#ticket

Joining 'ER,' I felt like that kid who got the golden ticket in 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.' I've been offered chocolate bars all these years, but there had been no golden ticket. Just the stomachache that was called 'Jake in Progress.' ↗

— John Stamos

#been #called #charlie #chocolate #factory

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

#distressing #everything #follows #into #life

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

#because #big #big leagues #bill #bill clinton

One thing you learned as a Cubs fan: when you bought you ticket, you could bank on seeing the bottom of the ninth. ↗

— Joe Garagiola

#bank #bottom #bought #could #cubs

This system of encouragement proves serviceable as a preventive of punishment, the attainment of the tickets being a reward, the forfeiture of them the reverse; and, as such, boys seem often more affected by their loss than by coercion. ↗

— Joseph Lancaster

#attainment #being #coercion #encouragement #forfeiture

I do like to drive fast and I have gotten pulled over in the past. I use my skills to get out of tickets. ↗

— Josie Maran

#fast #get #gotten #i #i do

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

— George McGovern

#dropping #him #i #i am #intention

Well, actually yes, in 1988. There was a warrant for me because my assistant hadn't paid a ticket of mine. ↗

— Esai Morales

#assistant #because #hadn #me #mine

I borrowed my friend's car the other day in an attempt to persuade my husband that we needed a car and literally this is true, in the first day of borrowing the car, I got three tickets and I rear-ended it. ↗

— Emily Mortimer

#borrowed #borrowing #car #day #first

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

#always #amount #because #disappointing #effort