Roulette Table Quotes & Sayings

Patriotism, in the trenches, was too remote a sentiment, and at once rejected as fit only for civilians, or prisoners. A new arrival who talked patriotism would soon be told to cut it out. — Robert Graves

Because rights are only claims against other people, and not claims on other people and their property, rights end when they infringe on the rights of others. — Daniel Alexander Brackins

A credit default swap was confusing mainly because it wasn't really a swap at all. It was an insurance policy, typically on a corporate bond, with semiannual premium payments and a fixed term. For instance, you might pay $200,000 a year to buy a ten-year credit default swap on $100 million in General Electric bonds. The most you could lose was $2 million: $200,000 a year for ten years. The most you could make was $100 million, if General Electric defaulted on its debt any time in the next ten years and bondholders recovered nothing. It was a zero-sum bet: If you made $100 million, the guy who had sold you the credit default swap lost $100 million. It was also an asymmetric bet, like laying down money on a number in roulette. The most you could lose were the chips you put on the table; but if your number came up you made thirty, forty, even fifty times your money. — Michael Lewis

The wind came up and changed us all.. — Blue Balliett

Television is a big roulette table on so many levels. That's all it is for actors. — Gary Cole

The roulette table pays nobody except him that keeps it. Nevertheless a passion for gaming is common, though a passion for keeping roulette tables is unknown. — George Bernard Shaw

If I could write a letter to my teenage self, I'd probably say something like: 'You ain't gonna believe what will become of you.' — Antony Sher

Believe in life! Always human beings will progress to greater, broader, and fuller life. — W.E.B. Du Bois

World music evokes a feeling. You don't have to think about the scene that it comes from. — St. Lucia

I don't even use italics or boldface; that's clutter, not clarity. Fancy fonts are fine for blogs, just as calligraphy is fine for diaries. But when you're writing for anyone other than yourself, you want to get as universal as possible. — Andrew Vachss

I'm the type of guy where one thing leads to another and eventually it gets awful. If I put a $5 bet on a roulette table tonight at 10 o'clock, by tomorrow at noon I would be running guns to Cuba. — Artie Lange

For Buddha, attachments are like a game of roulette in which someone else spins the wheel and the game is rigged: The more you play, the more you lose. The only way to win is to step away from the table. And the only way to step away, to make yourself not react to the ups and downs of life, is to meditate and tame the mind. Although you give up the pleasures of winning, you also give up the larger pains of losing. — Jonathan Haidt

His eldest sister (who modestly prefers to be identified here as a Tuckahoe homemaker) has asked me to describe him as looking like 'the blue-eyed Jewish-Irish Mohican scout who died in your arms at the roulette table at Monte Carlo. — J.D. Salinger

If there's a God, I want to see Him. It's pointless to believe in something without proof. — George Harrison

Albert Einstein said that the only way to win at roulette is to steal from the table while the croupier isn't looking. — Jonathan L. Howard

You cannot beat a roulette table unless you steal money from it. — Albert Einstein

The return to solid values is always hard ... Distress, panic, and hard times have marked our pathway in returning to solid values. — James A. Garfield

I never make conscious decisions. If my agent says to me, "It's a good script," I'll do it. I don't plan. I've got a lot of things to do. I'm at the roulette table and my luck seems to be running at the moment. I might as well stay there until it runs out. — Anthony Hopkins

There's no briefing sheet on what to do when a supernatural soul-sucking horror disguised as a beautiful woman starts crying on your shoulder. — Charles Stross

Madam: If you discover any more comets, can you not wait until they are announced by the proper authorities? — George Phillips Bond

If I had the money and the drinking capacity, I'd probably live at a roulette table and let my life go to hell. — Michael Ventura

Luckily, my husband is my business partner as well as my life partner, so I never had to do the heavy lifting alone, literally or figuratively. — Josie Maran