Quotes by Gambling When I talk about drugs and alcohol, I'm talking about sex addiction, gambling addiction, eating addiction, throwing-up addiction. I'm not talking about mental illness. Abel Ferrara gambling talking sex Suspense is torture ... but delightful--or there'd be no gambling in the world. Ada Leverson suspense gambling world Defeat in itself was part and parcel of the great gambling game of politics. A man who could not accept it and try again was not of the stuff of which leaders are made. Agnes Sligh Turnbull gambling women leadership Gambling in the mark has been the great indoor sport of the capitalists for months, and consequently food has increased by 25 to 100 per cent. Agnes Smedley squash gambling sports With Jane Birkin, we had a scene from a film called Jane B. by Agnès V. - a portrait I made in '87. We had a casino scene, surrealistic, in which we had some naked people gambling. Jane Birkin was the card dealer and I was the player. I had beautiful jewelery around me, and when I lost I would take the jewelery and say, Service - being very generous, because it was very expensive jewelery. I would say, Tip. Agnes Varda gambling player beautiful Hold'em is a game of calculated aggression. If your cards are good enough for you to call a bet, they are good enough to raise with. Al Alvarez gambling games cards The point is that it looks like gambling because the language of the game is money. Al Alvarez gambling games looks In short, they were gambling on their luck, and luck is not to be coerced. Albert Camus gambling luck You cannot beat a roulette table unless you steal money from it. Albert Einstein roulette gambling tables God does not play dice [with the universe]. Albert Einstein gambling god play If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being? Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn gambling action forever I don't gamble, because winning a hundred dollars doesn't give me great pleasure. But losing a hundred dollars pisses me off. Alex Trebek sunset gambling winning I just like movies that somehow expose the world in a way that's different than you imagine it. Alex Winter gambling movie different A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it. Alfred Hitchcock gambling movie art A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake. Alfred Hitchcock gambling cake movie As words are not the things we speak about, and structure is the only link between them, structure becomes the only content of knowledge. If we gamble on verbal structures that have no observable empirical structures, such gambling can never give us any structural information about the world. Therefore such verbal structures are structurally obsolete, and if we believe in them, they induce delusions or other semantic disturbances. Alfred Korzybski gambling faith believe And it´s so different for a lot of people I´ve known. One partner doesn´t love the other enough to stop drinking, or gambling, or running around with other women. One is the giver and one is the taker. The giver wishes the taker would stop. Alma Katsu gambling drinking running I never go looking for a sucker. I look for a Champion and make a sucker of of him. Amarillo Slim champion gambling looks If you are going to bluff, make it a big one. Amarillo Slim gambling conflict competition Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table. Ambrose Bierce gambling player men 1234567891011»