Famous Quotes & Sayings

Randy Carter

He kept gambling even though he didn't need to. But he got that one.

Wilson Mizner

Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing for something.

Lindy Ruff

It's part of our culture, and not necessarily hockey. There's nothing wrong with legal gambling . . . as long as it doesn't become a disease.

Edward de Bono

The solid wealth of insurance companies and the success of those who organsie gambling are some indication of the profits to be derived from the efficient use of chance.

Charles Caleb Colton

Gaming has been resorted to by the affluent as a refuge from ennui. It is a mental dram, and may succeed for a moment; but, like all other stimuli, it produces indirect debility.

Charles Lamb

A clear fire, a clean hearth, and the rigour of the game.

Charles Baudelaire

I have to confess that I had gambled on my soul and lost it with heroic insouciance and lightness of touch. The soul is so impalpable, so often useless, and sometimes such a nuisance, that I felt no more emotion on losing it than if, on a stroll, I had mislaid my visiting card.

Barry McCaffrey

Young people may think that they are only experimenting, but, as this study shows, they are really gambling with their futures,

Baltasar Gracian

Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do.

Sarah Vowell

Presidents and presidential assassins are like Las Vegas and Salt Lake City. Even though one city is all about sin and the other is all about salvation, they are identical, one-dimensional company towns built up by the sheer will of true believers.

Jon Porter

With everything it has to offer, Las Vegas is an obvious destination for tourists, as proven by the over 40 million visitors the city welcomes per year.

Johnny Vegas

With stand-up you've just got that one chance. Audiences can be quite fickle.

Adam Sandler

I shouldn't be near Vegas and have money in my pocket.

Drew Barrymore

I love roller coasters that make my stomach drop. One ride in Las Vegas, the Big Shot, straps you into a row of seats and catapults you into the air from the top of the Stratosphere Tower - then plummets back down. I ride it over and over; it's exhilarating.

Tony Curtis

I like Vegas for its spontaneity.

Tony Curtis

If you know how to live in Vegas you can have the best time.

Solomon Burke

I was signed to MGM. I was in Vegas for sixteen weeks at the Sands Hotel.

Todd Phillips

Bangkok, like Las Vegas, sounds like a place where you make bad decisions.

John Bryan

I'm really disappointed. I like the idea of voting for the person, not the party.

Alan Keyes

I know who I'm voting for, and I'm not disclosing that.

Neal Boortz

Free speech is meant to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech, by definition, needs no protection.

Jacob Zuma

The results will be very good.

Jacob Zuma

Something has gone wrong with Ronnie... He wasn't like that before. I don't know what went wrong with him.

Noam Chomsky

If voting could actually change anything, it would be illegal.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

I am of the opinion which you have always held, that "viva voce" voting at elections is the best method. [Lat., Nam ego in ista sum sententia, qua te fuisse semper scio, nihil ut feurit in suffragiis voce melius.]

Avi Rubin

It's the concept of having a computer voting machine that bothers me, more so than the specific poor implementation that we have from Diebold.

Paul Weyrich

They want everybody to vote. I don't want everybody to vote. . . . As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down.