Gambling Quotes

My work is play. And I play when I design. I even looked it up in the dictionary, to make sure that I actually do that, and the definition of “play,” number one, was “engaging in a childlike activity or endeavor,” and number two was “gambling.” And I realize I do both when I’m designing.

Crime is based upon need, making money. People sell drugs to make money. But if everybody is cared for, they don't sell drugs and if there's no money you can't sell drugs even if you wanted to. There'd be no such thing as gambling, prostitution, or selling out, or paying off a senator or a governor. There are no senators, there are no governors so you can't pay them off. If you take away the basis or the condition that generate abhorrent behavior, you don't have abhorrent behavior.

When your opponent's sittin' there holdin' all the aces, there's only one thing to do: kick over the table.

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.

I spent half my money on gambling, alcohol and wild women. The other half I wasted.

Don’t ever average losers. Decrease your trading volume when you are trading poorly; increase your volume when you are trading well. Never trade in situations where you don’t have control. For example, I don’t risk significant amounts of money in front of key reports, since that is gambling, not trading.

The only difference between a winner and a loser is a winner plays until he wins

As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.

The dice of Zeus always fall luckily.

A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.

Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.

I have to confess that I had gambled on my soul and lost it with heroic insouciance and lightness of touch. The soul is so impalpable, so often useless, and sometimes such a nuisance, that I felt no more emotion on losing it than if, on a stroll, I had mislaid my visiting card.

Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.

In Vegas, I got into a long argument with the man at the roulette wheel over what I considered to be an odd number.

You cannot beat a roulette table unless you steal money from it.

Yeah man, they call gambling a disease, but it's the only disease where you can win a bunch of money.

One who doesn't throw the dice can never expect to score a six.

Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.

Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air. . . . It is a guzzling, lounging, gambling, dog's life. The only alternative to excitement is irritability.

If you're playing a poker game and you look around the table and and can't tell who the sucker is, it's you.

I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I'm not afraid of falling into my inkpot.

You know horses are smarter than people. You never heard of a horse going broke betting on people.

If a mistake is not a stepping stone, it is a mistake.

If I had the money and the drinking capacity, I'd probably live at a roulette table and let my life go to hell.

I never go looking for a sucker. I look for a Champion and make a sucker of of him.

A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.

Ain't only three things to gambling: knowing the 60-40 end of the proposition, money management, and knowing yourself.

Trust everyone, but always cut the cards.

They are the new breed of slot machine-colorful, fancy, exciting, wonderful...and deadly.

Every great film should seem new every time you see it.

We are, quite literally, gambling with the future of our planet- for the sake of hamburgers

Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.

Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead.

Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her.

Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional activities as banks try to rebuild their balance sheets.

There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians.

One way to stop a runaway horse is to bet on him.

No presidential candidate should visit Las Vegas without condemning organized gambling.

The national debt has given rise to joint stock companies, to dealings in negotiable effects of all kinds, and to agiotage , in a word to stock-exchange gambling and the modern bankocracy .

I've been on such a losing streak that if I had been around I would have taken General Custer and given points.

I've seen many lives destroyed. I've seen more people have problems with gambling than I have with drugs and alcohol. And there are some serious consequences if you get in over your head.

Aces are larger than life and greater than mountains.

Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people.

I must have gone through $10 million during my career. Part of the loot went for gambling, part for horses and part for women. The rest I spent foolishly.

Granted, I could go out and lose everything (by) gambling and drinking, but there's no sense in denying it. It's in my blood.

Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought poor, is the destructive thing which has been honored by the name of "speculation"; but which ought to be called Gambling.

To play billiards well was a sign of an ill-spent youth

Games are a compromise between intimacy and keeping intimacy away.

Everybody's a filmmaker today.

I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films.