Quotes About Blackjack

#1. I like blackjack. I like the psychology of poker.

Joshua Bell

#2. Then something occurred to me.
"Get closer," I told Blackjack.
He whinnied in protest.
"Just within shouting distance," I said. "I need to talk to the statue."
Now I'm sure you've lost it, boss, Blackjack said

Rick Riordan

#3. Blackjack is very scientific. There's always a right answer and a wrong answer. Do you take a card, increase your bet, bet big or bet small. There's absolutely a right and wrong answer.

Charlie Ergen

#4. God alert!" Blackjack yelled. "It's the wine dude!
Mr. D sighed in exasperation. "The next person, or horse, who calls me the 'wine dude' will end up in a bottle of Merlot!

Rick Riordan

#5. Percy: "Hey, why do pegasi gallop as they fly, anyway?"
Blackjack: "Why do humans swing their arms as they walk? I dunno, boss. It just feels right.

Rick Riordan

#6. Some kids are always getting into trouble or doing stuff, and I stay away from those types. I know I am no better than anyone else in this world. I'm just an actor, that's nothing special. But I'm not into anything bad. Just blackjack.

Frankie Muniz

#7. I tried explaining to Blackjack that taking a flying horse to a donut shop would give every cop in there a heart attack, but he didn't seem to get it.

Rick Riordan

#8. Good luck, boss. Don't let'em turn you into horse meat! (Blackjack)

Rick Riordan

#9. Blackjack wheezed and shuddered - still alive, but badly wounded. Her

Rick Riordan

#10. Every day is precious. And like is too damned short!"
Ren hadn't forgotten the heart attack that had nearly killed Blackjack two years before. "Are you all right?" she asked, laying her hand on his heart.
"My heart will be fine. So long as you don't break it.

Joan Johnston

#11. If I gamble, I go for the lowest-end blackjack or slots. It's because I don't like to lose!

Bill Rancic

#12. Betting on the success of innovative technologies in the marketplace can carry all the uncertainty and risk that betting on the next card in the deck does at a blackjack table in Las Vegas. There is a factor of randomness that must be factored in, but precisely how to do so is anyone's guess.

Henry Petroski

#13. Stay alert!" I told Blackjack. "I've got an idea." Oh, I hate your ideas.

Rick Riordan

#14. I hope you know that television and computers are no more your friends, and no more increasers of your brainpower, than slot machines. All they want is for you to sit still and buy all kinds of junk, and play the stock market as though it were a game of blackjack.

Kurt Vonnegut

#15. I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling. I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.

Mitch Hedberg

#16. Then a shadow swooped under me, and thump - I was on Blackjack's back. It wasn't the most comfortable landing. In fact, when I yelled "OW!" my voice was an octave higher than usual.

Rick Riordan

#17. Hey, boss, said Blackjack. Can we take a donut break? I wiped the sweat off my brow. "I wish, big guy, but the fight's still going on." In fact, I could hear it getting closer. My friends needed help. I jumped on Blackjack and we flew north toward the sound of explosions. FIFTEEN

Rick Riordan

#18. Fascinating," he said. "Such maneuverability! How does the wingspan compensate for the weight of the horse's body, I wonder?"
Blackjack cocked his head. Whaaaat?

Rick Riordan

#19. Nico sheathed his black sword. 'You sure about this, Reyna? I don't like leaving you alone.'
Blackjack whinnied and licked the side of Nico's face.
'Gah! Okay, I'm sorry.' Nico wiped off the horse spit. 'Reyna's not alone. She's got a herd of excellent pegasi.

Rick Riordan

#20. Blackjack made a grumbling sound. Reyna could've sworn he tried to say doughnuts. She must have been going delirious.

Rick Riordan

#21. If Mother Theresa went to Atlantic City, I don't think she'd start playing Blackjack.

Michael Shannon

#22. Get closer," I told Blackjack. "I need to talk to the statue."
Now I'm sure you've lost it, boss, he muttered, but he flew as close as he could, dodging the flying statue.

Rick Riordan

#23. At night when I can't sleep, I play blackjack online until I get tired or I lose my money.

Nicky Hilton

#24. It's hard to walk away from a winning streak, even harder to leave the table when you're on a losing one.

Cara Bertoia

#25. Jorgen!" Mathis strode up to Jorgen's side. "I hope you are not going to dance with this lovely swan all night." "I had hoped I would." Jorgen winked at her. Odette smiled at him.

Melanie Dickerson

#26. All it takes is for people to believe and I am no longer just an artefact put together by clever engineers. I am an idea, a something made of nothing, whose time has come to be. Some may even call me Goddess

Terry Pratchett

#27. An iron lung looks like an enormous metal coffin or a 19th-century rocket ship: only its occupant's head is left outside, a tight seal around the neck.

Elizabeth McCracken

#28. There is beauty everywhere; even in the dark, there is light, and that is the rarest kind of all.

Catherine Doyle

#29. Why can I write 'South' with some assurance that you'll know I mean Richmond and don't mean Phoenix? What is it that the South's boundaries enclose?

John Shelton Reed

#30. Very seldom do we receive any support for trusting ourselves, listening to our own sense of inner truth, and expressing ourselves in a direct and honest way.

Shakti Gawain

#31. The others were a little surprised when Piper came back on a pegasus with two unconscious demigods.

Rick Riordan

#32. Nothing is more characteristically juvenile than contempt for juvenility ... youth's characteristic chronological snobbery.

C.S. Lewis

#33. Coincidence doesn't happen a third time.

Osamu Tezuka

#34. There's only so long you can feel sorry for a person before you come to feel that their affliction is an act of malice committed by them against you.

Margaret Atwood