Las Vegas Quotes - Page 8

• I sometimes think of Las Vegas as the Jerusalem of chance. A holy city.

  Frank Scoblete

  Thinking, Vegas, Cities

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• Everybody knows about Las Vegas. It's a state of mind. Some people want to come with their kids and have a great weekend. Some people want to shop. Some people want to find hookers. Some people want to eat. Some people just want to gamble. It's a potpourri of decadence.

  Michael Douglas

  Kids, Weekend, Vegas

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• I was born and raised in Las Vegas, and then I left there to go to the University of Evansville where I majored in theatre.

  Rutina Wesley

  Vegas, Theatre, Born

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• [On Las Vegas:] ... The City That Never Sleeps. The City That Sins and Smiles and Lives On the Edge. The city where vices become virtues, become what everyone is here to do.

  Karen Kijewski

  Sleep, Cities, Vices

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• I've seen men in $5,000 suits urinate in public fountains here. Las Vegas is the best place on earth.

  Alissa Nutting

  Men, Vegas, Earth

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I've always thought of this city as Disneyland for adults. ... There's no danger of Las Vegas expiring from an excess of good taste.

  Mary Jo Putney

  Vegas, Cities, Taste

  Mary Jo Putney (2000). “The burning point”

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• Bailing out people who made ill-advised mortgages makes no more sense that bailing out people who lost their life savings in Las Vegas casinos.

  Thomas Sowell

  People, Saving, Casinos

  "Taxpayers’ Trillion". www.nationalreview.com. September 24, 2008 Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/225751/taxpayers-trillion-thomas-sowell.

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• [On Las Vegas:] I love that town. No clocks. No locks. No restrictions.

  Marlene Dietrich

  Vegas, Locks, Towns

  Marlene Dietrich (1962). “Marlene Dietrich's ABC.”

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• I love San Francisco, it's very hard to compete with San Francisco when it comes to availability of product, but one thing you can't replace about Las Vegas or Miami is people are walking in the door and they want to have a good time. They walk in, and this is the start of their good time.

  Michael Mina

  Vegas, Doors, San Francisco

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In Las Vegas we all know that it's the croupiers who win. At the race track, it's those who control the handle who win. State lotteries, does anybody think the participants in the lottery win? No. The state wins.

  John C. Bogle

  Winning, Thinking, Vegas

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• I don't think I've gone a day in my life without being inspired by Celine Dion. If you would've seen me at her concert in Las Vegas - like, I'm surprised I didn't get kicked out. I was literally sitting at the edge of my seat like the happiest girl in the entire universe.

  Lea Michele

  Girl, Thinking, Vegas

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• I was booked into the Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas with three other comedians. We all were using the Riviera in-house shampoo, so we all had equal shine and bounce.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Vegas

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• I got a hotel room at New York New York in Las Vegas and I was very happy. They've got that rollercoaster encircling the entire premises, just like Manhattan.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, New York, Humor

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• Las Vegas is incredible. Either you love it or you're a classy person with morals. I fall into the former category. It's definitely bled into my writing.

  Alissa Nutting

  Fall, Writing, Vegas

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Running a casino is like robbing a bank with no cops around. For guys like me, Las Vegas washes away your sins. It's like a morality car wash.

  Robert De Niro

  Running, Vegas, Car

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• New tracks like Las Vegas, hell, you could drive off the end of that track and continue safely 20 miles into the desert. But there's not a day goes by I don't think of Scott [Kalitta]. It's still traumatic.

  Connie Kalitta

  Thinking, Vegas, Track

  Source: blog.caranddriver.com

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• If you ever go to Las Vegas, and you will, just go for a few days. I was there recently for seven days, seven days in Vegas. After I blew all my money on gambling and prostitution, I had six days to kill.

  Doug Benson

  Gambling, Six, Seven Days

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• I'm a Sagittarian, see, I can't be fenced in. I been living in Las Vegas, greatest city in the world. I look out my window for 100 miles. In Vegas, there's nothing to do but gamble, drink or have sex. I have two of 'em.

  Redd Foxx

  Sex, Vegas, Cities

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I'll tell you how to beat the gambling in Las Vegas. When you get off the airplane, walk right into the propeller.

  Henny Youngman

  Airplane, Vegas, Gambling

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The Obama 'stimulus' plan is a $1 trillion dollar gamble more suited to Las Vegas than Washington.

  Cal Thomas

  Vegas, Dollars, Stimulus

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• Investing is like waiting for paint dry and grass grow so. If you like fun, let handle 800 USD and headed to Las Vegas

  Paul Samuelson

  Fun, Vegas, Waiting

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• TV tends to be like, if you're lucky, it's like Las Vegas. You can't get out. There's always another pitch meeting. They keep you on the casino floor. If I'm unlucky, if I'm lucky enough to be unlucky, I would love to write a movie.

  Dan Harmon

  Writing, Vegas, Lucky

  "Dan Harmon Talks HARMONTOWN, Touring, the Writing Process, RICK AND MORTY, COMMUNITY Season 6, and More". Interview with Eva Dickson, collider.com. October 2, 2014.

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• Las Vegas is the boxing capital. During a Floyd Mayweather fight weekend, you can shop, party, stay out late and do anything you want. The city of Las Vegas has everything.

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

  Party, Fighting, Weekend

  "Floyd Mayweather says delays just made fight with Manny Pacquiao bigger" by Kevin Mitchell, www.theguardian.com. April 15, 2015.

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• The Stonehenge proposal got a lot of interesting criticism. One of the best - or worst - said something like, "Go home to Las Vegas." I think this project could possibly be realized at a very late part of my career. Right now, I don't have the authority, the budget, the credibility.

  Aleksandra Mir

  Home, Thinking, Careers

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I saw money change votes.I mean, they just seem unaware of this, that money is something - if they want to see the appearance of corruption, all they had to do was look in Las Vegas last weekend.

  Mark Shields

  Mean, Weekend, Vegas

  Source: www.pbs.org

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