Racket Quotes - Page 4

Religion is a Snare and a Racket.

Charles Taze Russell

Snares

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I carried through well with my tennis. I got the respect by usage of the tennis racket.

Gabriela Sabatini

Sports, Respect, Tennis

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A society that is in its higher circles and middle levels widely believed to be a network of smart rackets does not produce men with an inner moral sense; a society that is merely expedient does not produce men of conscience. A society that narrows the meaning of 'success' to the big money and in its terms condemns failure as the chief vice, raising money to the plane of absolute value, will produce the sharp operator and the shady deal. Blessed are the cynical, for only they have what it takes to succeed.

C. Wright Mills

Smart, Blessed, Men

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Being a Negro writer these days is a racket and I'm going to make the most of it while it lasts. About twice a year I sell a story. It is acclaimed. I am a genius in the making. Thank God for this Negro literary renaissance. Long may it flourish

Wallace Thurman

Years, Long, Thank God

Wallace Thurman (2013). “Infants of the Spring”, p.142, Courier Corporation

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Wherever there's a system, there's a racket to beat it.

Jerome Ravetz

Beats

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Poetry requires deliberate movement in its direction, a filament of faith in its persistence, receptivity to its fundamental worthwhileness. Within its unanesthetized heart there is quite a racket going on. Choices have to be made with respect to every mark. Not every mistake should be erased. Nor shall the unintelligible be left out. Order is there to be wrenched from the tangles of words. Results are impossible to measure. A clearing is drawn around the perimeter as if by a stick with a nail on the end.

C.D. Wright

Mistake, Heart, Persistence

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In this mob of I's inside, which one is me? Hear me out. I know I'm wandering, but don't start putting a lid on this racket. No telling what I'll do then. Every moment I'm thrown by your story. One moment it's happy, and I'm singing. One moment it's sad, and I'm weeping. It turns bitter, and I pull away. But then you spill a little grace, and just like that, I'm all light. It's not so bad, this arrangement, actually.

Rumi

Light, Grace, Singing

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Congress is a Mafia running a protection racket.. .

John P. Wheeler III

Running, Political, Mafia

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She [Monica Seles] has so much control of the racket with those double-handed wrists.

Virginia Wade

Tennis, Wrists, Monica

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I don't think I've ever held a racket in my hand ... There's got to be somebody in the US who isn't trying to play tennis and stinking up the court.

Isaac Asimov

Thinking, Hands, Play

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Manners are manners. Jimmy Connors and Ilie Nastase have no respect. I don't want my kid seeing Nastase play. The demeanor you show on the court is important to tennis.... Maybe we (yesterday's stars) were too stereotyped. But we were told to behave or they'd take our racket away.

Rod Laver

Stars, Kids, Play

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

Anthony Jeselnik

Squirrels, Car, Tennis

Twitter post from Oct 14, 2010

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The two dozen commonplace childhood photographs - snowsuit, pony, tennis racket, looming fender of a Dodge - were an inexhaustible source of wonder for him, at her having existed before he met her, and of sadness for his possessing nothing of the ten million minutes of that black-and-white scallop-edged existence save these few proofs.

Michael Chabon

Sadness, Black And White, Two

"The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay". Book by Michael Chabon, September 19, 2000.

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Darling, my darling, don't think that I don't love you or that I didn't love you, but it's precisely because I love you that I couldn't have become what I am today if you were still here. It's impossible to have a child and despise the world as it is, because that's the world we've put the child into. The child makes us care about the world, think about it's future, willingly join in its racket and its turmoils, take its incurable stupidity seriously.

Milan Kundera

Children, Love You, Thinking

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The earth is speaking to us, but we can't hear because of all the racket our senses are making. Sometimes we need to erase them, erase our senses. Then - maybe - the earth will touch us. The universe will speak. The stars will whisper.

Jerry Spinelli

Life, Stars, Needs

Jerry Spinelli (2012). “The Stargirl Collection”, p.62, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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For a split second, Harry thought how absurd it was for Tonks to expect the dummy to hear her talking that quietly through a sheet of glass, when there were buses rumbling along behind her and all the racket of street full of shoppers. Then he reminded himself that dummies could not hear anyway.

J. K. Rowling

Glasses, Talking, Splits

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In the system of chivalry, men protect women against men. This is not unlike the protection relationship which [organized crime] established with small businesses in the early part of this century. Indeed, chivalry is an age-old protection racket which depends for its existence on rape.

Susan Griffin

Men, Age, Chivalry

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When I want to go to sleep, I must first get a whole menagerie of voices to shut up. You wouldn't believe what a racket they make in my room.

Karl Kraus

Believe, Sleep, Insomnia

Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

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Swinging at daisies is like playing electric guitar with a tennis racket: if it were that easy, we could all be Jerry Garcia. The ball changes everything.

Michael Bamberger

Golf, Guitar, Tennis

Michael Bamberger (2007). “This Golfing Life”, p.43, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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You seem a lot like me," he said. "You don't gawk at me like I'm a freak." "I'll kick anyone who does." "I think you already did. Or at least smacked him with a tennis racket." -Alexander and Raven, Vampire Kisses, Pg.127, The Beginning

Ellen Schreiber

Kissing, Thinking, Ravens

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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.

Tom Hanks

Opportunity, College, Play

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To tell the truth, girls are no longer the way they used to be. They play gangsters, nowadays, just like boys. They organize rackets. They plan holdups and practice karate. They will rape defenseless adolescents. They wear pants... Life has become impossible.

Alain Robbe-Grillet

Girl, Boys, Practice

Alain Robbe-Grillet (2015). “La Maison de Rendez-Vous and Djinn: Two Novels”, p.11, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler. Relax. Concentrate. Dispel every other thought. Let the world around you fade. Best to close the door; the TV is always on in the next room. Tell the others right away, "No, I don't want to watch TV!" Raise your voice -- they won't hear you otherwise -- "I'm reading! I don't want to be disturbed!" Maybe they haven't heard you, with all that racket; speak louder, yell: "I'm beginning to read Italo Calvino's new novel!" Or if you prefer, don't say anything: just hope they'll leave you alone.

Italo Calvino

Reading, Winter, Night

Italo Calvino (2010). “If On A Winter's Night A Traveller”, p.3, Random House

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The only way to combat the murder that is war is to show the dirty combinations that make it and the criminals and swine that hope for it and the idiotic way they run it when they get it so that an honest man will distrust it as he would distrust a racket and refuse to be enslaved into it.

Ernest Hemingway

Running, War, Dirty

Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.4181, Simon and Schuster

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Boys have their soft and gentle moods too. You would suppose by the morning racket that nothing could be more foreign to their nature than romance and vague sadness. . . . But boys have hours of great sinking and sadness, when kindness and fondness are peculiarly needful to them.

Henry Ward Beecher

Nature, Morning, Kindness

Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and ears”, p.69

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