Best Racket Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Neighbours complaining about someone’s dog making an awful racket. You could hardly blame the poor beast, its owner had died in her bed at least a fortnight before and there hadn’t been much left of the old girl worth eating.”

Humor Death Dying Dog Food Eating Hunger Noise Dogs Racket Black Humor Neighbors Neighbours Barking

Book:Natural Causes

Source: Natural Causes

“It might behoove us to realize that isolation is the absence of all the senseless clutter, and all the incessant racket that would keep God from having ample room to show up and sufficient silence to be heard. Therefore, isolation may actually be the place where we are least isolated.”

God Opportunity Space Heard Hearing Noise Isolation Isolated Clutter Racket Hear Distractions Room Discern Ascertain Obstructions

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Capitalists believe they can take everything at the table as belonging to them. Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class.”

Capitalism Racket Capitalists Ruling Class Legitimate

Author:Al Capone

“I've got to be honest, I was never a tennis fan, But the moment that Venus and Serena appeared on the court with those rackets in their hands... Now you understand!”

Honest Understand Venus Racket Fan Serena Williams Tennis Court

Author:Charmaine J Forde

“Only a man with nothing to hide could make that kind of racket.”

Humour Noise Man Loud Hide Racket

Book:Brighton Belle

Source: Brighton Belle

“I grew up in the 1950s at the beginning of rock n' roll, and would strum a tennis racket in front of the mirror.”

Rocks Fronts Grew Grew Up Mirrors Tennis Rock N Roll Racket

Author:Jonathan Pryce

“It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.”

People Break Practice Impossible Balls Court Russia Break Through Racket

Author:Marat Safin

“Thou shalt not horn in on thy husbands racket”

Husband Horns Racket

Author:Homer

“The conservative media game was neatly summarized by Matt Labash, a former senior writer for The Weekly Standard, in a 2003 interview on the website journalismjobs.com. Labash explained: 'The conservative media likes to rap the liberal media on the knuckles for not being objective. We've created this cottage industry in which it pays to be un-objective. It's a great way to have your cake and eat it too. Criticize other people for not being objective. Be as subjective as you want. It's a great little racket.'”

“Out on the street, you never know what you're getting, and suddenly two days later you're beating yourself in the head with a tennis racket, wearing a towel, quoting Poe. You don't want that for your kid. You really don't want that.”

Knows Want Two Kids Streets Drug Alcohol Tennis Two Days Towels Racket Quoting Beating Yourself

Author:Johnny Depp

“My daddy says that when you do somethin' to distract you from your worstest fears, it's like whistlin' past the graveyard. You know, making a racket to keep the scaredness and the ghosts away. He says that's how we get by sometimes. But it's not weak, like hidin'...it's strong. It means you're able to go on.”

Knows Mean Sometimes Able Past Strong Goes On Weak Ghost Daddy Graveyard Racket

Author:Susan Crandall

“I'm trained as an actor for the stage - classically trained, believe it or not - and I worked closely with Stella Adler for years. People don't know that much about it. They just think I am these people. But I've been in this comedy racket, because it's just how everybody wants to see me.”

People Thinking Knows Want Years Believe Actors Comedy Stage Racket Stella Adler

Author:Michael Richards

“Power leads to more power, no matter what your racket, and not only were they rich and influential but they were smart as hell, too.”

Matter Hell Rich Smart No Matter What Influential Racket

Author:Jimmy Hoffa

“Liberty may be an uncomfortable blessing unless you know what to do with it. That is why so many freed slaves returned to their masters, why so many emancipated women are only too glad to give up the racket and settle down. For between announcing that you will live your own life, and the living of it lie the real difficulties of any awakening.”

Source: Drift and Mastery: An Attempt to Diagnose the Current Unrest

“We must take the profit out of war.”

War Profit Racket

Book:War is a Racket!: And Other Essential Reading

Source: War is a Racket!: And Other Essential Reading

“Anarchism is opposed to states, armies, slavery, the wages system, the landlord system, prisons, monopoly capitalism, oligopoly capitalism, state capitalism, bureaucracy, meritocracy, theocracy, revolutionary governments, patriarchy, matriarchy, monarchy, oligarchy, protection rackets, intimidation by gangsters, and every other kind of coercive institution. In other words, anarchism opposes government in all its forms.”

“A tennis racket makes a great fake guitar!”

Guitar Fake Tennis Racket

Author:Isaac

“First something is a great idea, then it becomes a cause, then it becomes a business and finally it becomes a racket.”

Firsts Ideas Causes Great Idea Racket

Author:Eric Hoffer

“Football is not, in my view, a sport: it is somewhere between a business racket and a mental illness. I associate it with all the worst aspects of our society - violence, drunkenness, drugs, racism, exploitation, greed and stupidity; and that's just for starters.”

Sports Views Violence Worst Football Drug Racism Aspect Greed Illness Stupidity Mental Illness Soccer Analysis Our Society Exploitation Associates Drunkenness Racket Starters

Author:Simon Heffer

“For centuries, the mystics of spirit had existed by running a protection racket - by making life on earth unbearable, then charging you for consolation and relief, by forbidding all the virtues that make existence possible, then riding on the shoulders of your guilt, by declaring production and joy to be sins, then collecting blackmail from the sinners.”

Source: For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)

“Once in the racket you're always in it.”

Racket

Author:Al Capone

“I'm one injury away from hanging up the racket at any time.”

Injury Racket

Author:Lleyton Hewitt

“Printing currency for foreigners to buy is the best racket a government can get into.”

Government Currency Foreigners Printing Racket

Book:Killing Floor: A Jack Reacher Novel

Source: Killing Floor: A Jack Reacher Novel

“And then it was like, wait, you can go to college and study theater? And act in plays? This is almost a racket, you know. And then when the opportunity came along to do it professionally, I thought I'd won the lottery.”

Knows Play Opportunity Waiting Study College Theater Lottery Racket

Author:Tom Hanks

“The first time at age 5 and a half, when I took a racket in my hands and my father fed me some balls, I made 50 backhands in a row - didn't miss a single one.”

Firsts Made Hands Age Father Half Missing First Time Balls Feds Racket

Author:Marion Bartoli

“Steven Alan Green is ONE funny writer ---- Everything I read of yours makes me laugh and think - Not just the kind words about meBut the insights you have for the Comedy racket.You're Barbara Hershey, we are beaches.”

Thinking Kind Laughing Comedy Laughter Green Insight Beach Comedian Playwright Humorists Make Me Laugh Kind Words Racket Barbara Hershey

Author:Taylor Negron

“Our media and political system has turned into a mutual protection racket.”

Political Media Protection Mutual Political Systems Racket

Author:Bill Moyers

“To dine, drink champagne, raise a racket and make speeches about the people's consciousness, the people's conscience, freedom andso forth while servants in tails are scurrying around your table, just like serfs, and out in the severe cold on the street await coachmen--this is the same as lying to the holy spirit.”

People Spirit Lying Consciousness Streets Cold Drink Holy Speech Conscience Raises Tables Slavery Servant Holy Spirit Hypocrisy Tails Severe Champagne Racket Dine Serfs

Author:Anton Chekhov

“My three favorite travel writers of all time are Robert Louis Stevenson, Graham Greene, and Chuck Thompson. Smile When You're Lying not only tells the truth about the travel-writing racket, it gets to the heart of some of the travel industry's best-kept secrets.”

Writing Heart Lying Three Secret Industry All Time Telling The Truth Travel Writing Chuck Racket Kept Secrets Best Kept Secrets

Author:Kinky Friedman

“Mangling my racket and an odd swearword on the court is not something I am proud of and it shouldn't happen, but even my coaches have told me that it's sometimes better to let it all out, the anger inside you, because keeping it bottled would just eat you up in the long term.”

Long Sometimes Happens Term Proud Anger Court Coaches Odd Long Term Racket Anger Inside

Author:Novak Djokovic

“For God's sake stop making people in your image. Harry was real. He wasn't just your hero and my lover. He was Harry. He was in a racket. He did bad things. What about it? He was the man we knew.”

People Men Love Real Age He Man Hero Lovers Sake Bad Things Racket My Lover

Book:Triple pursuit: a Graham Greene omnibus

Source: Triple pursuit: a Graham Greene omnibus

“Intelligence is silence, truth is being invisible. But what a racket I make in declaring this.”

Silence Truth Is Invisible Declaring Racket

Book:The Later Diaries of Ned Rorem: 1961–1972

Source: The Later Diaries of Ned Rorem: 1961–1972

“Lyrics are my racket; music is play - the fluff stuff.”

Play Stuff Music Is Racket Fluff

Author:Cass McCombs

“When I started out jumping around with a tennis racket, I never thought I would end up on a list of the best guitar players in the world. It makes me feel proud of the hard work I've put in.”

World Feels Ends Hard Player Hard Work Proud Guitar Lists Tennis Jumping Guitar Player Racket

Author:Gary Hoey

“I like to let my racket do the talking.”

Talking Racket

Author:Rod Laver

“I have been....moved to wonder whether my job is a job or a racket, whether economists, and particularly economic theorists, may not be in the position that Cicero, citing Cato, ascribed to the augurs of Rome-that they should cover their faces or burst into laugher when they met on the street.”

Should May Has Beens Jobs Faces Wonder Economic Streets Position Mets Moved Rome Economist Theorists Racket Citing Cato

Author:Frank Knight

“Vidal gives the impression of believing that the entire heterosexual edifice - registry offices, 'Romeo and Juliet,' the disposable diaper - is just a sorry story of self-hypnosis and mass hysteria: a hoax, a racket, or sheer propaganda.”

Source: The War Against Cliche: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000

“Wives are good on paper, at least. until they turn into harpies with sharp claws and open check books. Then they're kind of frightening. And they put on all kinds of makeup and parade around the street with their shopping cart yelling "Sale on aisle seven!" at anyone who will listen. Their wooden clog sandals make a helluva racket on linoleum tile. Their plastic jewelry clatters like the bones of little children.”

“I don't think I'm one of those guys who won't pick up a racket for three years...I love hitting tennis balls.”

Thinking Years Guy Three Picks Balls Tennis Three Years Hitting Racket Tennis Balls

Author:Andy Roddick

“I like to keep my surroundings low-key. I don't need much around me. I'm easy don't need a lot of racket.”

Needs Easy Keys Lows Surroundings Racket Low Key

Author:Randy Moss

“I'm not really interested in participating in mainstream culture. Participating in the mainstream music business is, to me, like getting involved in a racket. There's no way you can get involved in a racket and not someway be filthied by it.”

Way Culture Involved Mainstream Get Involved Music Business Participating Racket Mainstream Culture

Author:Steve Albini

“This whole celebrity racket, it's not really my bag. I don't really do that stuff, and I am not looking to get famous myself. I would love it if my characters get famous, my work was well known and appreciated. But I'm an actor, not a spokes model or a celebrity or whatever that is. I don't know how to be that.”

Ifs Knows Wells Whole Character Actors Stuff Known Know How Models Bags Spokes Well Known Appreciated Racket

Author:John C. Reilly

“I killed a squirrel once with a car. Twice with a tennis racket.”

Car Tennis Squirrels Racket

Author:Anthony Jeselnik

“I watch the ball fiercely to see its height and speed off my opponent's racket so I can decide how I want to hit it.”

Want I Can Watches Balls Speed Height Opponents Racket

Author:Sloane Stephens

“I was just another long-haired teenage kid with visions of grandeur, strumming a tennis racket or a broom in front of his bedroom mirror.”

Long Kids Vision Fronts Mirrors Tennis Bedroom Teenage Grandeur Racket Brooms Strumming

Author:Jon Bon Jovi

“If you live in America, you don't have to work. You can just drift along in the smiling and nodding racket.”

Ifs America Racket Nodding

Author:Quentin Crisp

“These people say free markets are the way to go, but wink, wink, the markets aren't really free. They're just a protectionist racket, and we have to pay for it all on every level. It's really quite extraordinary, and immoral, and illegal. These things need to be named, and shamed, and outed, and mocked, and prosecuted.”

People Way Needs Levels Pay Extraordinary Illegal Immoral Free Market Racket

Author:John Cusack

“I used to cut guitars out of a piece of cardboard to copy the Strat look. I used a backwards tennis racket for a while and graduated to the cardboard cutout.”

Looks Used Pieces Cutting Guitar Tennis Copies Backwards Racket

Author:Rick Springfield

“I follow the teachings of Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, United States Marine Corps. He won two Congressional Medals of Honor, and he wrote the highly controversial antiwar book 'War is a Racket.'”

“I got my first tennis racket on my seventh birthday. And because we had a tennis court in our backyard, I played every day. By ten I was playing competitively.”

Firsts Ten Court Tennis Backyards Racket Tennis Courts Seventh Birthday

Book:One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World

Source: One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World

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