Casinos Quotes - Page 6

• Writing about 2,000 words in three hours every morning, 'Casino Royale' dutifully produced itself. I wrote nothing and made no corrections until the book was finished. If I had looked back at what I had written the day before I might have despaired.

  Ian Fleming

  Morning, Book, Writing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• And as far as jobs go, for every one job that the casino creates, one is lost in the 35-mile feeder market

  John Warren Kindt

  Jobs, Gambling, Lost

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• My parents got divorced. Early and ugly. My mum was nuts so I lived with my dad. We used to play a father/son games. Pin the blame on me, rock, paper, get me another beer, casino night.

  Christopher Titus

  Dad, Father, Beer

  "The Reconciliation". "Titus" (TV Series), www.imdb.com. 2000.

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• I would hate to see the state of Wisconsin make another mistake and locate another casino in a high-density population area

  John Warren Kindt

  Hate, Mistake, Gambling

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• The only years [of Donald Trump's] that anybody's ever seen were a couple of years when he had to turn them over to state authorities when he was trying to get a casino license, and they showed he didn't pay any federal income tax.

  Hillary Clinton

  Couple, Years, Trying

  Source: time.com

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• Although crime and corruption decreases within a one-mile radius of a casino, it increases 10 percent within a 35-mile radius by the third year the casino is open.

  John Warren Kindt

  Gambling, Years, Corruption

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• I really enjoyed Casino Royale because suddenly something changed with this modernity and with Daniel bringing life to James Bond in a very new way.

  Berenice Marlohe

  Way, Casino Royale, Changed

  "Skyfall: Bond Girl Bérénice Marlohe Interview". Interview with Leigh Singer, www.ign.com. May 23, 2012.

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• Was on my last leg, I couldn't even borrow my friend's extra peg.

  Sly Stone

  Legs, Lasts, Extras

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• Waltes is still played, which is a bowl and dice game that's traditional for this area.

  Richard Dyer

  Playing Games, Dice, Stills

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• A lot of our respected financial institutions are just casinos in drag.

  Charlie Munger

  Financial, Institutions, Drag

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• The Macau casinos have a wonderful business, it's taking in money from Chinese businessmen elsewhere who send it through junky companies to casinos to gamble. The growth continues and they have basically western managers and western accounting, so we trust the numbers a little bit more.

  James Chanos

  Numbers, Chinese, Growth

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• We have never heard of laundering in Macau; money laundering is unheard of. Mind you, my casino, every bit of money - someone says Stanley Ho, you issue me a check of so much money - we don't give that easy.

  Stanley Ho

  Issues, Giving, Mind

  "Hong Kong Business Tycoon Stanley Ho TalkAsia Interview Transcript". Interview With Lorraine Hahn, www.cnn.com. October 2, 2004.

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• Historically, the stock market is like a gambling casino with the odds in your favor. Over the long pull, stocks are given something like nine and a half to ten percent compounded per year. The banks have probably given you something in the order of four to five.

  Burton Malkiel

  Gambling, Odds, Order

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• Oh look, an ATM! Ok, here we go! I lost all my money, now what do I do? Get a gun! Rob a casino! Good idea! Look at all the lights! This is beautiful.

  Bill Burr

  Beautiful, Gun, Light

  "Premium Blend", Season 2, episode 3, June 20, 1998.

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• I'd work on my game online and at casinos, build my bankroll, find good games, and try to put myself in a position to keep winning and earn a steady income.

  Phil Ivey

  Winning, Games, Trying

  Source: cardplayerlifestyle.com

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• 27 percent to 55 percent of casino revenues come from problem or pathological gamblers

  John Warren Kindt

  Gambling, Problem, Revenue

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• Over the objections, where they sound like squealing pigs, over the objections of Romney and all his allies, we passed some of the toughest Wall Street regulations in history, turning Wall Street back into the allocator of capital it always has been and no longer a casino. And they want to repeal it.

  Joe Biden

  Wall, Pigs, Allies

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• People will spend a tremendous amount of money in casinos, money they normally would spend on refrigerators or a new car. Local businesses will suffer because they'll lose consumer dollars to casinos.

  John Warren Kindt

  Gambling, People, Car

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• I think the law as it is today probably does prohibit an off-reservation casino, but there is uniqueness to Turtle Mountain and there is uniqueness to the state, and these things need to be looked at.

  Bill Johnson

  Thinking, Turtles, Law

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• I hate Nassau and the Bahamas. It's one of those places I'd always wanted to visit since reading Ian Fleming but it was full of casinos with Americans in shorts.

  Tony Parsons

  Hate, Reading, Bahamas

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• I don't do casinos or prisons; I like to do projects that enhance the lives of everyday people, like campus buildings, libraries, museums and government buildings. That's why I love working in the public sector.

  Philip Freelon

  Museums, Government, People

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Not everyone supported gaming, but we had a general meeting and a vote on whether to pursue a casino or not and the tribe voted yes, and as a tribal representative to the state legislature, I had to represent that decision.

  Donna M. Loring

  Playing Games, Decision, Tribes

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• What I have seen in the past 10 years of traveling- performing at a church one day and a casino the next- is that a lot of people in the church want to be entertained, and people in casinos want to be ministered to. That's hard to understand, but I see a hunger in the world that I don't see in the church.

  Ricky Skaggs

  Past, Years, People

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• I have come to regard the law courts not as a cathedral but rather as a casino.

  Richard Ingrams

  Power, Law, Management

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• I think a lot of people like to gamble, and they don't want to go to the casino to gamble. Sometimes they want to do it in the privacy of their home. They can't concentrate the way they want to in a gambling casino.

  Larry Holmes

  Home, Thinking, Gambling

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

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