#ticket

Lottery tickets are a surtax on desperation. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#lottery #tickets

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

— T. S. Eliot

#anything #done #ever #funeral #got

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

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 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

Actors used to carry films because people would have to actually go to the movies to see them. It was the only place. But now there's none of that mystique, and so there's less of a reason to buy a ticket. ↗

— Eva Mendes

#because #buy #carry #films #go

It's not how many tickets can we sell, it's where do we want to play, not where should we play to make the most money. We don't really care about that. ↗

— Jerry Only

#care #how #make #many #money

Awards sell tickets, and they're a clever publicity stunt. ↗

— Tony Randall

#clever #publicity #sell #stunt #tickets

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

— Henry A. Kissinger

#buys #difficult #each #more #only

Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty. ↗

— Adam Smith

#adventure #approach #certain #certainty #greater