Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.

Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.

Getting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club. You're not out of it until the computer says you're out of it.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.

We all know what flopping is when we see it. The stuff that you see is where guys aren't really getting hit at all and are just flailing around like a fish out of water.

I think the most important factor in getting out of the recession actually is just the regenerative capacity of - of American capitalism.

Life is one long process of getting tired.

Housing associations have fingered the fact that they cannot use their assets as liquidity due to Bank of England rules unlike their continental equivalents. This has emerged to be one of the main bottlenecks to getting investment going in the U.K. It is a Bank of England issue.

I'm taking my time. I feel much more confident, and every day I feel like I'm getting better.

My father was always getting excited about something. It's genetically inside me somewhere.

I grew up the son of a director and grew up on sets myself, so I was the kid getting dragged around from this set to that set and I loved it. There's something about it which is really interesting.

To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it.

All of the sudden the audiences started getting younger and the spread of the attendance was really wide. I think it's as a result of the records selling more that they started following our careers.

Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite - getting something down.

I didn't think I was going to play that day. I'd have to thank the training staff for getting me on the field that day. They made a bigger deal than I thought it was.

Indians were here first - it's about time. We're way behind the African Americans and Hispanic Americans in getting politically involved, but we're beginning to take a page out of their notebook.

I'm a big, big blues fan and the last several years I've really invested in the blues a lot, and I think my playing is getting better because of it - not necessarily better on a technical level, but certainly on a level of appropriateness.

Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question.

Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.

You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer 'yes' without having asked any clear question.

This war is like an actress who is getting old. It is less and less photogenic and more and more dangerous.

This kind of music was just hitting England, so we were getting this following in clubs in Birmingham just cause we were trying to do something different.

My message tonight is a simple one - the journey is getting exciting and this great state is on the move.

Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.

As long as you keep getting born, it's alright to die some times.

And, one thing I definitely enjoyed personally, from a selfish point of view, was exploration and going to places that I had never been to before and learning, you know, meeting the people and getting to know, new sights and sounds, etc.

Because when we're in space, my job is primarily getting us there and getting us back.

Now you're coming back to Earth, and things are getting more and more dynamic.

Those folks out in the space suits are going to be getting beat up.

I see it as one of my jobs to make sure that, it sounds ridiculous, but to make sure the folks are eating, make sure folks are getting enough fluids, make sure folks are, you know, comfortable in the orbiter.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.

I shot down some German planes and I got shot down myself, crashing in a burst of flames and crawling out, getting rescued by brave soldiers.

It's disingenuous to say that criticism doesn't get to you or you don't hear it or that you ignore it. When everybody says, 'That's crap. I hated that,' you hear it. But it's much, much worse when they're right: when you feel that it is an absolute piece of tosh. I made the film I wanted to make, so you just have to find a way of getting over it.

I always say, 'I really need to take a break.' It's three days in and I'm getting pretty bored.

You go through a process of refinement and getting rid of the excesses of your early youth in terms of your excitement about what theatre can do.

I'm sorry I didn't wear paint this morning. I tend not to wear it unless I'm getting highly paid.

And getting married this autumn was certainly an additional incentive to spend rather more time in England.

People confuse fame with validation or love. But fame is not the reward. The reward is getting fulfilment out of doing the thing you love.

I am looking forward to getting to do things I have never done before.

I think the key to being a journalist is getting your subject to feel comfortable enough to talk about stuff they want to talk about and the stuff they like and don't like, and still feel comfortable about it.

It did not prepare me for writing or 'Power of Attorney.' However, what it did is that it forced me out of the DA's office. I stopped getting that county check.

There's a lot to do when you're a kid - spiders to catch, girls to poke in the eye - stuff to be getting on with.

I know what I want at least, and the older I get I think I'm better at getting it out of players and singers.

Sometimes running for Congress is a four-year strategy in terms of getting out there and building a network.

I will be a role model for cancer patients for the rest of my life. But you know what? When I was getting chemo, those people inspired me.

A person who can't pay gets another person who can't pay to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person with two wooden legs getting another person with two wooden legs to guarantee that he has got two natural legs. It don't make either of them able to do a walking-match.

'The X Factor' is great entertainment, but it doesn't prepare people for getting chewed up and spat out by the music industry.

I think my character's getting to the point where he can't even eat spaghetti with red sauce anymore, where he has horrible nightmares, he can't sleep anymore.

You can't achieve anything without getting in someone's way.

Before getting meningitis, I was such a hypochondriac, worrying about the slightest ache. Ironically, I overlooked meningitis because the symptoms seemed like flu. I guess you don't realise how healthy you are until it is taken away from you.

I've fallen back on this periodically, although I must say that getting out of the grocery business ranked right up there with getting out of the army as one of the happier experiences of my life.

I'm hardly digging trenches for a living. I'm getting to tap into my boyhood fantasies of being a larger-than-life character.

When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.

Performers like Tommy Cooper, who are always getting things wrong, are much more endearing than comedians who are sassy and smart.

In my case, the listener is often in an automobile driving to work. You can concentrate on the road while still getting an audio message that can be riveting.

Power is getting things done without having to demonstrate that you can bulldoze it through. I'm most effective when I've studied an issue, when I can make a credible argument, and then bring people along.

I'm definitely not getting married. In this business, you're either getting married or they want you to be pregnant. I'm not getting married until I'm forty. If ever.

From day one, I got addicted to being on stage and getting the applause and laughter.

Once we were in the studio, we realized we were getting certain effects through the shooting of the dramatic scenes on video, shooting off a screen and then getting wave patterns and stuff like that.

No one should be incarcerated for debt or squeezed for money they have no chance of getting their hands on.

I cried every day of first grade. In class. Which meant I ended up getting comfortable emoting in a place where it wasn't the norm.

My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.

Rational beliefs bring us closer to getting good results in the real world.

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

These times are so hard, and they're getting even harder.

There was a huge, tremendous amount of disabled veterans and the Veteran's Administration just wasn't geared up for it. I know for a fact that it's getting better and better.

That's all I cared about too, was getting it right.

I swing between procrastination and being really thorough so either way things aren't getting done quickly.

We're not getting any younger.

It's hard to notice things without people noticing me and that takes some getting used to.

I think in terms of the work we're doing now a lot of the UI cleanup... I see it getting much prettier.

The particular ballet was not so important as the fact that I was physically healthy, and capable of getting out there and dancing as often as possible.

If I was not allowed to mention that I was in the film industry, I could go six months without getting a kiss.