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We lived in a small house, so there was no escape from the goddamn racket of her loneliness. — Sherman Alexie

Scriptwriting is the toughest part of the whole racket ... the least understood and the least noticed. — Frank Capra

Everybody is on something these days. It's a racket. Overprescribing, masking the problem. — Keith Donohue

It's a racket. Those stock market guys are crooked. — Al Capone

Your madness is silent and your sanity makes a racket. — C.D. Reiss

History is full of really good stories. That's the main reason I got into this racket: I want to make the argument that history is interesting. — Sarah Vowell

War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. — Smedley Butler

Congress is a Mafia running a protection racket.. — John P. Wheeler III

Life is a racket. Writing is a racket. Sincerity is a racket. Everything's a racket. — Nick Tosches

For a great many years, as a soldier, I had a suspicion that war was a racket; not until I retired to civil life did I fully realize it. — Smedley Butler

War is a lie. War is a racket. War is hell. War is waste. War is a crime. War is terrorism. War is not the answer. — Coleen Rowley

I'm in the wrong racket if I didn't want a public life. — Joe Mantegna

If I listened to all the noise in the world
I would have many standards to conform to But the zeal to succeed
Cuts through the racket — Priscilla Koranteng

First something is a great idea, then it becomes a cause, then it becomes a business and finally it becomes a racket. — Eric Hoffer

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

I'm one injury away from hanging up the racket at any time. — Lleyton Hewitt

I have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer. — William Hazlitt

I had not picked up a tennis racket in 15 years, so I tried. — Matthew Ashford

The day I'm not improving will be the day I hang up the racket. — Venus Williams

Printing currency for foreigners to buy is the best racket a government can get into. — Lee Child

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. — Sloane Stephens

Racket beer, sonny," he said sadly. "Tasteless as a roadhouse blonde." (Spanish Blood) — Raymond Chandler

Where there is so much racket, there must be something out of kilter — Sojourner Truth

A tennis racket makes a great fake guitar! — Isaac

Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket. — Eric Hoffer

Religion is a Snare and a Racket, — Charles Taze Russell

I like to let my racket do the talking. — Rod Laver

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. — Andy Roddick

He who has never tasted jail Lives well within the legal pale, While he who's served a heavy sentence Renews the racket, not repentance. — Ogden Nash

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

Our media and political system has turned into a mutual protection racket. — Bill Moyers

I killed a squirrel once with a car. Twice with a tennis racket. — Anthony Jeselnik

I'll let the racket do the talking. — John McEnroe

Oh what was the racket that backeted and smashed in raging might, to make this oil-puddle world?
— Jack Kerouac

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

Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class. — Al Capone

War like any other racket, pays high dividends to the very few. The cost of operations is always transferred to the people who do not profit. — Smedley Butler

The most racket time of the year for those that don't know, is the warmest of the four seasons and the winter as it is so cold and felt in your heart. — Auliq Ice

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

Be careful, darling. Your footsteps land heavy here. Your racket will wake the dragons. — Sarah Kay

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

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. — Jon Bon Jovi

I let my racket do the talking. That's what I am all about, really. I just go out and win tennis matches. — Pete Sampras

I'm not an activist. I'm trying to get off the whole atheist racket. — Julia Sweeney

Thou shalt not horn in on thy husbands racket — Homer

What is all the racket about? Did you put red pepper on the lollypops? — Johnny Gruelle

And beeping, obviously sure that I was either too stupid or too deaf to hear the racket. — Mary Higgins Clark

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

War's a racket. No doubt. But war is a racket for the politicians, not the soldiers. — Sean Beaudoin

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

I went on the courts with just a ball and a racket and a hope ... and that's all I had. — Serena Williams

The words of the social critic Eric Hoffer were ringing true: Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and turns into a racket. — Christopher McDougall

Revenge is a dish best served by a tennis racket — Josh Stern

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

To me, anyone with an Australian accent wielding a tennis racket is cool. — Adrian Smith

Intelligence is silence, truth is being invisible. But what a racket I make in declaring this. — Ned Rorem

Be as subjective as you want. It's a great little racket. I'm glad we found it actually. — Matt Labash

I don't mind being called tough, since I find in this racket it's the tough guys who lead the survivors. — Curtis LeMay

Basically I started playing double handed on both my forehand and backhand side because my first racket was very heavy. — Bjorn Borg

Only a man with nothing to hide could make that kind of racket. — Sara Sheridan

War is just a racket ... I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else. — Smedley Butler

I used to play a lot of racket sports, tennis and squash. — Jason Statham

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. — Jimmy Hoffa

War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. — Smedley Butler

Journalism is a kind of profession, or craft, or racket, for people who never wanted to grow up and go out into the real world. — Harry Reasoner

I grip very close to the butt of the racket. This allows me to get a lot of wrist action to create more spin and whip. — Sloane Stephens

Once in the racket you're always in it. — Al Capone

War is a racket. The few profit, the many pay. — Noam Chomsky

Lyrics are my racket; music is play - the fluff stuff. — Cass McCombs

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

I love you Contessa, Your madness is silent and your sanity makes a racket. Now is the time for madness. — C.D. Reiss