Dice Quotes - Page 7

• What is the benefit of fasting in our body while filling our souls with innumerable evils? He who does not play at dice, but spends his leisure otherwise, what nonsense does he not utter? What absurdities does he not listen to? Leisure without the fear of God is, for those who do not know how to use time, the teacher of wickedness.

  Saint Basil

  Teacher, Play, Evil

  Saint Basil (2010). “Exegetic Homilies (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 46)”, p.133, CUA Press

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• There have been 15 or 16 screenplays over the years, including one by me, but none of them has gotten made because Paramount is a huge studio. The Dice Man is an anti-establishment cult novel and you don't normally make studio films from such dark comedy material.

  Luke Rhinehart

  Dark, Men, Years

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• To thee, fair Freedom! I retire From flattery, cards, and dice, and din: Nor art thou found in mansions higher Than the low cot, or humble inn.

  William Shenstone

  Art, Humble, Cards

  William Shenstone, David Mallet (1822). “The Poems of William Shenstone ...”, p.154

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• I see in the act of throwing the dice and of risking the affirmation of some intuitively felt truth, however uncertain, my whole reason for living.

  Antonin Artaud

  Truth, Affirmation, Reason

  Antonin Artaud, Susan Sontag (1976). “Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings”, p.91, Univ of California Press

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• DON PEDRO Come, lady, come; you have lost the heart of Signior Benedick. BEATRICE Indeed, my lord, he lent it me awhile; and I gave him use for it, a double heart for his single one: marry, once before he won it of me with false dice, therefore your grace may well say I have lost it. DON PEDRO You have put him down, lady, you have put him down. BEATRICE So I would not he should do me, my lord, lest I should prove the mother of fools.

  William Shakespeare

  Mother, Heart, Grace

  William Shakespeare (2014). “Arden Shakespeare Complete Works”, p.921, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I have one final hope, If I get double sixes, maybe he will change his mind, come back to me. As if to cast a magic spell, I blow on the dice just as Dex did...Just as it happened with our first roll, one die lands before its mate. On a six! I hold my breath. For a brief second, I see a mess of dots, and think I have boxcars again. I kneel, staring at the second die. It is onle a five. I have rolled an eleven, It is as if someone is mocking me, saying, Close, but no dice.

  Emily Giffin

  Blow, Thinking, Land

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• If you have certain problems with your brain but are raised in a good home, you might turn out okay. If your brain is fine and your home is terrible, you might still turn out fine. But if you have mild brain damage and end up with a bad home life, you're tossing the dice for a very unlucky synergy.

  David Eagleman

  Home, Brain, Might

  Source: www.goodreads.com

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• I believe that filmmaking - as, probably, is everything - is a game you should play with all your cards, and all your dice, and whatever else you've got. So, each time I make a movie, I give it everything I have. I think everyone should, and I think everyone should do everything they do that way.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Believe, Thinking, Games

  "What It Takes to Make a Great Movie" by Richard Brody, www.newyorker.com.

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• Warm air holds more water vapor than cold, and so the atmosphere is about 4% wetter than it was 40 years ago. This loads the dice for flood and drought, and we're seeing both in stunning abundance.

  Bill McKibben

  Air, Years, Water

  Source: www.wolverinefarm.org

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• In family matters you can get over anything. That's one thing you'll learn as an adult. There's a lot you have to learn which is a lot worse than that. You'd never think of forgiving a friend for some of the things your parents did to you. But with friends it's different. Friends aren't the roll of the dice.

  Pat Conroy

  Thinking, Parent, Forgiving

  Pat Conroy (2016). “The Great Santini, The Lords of Discipline, and The Prince of Tides: Three Classic Novels in One Collection”, p.976, Open Road Media

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• I know what it's like to have a dream. I know what it's like to roll the dice and say, 'I'm going to go after this thing,' and nothing turns my stomach quicker than acting teachers or acting schools that look at a bunch of dreamers and say, 'We can help,' when they know full well that they can't.

  Jim Parrack

  Dream, Teacher, School

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• So what exactly are the rewards of resentment. It is always a relief to know that the reason we have failed in life is not because we lack the talent, energy, or determination to succeed, but because of a factor that is beyond our control and that has loaded the dice decisively against us.

  Theodore Dalrymple

  Determination, Succeed, Energy

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• Into this wild-beast tangle these men had been born without their consent, they had taken part in it because they could not help it; that they were in jail was no disgrace to them, for the game had never been fair, the dice were loaded. They were swindlers and thieves of pennies and dimes, and they had been trapped and put out of the way by the swindlers and thieves of millions of dollars.

  Upton Sinclair

  Taken, Men, Games

  Upton Sinclair (2016). “The Jungle”, p.163, Xist Publishing

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• Life is fair. We all get the same nine-month shake in the box, and then the dice roll. Some people get a run of sevens. Some people, unfortunately, get snake-eyes. Its just how the world is.

  Stephen King

  Running, Eye, Snakes

  Stephen King (2014). “Big Driver”, p.173, Simon and Schuster

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• Apple Computer would not have reached its current peak of success if it had feared to roll the dice and launch products that didn't always hit the mark. In the mid-1990s, the company was considered washed up. Steve Jobs had departed, and a string of lackluster product launches unrelated to the company's core business had failed to catch fire.

  Naveen Jain

  Jobs, Apples, Departed

  "Dear CEOs, Celebrate Failure" by Naveen Jain, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 14, 2011.

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• There once was a girl who found herself dead. She peered over the ledge of heaven and saw that back on earth her sister missed her too much, was way too sad, so she crossed some paths that would not have crossed, took some moments in her hand shook them up and spilled them like dice over the living world. It worked. The boy with the guitar collided with her sister. "There you go, Len," she whispered. "The rest is up to you.

  Jandy Nelson

  Girl, Boys, Guitar

  Jandy Nelson (2010). “The Sky Is Everywhere”, p.129, Penguin

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• Everybody knows that the dice are loaded, Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed, Everybody knows that the war is over, Everybody knows the good guys lost.

  Leonard Cohen

  War, Guy, Lost

  Song: Everybody Knows, Album: I'm Your Man, 1988

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• It's because you have no power. You give them all the material and the cinematographer, the director, the editor, boy what they can choose... You better hope they like you because they can slice and dice and make you look like a damn fool when your face and body are up there on a 30-foot screen.

  William Mapother

  Boys, Editors, Feet

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• When political correctness first started coming around, it ruined Andrew Dice Clay and Eddie Murphy's stand-up career. Sam Kinison died at just the right time, 'cause no one was going to tolerate what he was saying anymore either.

  Artie Lange

  Careers, Political, Clay

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. January 7, 2010.

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• I think if anybody had a roll of dice with a lot of money at stake, they would not want Wes Craven and a romantic comedy.

  Wes Craven

  Thinking, Want, Comedy

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. March 11, 2009.

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• But I've been traveling on a boat and a plane, in a car on a bike with a bus and a train. Traveling there, traveling here, everywhere in every gear. But oh Lord we pay the price, with the spin of the wheel with the roll of the dice. Ah yeah you pay your fare. And if you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there.

  George Harrison

  Travel, Pay The Price, Car

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• But I've never really done anything that implies any kind of danger. I wouldn't skydive, I wouldn't deep sea dive, I wouldn't parachute. I think you're really just rolling the dice. Who packed your chute the night before?

  Eugene Levy

  Night, Thinking, Sea

  "Eugene Levy: 'American Pie got kinda graphic'" by atherine Shoard, www.theguardian.com. April 26, 2012.

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• From the air, Vatican City looked like a marble Monopoly set. The Church owned all the property from Broadwalk to Illinois Avenue, has three hotels on every lot, and no matter how often it tossed the dice you just knew it would never land on Go to Jail, it would be forever passing Go and collecting $200.

  Tom Robbins

  Funny, Humorous, Air

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Another Roadside Attraction”, p.220, Bantam

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• Nobody who was shooting dice wanted to get a dance.

  Daunte Culpepper

  Shooting, Wanted

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• RECOUNT, n. In American politics, another throw of the dice, accorded to the player against whom they are loaded.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Player, Politics, Loaded

  Ambrose Bierce, S. T. Joshi, David E. Schultz (2000). “The Fall of the Republic and Other Political Satires”, p.235, Univ. of Tennessee Press

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