Tickets famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Language is the ticket to plot and character, after all, because both are built out of language.
-- Aimee Bender -
I see myself as a comic but the acting helps sell tickets for gigs.
-- Alan Davies -
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 -
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 -
Gianfranco Zola once sent Gary Pallister the wrong way to such an extent that he needed a ticket to get back in.
-- Alex Ferguson -
I get tickets all the time and can't stay under the speed limit. I'm bad at that.
-- Amber Heard -
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 -
Well you can't win the lottery if you don't have a ticket
-- Andy Gray -
A postsecondary education is the ticket to economic success in America.
-- Arne Duncan -
Marriage is the most expensive ticket to nowhere
-- Aryn Kyle -
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 -
What police officer would dare ticket Death's minivan?
-- Augusten Burroughs -
Ticketmaster does not set prices. Live Nation does not set ticket prices. Artists set ticket prices.
-- Barry Diller -
Romney-Ryan is likely the best matched 'team' that has been on a national ticket in a very long time.
-- Bob Beauprez -
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 -
I coulda' had class. I coulda' been a contender! But instead I got a one way ticket to Palookaville.
-- Budd Schulberg -
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 -
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 -
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 -
If I bet on humanity, I'd never cash a ticket.
-- Charles Bukowski -
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 -
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. -
The foolishness of faith is the winning ticket in life
-- David Oyedepo -
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 -
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 -
Lottery tickets are a surtax on desperation.
-- Douglas Coupland -
Be your own hero, it's cheaper than a movie ticket.
-- Douglas Horton -
I don't think anyone can calculate the effect of having a Jew on the ticket.
-- Ed Rendell -
Reimbursement may be sometimes small, but then great ability can never be measured by the tickets at the gate.
-- Eddie Harris -
Faith is the ticket to the feast, not the feast.
-- Edwin Louis Cole -
The list of women to potentially be on a major party ticket, in both parties, is embarrassingly short.
-- Eleanor Clift -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
My policy is to be able to take a ticket at Victoria station and go anywhere I damn well please!
-- Ernest Bevin -
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 -
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 -
We're constantly buying airplane tickets; we travel on the Concorde.
-- Eva Herzigova -
Being famous gets me good concert tickets, good tables in restaurants, good seats at sporting events and that's really about it.
-- Fran Drescher -
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 -
I am 1,000 percent for Tom Eagleton and I have no intention of dropping him from the ticket.
-- George McGovern -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
I haven't been to a movie since somebody gave me free tickets to Star Wars, which I went to.
-- Jack Vance -
Being a reporter seems a ticket out to the world.
-- Jackie Kennedy -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Republicans are calling the Bush-Cheney ticket the 'Wizard of Oz' ticket. One needs a heart and the other needs a brain.
-- Jay Leno -
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 -
I used to buy lottery tickets every week until I realised you could watch it on TV for nothing.
-- Jimmy Carr -
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 -
The only riots were the people trying to get tickets.
-- John Guare -
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 -
Charging a man with murder in this place was like handing out speeding tickets at the Indy 500.
-- John Milius -
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 -
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 -
Life is like a huge lottery in which only the winning tickets are visible.
-- Jostein Gaarder -
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 -
Minority views expressed in films simply don't sell tickets.
-- Karel Reisz -
... there is nothing so debilitating to a naturally weak sense of humor as selling tickets behind a grating ...
-- Kate Douglas Wiggin -
People come to see the players. Nobody ever bought a ticket to see a manager.
-- Larry Goetz -
I wanted to go to Jupiter. That was my plan from day one, and David Lynch gave me the ticket.
-- Laura Dern -
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 -
They can't fire me because my family buys too many tickets.
-- LaVell Edwards -
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 -
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 -
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 -
You could buy 100 lottery tickets and not win, or you could buy one and get it,
-- Luis Gonzalez -
Every time you buy tickets on Ticketmaster, you help to digitize a book.
-- Luis von Ahn -
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 -
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 -
I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.
-- M. Ward -
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 -
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 -
I get speeding ticket like everybody else. If the restaurant is full I'm waiting in line like everybody else.
-- Mikhail Baryshnikov -
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 -
Well, I bought a ticket to the circus. I don't know why I was surprised to see elephants.
-- Norris Church Mailer -
I did send a girl a plane ticket asking her for a visit, I guess that's quite romantic.
-- Orlando Bloom -
Although it's easy to forget sometimes, a share is not a lottery ticket... it's part-ownership of a business.
-- Peter Lynch -
No man was ever taken to hell by a woman unless he already had a ticket in his pocket.
-- Rex Stout -
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 -
Ever been to Disneyland? That was definitely an E ticket!
-- Sally Ride -
The best thing about being an actress is getting good concert tickets.
-- Sara Gilbert -
It is a bad business, dealing in lottery tickets ... Riches got in such a hasty manner never wear well.
-- Sarah Josepha Hale -
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 -
Why is it good for football to take the excitement away from fans by overcharging them for tickets to see their team?
-- Sepp Blatter -
Art, for me, has always been a ticket for experience.
-- Shahzia Sikander -
I've spent more on my Dodger tickets that I did on my car.
-- Shia LaBeouf
