf Blitzer

topic: Games, Tickets, Wizards, Redskins

Don't spend money on gear. Spend it on plane tickets.

- Audrey Sutherland

topic: Gears, Tickets, Planes

Anyone who buys a ticket can just go in there, and I don't like everyone, so I always see concerts as like, I'm going to get punched, I'm going to get elbowed, I'm going to get stepped on, get spilled on, someone's going to hit me with their body odor or something.

- Baron Vaughn

topic: Odor, Body, Tickets, Body Odor

The mayor of Newark, N.J. wants to set up a citywide program to improve residents' health. The health care program would consist of a bus ticket out of Newark.

- Conan O'Brien

topic: Care, Want, Tickets, Newark

Well, men go to musicals. Women are the ones that buy the tickets for plays.

- John O'Hara

topic: Men, Play, Tickets

Sometimes I work upstairs projecting the movies, and the rest of the time I'm just selling tickets or popcorn.

- Kyle Parker

source: Source: pitchfork.com

topic: Popcorn, Tickets, Sometimes, Upstairs

They don't allow a dying on the highway. No Passing. They give you a ticket if you die on the highway.

- Malachy McCourt

topic: Giving, Dying, Tickets

I appeal to women not to let themselves become corrupted by male power. Emancipation is something more than a 'ticket' to serve in the army.

- Petra Kelly

topic: Army, Males, Tickets

If I want to travel with my family I have to purchase 7 airline tickets.

- David Koechner

source: Interview with Brandon Wetherbee, brightestyoungthings.com. September 22, 2016.

topic: Want, Tickets, My Family, Airline Ticket

I'm not a policy expert - I am only arguing that there is more to an education than an economic ticket.

- Rebecca Mead

source: "Ask the Author Live: Rebecca Mead". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. May 28, 2010.

topic: Experts, Tickets, Arguing

I love the experience of walking into the theater, buying a ticket and all that goes with it.

- Victoria Mahoney

source: Source: blogs.indiewire.com

topic: Buying, Tickets, Theater

Every time you talk about politics or religion, know that the moment you open your mouth you're isolating 50% of your audience, in any medium. You're taking 50% of people that'll buy tickets to come see you and you're removing them from the equation.

- Jay Mohr

source: Source: underthegunreview.net

topic: People, Mouths, Tickets

Most importantly, how impressive can I be to people that bought tickets, where they never feel, "It was pretty good." If anyone thinks my show was "pretty good," then I've completely failed. I think every comic should think that.

- Jay Mohr

source: Source: underthegunreview.net

topic: Thinking, People, Tickets

When you have got a ticket to send, and you're not a top costumer, it's best not to waste your time.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Waste, Tickets

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

topic: Army, People, Tickets

Outdoors for me is walking from the car to the ticket desk at the airport

- Frank Zappa

topic: Airports, Car, Tickets

I feel like I got a ticket to go to another planet and I'm moving there and there's no turning back, and I don't know if I'm going to like that other planet or have friends there.

- Jennifer Lawrence

source: "The Hunger Games' Jennifer Lawrence Talks Fame, Katniss and More In Her Glamour Interview". www.glamour.com. February 28, 2012.

topic: Moving, Tickets, Planets, No Turning Back

We want to make people feel something after they buy that ticket.

- Jeremy Renner

source: Source: deadline.com

topic: People, Want, Tickets

People who drain others have a certain world they want to get to when they die, and you're their ticket!

- Frederick Lenz

topic: People, Want, Tickets

Life is a lottery that we've already won. But most people have not cashed in their tickets.

- Louise Hay

topic: People, Tickets, Life Is, Already Won, Lottery

It’s not God that I don’t accept, Alyosha, only I most respectfully return him the ticket.

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

source: Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “The Brothers Karamazov”, p.373, First Avenue Editions

topic: Return, Tickets, Brothers Karamazov

I've been doing theaters like the Warner for about a year and we've found the earlier you get the tickets on sale the better idea you get on how many shows we will be doing.

- Jim Gaffigan

source: Brightest Young Things Interview, brightestyoungthings.com. May 21, 2007.

topic: Years, Ideas, Tickets

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

topic: Cameras, World, Tickets

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

- T. S. Eliot

topic: Funeral, Done, Tickets

To me, 'selling out' means everyone bought a ticket.

- Courtney Love

topic: Mean, Tickets, Selling, Selling Out

A work in which there are theories is like an object which still has the ticket that shows its price.

- Marcel Proust

source: Marcel Proust (1970). “The past recaptured”, Random House (NY)

topic: Tickets, Theory, Shows

The only way Marc Bircham will be going to Tottenham is if he buys a f****** season ticket.

- Terry Venables

topic: Way, Tickets, Tottenham

A lottery is a salutary instrument and a tax... laid on the willing only, that is to say, on those who can risk the price of a ticket without sensible injury, for the possibility of a higher prize.

- Thomas Jefferson

source: Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, 4: Correspondence and Private Papers”, p.440

topic: Gambling, Risk, Tickets

I'm very, very serious about my Catholicism and Hillary Clinton views that as a real asset. And we've talked about our faith lives, as she asked me to be on the ticket with her.

- Tim Kaine

source: Source: abcnews.go.com

topic: Real, Views, Tickets

If Christians should vote their duty to God at the polls, they would carry every election, and do it with ease. They would elect every clean candidate in the United States, and defeat every soiled one. Their prodigious power would be quickly realized and recognized, and afterward there would be no unclean candidates upon any ticket, and graft would cease.

- Mark Twain

source: Mark Twain (1992). “Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches & Essays: 1891-1910”

topic: Christian, Voting, Tickets, Duty To God, Candidates

If you have a live reputation and your popularity is proven that way, then you're bound to get signed up because they see all those people buying those tickets and they think some of those people will buy those records, and that's what their business is primarily about.

- David Gilmour

source: Source: www.pinkfloydz.com

topic: Thinking, People, Tickets

Many times we talk about the people that have come to enjoy the show. They went through a lot to get here, whatever they needed to work out in their lives; they got babysitters, they traveled, and purchased the tickets. So it's up to us to deliver the goods!

- John Petrucci

source: Source: myglobalmind.com

topic: People, Work Out, Tickets

It's cold out there, colder than a ticket taker's smile at the Ivar Theatre on a Saturday night.

- Tom Waits

source: Song: Emotional Weather Report

topic: Night, Theatre, Tickets

We all arrive on Earth with a round-trip ticket.

- Richard Paul Evans

source: Richard Paul Evans (2007). “The Gift: A Novel”, p.331, Simon and Schuster

topic: Earth, Tickets, Rounds

That would have been a great ticket, Reagan and Ford - an actor and a stuntman.

- Johnny Carson

topic: Actors, Tickets, Stuntman

Clergyman: A ticket speculator outside the gates of Heaven.

- H. L. Mencken

topic: Heaven, Tickets, Agnostic, Gates Of Heaven

Life offers us tickets to places which we have not knowingly asked for.

- Maya Angelou

source: Maya Angelou, Jeffrey M. Elliot (1989). “Conversations with Maya Angelou”

topic: Tickets, Offers

I'm in the worst place you can be. I sell magazines and not movie tickets.

- Ben Affleck

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Magazines, Tickets, Worst

Every success is usually an admission ticket to a new set of decisions.

- Henry A. Kissinger

topic: Inspirational, Decision, Tickets, Admission

There are not that many people in the movies today that really make me go out and buy a movie ticket.

- Robert Osborne

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: People, Today, Tickets

In some states, you can vote a straight party ticket, but you can't vote for individual candidates.

- Michael Moore

topic: Party, Tickets, Vote

There is a very difficult period in a comedian's career - it's that window of time where you're good enough to draw tickets but nobody knows you yet.

- Bill Burr

topic: Careers, Comedian, Tickets

You go and you buy a lottery ticket. You've got just as much chance of getting struck by lightning as you do of winning the lottery.

- Bill Cosby

topic: Winning, Lightning, Tickets, Winning The Lottery, Lottery Ticket

People ask 'How does doing a film compare to doing an ad?' Well, when you're doing a commercial you don't have to sell tickets. You have a captured audience. Which is actually completely rare and great; it gives you a lot of freedom. When you make a film, you have to do advertisements for the film.

- Mike Mills

source: Interview With Brendan Fowler, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 26, 2009.

topic: People, Giving, Tickets

I remember back in 1994 when the Eagles charged more than $100 for tickets. They said, 'We ain't Pearl Jam.' That's back when records were selling and the Eagles had sold just about as many as anyone on the planet. And years later we're still charging less than them.

- Eddie Vedder

source: Source: www.twofeetthick.com

topic: Eagles, Years, Tickets, Pearl Jam

If government manages to establish paper tickets or bank credit as money, as equivalent to gold grams or ounces, then the government, as dominant money-supplier, becomes free to create money costlessly and at will. As a result, this 'inflation' of the money supply destroys the value of the dollar or pound, drives up prices, cripples economic calculation, and hobbles and seriously damages the workings of the market economy.

- Murray Rothbard

source: "Taking Money Back" by Murray Rothbard, The Freeman, September-October 1995.

topic: Government, Gold, Tickets

Paul Simon is my absolute hero. He's one of a kind. He wrote his own ticket in life by being himself.

- Brett Dennen

source: Source: renownedforsound.com

topic: Hero, Tickets, Kind, One Of A Kind

We are making our case that we're fiscally responsible and socially inclusive and welcoming. And we think we've got on the merits the best ticket of the three parties, if you will, and so, you know, we'd like to get there.

- William Weld

source: "The Rachel Maddow Show", www.msnbc.com. November 1, 2016.

topic: Party, Thinking, Tickets

Damn! This flight attendant treating us like we won these first class tickets in a contest.

- J. B. Smoove

topic: Class, Firsts, Tickets, Flight Attendant

I have gotten so many tickets. I hope I don't get my license revoked.

- Kirsten Dunst

topic: Tickets, License

Funny songs, that’s my ticket. I can’t remember when it started or why it started, it’s just something that I NEEDED.

- Jack Black

topic: Song, Tickets, Remember, Funny Song

With ticket prices, do you ask yourself, why I'm paying $70 to see the arts? You say, "No, that's what the symphony is costing me."

- Neil deGrasse Tyson

source: Source: www.chicagotribune.com

topic: Art, Symphony, Tickets

I think somewhere in the '90s, it started to shift, and you started to see a lot of film and television actors doing theater, and producers using the notoriety of the film and television actors to sell tickets.

- Zachary Quinto

source: Interview with Patrick J. Adams, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 18, 2016.

topic: Thinking, Tickets, Film And Television

I have kids who buy tickets for my show... How could I take their money and ignore their problems?

- Lady Gaga

topic: Kids, Tickets, Problem

You can travel through literature, and you can expand your mind through literature. It's so cheap to buy that kind of ticket.

- Saul Williams

source: Source: www.mtv.com

topic: Mind, Literature, Tickets

I COULD CARE LESS ABOUT CRITICS, LIKE I SAID THEY DONT BUY TICKETS.

- Larry the Cable Guy

source: Source: www.dead-frog.com

topic: Care, Tickets, Said, Could Care Less

Fear of failure is a ticket to mediocrity. If you’re not failing from time to time, you’re not pushing yourself. And if you’re not pushing yourself, you’re coasting.

- Eric Zorn

topic: Mediocrity, Pushing, Tickets

I went on a date once with a police officer, unbeknownst to me. I thought he was a regular guy. And when I found out that he was a police officer... I wasn't so into it. I got paranoid that I would illegally cross the street and get a ticket for jay walking.

- Nina Dobrev

topic: Guy, Police, Tickets, Police Officer

What's all this about yanking poor Magnus and Alec back from their vacation?" Isabelle demanded. "They have opera tickets!

- Cassandra Clare

source: Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.1479, Simon and Schuster

topic: Vacation, Opera, Tickets, Isabelle Lightwood

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

- Shia LaBeouf

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

topic: Games, Tickets, Dodgers