Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Dick Davies

The people who want to push for the end of legalized sports gambling in Nevada would be encouraging the crooks. And they would be counterproductive to what they want to accomplish.

It is lost at dice, what ancient honor won.

Baltasar Gracian

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

Benjamin Disraeli

There is no gambling like politics.

Charles Darwin

But Geology carries the day: it is like the pleasure of gambling, speculating, on first arriving, what the rocks may be; I often mentally cry out 3 to 1 Tertiary against primitive; but the latter have hitherto won all the bets.

Artie Lange

I like gambling on stuff that you don't know anything about. That's when it's exciting.

Edmund Burke

Gambling is a principle inherent in human nature.

Nathan Barankin

Many of California's gambling laws were written in the 19th Century, and some of them need to be modernized.

Laura Smith

When you've been through stuff together, you become a team.

When you talk about 50 tons of anything, that's a lot. We used to throw all of that stuff into the ground.

I like being full, every day, with stuff that I have to do.

Know your stuff. Have an angle. Know how to grow business, how to develop products, have patents and an undeveloped market that could be huge.

Spike Lee

A lot of times you get credit for stuff in your movies you didn't intend to be there.

Lesley Manville

I try to keep the more uninteresting stuff to a minimum, unless I'm really broke.

Fred Davis

When I was a freshman, a lot of stuff I thought I knew, but I really didn't.

Steve Cleveland

When we got here in May, we had some time. Some were already committed. Some said, considering the stuff that was going on, they weren't interested.

Jeff Tittel

What he (Campbell) is dishing out is the stuff that's in the septic tanks,

Byron Katie

When you discover that all happiness is inside you, the wanting and needing are over, and life gets very exciting.

Michael Boulware

The possibility to play this game is very exciting and very motivating. The play I got hurt on, I played a little tentative, and I think it made me realize that if you played tentative you're going to get hurt.

Lexi Thompson

I love my sponsors. They make things so much fun for me. We do really fun and exciting things, so I always have a blast. It doesn't ever seem like work.

Noel Fisher

I'm just looking for good work. I just really love acting, and I'd like to jump on something that's really exciting for me.

Cassandra Peterson

[I] go to the Golden Globes, the Grammys, all the awards shows. Just stuff you would never get to do as a regular person were things that were really exciting for me.

Karen Johnson

We want everyone to come out and take part, because it's going to be a very exciting event, one in which families can participate together.

Nick Harkaway

Google's library plan was staggering and exciting - it wasn't the idea I objected to, but the method.

Kurt Barnard

Watch out for this company. It's telling us something. While most retailers sold indistinguishable products, Sharper Image sells exciting and unique things that people want to buy.

Donna Brazile

Watching 'Scandal' is a fun and exciting guilty pleasure, which is how I imagine most real scandals start out.