Top 100 The Score Quotes
#1. There are scores of thousands of human insects who are ready at a moment's notice to reveal the Will of God on every possible subject
George Bernard Shaw
#3. I'm also always thinking about the score as a recording, as opposed to a performance that can be recreated in a live environment. Some of what I write could of course be played in a concert hall, but for the needs of a film I don't consider that.
Geoff Zanelli
#4. You don't need to manage the clock when you score in one play.
Todd Blackledge
#5. The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#6. I'm a firm believer that if the other side scores first, you have to score twice to win.
Howard Wilkinson
#7. Disease may score a direct hit on only one member of a family, but shrapnel tears the flesh of the others.
Betty Rollin
#8. The best thing for them to do (Ireland) is to stay at 0-0 until they score the goal.
Martin O'Neill
#10. How good are the best musical imaginations? Can a trained musician, swiftly reading a score, tell just how that voicing of dissonant oboes and flutes over the massed strings will sound?
Daniel Dennett
#11. The last player to score a hatrick in a cup final was Stan Mortenson. He even had a final named after him, the Matthews final
Lawrie McMenemy
#12. The guys who play it [soccer] are kinda dumb. Why don't they just kick the crap out of the guy in front of the net? Then they could score all they want.
Tite Kubo
#13. The only way to beat Liverpool is to score more goals than them.
Steve Claridge
#14. Dignity, high station, or great riches, are in some sort necessary to old men, in order to keep the younger at a distance, who are otherwise too apt to insult them upon the score of their age.
Jonathan Swift
#15. When he's on fire, he is impossible to stop. He dribbles like a winger, but is still able to score 20 goals a year in the Premiership.
(on Thierry Henry)
Fabio Capello
#16. Every time I touch the ball, I think I'm going to go all the way. I think I'm going to score a touchdown. I'm the runner I am because I think that I'm going to go all the way every single time I touch the ball.
LaDainian Tomlinson
#17. You think that upon the score of fore-knowledge and divining I am infinitely inferior to the swans. When they perceive approaching death they sing more merrily than before, because of the joy they have in going to the God they serve.
Socrates
#18. When you can score three goals without the most prolific scorer in the world, you know you have a lot of depth, and it gives you confidence.
Abby Wambach
#19. Telescopes and bathyscapes and sonar probes of Scottish lakes, Tacoma Narrows bridge collapse explained with abstract phase-space maps, some x-ray slides, a music score, Minard's Napoleonic war: the most exciting new frontier is charting what's already here.
Randall Munroe
#20. Love is a big thing - it's part of who you become, how you grow up. I had a wonderful husband, and I'm very lucky I have a second wonderful husband. You know, some people don't even score the first time.
Teresa Heinz
#21. To me, football is very personal. Even as a kid, I looked at football in dramaturgical terms. It wasn't the score that interested me, it was the struggle.
Steve Sabol
#22. I took the LSAT. My score was decent. I had a plan that if my score was really well, then I might of just went to Yale or Harvard ... But it was just mediocre. I can get into law school.
Vinny Guadagnino
#23. Just because you were inside me does not make us betrothed, you Neanderthal jerk.
Kate Meader
#24. You ever flown something before?" (Christopher)
"I hold the highest score at A.S.U. for Star Wars: Starfighter." (Kitty)
"I know, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that I'm going to regret this." (Christopher)
Gini Koch
#25. The poor are so busy trying to survive from one day to the next, they haven't the time or energy to keep score.
Studs Terkel
#26. In Los Angeles ... was the thinking-est crowd on earth: how to get ahead, how to mold a better body, how to have a better relationship, how to score, earn, fight, win, get published, be a star.
Caroline B. Cooney
#27. For me, the sound design and the musical score is a big part of what makes scary movies work.
James Wan
#28. A grifter's got an irresistible urge to be the guy who's wise. There's nothin' to whipping a fool. Hell, fools are made to be whipped. But to take another pro. Even your partner, who knows you and has his eye on you. That's a score! No matter what happens.
Donald E. Westlake
#29. It's harder to score well in a slow round. The tendency is to overthink shots while you're waiting and become mentally exhausted. Instead, chat with your playing partners about anything but golf. Concentrate on each shot for no more than a minute. You'll stay fresh.
Rickie Fowler
#30. Thus, an index built for vector space retrieval cannot, in general, be used for phrase queries. Moreover, there is no way of demanding a vector space score for a phrase query - we only know the relative weights of each term in a document.
Prabhakar Raghavan
#31. I believed that I could still win no matter what the score was.
Sabine Lisicki
#32. It's important to score some goals and make the decisive pass for my club.
Robert Laurent
#33. I like that we don't have to come out the first 10 minutes and score, you know, with joke, joke, joke. We can open it in a more novel way and keep playing different pranks as we go through the thing.
Bruce Vilanch
#34. People would love to be rich, but they're looking for the easy way. Who wouldn't want to win the lottery? Just to score.
Bryan Cranston
#35. The individual who knows the score about life sees difficulties as opportunities
Norman Vincent Peale
#36. Please don't ask me what the score is. I'm not even sure what the game is.
Ashleigh Brilliant
#37. When we've got the puck, they can't score.
Paul Coffey
#38. Your credit score takes into account years of information in most cases. It's not going to improve in a day. But it may improve more quickly than you think. Generally, the last 24 months carry the most weight, so if you can keep clean for that long, you'll see a boost.
Jean Chatzky
#39. Learning operatic roles is ongoing, and I find that I can learn on the train or subway, during a manicure, getting my hair done, and even while driving if I only look at the score at red lights.
Renee Fleming
#40. I'm a confident player, I know I can score. I don't think anyone can guard me consistently off the dribble. But I'm a team player.
Chamique Holdsclaw
#41. If you don't hit the target, you're never gonna score
Andy Gray
#42. The only reason these kids keep score in these games is for the parents and coaches satisfaction. Who cares? They're 10 years old.
Peter Jacobsen
#43. Rowdy and I played one-on-one for hours. we played until dark. we played until the streetlights lit up court. we played until the bats swooped down at our heads. we played until the moon was huge and golden and perfect in the dark sky.
we didn't keep score.
Sherman Alexie
#44. Yes, I have heard something curious on that score sir, how that a dismasted man never entirely loses the feeling of his old spar, but it will still be pricking him at time.
Herman Melville
#45. I'm not particularly a football fan, but I live in north London, and I can hear when Arsenal score, and it's fantastically exciting. Down the road you can hear the roar.
Mike Newell
#46. All we know is that the school achievement, IQ test score, and emotional and social development of working mothers' children are every bit as good as that of children whose mothers do not work.
Sandra Scarr
#47. Let's say music is needed for only 43 seconds of film. You have to score it so it is an entity, so it won't bother anyone when it ends so quickly. Or if a song runs 2 minutes and 45 seconds, but the titles run a minute longer, you have to arrange that song so it doesn't get repetitious.
Marvin Hamlisch
#48. Shay Given almost single-handedly won the match for Newcastle against Everton, although obviously he didn't score the goals
George Hamilton
#49. The average credit score of today's FHA borrowers is higher than the average American household with a score. As it becomes more costly and difficult to get a FHA loan, loans from private mortgage lenders will become more attractive and their market share will grow.
Mark Zandi
#50. If there's 10,000 people looking at the stocks and trying to pick winners, one in 10,000 is going to score, by chance alone, a great coup, and that's all that's going on. It's a game, it's a chance operation, and people think they are doing something purposeful ... but they're really not.
Merton Miller
#51. If you give the game a good score, they'll say you're in the thrall of your evil beau, the flashy marketing big shot at Saturnine. And if you give it a shitty score..." "All hell breaks loose." "In a manner of speaking.
Colin F. Campbell
#52. There are very few of us that do not cherish a feeling of self-complacency on the score of some quality or other, real or imaginary
Jane Austen
#53. Sometimes a piece of music in the score isn't effective. When a score is too well finished with too many elements, sometimes it's too much.
Alejandro Amenabar
#54. A lot of people wonder how a 21-year-old with average power (I finished 89th in driving distance) can be so successful. The answer is simple: I know how to score.
Jordan Spieth
#55. You cannot score a goal when you are sitting on the bench. To do so, you have to dress up and enter the game.
Israelmore Ayivor
#56. I want the score to have a really big voice.
Mike Figgis
#57. Money. The ultimate motivation. The ultimate way of keeping score.
Michael Connelly
#58. I want to score in every game and win things. That's the most important thing.
Wayne Rooney
#59. The net promoter score of health insurers averages 4/100. Amazon is 74/100.
Joshua Kushner
#60. My wife - an ex journalist and current TV producer - has a rule that she taught me at the start of B3ta. Does the item make you laugh, or does it make you go, 'Oh my God?' If you score on either count, then you have something that is worth sharing.
Rob Manuel
#61. Yes, it's me, your PA, now your stripper for the evening. How do you do?
Kate Meader
#62. I really believe that what happens one day affects the next, and I think that came from that experience of learning that if I told the score inning by inning, play by play, it built up to its natural climax.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
#63. I'm writing new songs for a Broadway version of Tarzan, which is very interesting. I think what I learned from the Brother Bear score side of things, I've brought into the new Tarzan songs. Thinking outside just guitar, bass, drums and keyboards.
Phil Collins
#64. When I think of Arsenal, my favourite personal memory that I recall is scoring my first goal for the Club - away to Lazio in the Champions League. It was important because when you join a new club, you really want to score your first goal. It's where everything started for me at this club
Robert Pires
#65. The problem with real life is there's no musical score. In movies, you know you're in danger because there's an ominous chord underlining the scene,
Sue Grafton
#66. I've worked out a Ninja Replacement Score for novels. It's basically the number of characters that need to be replaced by ninjas to make the book good.
Janni Lee Simner
#67. [Since] a player controls every character, it is that player's intelligence that dictates the character's goals and actions, not an arbitrary number on a character sheet. Thus, in a sense, the player _is_ the character's "intelligence score"!
Greg Stafford
#68. Outcome is simply the final score: Who won the game; what numbers came up in a roll of the dice; how high did a stock go. Outcome is the result, regardless of the method used to achieve it. It is not controllable.
Barry Ritholtz
#69. A poem is like a score for the human voice.
Li-Young Lee
#70. Now, I'm back to my old ways: Needing to be the leader, needing to score.
James Harden
#71. Before you lay a foundation on the cricket field, there should be a solid foundation in your heart and you start building on that. After that as you start playing more and more matches, you learn how to score runs and how to take wickets.
Sachin Tendulkar
#72. The rain of matter upon sense
Destroys me momently. The score:
There comes what will come.
Yvor Winters
#73. That's how it is with the English: if you score against them you're a good player; if you don't, you're not.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic
#74. Your credit score affects the interest rates you're offered on credit cards and loans, can be used to vet your job application, and in some states may influence your insurance premiums.
Suze Orman
#75. Ish #303 It's a street food vendor! Stop asking for the health score rating.
Regina Griffin
#76. It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition, to stand up for it.
Archibald Alexander Hodge
#77. If winning isn't everything why bother to keep the score?
Knute Rockne
#78. I felt that one had better die fighting against injustice than to die like a dog or rat in a trap. I had already determined to sell my life as dearly as possible if attacked. I felt if I could take one lyncher with me, this would even up the score a little bit.
Ida B. Wells
#79. Individually the poor are not too tempting to thieves, for obvious reasons. Mug a banker and you might score a wallet containing a month's rent. Mug a janitor and you will be lucky to get away with bus fare to flee the crime scene.
Barbara Ehrenreich
#80. When you play with good players, they will always create chances for the forwards to score.
Jermain Defoe
#81. The world will fall, the gods will die, and I will never achieve a perfect score on this stupid machine.
Rick Riordan
#82. It [would have] been very difficult. As I said, the rules ... but if the rules were put in place back when Michael Jordan was in his prime - no hand-checking, the game was more geared toward offense, wanting to promote scoring in the game - he could have probably got close. He did score 69.
Scottie Pippen
#83. Let not our proposal be disregarded on the score of our youth.
Virgil
#84. Music is a performing art, as any Native American will tell you. It isn't there in the score.
Michael Tippett
#85. Three or four plays cause the momentum to shift. We turned it over and gave Baylor a cheap score.
Bill Vaughan
#86. We all want merit to mean something, and we all may be tempted to reduce that meaning to something measurable and concrete like an SAT score. The reality, though, is that who deserves entry into an institution depends on what the institution exists to do.
Eric Liu
#87. Not only do I pray for it, on the score of human dignity, but I can clearly forsee that nothing but the rooting out of slavery can perpetuate the existence of our union, by consolidating it in a common bond of principle.
George Washington
#88. Little known fact: offensive tackles score higher on the Wonderlic than any other position.
Craig Johnson
#89. I was pleasantly surprised after the book came out. It was like, hey, the home team put down a nice score.
Rocco DiSpirito
#90. Mozart's pet starling once revised a phrase he wrote. The bird sang it after he played it on the piano, but changed all the sharps to flats. Mozart described it happening in the margin of the score. 'That was beautiful!' he wrote. When the bird died, he sang at its funeral, and read a poem to it.
Kim Stanley Robinson
#91. Twenty-three is said to be the prime of life by those who have reached so far and no farther. It shares this distinction with every age, from ten to three-score and ten.
Stella Benson
#92. Where there are repeated wars, the people are weakened; when they score repeated victories, rulers become haughty. Let haughty rulers command weakened people, and rare is the nation that will not perish as a result.
Sun Tzu
#93. The sad truth is that most Christians spend their entire lives trying to score points with Someone who is not keeping score.
Wayne Jacobsen
#94. I like Balotelli: he's even crazier than me. He can score a winner, then set fire to the hotel.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic
#95. Americans like a winner. If you lose, you're nothing. I'm going to win, though. It's good for the match that Spassky has a plus score against me. We've met five times. He's won three times
and we've drawn twice. But I'm a stronger player and a long match favors me.
Bobby Fischer
#96. Money. The trickiest substance in life
as it's the way we keep score, measure our worth, and think we can control our destinies. Money: the essential lie.
Douglas Kennedy
#97. There is nothing wrong with revenge. The wrong has already been done, or there would be no need to even the score.
Ashly Lorenzana
#98. I feel like nobody can stop me off the dribble. At crunch time, we're looking for somebody to score and I definitely want to be the guy who has the ball in his hands.
Rajon Rondo
#99. I'm a playmaker, and I'm going to score. At the end of the day, my job is to put the ball in the basket.
Dwyane Wade
#100. Wrong on that score. And efficiency is no guarantee of survival. Nor is intellect. What it takes to be the last one standing is an unquenchable hunger to live. He who wants it the most wins. It takes fire, willingness to burn down to your motherfucking core.
Karen Marie Moning
