Chancers Quotes & Sayings

Is there any body of citizens in the country who actually welcome and enjoy a General Election?..YES. Those citizens are schoolchildren ... attending national schools. It may be very cynical, but on the appointed day those Lyceums of lower learning are turned into polling stations, the homes of innocence temporarily become part of the grim apparatus of politics and the scheming of sundry chancers. — Flann O'Brien

I will say that the high road can get so high that you can get a nose bleed, in which case you have to get off the high road. — Tim Gunn

It's my mission in life to put people on the screen who don't get normally represented. — Sarah Gavron

You can collar criminals until the cows come home, and there'll still be a never-ending supply of greedy fuckwits and chancers. — Charles Stross

It's not that I'm being shy. It's just that
well, for one, I don't even remember the event. It's a blank: a white slate, a black hole. I have vague images, half-impressions: of being, or having been
or, more precisely, being about to be
hit; blue light; railings; lights of other colours; being held above some kind of tray or bed. But who's to say that these are genuine memories? Who's to say my traumatized mind didn't just make them up, or pull them out from somewhere else, some other slot, and stick them there to plug the gap
the crater
that the accident had blown? Minds are versatile and wily things. Real chancers. — Tom McCarthy

You go after crude, rabble-rousing chancers like Ted Haggard, Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson, rather than sophisticated theologians like Tillich or Bonhoeffer who teach the sort of religion I believe in. — Richard Dawkins

Small people have small minds, and thus deride big dreamers.
Small people have small hearts, and thus disparage big chancers.
Small people have small souls, and thus disdain big achievers. — Matshona Dhliwayo

She looked away from him, drawing hard on her Rothman's; when her mouth puckered into hard little lines around the cigarette, it looked like a cat's anus. — Robert Galbraith

Once we've achieved perfect meditation, we're terribly trapped because that's an illusion ... any enlightenment that seems ultimate is an illusion. — Frederick Lenz

You guys line up alphabetically by height. — Bill Peterson

Being a fan of authentic Dada, I find today's art - what I call 'Bankers' Dada' - mind-numbingly dull. The most challenging work I've seen of late is by The British Art Resistance. Their document, 'A Call for Heroes in an Age of Cowards', is apt in these days of witless chancers. — Billy Childish

The Second Chancers' welfare is our primary concern, which is why we like to bring in people who know them and can report on their progress from an insider's perspective. — Megan Thomason