Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

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

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

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

I don't think there is a good reason for an abortion, but Dr. Jasper made me really realize it was just a racket. He was just doing it for the money. He didn't care about the women.
Norma McCorvey

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

I have to give my family credit for putting up with the racket, because as some of you may know, its not the easiest thing in the world to live with a kid who's trying to become a rock and roll drummer.
Max Weinberg

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 started in this racket in the early '70s, and when I was president of the Science Fiction Writers of America, of which I was like the sixth president, I was the first one nobody ever heard of.
Jerry Pournelle

I started rooting - you know, sticking up joints - with some older guys. By now I had gotten a taste of what the racket world really was - the glamour, the way they dressed, the way they always had a pocketful of money.
Mickey Cohen

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

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

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

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

My father was a carpenter, a very good carpenter. He also worked for the Jones boys. They were not family members, we weren't related at all. They started the policy racket in Chicago, and they had the five and dime store.
Quincy Jones

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

Somebody's always getting me to come lecture to their writing class, and I don't talk about writing at all, I talk about the business of making a living at this racket.
Jerry Pournelle

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

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