#tickets

Lottery tickets are a surtax on desperation. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#lottery #tickets

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 pay parking tickets. You know, you can try to give 50%, but then they charge you all those penalties! Seriously, I have gotten many, many, many tickets in my life. ↗

— Debra Messing

#give #gotten #i #know #life

I borrowed my friend's car the other day in an attempt to persuade my husband that we needed a car and literally this is true, in the first day of borrowing the car, I got three tickets and I rear-ended it. ↗

— Emily Mortimer

#borrowed #borrowing #car #day #first

When I left to go into apprenticeship in 1949, it was only four years after the war, and people don't realize, we still had tickets for butter, meat and so forth in France until 1947. It's not like the end of the war, everything was plentiful - it wasn't. ↗

— Jacques Pepin

#apprenticeship #butter #end #everything #forth

I have 120 people in my payroll without any government giving me any money. We live off the tickets and the records I sell. That is very unusual. ↗

— Andre Rieu

#giving #government #i #live #me

I've spent more on my Dodger tickets that I did on my car. ↗

— Shia LaBeouf

#did #dodger #i #more #spent

Country fans need to support country music by buying albums and concert tickets for traditional artists or the music will just fade away. And that would be really sad. ↗

— George Jones

#artists #away #buying #concert #country

The other thing I like, in fact, several months ago I introduced a bill to end the absurd catch and release policy where our government has been giving tickets, essentially, to people who enter illegally and then letting them go and show up of their own volition. ↗

— John Doolittle

#ago #been #bill #catch #end

People keep telling us, that they didn't know when they were booking tickets for it, but afterwards they say that they've had no sense that they were watching an old fashioned play. ↗

— Bill Irwin

#booking #fashioned #had #keep #know