#gambling

But I used to have a bit of a gambling problem. And that would have been the answer to my prayers. It got worse when I started playing this character, too. ↗

— Fisher Stevens

#been #bit #character #gambling #got

I wanted to do an episode about Chuck having a gambling problem. I wanted to portray my addiction on the show. But I think it's a little edgy for Saturday night. ↗

— Fisher Stevens

#addiction #chuck #edgy #episode #gambling

The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#austere #disfavor #gambling #known #looks

Pre-teens, teens and college students have unlimited access to the Internet - 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Because of the repeated exposure they have to illegal Internet gambling sites, they fall victim by the thousands. ↗

— Spencer Bachus

#because #college #college students #day #days

Gambling makes boys selfish and cruel as well as men. ↗

— Thomas Hughes

#men

Part of the $10 million I spent on gambling, part on booze and part on women. The rest I spent foolishly. ↗

— George Raft

#foolishly #gambling #i #million #part

I would say, stay the hell away from the party scene. Anything you put in front of your goal, and especially something like that, whether it's too much gambling, too much food, too much cold beers on the weekend - anything that you put in front of the prize is going to end up getting in the way and hurting you in the end. ↗

— Brad Renfro

#away #beers #cold #end #especially

Before the battle they had been discussing whether there might be life after death, and Windham and Rochester had made a pact that if there was, the first to die would come back and tell the other. But, said Rochester, he [Windham] never did. ↗

— Jenny Uglow

#charles-ii #historical #history #sad #death

Murphy's face went through several mutations as he spoke, as if small animals were scurrying about just beneath his skin. ↗

— Pete Hautman

#gambling #hunting #series #money

This person sees not her own hand depositing the next dollar in a slot machine, but the hand of fate, or God. It’s her true conviction that there are forces at work for her to win a large jackpot— or at least to win back the money lost. After all, the only-for-show pictures of fruit had almost aligned with one another the last couple spins. ↗

— John-Talmage Mathis

#casino #gambling #gaming #god #i-deal-to-plunder