Top 77 Gambler Quotes
#1. She was dangerous. I'd heard the rumors, that she had a history as a wild woman, that she'd been married to a gambler, maybe even been one herself, that her past was scandalous at best. But who was I to judge? My past was littered with scandal.
Margaret Madigan
#2. But Lando was a gambler. A true gambler never folded when he still had cards left to play.
Timothy Zahn
#3. THE GAMBLER,THE NUN,& THE RADIO
I thought the pain alone would kill me
Ernest Hemingway,
#4. Making pictures, for an actress, is like betting, for a gambler. Each time you make a picture you try to analyze why you won or lost.
Hedy Lamarr
#5. I'm not really a gambler, but I'll bet on the Super Bowl or some boxing. Something I feel comfortable with.
Birdman
#6. It is easy to see the faults of others, but difficult to see one's own faults. One shows the faults of others like chaff winnowed in the wind, but one conceals one's own faults as a cunning gambler conceals his dice.5
Jonathan Haidt
#7. My father was an insurance man and a small-time gambler. He was a good man, but he had an eye for the racehorses, and I saw how it used to bother my mother. I've never gambled a dime. Never, in all those years in Vegas.
Don Rickles
#8. THE GAMBLER,THE NUN & THE RADIO
I do not follow you.
Many times I do not follow myself with pleasure.
Ernest Hemingway,
#9. They always lost but he didn't blame me because to a gambler, a bad tip is better than no tip at all.
Phil Silvers
#10. He hesitated till the last moment, but finally dropped them in the box, saying, "I shall win!"
the cry of a gambler, the cry of the great general, the compulsive cry that has ruined more men than it has ever saved.
Honore De Balzac
#11. I don't play. I'm a terrible gambler. I don't know half the rules, and I'm not really patient enough to sit through hours of gaming.
Pansy Ho
#12. THE GAMBLER,THE NUN & THE RADIO
Yes, and music is the opium of the people.
Ernest Hemingway,
#13. The Doc Holliday of legend is a gambler and gunman who appears out of nowhere in 1881, arriving in Tombstone with a bad reputation and a hooker named Big Nose Kate.
Mary Doria Russell
#14. I'm not a crazy Vegas guy. I'm not a gambler.
Steve Carell
#15. What if history was a gambler, instead of a force in a laboratory experiment, and the boys his ace in the hole? What if history was not a reasonable citizen, but a madman full of paranoid guile and these boys his agents, his big surprise! His own revenge?
Ralph Ellison
#16. No professional Wall Street tipster or plausible promoter can turn a sane person into a stock gambler as easily as his next-door neighbor bragging about his winnings. If all men profited by experience, the world would be peopled exclusively by the wise....
Kenneth L. Fisher
#18. Faith is not contrary to the usual ideas, something that turns out to be right or wrong, like a gambler's bet.
Joanna Russ
#19. a decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler's throw,
Peter F. Drucker
#20. A voracious gambler does not gamble until he wins, but until he loses everything, and a smart one knows when to quit.
M. T. Panchal
#21. He loves her like a gambler loves a fast racehorse or a desperate man loves whiskey. That kind of love eats a man up.
Dorothy Allison
#22. I'm urging NASA to foster the development of what I call 'runway landers.' No, that's not the name of a high stakes gambler from Vegas. It's a type of spacecraft that flies to orbit like the retiring Shuttles but then glides to a landing like an airplane on a runway. Just like the Shuttles do.
Buzz Aldrin
#24. I was, in life, to be a gambler, a risk taker, a swashbuckler, a knight. I accepted, then and there, my place in this world. I was a fighter of windmills. I was a chaser of whales.
Percival Everett
#25. THE GAMBLER,THE NUN & THE RADIO
I never carry a gun. With my luck, if i carried a gun I would be hanged ten times a year.
Ernest Hemingway,
#26. You're a liar!"
He turned around, his black eyes snapping. "I'm also a thief, a gambler, a cheat, and a murdered. But this happens to be one of the rare times when I'm telling the truth. Go home. Consider yourself lucky. You've got a chance to start fresh. Not everyone can say the same.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#27. From the earliest days, videogame players were less interested in winning than in going to a new psychic place where things were always a bit different, but always the same. The gambler and the videogame player share a life of contradiction; you are overwhelmed, and so you disappear into the game.
Sherry Turkle
#28. My father was a gambler. My father could not resist a casino or a card game. He loved gambling.
Samuel Goldwyn Jr.
#29. I used to be a heavy gambler. But now I just make mental bets. That's how I lost my mind.
Steve Allen
#31. I'm not a gambler, let's just say that, nor have I ever been a dealer at a casino.
Anna Gunn
#32. The reference point argument is as follows: do not compute odds from the vantage point of the winning gambler (or the lucky Casanova, or the endlessly bouncing back New York City, or the invincible Carthage), but from all those who started in the cohort. Consider
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#33. I don't care what a man is as long as he treats me right. He can be a gambler, a hustler, someone everybody else thinks is obnoxious, I don't care so long as he's straight with me and our dealings are fair.
Joe Namath
#34. I wouldn't see myself as a gambler.
Sean Quinn
#35. THE GAMBLER,THE NUN,& THE RADIO
It is necessary to be very strong against something
Ernest Hemingway,
#36. THE GAMBLER,THE NUN,& THE RADIO
Everything is mucho simpler in a hospital, including jokes
Ernest Hemingway,
#37. THE GAMBLER,THE NUN,& THE RADIO
You like music? How would I not
Ernest Hemingway,
#38. Good morrow, High Lord Weiramon, and all you other High Lords and Ladies. I'm a gambler, a farmboy, and I'm here to take command of your bloody army! The bloody lord Dragon Reborn will be with us as soon as he flaming takes care of one bloody little matter!
Robert Jordan
#39. There's a touch of the gambler in anybody really competitive and somebody that's willing to concede that to succeed, sometimes you need to cut corners and to make bold choices.
Josh Charles
#40. 'Short Term 12' was such a marathon. It's like trying to convey the same emotional depth as 'The Gambler' but with less time and a fingernail's worth of the budget.
Brie Larson
#41. One thing I have learned in my painful career as a gambler is that bragging when you get lucky and win a few games will plunge you into gloom and unacceptable beatings very soon. It happens every time.
Hunter S. Thompson
#42. It was a gambler's action, but his whole life had probably been made up of gambles; it could hardly be otherwise in the outback.
Nevil Shute
#43. It's like the Negro in America seeing the white man win all the time.
He's a professional gambler; he has all the cards and the odds stacked on his side, and he has always dealt to our people from the bottom of the deck.
Malcolm X
#44. You have no finesse," a gambler at the Silver Garter once said to him. "No technique."
"Sure I do," Kaz had responded. "I practice the art of 'pull his shirt over his head and punch till you see blood.
Leigh Bardugo
#45. This poor gambler isn't even a noun. He is kind of an adverb.
Stephen Crane
#46. THE GAMBLER,THE NUN,& THE RADIO
I am a poor idealist. I am a victim of illusions. He laughed.
Ernest Hemingway,
#47. Speculative joy, the joy derived from being right and being rewarded, may well be similar to the rush felt by a winning gambler.
Michael Steinhardt
#48. Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady's window.
Honore De Balzac
#49. Your dad wasn't just a lousy gambler. He was a disloyal sneak who spied on my grandpa at the bakery. - Sara Jane
T.M. Goeglein
#50. THE GAMBLER,THE NUN,& THE RADIO
Tonight, sent by the police, they come to serenade me.He laughed, then tapped his stomach.-I cannot laugh yet. As musicians they are fatal
Ernest Hemingway,
#51. Yashvin, a gambler and a rake, a man not merely without moral principles, but of immoral principles, Yashvin was Vronsky's greatest friend in the regiment.
Leo Tolstoy
#52. I will never be in the stock market. It's just gambling. I'm a gambler, but I'll gamble on the practicality of things.
Jeremy Renner
#53. If I gamble, I'll play roulette. My wife and I will play roulette, and that's about it. I'm not a heavy gambler.
Tracy Morgan
#54. You see, John, unless you reduce your needs, you will never be fulfilled. You will always be like that gambler in Las Vegas, staying at the roulette wheel for 'just one more spin' in the hope that your lucky number will come up. You will always want more than you have. How can you ever be happy?
Robin S. Sharma
#55. There is no fool like a careless gambler who starts taking victory for granted.
Hunter S. Thompson
#56. You want something you can't have, Gurgeh. You enjoy your life in the Culture, but it can't provide you with sufficient threats; the true gambler needs the excitement of potential loss, even ruin, to feel wholly alive.
Anonymous
#57. I'm a gambler, a farmboy, and I'm here to take command of your bloody army!
Mat Cauthon
Robert Jordan
#58. He was a degenerate gambler. That is, a man who gambled simply to gamble and must lose. As a hero who goes to war must die. Show me a gambler and I'll show you a loser, show me a hero and I'll show you a corpse.
Mario Puzo
#59. THE GAMBLER,THE NUN & THE RADIO
If I live long enough the luck will change.
Ernest Hemingway,
#60. A gambler, a convict, a wayward son, a lost Grisha, a Suli girl who had become a killer, a boy from the Barrel who had become something worse.
Leigh Bardugo
#61. If you gamble long enough, you'll always lose
the gambler is always ruined.
Michael Crichton
#62. there is nothing so bad as a reformed anything, be it gambler, drunkard, or lecher. They are aye harder on folks wi' their vices than someone without them would be." Sir
Marion Chesney
#63. THE GAMBLER,THE NUN & THE RADIO
Do you have bad luck with all games?
With everything and with women. He smiled again, showng his bad teeth.
Truly? -Truly
And what is there to do?
-Continue, slowly, and wait for luck to change.
Ernest Hemingway,
#64. Her own mother had died when Anna was twelve and since then father and daughter had faced the world like a pair of nineteenth-century adventurers, a riverboat gambler, say, and his alibi girl.
John Banville
#65. Understand why casinos and racetracks stay in business - the gambler always loses over the long term.
Marilyn Vos Savant
#66. I am a gambler. I decided to go in with Company E in the first wave.
Robert Capa
#67. And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble.
Douglas Sirk
#68. The problem is that to be a producer, one must be a gambler, and the greatest French producers were gamblers.
Marcel Carne
#69. If I had known what it meant to love, I wouldn't have had children, because once we love, we love forever, like Uncle Two's wife, Step-aunt Two, who can't stop loving her gambler son, the son who is burning up the family fortune like a pyromaniac.
Kim Thuy
#70. 'The Gambler' by Dostoevsky. It was the first time I realised that it was possible to have good and evil in one person. It led me to read a lot of Russian literature.
Sue Townsend
#71. THE GAMBLER,THE NUN & THE RADIO
He was thinking well, a little too well
Ernest Hemingway,
#72. But I am, personally, not a gambler. I wouldn't spend £1 on the lottery, let alone take a punt on a pregnancy. The stakes are far, far too high. I can't agree with a society that would force me to bet on how much I could love under duress.
Caitlin Moran
#73. Harvard Medical School, the University of South Florida and the American Psychiatric Association have all conducted studies showing that the earlier one begins gambling, the more likely it is he or she will become an addicted, problem gambler.
Spencer Bachus
#74. I have explained many times that I am, by Profession, a Gambler
not some jock-sniffing nerd or a hired human squawk-box with the brain of a one-cell animal. No. That would be your average career sportswriter
and, more specifically, a full-time Baseball writer.
Hunter S. Thompson
#75. Gambler, a convict, a wayward son, a lost Grisha, a Suli girl who had become a killer, a boy from the Barrel who had become something worse. Inej
Leigh Bardugo
#76. He did not smile. I don't believe in anything, but I'm too much of a gambler not to be affected by a lot of things.
Dashiell Hammett
#77. Fort McNamara stood in the Arkansas River Valley near the Indian Territory border, its citizens declaring it to be the last white civilization for hundreds of miles. But civilization was an ironic choice of words for the place as far as Kit was concerned.
Sandra Jones
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