LAS VEGAS QUOTES III
quotations about Las Vegas, Nevada
Las Vegas weddings are a phenomenon not quite like any other. The industry attracts cheers and jeers, but it touches a couple of hundred thousand people annually on the most important day of their lives.
SUSAN MARG
Las Vegas Weddings
If you know how to live in Vegas you can have the best time.
TONY CURTIS
"9 great quotes about Las Vegas", Las Vegas Review Journal, Nov. 15, 2013
While I was busy hating Vegas, and hiding from Vegas, a funny thing happened. I grew to love Vegas.
J. R. MOEHRINGER
"9 great quotes about Las Vegas", Las Vegas Review Journal, Nov. 15, 2013
A little bit of this town goes a very long way.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
People think that Las Vegas is the Strip and downtown, and that there is not a community of almost 2 million people out here.
DENYCE TULLER
"Family-friendly Sin City: What does Las Vegas have for kids?", Las Vegas Review-Journal, March 27, 2016
Las Vegas is the original casino resort and the touchstone for anyone looking at the casino industry as a whole. While it could easily be argued that other locations around the world are more important -- certainly with regard to gross gaming revenue -- Vegas is always a place that most people mentally jump to when they think of casinos, and indeed for the western world it has always been the cathedral of gaming.
PAUL SCULPHER
"Las Vegas risks pricing itself out of the market", Gambling Insider, March 23, 2016
Vegas is its own thing. I think we're really proud that we're not LA and we're not New York. We don't have these preconceived ideas about what our style is.... It's a total amalgamation, and I think we own it.
ROXIE AMOROSO
"Spring Style: The Season Gets Electric in Main Street's Indie Fashion Corridor", Las Vegas Weekly, March 17, 2016
Las Vegas is the therapeutic ethos of our time run amok, our socio-psychological promise to ourselves to be eternally young writ large on the landscape of aging self-indulgence.
HAL ROTHMAN
"The Shape of the City -- Money and the Visual Face of Las Vegas", Stripping Las Vegas: A Contextual Review of Casino Resort Architecture
What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas ... but that doesn't matter when you live there.
MICHELLE MADOW
The Secret Diamond Sisters
The reinvention of American culture as purely the self catapulted Las Vegas to prominence. The city took sin and made it choice -- a sometimes ambiguous choice, but choice nonetheless. Combined with a visionary approach to experience that melded Hollywood and Americans' taste for comfort and self-deception, Las Vegas grew into the last American frontier city, as foreign at times as Prague but as quintessential as Peoria. In Las Vegas, you can choose your fantasy; in the rest of America, you don't always get to pick.
HAL ROTHMAN
"The Shape of the City -- Money and the Visual Face of Las Vegas", Stripping Las Vegas: A Contextual Review of Casino Resort Architecture
In a city of illusion, where change is what the city does, it's no wonder Las Vegas is the court of last resort, the last place to start over, to reinvent yourself in the same way that the city does, time after time. For some it works; for some it doesn't, but they keep coming and trying.
HAL ROTHMAN
Neon Metropolis
Las Vegas is Everyman's cut-rate Babylon. Not far away there is, or was, a roadside lunch counter and over it a sign proclaiming in three words that a Roman emperor's orgy is now a democratic institution.... "Topless Pizza Lunch."
ALISTAIR COOKE
America
When it comes to the foibles of human nature, Las Vegas always has been a natural magnet.
DUSTIN WAX
Las Vegas Review Journal, March 20, 2014
We know that Las Vegas is junk, but at the same time I think that exactly the same process and ultimately also, perhaps the same logic, attaches itself to or underlies our masterpieces. We live in an amazing era when in spite of an absence of masters there is an explosion of masterpieces.
REM KOOLHAAS
attributed, Stripping Las Vegas: A Contextual Review of Casino Resort Architecture
Las Vegas: It was not cafe society, it was Nescafe society
NOEL COWARD
attributed, Vera of Las Vegas
Las Vegas has come to be known as the Marriage Capital of the World. Sure, there's probably not as many successful marriages coming in and out of Sin City (shocking, right), but the Little White Chapel is the one-stop shop to start a future together! They even have a drive-thru wedding package to keep the love quick and easy.
KELLY BRICKEY
"13 Things You Must Do While in Las Vegas for the ACM Awards", Sounds Like Nashville, March 29, 2016
I'd rather be in Las Vegas 104 degrees than New York 90 degrees, you know why? Legalized prostitution. In any weather that takes the edge off.
RAY ROMANO
Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist
I go to Las Vegas--or at least I went to Las Vegas--because even though I knew everything that was sinister, calculating, and evil about it, I loved Las Vegas. Only in Vegas could I dare to fantasize that I was a Friend of Frank. Or that I was throwing the dice at Dino's favorite table. Or that I might luck out and sip bourbon with Rickles after his last lounge show. The D.I. oozed that kind of heady fantasy.
MARC COOPER
The Last Honest Place in America
Las Vegas seemed to have invented a new school of functional architecture, "The Gilded Mousetrap School" he thought it might be called, whose main purpose was to channel the customer-mouse into the central gambling trap whether he wanted the cheese or not.
IAN FLEMING
Diamonds Are Forever
Las Vegas is just a great place to hang.
DARIUS RUCKER
"Darius Rucker: 'I'm just staying true to myself and making music that I like'", Las Vegas Sun, April 2, 2016