LAS VEGAS QUOTES
quotations about Las Vegas, Nevada
Las Vegas is the suicide capital of America ... and not everyone who comes here leaves here. Sometimes, what happens in Vegas truly stays in Vegas.
PAUL W. PAPA
Haunted Las Vegas: Famous Phantoms, Creepy Casinos, and Gambling Ghosts
Las Vegas is a major family destination. Nevada casinos have become American family values now. It's considered just fine to go into one of these windowless scary gambling-malls, drink yourself silly, lose your ass at roulette, and then go ogle showgirls with breast implants. Republicans do this now. Working-class folks do it in polyester stretch pants. It's normal.
BRUCE STERLING
WIRED Magazine, Nov. 1996
Seriously, why tour the world when all you have to do is visit Las Vegas and see all the highlights in one location?
JEFF MAGUIRE
"Las Vegas is mostly fake but it's good fake", Inside Ottawa Valley, March 18, 2016
"What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas" turned Sin City's tacit acceptance of naughtiness into formal permission, and earned the place gobs of money.
MARK ELLWOOD
"Why It's Okay to Love Las Vegas", Condé Nast Traveler, March 15, 2016
Las Vegas makes Reno seem like your friendly neighborhood grocery store.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Las Vegas history, the real Las Vegas history, makes fops and fools of even the most sincere explorers. The city's story is riddled with blind alleys, dead ends, crazy twists, and outright fabrication.
JOHN L. SMITH
foreward, Nevada Yesterdays
What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, but the 400-pound woman perched in front of a slot machine, oozing bum-flesh off her stool as she balanced a cocktail and cigarette in one hand and robotically tugged the slot arm with the other... that's still with me.
BRIAN SACK
Banterist, Jun. 15, 2006
Good girls go to Heaven. Bad girls go to Vegas.
ANONYMOUS
In Las Vegas, nothing ends very well.
WALTER WYKES
"The Tragical Tale of Melissa McHiney McNormous McWhale", One Act Plays from the Edge
So my Vegas sermon comes down to this: If you like living in springtime weather nearly 10 months out of the year (yeah, it's broiling in the summer, but the rest of the time it's spring), getting a lot for your housing dollar ($250,000 gets you a 3 bedroom, 2 bath, two-story house in an upscale neighborhood), having world-class entertainment a couple of miles away and having easy access to the best food in the world, you might want to consider Las Vegas.
RICH JOHNSON
"Vegas ego trip: Life outside The Strip", Washington's Top News, April 2, 2016
Las Vegas was and is a hard town that will make you pay for your inability to restrain your desires.... If you have a weakness, Las Vegas will punish you.
HAL ROTHMAN
Neon Metropolis
Las Vegas stinks. It is loud and hot.
JOHN O'BRIEN
Leaving Las Vegas
Las Vegas is a resort whose two chief sources of income are seven and eleven.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
Las Vegas was like that. There was a visceral attraction here. The bold promise of money and sex. But the first was a broken promise, a mirage, and the second was fraught with danger, expense, physical and mental risk. It was where the real gambling took place in this town.
MICHAEL CONNELLY
Trunk Music
[Vegas] shared a kinship with Los Angeles; both were places desperate people ran to. Often, when they ran from Los Angeles, they came here. It was the only place left.
MICHAEL CONNELLY
Trunk Music
Las Vegas looks the way you'd imagine heaven must look at night.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
Invisible Monsters
Las Vegas is the only place I know where money really talks--it says, "Goodbye."
FRANK SINATRA
The Joker Is Wild
Las Vegas is sort of like how God would do it if he had money.
STEVE WYNN
"9 great quotes about Las Vegas", Las Vegas Review Journal, Nov. 15, 2013
For a loser Vegas is the meanest town on earth.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Riding into Las Vegas always challenges my senses. Here is a big gleaming city where there really shouldn't be a city ... a big, sprawling city that feels so impersonal with chain after chain of restaurants, stores, everything ... It all looks so new and modern and, quite frankly, contrived.
JOHN MCKAY
"Our Town: Views of the Southwest, from Morgan Hill", The Morgan Hill Times, June 28, 2018