Scoblete 5 Quotes & Sayings

A Platonic friendship is perhaps only possible when one or other of the Platonists is in love with a third person. — Evelyn Beatrice Hall

I gamble with one foot pointed toward the door. — Frank Scoblete

Sometimes I even now feel like a stranger in my country. But I knew there would be problems because I had seen the world as a skater. And now? A lot of people in eastern Germany have lost jobs, rents went up, food costs went up, unemployment went to 20 percent. Freedom is good, but it is not easy. — Katarina Witt

Australians always want everyone to be average, as if the best thing you can do is fit in. — Poppy King

Bill read in a biology book about how cells replace themselves over the years; how bodies died and were remade out of interchangeable pieces. It depressed him how foreign his younger self looked to him now, how his body had stolen the identity of this happy dead kid, and with his own life, had made a complete mess of it — Don Hertzfeldt

Reinforced concrete buildings are by nature skeletal buildings. No noodles nor armoured turrets. A construction of girders that carry the weight, and walls that carry no weight. That is to say, buildings consisting of skin and bones. — Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

I sometimes think of Las Vegas as the Jerusalem of chance. A holy city. — Frank Scoblete

Scobe's Eighth Law: The moron will enter the single deck game when the count is sky high and the dealer is deciding whether or not to shuffle. The morons's entrance will convince the dealer that it's time to shuffle. You will now face a new deck with your biggest bet out and the pit boss watching closely. — Frank Scoblete

The casinos believe in math (and I don't mean numerology).They believe in the power of percentages and short pays, not in the power of magic stones, amulets and omens. — Frank Scoblete

Scobe's Tenth Law: In all endeavors, in all aspects of life, there are more horses asses than horses! — Frank Scoblete

The slot machines sit there like young courtesans, promising pleasures undreamed of, your deepest desires fulfilled, all lusts satiated. — Frank Scoblete

You need to relax. Maybe we should stop at a bar for alcohol first."
"For me or for them?"
"For them, of course. It's important to get them loaded early in the day. Makes them easier to control. — Jaci Burton

S'important to have old friends." Silas wagged a finger. "They remember who you were before you made yourself up. — Damon Suede

Corporations are mandated, in effect, to 'grow or die,' a rule also called 'the growth imperative.' — Michele Simon

Las Vegas is the most honest fake city in the world. — Frank Scoblete

I want to preserve a certain unknowing about my own poems - perhaps because unknowing is in itself a useful poetic thirst. To move the perimeter of saying outside my own boundaries is one reason I write. — Jane Hirshfield

I'm actually a pretty good tennis player! — Randy Jackson

Blessed be the slot players for theirs is the hope of a better day dawning. — Frank Scoblete

They are the new breed of slot machine-colorful, fancy, exciting, wonderful ... and deadly. — Frank Scoblete

Scobe's Fifth Law: All dealers wish they were doing something other than dealing. All dealers have plans to get out of dealing. Ten years later they have different plans to get out of dealing. — Frank Scoblete