Slot Machines Quotes

Slot machines are like crack for old people.

I've never gambled a dime. Never, in all my years in Vegas.

I've never been to Vegas, but I've gambled all my life.

Yeah, I like to gamble.

If I gamble, I'll play roulette. My wife and I will play roulette, and that's about it. I'm not a heavy gambler.

The Miccosukee facility in Miami only offers bingo, poker, and video gambling machines. Because it does not have slot machines or table games, the Miccosukee tribe doesn't need an agreement with the state. The Miccosukees only answer to the federal government.

We never talk about gambling around my house.

I've been a little bit Las Vegas and casino-obsessed. So, I love some trashy glamour... and I think nothing's trashier or more glamorous than a bit of a sheer number!

I don’t like gambling very much. I don’t like being at the mercy of those little white squares that roll around and decide whether you win or lose. I like to have the say-so myself.

As a revenue raiser, gambling defies every principle. It’s regressive—it takes far more money out of poor people’s pockets than it does for higher income [people]. It’s cannibalistic—it eats other forms of revenue—when you have your citizens dumping $2 billion down the slots [slot machines], they’re not buying a car, and you lose that tax.

Even as I approach the gambling hall, as soon as I hear, two rooms away, the jingle of money poured out on the table, I almost go into convulsions.

It's a corny old gag about Las Vegas, the temporal city if there ever was one, trying to camouflage the hours and retard the dawn, when everybody knows that if you're feeling lucky you're really feeling time in its rawest form, and if you're not feeling lucky, they've got a clock at the bus station.

Gambling is so pervasive in Nevada that maybe the state should just go the whole hog. There'd be gum machines that dispensed chewing tobacco if you lost. You could gamble for the toilet paper in public bathroom stalls. And fill out Keno cards in an attempt to win cancer therapy at the hospital.

Casino gambling is colorful and dramatic and theatrical.

In the Fifties, Canvey was a top seaside place for a youngster - the famous Canvey Island Casino was full of slot machines and there were all the fairground rides, such as the dodgems, and a speedway track.

I played Vegas at the age of 16 years old, in 1959.

I'm a gambler and love slot machines.

I've played a lot in Las Vegas in my life.

I think Vegas is the answer for pregnant people because of insomnia. It's open all the time and you go down and play your silly slots.

Slot machine revenue may briefly fatten the State’s bottom line, but slots do this by hurting the local economy…. Choking traffic, violent crime, and petty larceny always follow wherever gambling has been implemented.

If you spend a week at a casino you will very easily see that people have a certain way of behaving in a casino.

The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating at three in the morning.

I'm not Vegas. Places I play usually cost like $3 to get in, you know, and people are going: Gee, I've got $3, I think I'll throw it away.

No bill that authorizes slot machines or casinos will pass my desk.

As I stood there absorbing Hammett's novel, the slot machines at the back of the shop were clanking and whirring, and in the billiard room upstairs the perpetual poker game was being played.