Bet Quotes

I've been in Vegas. That's where you get into the money thing. Boy, you get greedy in Vegas, you know. That's the only place that you can bet $25, get it up to $500 and refuse to quit.

Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people good or bad? You bet, says Literature. But unlike other systems of knowing, Literature declines to eradicate one truth in favor of another.

A man's gotta make at least one bet a day, else he could be walking around lucky and never know it.

Yes, it's true I once knocked out a horse. It was at a fiesta in my mother's home town of Guarare. Someone bet me a bottle of whiskey that I couldn't do it.

Television studios bet the farm on reality shows, where they didn't need any actors and movie studios had no plans for any quality movies that required the presence of me.

If you have debt I'm willing to bet that general clutter is a problem for you too.

But honestly, if you do a rigorous survey of my work, I'll bet you'll find that biology is a theme far more often than physical science.

I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him "father."

Someone 'big' will get thrown out of their Trials or at the Olympics. I would bet my house on it.

I bet on baseball in 1987 and 1988.

I bet Maurice Gibb's heart monitor was singing the tune of Stayin' Alive.

To sum up, the position we took was that since we didn't know the internal situation in Iraq nor Saddam Hussein, that our best bet was to take counsel from the people who did know him and who did deal with him.

Drugs are a bet with your mind.

The horse I bet on was so slow, the jockey kept a diary of the trip.

But I don't bet the farm on any of those possibilities, either. I'm also preparing, intelligently, to walk away from this, and walk away from it happy to have had the experience.

I've got the brain of a four year old. I'll bet he was glad to be rid of it.

I am not normally a betting person, but I say that putting your money on the American people is about as close to a sure bet as you are going to get.

This election isn't about Barack Obama or Mitt Romney. It's about you. The other guys write $10 million checks and make $10,000 bets. But we've bet this campaign on you.

Life is a gamble, at terrible odds - if it was a bet you wouldn't take it.

If I'm excited about it, I'm pretty sure an audience is going to enjoy it. If I'm bored with an idea, you can bet they're going to be asleep. So I try to only do things that I'm fairly excited about.

Well, I think everybody's a little jealous of the Vietnam Wall, even people from wars that already have good monuments. You have a monument like the Wall and nobody ever forgets your war, you can bet on that.

It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong - but that is the way to bet.

I bet I made close to 20 tackles because nobody on either side knew what they were doing.

Why the hell can't people just write nice happy stories about people having happy sex? That's what I want, and I bet a whole bunch of other people want it too.

When you make a bet, you're saying something.

I'll bet Shakespeare compromised himself a lot; anybody who's in the entertainment industry does to some extent.

When I try to get work in the US all they say is that I need to lose weight - but I bet they never said that to Mae West.

I love tennis with a passion. I challenged Boris Becker to a match once and he said he was up for it but he never called back. I bet I could make him run around.

If you find an Australian indoors, it's a fair bet that he will have a glass in his hand.

There's no one quite like William - I bet he's really kind. You can just tell by looking at him.