The Gambler Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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,

#3. 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,

#4. 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

#5. THE GAMBLER,THE NUN,& THE RADIO

It is necessary to be very strong against something

Ernest Hemingway,

#6. THE GAMBLER,THE NUN,& THE RADIO

Everything is mucho simpler in a hospital, including jokes

Ernest Hemingway,

#7. THE GAMBLER,THE NUN,& THE RADIO

You like music? How would I not

Ernest Hemingway,

#8. THE GAMBLER,THE NUN,& THE RADIO

I thought the pain alone would kill me

Ernest Hemingway,

#9. THE GAMBLER,THE NUN & THE RADIO

I do not follow you.
Many times I do not follow myself with pleasure.

Ernest Hemingway,

#10. THE GAMBLER,THE NUN & THE RADIO

Yes, and music is the opium of the people.

Ernest Hemingway,

#11. If you gamble long enough, you'll always lose
the gambler is always ruined.

Michael Crichton

#12. 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,

#13. Understand why casinos and racetracks stay in business - the gambler always loses over the long term.

Marilyn Vos Savant

#14. '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

#15. THE GAMBLER,THE NUN & THE RADIO

He was thinking well, a little too well

Ernest Hemingway,

#16. '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

#17. THE GAMBLER,THE NUN,& THE RADIO
I am a poor idealist. I am a victim of illusions. He laughed.

Ernest Hemingway,

#18. THE GAMBLER,THE NUN & THE RADIO

If I live long enough the luck will change.

Ernest Hemingway,

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. Faith is not contrary to the usual ideas, something that turns out to be right or wrong, like a gambler's bet.

Joanna Russ

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. I'm not really a gambler, but I'll bet on the Super Bowl or some boxing. Something I feel comfortable with.

Birdman

#31. 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

#32. 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

#33. 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

#34. 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

#35. 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

#36. 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

#37. 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

#38. 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

#39. 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

#40. 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

#41. 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

#42. 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

#43. 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

#44. 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

#45. 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

#46. 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

#47. 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

#48. 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

#49. 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

#50. 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

#51. The problem is that to be a producer, one must be a gambler, and the greatest French producers were gamblers.

Marcel Carne

#52. I am a gambler. I decided to go in with Company E in the first wave.

Robert Capa