Ticket Quotes

#1. You had 42 blacks that ran on the Republican ticket this Cycle, 14 made of them made it to the general election and two of us made it to the House of Representatives. So I think that there is a new movement that needs to have a voice in the Congressional Black Caucus.

Allen West

#2. My mum's getting married," said Cheryl. "Again. At the Brompton Oratory. Fourth time around the track, this is. They don't say 'Till death us do part' for my mum; they say 'Who's holding ticket number twenty-three?

Mike Carey

#3. It's something rebellious about picking up and leaving buying a one way ticket and not knowing when you want to return.

Turcois Ominek

#4. This day had officially punched every hole in her crazy ticket.

Kimberly Kincaid

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

Andy Gray

#6. 'What have you done?' I whispered.
She swallowed, and the guilt in her eyes was extinguished by a flare of defiance.
'This,' she said, 'is my ticket to outer space.'

Kenneth Oppel

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

Victoria Mahoney

#8. Now, one hears from a long time ago that "white is merely a state of mind." I add to that, white is a moral choice. It's up to you to be as white as you want to be and pay the price of that ticket. You cannot tell a black man by the color of skin, either. But this is a democracy.

James Baldwin

#9. I'm carded for R-rated movies. And I get talked down to a lot. When I try to go rent a car or buy an airplane ticket or other stuff adults do, I get 'Okaaaaaay, honey.' I remember when I was 18, getting crayons in a restaurant.

Kristen Bell

#10. Box office is one of the strongest tools we have toward preserving our ability to make our movies. We really can make a difference by purchasing a ticket each opening weekend to a movie made by a woman, even if you don't like the movie or the filmmaker and even if you don't see the film.

Allison Anders

#11. I miss that moment when you're about to go through the tube turn-style but you put your ticket in the wrong way and then as you're trying to figure out how exactly to get in the damn station you hear a collective sigh of 40 people behind you pissed that you're slowing down the herd.

Dan Mangan

#12. I understand why people do vote on the conservative side of the ticket because people have a tendency to go for strong governments when really, from an idealistic point of view, it's a bad thing.

David Lloyd

#13. I've been pulled over five times for speeding - and talked my way out of every single ticket!

Darby Stanchfield

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. I'm not a jukebox; I don't play exactly what the crowd wants to hear - that doesn't make sense. But, I do look at people requests. At the end of the day, they are the ticket payers and they are the ones that come to the show. If I played music that purely entertains me, I'd play very weird music.

Armin Van Buuren

#17. With Browns' ticket prices what they are, you just know that all those dads who brought the entire family to sit in the 'dog pound' are secretly calculating how much blood they're going to have to sell next week to put groceries on the table.

Dennis Miller

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

Norris Church Mailer

#19. Ill book a ticket on some garbage airline. I dont wanna name an actual airline so lets make one up, lets just call it like Delta Airlines

John Mulaney

#20. 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

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

Tom Waits

#22. Men are willing to buy their way into Hell and yet are willing to pass on a free ticket to Heaven.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#23. If you have someone you think is the one, take them and travel around the world. Buy a plane ticket for the two of you to travel all over the world, to places that are hard to reach and hard to get out of. And when you land at JFK and you're still in love with that person, get married.

Bill Murray

#24. Going to a movie is a two-hour experience; at $7.50 for a ticket, you are valuing your time at far less than the minimum wage. If you don't understand the film, don't leave. If you understand it all too well and hate it, get out of your seat and walk up the aisle. You will feel empowered.

Gene Siskel

#25. Put it on. Look as good as you can. It's our ticket in." Maybe he did have clubbing in mind.
"You're not going to go home with some drunken college girl, are you?"
"What?"
"Never mind.

Susan Ee

#26. Land on Mars, a round-trip ticket - half a million dollars. It can be done.

Elon Musk

#27. Years ago nobody was elected on the economic ticket. It was either the education platform, or it was health or it was other issues. It is only recently that economic values have superceded every other human value.

Anita Roddick

#28. If you're truly lucky, you only need to buy ONE lottery ticket.

Gusto Dave

#29. Looking in the mirror, I saw a joyful face. And this happy girl was just about to go on a trip, with a one way ticket in her bag. Life was a never ending journey.

Nico J. Genes

#30. Oooh, hey, sex camp! Yeah. That's the ticket. We need to start a sex camp where women can tell their hubbies they're going to a fat farm and instead of the boot camp diet with Nazi dieticians, they go to the beach and have hot men treat them like goddesses! (Chrissy)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#31. 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

#32. I think an Edwards-Kerry ticket would be powerful.

John Edwards

#33. Let me have a draught of undiluted morning air. Morning air! If men will not drink of this at the fountainhead of the day, why, then, we must even bottle up some and sell it in the shops, for the benefit of those who have lost their subscription ticket to morning time in this world.

Henry David Thoreau

#34. There's a place you can get to. It's hard to find and it's easy to fall out of, but there it is, that place. It is the sweetest place you've never been and it's called I Don't Give a Crap. Book yourself a ticket.

William Lashner

#35. It was fifteen thousand for a first-class ticket, but I'm sufficiently capitalized to indulge such whims. And the drinks are free on the flight. If you're ambitious, you can almost break even.

John Green

#36. 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

#37. I went to professional men's soccer games, the old North American soccer league at that time, and I used to be a ticket holder with my family and family friends. We would go every weekend and I thought it was great, but I just thought of it as recreation, as family fun.

Brandi Chastain

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

Lillian Gordy Carter

#39. I tend to write about people on the edge who are pushing things out from the edge but who are not necessarily big-ticket items.

Lawrence Weschler

#40. It was unbelievable, there was the dry-cleaning ticket again. There must be more than one.

Edward St. Aubyn

#41. Creativity is your ticket to prosperity.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#42. Planes and Trains and Boats and Busses Characteristically Evolve a common attitude of blue Unless you have a suitcase and a ticket and a passport And the cargo that they're carrying is you.

Tom Waits

#43. Ticket and passport. We're crossing the border."
"Oh. Sorry." Dan handed the conductor his ticket.
"Grazie."
"De nada," Dan said.
"That's Spanish," Amy whispered.
"No, it's whatever," Dan said. "I'm too tired to think.

Jude Watson

#44. I have on many occasions spoken my mind from stage. I have offered organizations table space by the merch booth. I have donated a dollar-a-ticket, or the entire guarantee, to different causes. I have registered voters. I have played on behalf of political candidates.

Conor Oberst

#45. Just to cover the increase in fuel costs over the past two years, American would have had to raise fares nearly $75 per round-trip ticket. During this time period, our average fare increased by only $15.

Gerard Arpey

#46. 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

#47. Body cameras help to record what happens. It may not be the golden ticket, the golden egg, the end-all-fix-all, but it helps to paint a picture of what happens during a police stop.

Clementa C. Pinckney

#48. Laclos thought, how about a one-way ticket to Pennsylvania? You'd enjoy life among the Quakers. Alternatively, how about a nice dip in the Seine?

Hilary Mantel

#49. You probably became a musicians because you're into it so stay that way. Don't believe that someone else has the golden ticket for you because they don't.

Stephan Jenkins

#50. I remember seeing the full Daft Punk pyramid show in 2007. I went alone, drove up in my Honda Fit, bought a ticket off a scalper for $150, got on the floor, and had the best time of my life. I didn't have a drink, no drugs. But I was high out of my mind. It changed my life.

Skrillex

#51. I have always advocated doing everything possible to pay off credit card balances; it's good financial management and the ticket to a strong FICO credit score.

Suze Orman

#52. Let us say in the pocket of one of my old coats I find a movie ticket from many years ago. Once I see the ticket, not only do I remember that I saw this movie, but also scenes from this movie, which I think I have entirely forgotten, come back to me. Objects have this power, and I like it.

Orhan Pamuk

#53. We did such a great job of creating the interstate highway system in Oklahoma City that we don't have traffic congestion. You can actually get a speeding ticket during rush hour in the city. That's how great our traffic flows.

Mick Cornett

#54. Rumors have restarted that the Republican ticket will not be Bush-Cheney. But today those rumors were put to rest when Cheney said, 'No, I'm keeping him on the ticket.'

Jay Leno

#55. I feel sympathy for the working class lad. I've always championed about ticket prices and try to equate that to people's salaries.

Alex Ferguson

#56. Your darkest moments are not meant to be swept under the carpet, hidden from the world in the silent pursuit of perfection. The darkness you've overcome is your ticket into leadership. It's what you're meant to light up in the world.

Vironika Tugaleva

#57. I learned that time manages the most painful partings for us. One has only to set the date, buy the ticket, and let the earth, sun, and moon make their passages through the sky, until inexorable time carries us with it to the moment of parting.

Jill Ker Conway

#58. They developed a platform for me to put up another 12 years, and that was my ticket to Cooperstown. Those were the best years of my life. It was like magic.

Dennis Eckersley

#59. While my friends were discussing Pearl Harbor as the country's problem, I took it personally. It dawned on me that the Japanese attack could be my ticket out of high school.

Art Buchwald

#60. And what could be a hotter ticket than the improbable triumph of 'The Book of Mormon,' the musical-comedy moon shot of the season? Its creators, Matt Stone and Trey Parker, of Comedy Central's 'South Park,' are the most unlikely Rodgers and Hammerstein team ever to bowl a thundering strike.

James Wolcott

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

Barry Diller

#62. Performing magic has a lot to do with the arrangement of apparent coincidences and providing pathways along which desires can travel, or, to put it in more basic terms, there's little point in sigilizing for a lottery win if you don't also buy a lottery ticket.

Grant Morrison

#63. Whom to invite? Upon which gallant young men should I bestow the honor of walking me across a ballroom three time?
Such a hot ticket. I don't want to start a riot.

Kathy Reichs

#64. I just knew nothing in the world, not the Mona Lisa walking through the Grand Canyon with the Holy Grail in one hand and a winning Lotto ticket in the other, was ever going to be that beautiful. Kevin

Tana French

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

Courtney Love

#66. Common wisdom dictates that the vice president should provide balance to the ticket by representing a different part of the country, another set of experiences, or a basketful of electoral votes.

Madeleine M. Kunin

#67. The human sun god was a stomach-dropping, chest-popping, feet-sliding, shoulder-swaying, hip-rotating, flutter-inducing, liquid locomotive, and I was surrounded by women who couldn't wait to buy a ticket.

Colleen Houck

#68. I am here to make an announcement that this Thursday, ticket counters and airplanes will fly out of Ronald Reagan Airport.

George W. Bush

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

Alex Ferguson

#70. What people acquire with a ticket is more than a chance to win; it is the right to dream pleasantly of winning.

Daniel Kahneman

#71. Once you left Easterly, you saw the world was full of these people: ticket sellers, snack bar clerks. They assumed they were better than you just because they knew their own routines.

Wally Lamb

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

Rebecca Mead

#73. I'm not like a legend that - so I'm sort of in the middle in this sort of gray area where, you know, I'm creating music, and I'm not saying there isn't an audience, because there is; because all of those people go out and spend $80 to $150 on a concert ticket.

Brian McKnight

#74. Building codes are a good thing. People who throw rocks at inspectors are being naive. It's a lot like police officers; we want them around unless they stop us for a ticket. It's the same with inspectors.

Dan Phillips

#75. People like to make fun of the fans who camp out but people have renaissance fairs; people do Civil War re-enactments; people do what they like. I'm tired of hearing people rage on the fans. If you don't like 'Twilight,' don't buy a ticket.

Anna Kendrick

#76. 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

#77. You are so ugly that when your mom dropped you off at school, she got a ticket for littering.

THE CLOWN FACTORY

#78. You are the worst greeter in the history of greeters ever. In the history. Of time. And greeters." "Greeter? You think I'm a greeter?" Talk about a demotion. "Yes. To the other side?" She pointed up. "Dude, calling me a greeter is like calling Saint Peter a ticket taker.

Darynda Jones

#79. He said I'm the winning lottery ticket, like he's never meant anything more.

Crystal Woods

#80. When you're born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you're born in America, you get a front row seat.

George Carlin

#81. I can get you a cheaper ticket if you let me amputate your legs: I can even take your thighs as a deposit, said the travel agent.

Charles Stross

#82. It's not just the small-potatoes post-9/11 Homeland spending that feels a little off mission. It's the big-ticket stuff too.

Rachel Maddow

#83. I tell the audience every night, "I hope you didn't pay more than face value on that ticket, because we ain't worth more than that, and you ain't gonna get any more than that."

Billy Joel

#84. I think he was worried about pushing things too far for the time being since I was obviously rocking a first-class ticket to certifiable insanity.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#85. If you were to hold me to a standard of, 'What are you doing, singing about a scratch-off ticket at your level of success?' then my music's gonna be ridiculous.

Brad Paisley

#86. When I'm on the road making a movie in another city, on my day off, I always go to the movies. I love going to the movies. You get a ticket and sit there, and it's very interesting to be around people who aren't personally invested in you, in any way. They're just going to the movies

Christopher Walken

#87. Religion was a riddle to her. Believe this, and only this, because we say so. If you don't you're buying a one-way ticket to everlasting Hell.

J.D. Robb

#88. I'm grateful to my audience, that there are people who will buy a ticket and come and see us play and who essentially support me and this life of music.

James Taylor

#89. There wasn't very much going on in London about five years ago, and I just took a ticket on spec and went to Los Angeles. I think it was in my second week that I auditioned for 'Battlestar.'

James Callis

#90. The increase in straight-ticket party voting in recent years means that competitive congressional races can tip one way or the other depending on the showing of the candidates at the top of the ticket.

Thomas E. Mann

#91. Republicans are taking the possibility of [Donald] Trump as nominee seriously enough that the committee that oversees next year's Senate races laid out a confidential seven-page blueprint for candidates on how to run with Trump at the top of the ticket.

Dalia Mogahed

#92. 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

#93. You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.

Tom Brokaw

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

Larry Goetz

#95. Jehovah's Witness? Don't sweat it. I'm going to hell, already booked my ticket. Bright side? I'm pagan. Your hell is my heaven ... if for no other reason than you won't be there.

Dennis Sharpe

#96. I believe that there's good content or bad content. You see interviews when somebody interviews a director of a movie that didn't perform well in the box office, and he says, 'The audience didn't understand my movie.' If people didn't go to buy the ticket, then you did the wrong movie.

Emilio Azcarraga Jean

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

Douglas Horton

#98. When a female cop pull you over for speeding, to get out of the ticket, talk nice to her, try to flirt or start crying, i bet she will save the ticket for you.

Werley Nortreus

#99. I not only urge you to vote that ticket yourself, but I beg that you will persuade others to do so. Personal effort can accomplish a great deal, and I beg that you will use your personal influence with your friends to get them to go with you to save the boys.

Thomas Jordan Jarvis

#100. I would once again be an outsider, my nose pressed against the glass, watching the ball with no ticket to attend.

Alessandra Torre