Slot Machines Quotes

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

  Frank Scoblete

  Lust, Desire, Machines

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

  Frank Scoblete

  Gambling, Machines, Fancy

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• Every few seconds it changes - up an eighth, down an eighth - it's like playing a slot machine. I lose $20 million, I gain $20 million.

  Ted Turner

  Business, Tragedy, Machines

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• I don't sleep much. I'm on the go. My mind is racing. My wife says my mind is like the rolling dials on a slot machine. So, yeah, I think about everything.

  Bill Walton

  Motivational, Basketball, Sleep

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• I basically left Texas with no money. I was making $3.50 working in some mall, so I didn't have a lot of cash. I took $1,000 and headed to California. Along the way I stopped in Vegas because I had always wanted to see Caesar's Palace. So I stopped there and won $2,500 on a slot machine! It was amazing.

  Krista Allen

  Vegas, Texas, California

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• The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.

  Bret Harte

  Leadership, Sports, Money

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• Slot machines are like crack for old people.

  Keenen Ivory Wayans

  People, Cracks, Machines

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• The diet book is one of those fool-and-money separation devices that seems, like roulette or slot machines, never to lose its power.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Food, Book, Machines

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• The payoffs in showbiz seemed as random as a slot machine.

  Kathie Lee Gifford

  Machines, Payoff, Showbiz

  Kathie Lee Gifford, Jim Jerome (1993). “I Can't Believe I Said That!”, Pocket

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• You do not hate the time you waste; it evokes a much more passive emotion than that. You only wish you had it back, like a quarter in an unlucky slot machine.

  Rick Bragg

  Hate, Wish, Machines

  FaceBook post by Rick Bragg from Aug 10, 2010

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• The only way I'll ever get hurt in the casino is if there's an earthquake and a slot machine falls on my foot.

  Jack Benny

  Hurt, Fall, Earthquakes

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• For every slot machine you add, you lose one job per year from the consumer economy

  John Warren Kindt

  Jobs, Years, Gambling

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• It is in the interests of society to put the Pill into slot machines and to place cigarettes on prescription.

  Malcolm Potts

  Pills, Modern Life, Machines

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• If you’re going to create, create a lot. Creativity is not like playing the slot machines, where failure to win means you go home broke. With creativity, if you don’t win, you’re usually no worse off than if you hadn’t played.

  Scott Adams

  Home, Creativity, Mean

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• God is not a slot machine. We don't go to God to get something; we go to give something.

  Mother Angelica

  Giving, Machines

  "Mother Angelica Live". Talk-Show, www.imdb.com. (1983 - ).

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• The Penobscot took an initial poll of people in the state to determine if there was support for opening a casino, and the poll came back very favorable. As we moved forward, a commercial was aired that said if the tribe opened a casino the law would allow kids to gamble and had an image of a kid pulling a slot machine. Here it was our idea and we got massacred, and someone else ended up with what we wanted; it's sort of like history repeating itself.

  Donna M. Loring

  Kids, Playing Games, Law

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• Grace does not work like a penny in a slot machine. Grace will move you only when you want it to move you, and only when you let it move you. The supernatural order supposes the freedom of the natural order, but it does not destroy it.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Moving, Order, Grace

  Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen (2014). “Remade for Happiness: Achieving Life's Purpose through Spiritual Transformation”, p.92, Ignatius Press

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• When the money is not spent on cars and refrigerators and is instead dropped into a slot machine, it leaves the economy

  John Warren Kindt

  Gambling, Car, Machines

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• It would be a service to mankind if the pill were available in slot machines and the cigarette were placed on prescription.

  Malcolm Potts

  Funny, Humorous, Smoking

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• Crime goes up 10 percent due to the gambling by the third year after racinos or slot machines are open, and then it continues upward after that

  John Warren Kindt

  Gambling, Years, Machines

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• I met a real looker. He picked me up at the two dollar slot machines, so you know he's no cheapskate." Grandma Mazur

  Janet Evanovich

  Real, Grandma, Two

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• If I had my wilderness, nature could be my lover. What can I do in the paved streets for my thirsty roots? I waste time. I encourage fools. I slip the vital hours into penny slot machines -- to pass time, to start my stuck wheels only love can oil.

  Elizabeth Smart

  Oil, Roots, Machines

  Elizabeth Smart, Alice Van Wart (1991). “Necessary secrets: the journals of Elizabeth Smart”, Grafton Books

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• Life's not some slot machine in an arcade with a sign that flashes up saying 'I'm sorry, you have been killed. Would you like another go?' But we might get put through the same test each time, get faced with the same situations until we've learned how to cope.

  Peter James

  Sorry, Machines, Might

  Peter James (1991). “Sweetheart”

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• Keke Rosberg is as calculating as a slot machine.

  Louis Stanley

  Racing, Machines, Calculating

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• But like a gambler at a slot machine, hoping the next spin would change her life for the better, she closed in before she lost her nerve. Taking his hand, she pulled him toward her, near enough to feel his body against her. She looked up at him, tilting her head slightly as she leaned in. Mike, recognizing what was happening but still having trouble believing it, tilted his head and closed his eyes, their faces drawing near.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Believe, Eye, Hands

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