#racket

All the arts in America are a gigantic racket run by unscrupulous men for unhealthy women. ↗

— Thomas Beecham

#arts #gigantic #men #racket #run

When I was a freelancer, I thought this journalism thing was a racket, and now that I'm where I am now, I know it's a racket. ↗

— Tabitha Soren

#i #i am #journalism #know #now

I'm in the wrong racket if I didn't want a public life. ↗

— Joe Mantegna

#life #public #public life #racket #want

Scriptwriting is the toughest part of the whole racket... the least understood and the least noticed. ↗

— Frank Capra

#noticed #part #racket #toughest #understood

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia. ↗

— Judith Viorst

#accident #automobile #bracket #girdle #higher

Legislation to create a new 10 percent tax bracket, reduce the marriage penalty, cut the tax rate on dividends and capital gains, and increase the child tax credit have been essential elements in this economic expansion. ↗

— Roger Wicker

#bracket #capital #capital gains #child #create

The day I'm not improving will be the day I hang up the racket. ↗

— Venus Williams

#hang #i #improving #racket #up

The old saying that war is a racket has taken on an even more shameful meaning. ↗

— David Hackworth

#meaning #more #old #racket #saying

I'm not called Jude Law, I have three names; I'm called 'Hunk Jude Law' or 'Heartthrob Jude Law'. In England anyway, that's my full name. That's the cheap language that's thrown around, that sums you up in one little bracket. It doesn't look at your life. But if one looks beyond, there is actually a little bit more. ↗

— Jude Law

#anyway #around #beyond #bit #bracket

I think the players, I put in the book for example that we should go back to wood rackets, probably they laughed at me, I'm a dinosaur, but I think that you see these great players, have even more variety and you see more strategy, there'd be more subtlety. ↗

— John McEnroe

#book #dinosaur #even #example #for example