1. Top Famous Quotes
    2. /
  2. Keeping Score Quotes

Top Keeping Score Quotes

Browse top 11 famous quotes and sayings about Keeping Score by most favorite authors.

Favorite Keeping Score Quotes

1. "Archimedes was a mathematician," blurted Ethan from the back of the room. "And he was Greek. And he invented things." Ethan was the sort of student who was always keeping score--if he couldn't be the first to declare his knowledge of something, he would make certain you understood that he'd known it already. One day he would be declared the winner, and there would be a Smartest Boy trophy and a parade."
Author: Adam Rex
2. "I see you, and I suddenly forget why I was keeping score. That's why I stayed away, I guess. It was a last-ditch effort to protect myself. Because you totally, utterly undo me."
Author: Andrea Lochen
3. "And when they finally demanded that I had to stop keeping score and that I needed to play every future contest as an exhibition, I casually made the kind of statement sixteen-year-olds should not make to forty-six-year-old Midwestern housewives: "Why are you telling me how to do my job?" I asked. "It's not like I show up in your kitchen and tell you when to bake cookies."
Author: Chuck Klosterman
4. "Money is just a way of keeping score."
Author: H. L. Hunt
5. "And you can feel it in the air, they way the air has somehow been keeping score."
Author: Jeffrey Eugenides
6. "For a second, I stop fighting and think about what he's asking me. Did I live? I made a best friend. Lost another. Cried. Laughed. Lost my virginity. Gained a piece of magic, gave it away. Possibly changed a man's destiny. Drank beer. Slept in cheap motels. Got pissed off. Laughed some more. Escaped from the police and bounty hunters. Watched the sun set over the ocean. Had a soda with my sister. Saw my mom and dad as they are. Understood music. Had sex again, and it was pretty mind-blowing. Not that I'm keeping score. Okay, I'm keeping score. Played the bass. Went to a concert. Wandered around New Orleans. Freed the snow globes. Saved the universe."
Author: Libba Bray
7. "With a book called 'Keeping Score,' I really did want to write a book about the Korean War, because I felt that it is the least understood war in the American cultural imagination. So I set out with the idea that Americans didn't know much about the Korean War and that I was going to try to fix a tiny bit of that."
Author: Linda Sue Park
8. "Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always makes you less than you are."
Author: Malcolm Forbes
9. "Life. It gives you vision. But you can't acquire it if you're afraid of keeping score."
Author: Pat Summitt
10. "Males have probably always enjoyed watching the defeat of other males, but without the invention of numerals and the subsequent invention of the concept of keeping score, we could never have had a million sports channels."
Author: Patricia Marx
11. "If you're keeping score, win."
Author: Red Auerbach

Keeping Score Quotes Pictures

Quotes About Keeping Score
Quotes About Keeping Score
Quotes About Keeping Score

Today's Quote

De acuerdo que la gramática es esencial, pero sólo si tiene como objeto la escritura: privada de su objetivo, se convierte en un código estéril."
Author: Amélie Nothomb

Famous Authors

Popular Topics

Copyright © 2023 Top Famous Quotes. All Rights Reserved. | New Quotes | Topic List | Author List | Privacy Policy | About Us | Contact Us |