Top 70 Dice Quotes

Americans are just about the worst at dealing with long-term problems, down there with Uzbekistan, but they respond to a market signal better than almost anyone. They roll the dice bigger and quicker than most.

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.

I want to win all the time; even in a dice game I want to win.

The 20th century saw three great-power confrontations. Two of them turned into total war. We lucked out on the third. Do we really want to roll those dice again?

I learned you can’t control everything. You’ve got to roll with the dice sometimes.

‘The Dice Man’ is an anti-establishment cult novel, and you don’t normally make studio films from such dark comedy material.

In racing, I wanted to be a winner and to be a winner, you have to be willing to roll the dice.

I’m willing to role the dice with my career to be different.

With so many of our fundamental rights hanging in the balance, it is not good enough to simply roll the dice, hoping a nominee has changed his past views. It’s not good enough to think, ‘This is the best we can expect from this president’.

I’ve been gambling since the age of 12. Horses, dogs, dice, roulette, you name it.

Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.

Americans are just about the worst at dealing with long-term problems, down there with Uzbekistan, but they respond to a market signal better than almost anyone. They roll the dice bigger and quicker than most.

Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don’t find out til too late that he’s been playing with two queens all along.

I haven’t tried to buffer myself. I like rolling the dice.

Outcome is simply the final score: Who won the game; what numbers came up in a roll of the dice; how high did a stock go. Outcome is the result, regardless of the method used to achieve it. It is not controllable.

It even sounds stupid to hear myself say the first costume designer I worked with was Catherine Martin, and she won an Oscar for it, but that was just my very lucky draw of roll of the dice.

I turned down a scholarship to Yale. The problem with college is that there’s a tendency to mistake preparation for productivity. You can prepare all you want, but if you never roll the dice you’ll never be successful.

In 1965, I was teaching a seminar on freedom when I told my students that the ultimate freedom lay in casting a dice to decide what to do. They were so shocked and fascinated that I knew I had to write the book.

We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men’s crapper of the local bar.

I love the fact that it starts from there, and you don’t know where it’s gonna go. Wait long enough – love will find you. Everything’s a surprise. When you think you’ve got it all figured out… as Emerson said, the dice of God are always loaded.

From a small market, nobody had heard of me. ESPN had guts, they had courage, they rolled the dice. A guy flew into Portland, we got a rare snowstorm, he was stuck there four days, John McConnell listened to me, and he recommended me.

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.

They can hop on a line and really dice it up out there.

It’s like gambling somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don’t know where your going to end up the next day. It could work out good or it could be disastrous. It’s like the throw of the dice.

‘Something Borrowed’ was initially titled ‘Rolling the Dice,’ but my editor said it sounded like a men’s gambling memoir.

God not only plays dice, He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen.

It’s a roll of the dice in the movie business. I mean, every single movie is a roll of the dice. Any movie on paper could look like it’s going to be fantastic. You know what I mean?

I like playing roulette, I like dice. I grew up with gamblers.

So many times, I have a speech ready but no dice. Always a bridesmaid, never a mother.

God may not play dice but he enjoys a good round of Trivial Pursuit every now and again.

I was a street guy. I mean, I grew up in an Italian neighborhood with mob guys around. Where I grew up, you gambled, you shot dice, you played cards, you went to the track. So the mob to me was not strange, it was not like I was an F.B.I. agent from Salt Lake City.

Believe me, you’re shooting dice every time you do a part.

Life is full of confusion. Confusion of love, passion, and romance. Confusion of family and friends. Confusion with life itself. What path we take, what turns we make. How we roll our dice.

The dice of Zeus always fall luckily.

Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It’s getting money without giving an equivalent for it.

I had some major league help. Andrew Dice Clay and Robert Townsend were there for me.

I don’t think I’ve ever had a minute off in Israel. I’ve been completely and utterly devoted to what Hanadiv does. I’m not saying I’m a good guy for that. It’s just the way the dice have fallen.

God not only plays dice, but also sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.

Imposing democracy through force is a roll of the dice.

I love the fact that it starts from there, and you don’t know where it’s gonna go. Wait long enough – love will find you. Everything’s a surprise. When you think you’ve got it all figured out… as Emerson said, the dice of God are always loaded.

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.

With improvisation, I just do it. It might be a total failure but then you just throw the dice again.

Whenever you put out music, you’re just rolling the dice, and the nice thing with Spotify is they’re willing to roll them with you.

They can hop on a line and really dice it up out there.

Death and the dice level all distinctions.

I want to win all the time; even in a dice game I want to win.

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.

Skydiving is fascinating, the best part is cruising in the air and realizing that the dice has been thrown and you’re either going to die or not. It’s a very helpless feeling but it’s so freeing.

I believe in myself and the goodness in others, and I think anyone who rolls the dice with me has good odds.

It would not occur to me to write a joke like, ‘This would be great if I was more like Andrew Dice Clay.’ It’s not the voice I write in – which is largely an extension of the voice in my head that I think in.

I took a musician friend of mine to a Rolling Stone concert once, and all he did was cringe. I asked him what was wrong, and he said, ‘Keith Richards’ guitar is out of tune.’ But ‘Tumbling Dice’ still sounded great to me.

You always kind of feel like you’re rolling the dice as an actor.

So many times, I have a speech ready but no dice. Always a bridesmaid, never a mother.

I was kind of broke . ‘The Girl on the Train’ was a last roll of the dice for me as a fiction writer.

If God has made the world a perfect mechanism, He has at least conceded so much to our imperfect intellect that in order to predict little parts of it, we need not solve innumerable differential equations, but can use dice with fair success.

Outcome is simply the final score: Who won the game; what numbers came up in a roll of the dice; how high did a stock go. Outcome is the result, regardless of the method used to achieve it. It is not controllable.

My favorite characters are always the unpredictable ones, and with Domino, you literally never know which way the dice are going to roll.

The dice of Zeus always fall luckily.

When you go into a film, you read it, and something clicks for you, and you like it, and you sign on for it; you go for it. You know that this is going to be a good film, and that is your best hope. Past that, it’s a crap shoot – you roll the dice.

Very few people will roll the dice with their lives. I play Russian roulette.

Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don’t find out til too late that he’s been playing with two queens all along.