Extra Point Attempts

Famous quotes containing the words extra, point and/or attempts:

    “I did toy with the idea of doing a cook-book.... The recipes were to be the routine ones: how to make dry toast, instant coffee, hearts of lettuce and brownies. But as an added attraction, at no extra charge, my idea was to put a fried egg on the cover. I think a lot of people who hate literature but love fried eggs would buy it if the price was right.”
    —Groucho Marx (1895–1977)

    “If you give me a short shot I will attack you. I’m not a baseliner who rallies. I try to get the point over with.”
    —Venus Williams (b. 1980)

    “Society gains nothing whilst a man, not himself renovated, attempts to renovate things around him; he has become tediously good in some particular but negligent or narrow in the rest; and hypocrisy and vanity are often the disgusting result.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)