Nina Conti Quotes

Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.

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.

Betting on the success of innovative technologies in the marketplace can carry all the uncertainty and risk that betting on the next card in the deck does at a blackjack table in Las Vegas. There is a factor of randomness that must be factored in, but precisely how to do so is anyone's guess.

it is … not a good idea to resort to tossing coins.

Forecasting will always be somewhat of a coin toss.

Hope! fortune's cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!

Play is experimenting with chance.

Who then may trust the dice, at Fortune's throw?

It's a losers' game to try and guess, it really is.

Chance is a name for our ignorance.

I've never been able to predict the future of anything.

Writing's like gambling. Unpredictable and sporadic successes make you more addicted, not less.

I long ago came to the conclusion that all life is 6 to 5 against.

I've been at this for a while, and to a very real extent, you look at cover art with the same sort of expectation you have for playing slot machines in Vegas. That is to say, you hope to break even and promise yourself not to flinch when all you get is the same sort of mix of fruit that you get in a cup of generic fruit cocktail.

You never know what you're going to get as a receiver.

Never bet on baseball.

I despise the Lottery. There's less chance of you becoming a millionaire than there is of getting hit on the head by a passing asteroid.

Men's fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever.

Why do people play the lottery, or why do people gamble, period? You know, it's with the hope of winning something more.

Fate, or some mysterious force, can put the finger on you or me, for no good reason at all.

We can't control what the ratings will be. It's like, if you're going to go skiing, do you hope you'll have a good day of skiing? Yes. Do you hope you won't break your leg? Yes.

I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.

You never know what can happen. I feel like I have a pretty good chance, but you never know.

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

You know, the music business is like the Lotto. Just put your numbers down and sometimes they hit, and sometimes they don't. There's just no rhyme or reason.