Quotes About Roulette

#1. I like playing roulette, I like dice. I grew up with gamblers.

Chazz Palminteri

#2. The roulette table pays nobody except him that keeps it. Nevertheless a passion for gaming is common, though a passion for keeping roulette tables is unknown.

George Bernard Shaw

#3. Bob exploded. 'There is no such thing as a casual conversation with my mother. Every single word will be twisted recognition until before you know it you're playing Russian roulette in a wind tunnel with a psychotic dwarf, having wagered your birthright for a piece of cheese ...

Meg Rosoff

#4. We are playing Russian roulette with features of the planet's atmosphere that will profoundly impact generations to come. How long are we willing to gamble?

David Suzuki

#5. My mind spun like the flywheel on an antique John Deere, merry-go-round during second-grade recess, hard spun roulette wheel.

Dennis Vickers

#6. Russian Roulette, killer in all black.

Jasmine Sandozz

#7. My life experience has taught me nothing happens by chance. Even the idea of the ball in a roulette game: it's not chance it ends up in a certain place. It's forces that are at play.

Andrea Bocelli

#8. To believe in luck, you must believe that the universe is a roulette wheel and that instead of paying out to us what we have earned, it pays out only what it wishes. But it is not a spinning wheel of chance, it is a work of art, complete and framed by eternity.

Dean Koontz

#9. Television is a big roulette table on so many levels. That's all it is for actors.

Gary Cole

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

Michael Ventura

#11. You play crotch roulette, you're gonna hit double zero once in a while.

Tucker Max

#12. A certain wise man once said that God didn't play dice with the universe, but that man was wrong. Sometimes I think He must even try Russian roulette.

Daina Chaviano

#13. The diet book is one of those fool-and-money separation devices that seems, like roulette or slot machines, never to lose its power.

Christopher Hitchens

#14. Oh, I collect facts and quotes when I can't write, and I can't write most of the time. I do a little chance operation sometimes where I flip through outdated reference books to see if anything will strike me as beautiful or momentous. Library roulette, I call it.

Jenny Offill

#15. The Asia-Pacific Partnership is a climate suicide pact. It is playing Russian roulette with six bullets in your gun.

Joseph J. Romm

#16. Barrel of the gun, rounds one two three
She says I have to pick: choose you, or choose me
Metal to the temple, the explosion is deafening
Lick the blood that covers me
She's the last one standing
"Roulette"
Collateral Damage, Track 11

Gayle Forman

#17. Comedian Red Skelton once defined Congress as "bingo with billions." These days, it's more like Russian roulette.

Lauren M. Bloom

#18. Because golf exposes the flaws of the human swing - a basically simple maneuver - it causes more self-torture than any game short of Russian roulette.

Grantland Rice

#19. The Quito telephone service is about as reliable as roulette.

Christopher Isherwood

#20. But we were playing Russian roulette with my ovaries and eventually my ovaries were going to succumb to the bullet.

Kristen Ashley

#21. I think as far as I've been able to understand from my friends that I went to college with and things like that is that it almost seems like Russian Roulette when you're coming out of the closet to your parents.

Jason Ritter

#22. The Columbia accident made us realize that we had been playing Russian roulette with the shuttle crews
that we had been very, very fortunate in the past that the foam did not cause critical damage.

Wayne Hale

#23. Heck, who needs things like skydiving and rock climbing for your adreline kick, if you can get it from playing Russian roulette with open windows?

Traveller

#24. The Kremlin is constantly changing the rules of the game to suit its purposes. We are not playing chess, we're playing roulette.

Garry Kasparov

#25. Condoms are about as effective against AIDS as a twenty-four-chamber gun instead of a six-chamber gun when playing Russian roulette.

Peter Kreeft

#26. Sure, my uncle killed himself playing Russian Roulette. But I choose to remember him as a great Russian Roulette player.

Anthony Jeselnik

#27. I've been giving a little gamble on the roulette and just sitting having a coffee with the fans, chatting away.

Ricky Hatton

#28. When you're mortal, life is nothing more than a drawn-out game of Russian Roulette. Every moment is the spin of a gun cylinder, every decision pointing the barrel at your head. Over and over, again and again, you pull the trigger, hoping it won't be your last turn in the game.

J.M. Darhower

#29. He read as others pray, as gamblers follow the spinning of the roulette wheel, as drunkards stare into vacancy; he read with such profound absorption that ever since I first watched him the reading of ordinary mortals seemed a pastime.

Stefan Zweig

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

Albert Einstein

#31. When you vote, you play Russian Roulette with a magazine fed pistol.

Tom Wallace

#32. Let's play Russian roulette. If you win, I give you a Colombian necktie.

Natalya Vorobyova

#33. He is like some sherry-crazed old dowager who has lost the family silver at roulette, and who now decides to double up by betting the house as well.

Boris Johnson

#34. Wall Street wants to keep its schemes too complicated to understand so that the roulette wheel can keep turning.

Maria Cantwell

#35. She was a woman attempting to make some sense of, and get some satisfaction from, a life that seemed to have no more logic than a roulette wheel.

Vincent Canby

#36. I'm glad I don't have a lot of money in the market. And quite frankly, you'd be better off giving your money to a colorblind roulette addict than put it in the stock market.

Dennis Miller

#37. His life was forever a chess game played on a roulette wheel. He'd had to take precise, informed, ball-dropping gambles to get where he'd been.

Debra Anastasia

#38. as any roulette player can tell you, past performance has no bearing on future random outcome. So

Tim Dorsey

#39. I never make conscious decisions. If my agent says to me, "It's a good script," I'll do it. I don't plan. I've got a lot of things to do. I'm at the roulette table and my luck seems to be running at the moment. I might as well stay there until it runs out.

Anthony Hopkins

#40. you is akin to playing Russian roulette: both hobbies have a high chance of ending in a fatality." She

A.W. Exley

#41. When the boys at school found out I had a potentially fatal peanut allergy, they used to hold me up against a wall and play Russian Roulette with a bag of Revels!

Milton Jones

#42. Screen is satisfying because it's so technical and mysterious. It's like playing roulette: you get a script, you think it's either great or naff, but you have no idea how it will really turn out. On stage, you are your own editor - and you get brief moments of grace, where suddenly you feel free.

Toby Stephens

#43. Now if you'll excuse me, gentlemen, I need to play Russian roulette with our planet's future with the bullet you've so thoughtfully provided. I hope you don't mind if I don't see you out.

John Scalzi

#44. Pondering is a little like considering and a little like thinking, but looser. To ponder, one must let the facts roll around the rim of the mind's roulette wheel, coming to settle in whichever slot they feed pulled to.

Christopher Moore

#45. Dostoyevsky crucified on the roulette wheel with
Christ on his mind

Charles Bukowski

#46. He said, "You are the russian roulette of my casino."
..and I shot him dead, then and there with my russian roulette.. I am the Goddess of Russian Mafia..

Himmilicious

#47. I read somewhere that it's called American roulette. It was invented in America, in the goldfields. You put a single shot in the cylinder, give it a twirl, and then - bang! If you're lucky you break the bank; if not, then it's good-bye

Boris Akunin

#48. Your email inbox is a bit like a Las Vegas roulette machine. You know, you just check it and check it, and every once in a while there's some juicy little tidbit of reward, like the three quarters that pop down on a one-armed bandit. And that keeps you coming back for more.

Douglas Rushkoff

#49. Hollywood is a roulette wheel. Each project dictates what's going to happen for you next, and it doesn't really matter that your project is critically acclaimed or won awards or has fans worldwide. It's a matter of how many movie tickets and DVDs and on-demand movies that you sell.

Adam Green

#50. I don't do romance, in the same way I don't do heroin Russian roulette, or nude alligator wrestling. I consider all of the above self-destructive, and demeaning and these are things up with which I will not put.

D.D. Barant

#51. It's amazing how people define roles for themselves and put handcuffs on their experience and are constantly surprised by the things a roulette universe spins at them.

Terry Pratchett

#52. Russian Roulette is not the same without a gun

Lady Gaga

#53. Awe! Leaving so soon?" Gabby said sweetly, holding the door open. "I was just about to pull out the gun for you to play single-player Russian Roulette.

Laura Kreitzer

#54. His eldest sister (who modestly prefers to be identified here as a Tuckahoe homemaker) has asked me to describe him as looking like 'the blue-eyed Jewish-Irish Mohican scout who died in your arms at the roulette table at Monte Carlo.

J.D. Salinger

#55. Stop tryin to be loud as me, cause you can't do that,
Think about it ... playing Russian roulette with an automatic!

Fredro Starr

#56. 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

#57. 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

#58. Musical chairs or Russian roulette? Sometimes there's as much tense drama in the casting of a Hollywood movie as there is in the finished product.

Richard Corliss

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

Steven Wright

#60. I have a nut allergy. When I was at school the other children used to make me play Russian roulette but force-feeding me a packet of Revels.

Milton Jones

#61. The real first kiss is the one that tells you what it feels like to be an adult and doesn't let you be a child anymore. The first kiss is the one that you suffer the consequences of. It was as if I had been playing Russian roulette and finally got the cylinder with the bullet in it.

Heather O'Neill

#62. Many of them have insanely weird clothes, as if they've been playing outfit roulette with someone who can't read washing instruction tags.

Fredrik Backman

#63. The independents who were our fiercest competitors all succumbed to the one-hit-makes-you-a-genius philosophy. It is a mistake to think you have the magic touch. Show business is roulette. If you start to play for stakes you can't afford, there's no way you can survive.

Samuel Goldwyn

#64. I'm the type of guy where one thing leads to another and eventually it gets awful. If I put a $5 bet on a roulette table tonight at 10 o'clock, by tomorrow at noon I would be running guns to Cuba.

Artie Lange

#65. The record of a month's roulette playing at Monte Carlo can afford us material for discussing the foundations of knowledge.

Karl Pearson

#66. Loading new software into new computers and using it for the first time was like playing Russian roulette. It demanded and got a lot of respect.

Gene Kranz

#67. She's a russian roulette queen, gambling in love with her heart and life on the line

Jennifer Megan Varnadore

#68. I just do a random roulette wheel version of what I've recorded or sometimes tunes I haven't recorded. It's a collection of whatever happens, happens.

Leon Redbone

#69. As in roulette, same is true of the stock trader, who will find that the expense of trading weights the dice heavily against him.

Benjamin Graham

#70. This [climate change] is potentially so dangerous that we have to act strongly. Do we want to play Russian roulette with two bullets or one?

Nicholas Stern

#71. Horse racing is animated roulette.

Roger Kahn

#72. Is it dangerous? Hmm. Well, define 'dangerous.' Is a knife 'dangerous'? Is Russian roulette 'dangerous'? Is arsenic 'dangerous'? ... It really depends on your perspective.

China Mieville

#73. Albert Einstein said that the only way to win at roulette is to steal from the table while the croupier isn't looking.

Jonathan L. Howard

#74. Take out all but one bullet and it was Russian Roulette. In Mexican Roulette, as he'd heard it defined, you took out only one. In Drunk Mexican Roulette you didn't take out any.

James Carlos Blake

#75. She'd barely survived him the first time. Playing emotional roulette with him now was dangerous. Even if it felt damn good to be in his arms again.

Catherine Bybee

#76. This is like playing Russian roulette with a Luger rather than a revolver. One bullet, one chamber - and we're pulling the trigger.

Mark Lynas

#77. I just love bikes. It's not the safest passion to have, but I guess it's better than Russian roulette.

Ryan Reynolds

#78. The slot machines sit there like young courtesans, promising pleasures undreamed of, your deepest desires fulfilled, all lusts satiated.

Frank Scoblete