The House Always Wins Quotes

#1. She wished Michael had had a grandfather like this guy Morty, someone to tell him, "It's a rotten deal, the house always wins. Just sit at the table and play for all you're worth." Instead of one who showed him how to die.

Janet Fitch

#2. It's a rotten deal, the house always wins. Just sit at the table and play for all you're worth.

Janet Fitch

#3. If you are playing the rigged game of investing, the house always wins.

Robert Rolih

#4. Arguing with your wife is like gambling in Vegas. You know how in Vegas the House always wins? Well, when you argue with your wife, she is the House.

Bob Marsocci

#5. Love's a game where the odds are permanently fixed. The house always wins, and anyone stupid enough to sit at the table is lucky if they walk away with their soul intact.

Kathleen Peacock

#6. This was the beginning of a lifelong obsession with foreign languages.

John McWhorter

#7. I started playing piano with a little band in high school. I was terrible. I thought I had absolutely no talent. I couldn't keep time. I only got into McGill, which was a lousy music school, because they were taking American music students.

Burt Bacharach

#8. She was so young how could she understand ... Exactly how young was she Matthew's mouth went dry.
"Dearest how old are you "
"Almost twenty."
Damnation. He was a bloody cradle robber.

Lydia Dare

#9. In older science fiction stories, they had to rely on storytelling as opposed to spectacle. The old run of the 'Twilight Zone,' the star was the writing and the storytelling, and the characters and the twists and the cleverness in the setup and payoff and execution.

Josh Trank

#10. The other kids sometimes teased Charlie for being a redheaded Jew,

Garth Risk Hallberg

#11. Sometimes love is calm and easy and sometimes it's just plain dirty.

Jake Gyllenhaal

#12. Genghises. Large, angry Genghises.

S.J. Kincaid

#13. And after all, it wasn't her fault that she was an idiot and had two ridiculous children. Life isn't fair and never has been.

Eva Ibbotson

#14. Nature: it might be the magical key to unlock a locked imagination.

Kami Guildner

#15. Our best protection against bigger government in Washington is better government in the states.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#16. My job as an actor, and the part of my job that I love is the transforming-and-becoming aspect of it, and so it doesn't become about me anymore.

Charlize Theron

#17. Certainty always produces questions, uncertainty statements. It is a balancing law of nature.

Djuna Barnes

#18. We must try to contribute joy to the world.

Roger Ebert