Slot Machine Quotes

#1. The only way I'll ever get hurt in the casino is if there's an earthquake and a slot machine falls on my foot.

Jack Benny

#2. I don't sleep much. I'm on the go. My mind is racing. My wife says my mind is like the rolling dials on a slot machine. So, yeah, I think about everything.

Bill Walton

#3. remember, there's no such thing as perfect anything. You make your own future out of the chaos life hands you. Life is a giant slot machine, and honey, God only gives you so many pulls.

Miranda Liasson

#4. Keke Rosberg is as calculating as a slot machine.

Louis Stanley

#5. They had puddled in the floorboards and they poured out onto the pavement like the jackpot from the Devil's slot machine, the bugs raining down with a sound like frying bacon.

David Wong

#6. God is not a slot machine. We don't go to God to get something; we go to give something.

Mother Angelica

#7. Every few seconds it changes - up an eighth, down an eighth - it's like playing a slot machine. I lose $20 million, I gain $20 million.

Ted Turner

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

Frank Scoblete

#9. The payoffs in showbiz seemed as random as a slot machine.

Kathie Lee Gifford

#10. Coming between a trader and his book is like coming between a blue-haired old lady and her lucky slot machine: You will be denying them their pursuit of happiness.

Katya G. Cohen

#11. I want to skip this part. I want to pull on the arm of my slot machine and let the rolls flip over until they show a green tree in the summertime, and me away from that house, walking tall under a blue sky.

Catherynne M Valente

#12. Suppose someone tried to write your biography. What nonsense! How much would he know? Would he know what you thought when you looked in the subway slot-machine? How brutally you spoke when you were angry? How Nature rode you with a busy spur? How you fell on your knees late at night?

Christopher Morley

#13. Some are able and humane men and some are low-grade individuals with the morals of a goat, the artistic integrity of a slot machine, and the manners of a floorwalker with delusions of grandeur.

Raymond Chandler

#14. I think that Vegas is one of the wildest places I've ever been to. You can look to your left and there's a drag queen getting married by Elvis, to the right there is some old bird sticking quarters into a slot machine for hours.

Marsha Thomason

#15. Los Angeles: city that was nothing but a slot machine dispensing plastic toys.

Marge Piercy

#16. You do not hate the time you waste; it evokes a much more passive emotion than that. You only wish you had it back, like a quarter in an unlucky slot machine.

Rick Bragg

#17. Possible outfits rolled in her head like a slot machine in Atlantic City.

Terri Gillespie

#18. It was like a broken slot machine in the casino that pays off every time. It would keep paying off until someone said something about it; but no one who played the slot machine had any interest in pointing out that it was broken.

Michael Lewis

#19. A bus came. I climbed aboard and sat on the plastic seat while the things of our city turned in the windows like the images in a slot machine.

Denis Johnson

#20. Grace does not work like a penny in a slot machine. Grace will move you only when you want it to move you, and only when you let it move you. The supernatural order supposes the freedom of the natural order, but it does not destroy it.

Fulton J. Sheen

#21. Life's not some slot machine in an arcade with a sign that flashes up saying 'I'm sorry, you have been killed. Would you like another go?' But we might get put through the same test each time, get faced with the same situations until we've learned how to cope.

Peter James

#22. Be guided by the axiom: There are no limits to the ability to contribute on the part of a properly selected, well-trained, appropriately supported, and, above all, committed person.

Tom Peters

#23. An almost seismic sense of expectation emanates from a college campus. That is the true elixir of youth: the grand, the glorious, the magnificent hopes and dreams because all things - all things - are yet possible.

Carolyn Hart

#24. I believe that people are holy because they're made in the image of God, and a place can be holy when God is present - but no place is so holy that it's worth shedding the blood of those who bear the image of God.

Jared Brock

#25. All the films I do, I write the scripts, I direct.

Ava DuVernay

#26. I started acting at the University of Michigan in my sophomore year.

David Alan Grier

#27. I believe that God totally, absolutely, intentionally gives us more than we can handle. Because this is when we surrender to Him and He takes over, proving Himself by doing the impossible in our lives.

Katie J. Davis

#28. I've been doing som jogging at home recently and every time I try the distance I end up beating his time with like three or four seconds.

Zach Braff

#29. Your heart is who you are, all else follows. Guard your heart, Thomas. Guard your heart.

Liam Perrin

#30. Never cosign a loan. Once you have cosigned, you cannot get out of it - even on your deathbed.

Suze Orman

#31. All I ever wanted to do was be on Broadway. I mean, remember, I grew up in a trailer.

Steve Kazee

#32. Learning to "find my place in the world" translates in the practical language of life as "finding my little slot in the big State machine.

Anna Sofia Botkin

#33. I like ordinary. People only wish for adventure until they're stuck in the middle of one. Haven't you ever seen The Fellowship of the Ring?

Kendare Blake

#34. Congress, 535 commoditized temple monkeys pawing through the ruins of America in search of bribes. The bicameral whorehouse on Capitol Hill works like a vending machine. You put coins in the slot, select your law, and the desired legislation slides out.

Fred Reed