Quotes About Stakes

Sorry, kid. Whedon got it wrong. Stakes don't kill vampires, they just give us heartburn.

I think it's one of the main negative emotional ingredients that fuels show business, because there's so much at stake and the fear of failure looms large.

Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.

Behind him Kaldar nudged Urow's youngest son. Bet you he lasts at least thirty seconds. Um... Gaston looked at him. No he won't. Bet me something. I don't have anything. Kaldar grimaced. Pick up that rock. Gaston swiped the rock off the ground. Now you have a rock. I bet this five bucks against your rock. Gaston grinned. Deal.

The trick to making a story matter is that every now and then, somebody you care about has to go. If it's somebody that you don't care about, then it doesn't really have - the stakes aren't there. But if you do that every now and then, then the story matters to people. And there are actual stakes involved, emotional stakes.

I want you to be afraid to turn the page (and to do that) you need to show right from the beginning that you're playing for keeps.

When you talk about locker room betting, we bet on everything... It's no different than anyone else's office pool. Money changes hands in the locker room; it's whatever you want.

The manner in which we gamble defines the stakes. Win or lose, it shall be absolute.' The

The stakes are too high,' he said. 'High stakes, high rewards!' I said. Or as my warrior brother likes to say, 'No spirit, no splendor!

It doesn't work if the bad guys kill his mother's uncle's friend's neighbor's pet dog. You've got to make the stakes high.

The rules are simple: the first one to lose dies.

Paranoia hit him. Waves of fear shuddered through his body. The stakes were high, the highest ever.

To regret fully is to appreciate how high the stakes are in even the average human life; fully experienced, it turns our eyes, attentive and alert, to a future possibly lived better than our past.

What about stakes in the heart?" I asked now. He frowned, the center of his mouth pursed while its corners curled downward. "Anyone will die from a stake in the heart," he said. "And anyone will die if they're severely burned, including vampires.

Before you decide to play with live straddles in your home game, remember that this twist essentially doubles the size of the game. It's often used by players who have been losing and are trying to get lucky and win a big pot.

I thought of Mark's reckless eyes—The only things I believe in are out on that there dig—and then of revolutionaries waving ragged, gallant banners, of refugees swimming swift nighttime currents; of all those who hold life so light, or the stakes so dear, that they can walk steady and open-eyed to meet the thing that will take or transform their lives and whose high cold criteria are far beyond our understanding.

The key to No-Limit... is to put a man to a decision for all his chips.

Hunter, why did you tie me to stakes again tonight? How long do you plan to do that?" "Until my touch is carved in your heart.

Life's a game and men the gamblers. They'll stake their whole pile on the one chance in a thousand. Take away that one chance, and - they won't play.

It is a thing I have noted, that men will compete with one another even when there is no prize to be gained. Mayhap women are no better, on the whole, but we are more subtle about it, and quicker to reckon the stakes. And quicker to play men for fools.

I think lighting is a reflection of what is at stake emotionally in a movie.

At times like that it's difficult to remember what's at stake, that history is in the making. As a player you feel so cut off sometimes, it can be tough... Which is why it is an enormous advantage to play at home.

Premium hands are simply few and far between when large pots are at stake.

Sherlock' is brilliant television. It has completely reinvented British drama, and upped the stakes for home-grown shows.