Gambling Quotes - Page 14

• Gambling has a zero-sum economic effect in its market and, like legalizing cocaine, the socio-economic costs of legalizing gambling overwhelm the benefits

  John Warren Kindt

  Zero, Cost, Benefits

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• For a loser, Vegas is the meanest town on earth.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Vegas, Earth, Towns

  Hunter S. Thompson (2010). “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream”, p.42, Vintage

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• I mean, what do you do in Las Vegas? You gamble - and you go to strip clubs.

  Scott Caan

  Mean, Vegas, Clubs

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• Fortunately my wife is understanding. When I come home from the races she never asks any questions, if I tell her I just ate a $380 hot dog.

  Tim Conway

  Dog, Home, Race

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• casino owners spoke more loudly than any of the other kings of industry to defend their contribution to society. They could speak more loudly because theirs was the purest activity of civilized man. They had transcended the need for a product. They could maintain and advance life with machines that made nothing but money.

  Jane Rule

  Kings, Men, Needs

  Jane Rule (2013). “Desert of the Heart: A Novel”, p.223, Open Road Media

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• The outside wold pressures you into a mold, but if you don't accept that - you gamble with life. Call it gambling.

  Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

  Risk, Mold, Pressure

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• You most likely need a thesaurus, a rudimentary grammar book, and a grip on reality. This latter means: there's no free lunch. Writing is work. It's also gambling. You don't get a pension plan. Other people can help you a bit, but ­essentially you're on your own. Nobody is making you do this: you chose it, so don't whine.

  Margaret Atwood

  Book, Writing, Mean

  "Ten rules for writing fiction". www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2010.

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• The humblest observer who goes to the mines sees and says that gold-digging is of the character of a lottery; the gold thus obtained is not the same thing with the wages of honest toil. But, practically, he forgets what he has seen, for he has seen only the fact, not the principle, and goes into trade there, that is, buys a ticket in what commonly proves another lottery, where the fact is not so obvious.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Character, Gold, Toil

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.413, Simon and Schuster

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• Gaming is a kind of tacit confession that the company engaged therein do in general exceed the bounds of their respective fortunes, and therefore they cast lots to determine upon whom the ruin shall at present fall, that the rest may be saved a little longer.

  William Blackstone

  Fall, May, Littles

  Sir William Blackstone (1841). “Commentaries on the laws of England: in four books ; with an analysis of the work”

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• I wanted Raging Bull. I wanted Casino. I got Rocky and Bullwinkle. But that's OK, because I still get to tell people I've worked with Robert DeNiro.

  Rene Russo

  People, Bulls, Casinos

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• There is a gambling element to being somebody who is going to take on the job of constantly trying to represent and prop up people who might be somewhat shady. That notion is probably part of how they got the rap. But, I have to find the balance of being colorful, being at times despicable, and also being somebody who does believe in something.

  Greg Kinnear

  Jobs, Rap, Believe

  "Greg Kinnear Talks RAKE, His Approach to the Edgy Role, Similarity to the Australian Series, and More". Interview, collider.com. January 23, 2014.

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• Our old - fashioned system is better than any new - fangled voting machine. Not only is it guaranteed to work, but there is something I find appealing in putting a mark on a piece of paper for the candidate of your choice, as opposed to pulling a lever as if you were gambling on a slot machine in Las Vegas.

  Jean Chretien

  Vegas, Choices, Voting

  Jean Chretien (2010). “My Years as Prime Minister”, p.287, Vintage Canada

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• ...to emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on Heaven is to create hell. In their desperate longing to transcend the disorderliness, friction, and unpredictability that pesters life; in their desire for a fresh start in a tidy habitat, germ-free and secured by angels, religious multitudes are gambling the only life they may ever have on a dark horse in a race that has no finish line.

  Tom Robbins

  Life, Religious, Horse

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.356, Bantam

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• I decided I didn't want to be a slave to any passion any more except for my work, i had too many passions - bridge, horses, gambling. I want to live a different kind of life, be with my family more because I didn't give them enough time.

  Omar Sharif

  Life, Horse, Passion

  "Biography/ Mini Bio". www.imdb.com.

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• It is far best for the Christian never to see some things, so he will never want them. The old-fashioned Christian who will not have playing cards in his house will never learn to gamble with them. One who never sees, in movies and night clubs or elsewhere, half-clothed girls, drinking, smoking, gambling, petting, making love to many men, is likely to miss being led into that kind of life by these sirens of sin. It is the Devil's game to make people think it necessary for people to "know the ways of the world.

  John R. Rice

  Girl, Christian, Drinking

  John R. Rice (2000). “The Ruin of a Christian”, p.100, Sword of the Lord Publishers

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• He said, Son, I've made a life out of readin' people's faces, and knowin' what their cards were by the way they held their eyes.

  Kenny Rogers

  Eye, Son, People

  Song: The Gambler

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• When I talk about drugs and alcohol, I'm talking about sex addiction, gambling addiction, eating addiction, throwing-up addiction. I'm not talking about mental illness.

  Abel Ferrara

  Sex, Talking, Addiction

  Interview with Aïda Ruilova, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 13, 2013.

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• The consequences of inflation are malinvestment, waste, a wanton redistribution of wealth and income, the growth of speculation and gambling, immorality and corruption, disillusionment, social resentment, discontent, upheaval and riots, bankruptcy, increased government controls, and eventual collapse.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Government, Growth, Income

  Henry Hazlitt (1971). “Man Vs. the Welfare State”, p.136, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Everyone has addictions and my problem is that I have 5,000 of them. If it's not drinking, it's gambling; if it's not gambling, it's eating anything from burgers, doughnuts to M&Ms. The only addiction I don't suffer from is chasing women.

  John Daly

  Drinking, Addiction, Suffering

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• You're gambling with something vital. Most writers get smashed egos.

  Norman Mailer

  Ego

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• This would have been a great game to watch if we didn't have any money on it.

  Norm MacDonald

  Games, Watches, Has Beens

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• Guessing has never been widely acclaimed as a good gambling strategy.

  Jan Garavaglia

  Guessing, Strategy

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• You start doing the addictive behavior to feel good and then your receptors get overloaded with dopamine, then you stop doing the addictive thing and some of the receptors have shut down and you don't have enough dopamine to feel good. So then you feel bad and go back to the addictive behavior to get more dopamine. The strange thing is that it works with what we think of as uppers and downers and whatever you call gambling - sidewaysers.

  Bill Nye

  Thinking, Feel Good, Down And

  "Bill Nye: Cell phones aren't making us dumb". Interview with Wilson Rothman, www.nbcnews.com. March 23, 2010.

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• Scobe's Eighth Law: The moron will enter the single deck game when the count is sky high and the dealer is deciding whether or not to shuffle. The morons's entrance will convince the dealer that it's time to shuffle. You will now face a new deck with your biggest bet out and the pit boss watching closely.

  Frank Scoblete

  Law, Sky, Games

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• I think that gambling is a synthetic experience and that if you have any balls you gamble with your life. I have. So can everybody else.

  William Monahan

  Thinking, Balls, Synthetic

  Source: collider.com

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