Gambling Quotes - Page 8

Of course, San Diego chooses not to regard the two cities as one. Talk about alter ego: Tijuana was created by the lust of San Diego. Everything that was illegal in San Diego was permitted in Tijuana. When boxing was illegal in San Diego, there were boxing matches in Tijuana; when gambling was illegal, there was always Tijuana.

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

It can be argued that man's instinct to gamble is the only reason he is still not a monkey up in the trees.

A sure thing is no fun.

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.

Oh, it's not really gambling when you never lose.

I am not surprised that there are gambling houses, like so many snares laid for human avarice; like abysses where many a man's money is engulfed and swallowed up without any hope of return; like frightful rocks against which the gamblers are thrown and perish.

Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.

It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.

The world is the house of the strong.

It turns out that dopamine is a chemical on double duty in the brain. Along with its role in motor commands, it also serves as the main messenger in the reward systems, guiding a person toward food, drink, mates, and all things useful for survival. Because of its role in the reward system, imbalances in dopamine can trigger gambling, overeating, and drug addiction - behaviors that result from a reward system gone awry.

There is not a single truth of science upon which we ought to bet more than about a million of millions to one.

It is morally wrong to allow suckers to keep their money.

Las Vegas is a major family destination. Nevada casinos have become American family values now. It's considered just fine to go into one of these windowless scary gambling-malls, drink yourself silly, lose your ass at roulette, and then go ogle showgirls with breast implants. Republicans do this now. Working-class folks do it in polyester stretch pants. It's normal.

It is not whether you win or lose, but who gets the blame.

With Jane Birkin, we had a scene from a film called Jane B. by Agnès V. - a portrait I made in '87. We had a casino scene, surrealistic, in which we had some naked people gambling. Jane Birkin was the card dealer and I was the player. I had beautiful jewelery around me, and when I lost I would take the jewelery and say, Service - being very generous, because it was very expensive jewelery. I would say, Tip.

Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.

With spots quadrangular of diamond form, ensanguined hearts, clubs typical of strife, and spades, the emblems of untimely graves.

There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education.

The next best thing to a winning day at the track is a losing day.

I think the worst thing that can happen to a good actor is fame.

Life is a gamble, at terrible odds - if it was a bet you wouldn't take it.

Pre-teens, teens and college students have unlimited access to the Internet - 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Because of the repeated exposure they have to illegal Internet gambling sites, they fall victim by the thousands.

What more than madness reigns, when one short sitting many hundreds drains.

There is no such thing as 'social gambling.' Either you are there to cut the other bloke's heart out and eat it -- or you're a sucker. If you don't like this choice -- don't gamble.