Crapshoot Quotes & Sayings

In television you go in with this operating system that it is a crapshoot. — David Ogden Stiers

It ain't a crapshoot unless you write crap. — Jonathan O'Brien

His looks were the result of a genetic crapshoot. — Suzanne Brockmann

I think you should have a mindset of getting to the playoffs, because once you get in the playoffs, it is kind of a crapshoot. — Orel Hershiser

Being born into the world is the greatest crapshoot there is. — Katie McGarry

Every TV show is a crapshoot, really. But every once in a while, a show gets anointed as 'the show.' — Simon Baker

In real life, good people die all the time and a**holes can live long and happy lives. It's a crapshoot. — Bentley Little

The question is, when so many others cut corners, shave the truth, self-deal, believe in the fast buck, and follow the crowd along the low road of least resistance, can we even afford to travel the high road of ethical behavior? Frankly, we can't afford anything else. Any other competitive angle is a pure crapshoot in today's business world. Companies with shaky ethics and shabby standards will be crippled as they try to compete in our changing world. — Price Pritchett

Jesus loves sinners. He only loves sinners. He has never turned anyone away who came to Him for forgiveness, and He died on the cross for sinners, not for respectable people. — Corrie Ten Boom

No matter how noble and special people want to make the playoffs out to be ... it's a crapshoot. — Orel Hershiser

We shall not always plant while others reap — Countee Cullen

The girl with a moustache" they called me every now and then
"It's about time you wax your arms" those who "cared" said
I faced the fears of the dreaded thread on my face
To succumb every other week to the world's ways — Sanhita Baruah

I'm not as cool as you think I think I might be, and the most important things in my life are God, love and peace. Everything else is b.s. And art's kind of important, too. — Corey Feldman

Reading, as it turned out, is the easy part. Finding a good book is the real challenge. It's a crapshoot. It's like trying to pick stocks or find an intelligent politician. — Doug Robinson

Power has not corrupted me. I have not become jaded. I wake up every day well aware of my good fortune, loving the work I do, loving my life, realizing that life is a crapshoot and I'm on a roll second to none. — Hugh Hefner

You don't ever know with films. You just hope for the best, but sometimes it's a bit of a crapshoot. — Famke Janssen

Life's a crapshoot, Sam. At least you filled the cheap seats. — Robert Bruce Cormack

In my unpleasant experience, unarmed against a knife, you've basically got four options. Your best bet is to run like hell, if you can. Next best is to do something immediately that prevents the attack from getting started. Third is to create distance so you can deploy a longer-range weapon. Fourth is to go berserk and hope not to get fatally cut going through and over your attacker. I don't care how much training you've had, these are your only realistic options, and none of them is particularly good except maybe the first. Unarmed techniques against the knife are a crapshoot, and against a determined attacker with a live blade, they offer piss-poor odds. — Barry Eisler

You'd expect her to see reason,' he muttered.
I don't see why. Most of us don't - we see habit. She'll oppose any modification, reasonable or not, that conflicts with her previously trained feelings of what is right and polite - and be quite honestly convinced that she's showing steadfast strength of character ... — John Wyndham

A person might see that I've blurbed a certain book and decide they want nothing to do with it! Like, 'If that reprobate Toews likes it, forget it!' So, it's a crapshoot. But it feels good to be able to praise a book that I love or that has been written by a new writer. — Miriam Toews

So after being with somebody for any number of days like that, you can't help but feel for them. You can't help them, but you certainly can root for them. — Wink Martindale

The Pulitzer is a crapshoot. Your piece has to hit a few people the right way at the right moment. — Gene Weingarten

It's a bit of a crapshoot out there with young writers right now anyway. — George Murray

As I go across the country and privately visit women's shelters and counselling centres, I am appalled that the most vulnerable people in our society are still women. — Adrienne Clarkson

Well people love to go dirty and stuff like that. It's funny, because even really dirty things can kind of inspire, but all things inspire really dirty improv and monologues. So then really dirty things can inspire the exact opposite. It's kind of a crapshoot. — Amy Poehler

Welcome to the real world Kerri. Shit happens. You don't get to stop it by being a nun or telling the truth or turning counter clockwise three times while facing the sun and clucking like a chicken. It's a crapshoot and sometimes you lose. — Susan Mallery

unless a company has some kind of economic moat, predicting how much shareholder value it will create in the future is pretty much a crapshoot, regardless of what the historical track record looks like. Looking at the numbers is a start, but it's only a start. Thinking carefully about the strength of the company's competitive advantage, and how it will (or won't) be able to keep the competition at bay, is a critical next step. — Pat Dorsey

Concerning Existentialism, I've heard many persuasive arguments; however with infinity in every direction, including time, what I don't understand is why I won this crapshoot. — Hank Bracker

It's like a crapshoot in Las Vegas, except in Las Vegas the odds are with the house. As for the market, the odds are with you, because on average over the long run, the market has paid off. — Harry Markowitz

And, if that's not news enough, here's something else: Hope is learned! Snyder suggests that we learn hopeful, goal-directed thinking in the context of other people. Children most often learn hope from their parents. Snyder says that to learn hopefulness, children need relationships that are characterized by boundaries, consistency, and support. I think it's so empowering to know that I have the ability to teach my children how to hope. It's not a crapshoot. It's a conscious choice. — Brene Brown

The draft is a crapshoot, so I've been very fortunate to be drafted by the Yankees, and to have spent my whole career here. — Derek Jeter

Every film is a crapshoot. It's a mystery when a movie comes together. I've never been able to figure it out. I don't know how I make my choices. The only thing you can do is know there's something about a character that you really want to experience. — Elisabeth Shue

We are socialists, we are enemies of today's capitalistic economic system for the exploitation of the economically weak, with its unfair salaries, with its unseemly evaluation of a human being according to wealth and property instead of responsibility and performance, and we are all determined to destroy this system under all conditions. — Adolf Hitler

Largemouth bass fishing is the biggest crapshoot of any type of fishing, but guys who are good at it can always catch some fish. It's all about experience. — Charlie Moore