Las Quotes

Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas. (Paul Samuelson)
I used to be with a publishing house called Roosevelt Music. A gentleman there told me he had seen Peggy Lee perform Fever in Las Vegas and I found out later she wanted to record it. View quote
Otis Blackwell
Las Vegas is the expression, in glitter and concrete, of America's brittle and mutating id. View quote
John Burdett
Our old-fashioned system is better than any new-fangled voting machine. Not only is it guaranteed to work, but there is something I find appealing in putting a mark on a piece of paper for the candidate of your choice, as opposed to pulling a lever as if you were gambling on a slot machine in Las Vegas. View quote
Jean Chrétien
I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas. View quote
Tom Waits
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. View quote
Ray Romano
Sure, we loaned money to build hotels and casinos in Las Vegas. So what? Las Vegas borrowers were good customers. View quote
Jimmy Hoffa
Las Vegas is the only place I know where money really talks--it says, Goodbye. View quote
Frank Sinatra
The reason we shot it was that the script was geared to Las Vegas and it was something commercial that we wanted to have in the can in case Butterfly was a success and we needed a follow-up. View quote
Pia Zadora
We'd just released a zebra in Las Vegas. View quote
Rick Riordan
I lost $35,000 in less than a week at the Mirage in Las Vegas. (Dennis Rodman)
Your email inbox is a bit like a Las Vegas roulette machine. You know, you just check it and check it, and every once in a while there's some juicy little tidbit of reward, like the three quarters that pop down on a one-armed bandit. And that keeps you coming back for more. View quote
Douglas Rushkoff
I met Elvis first in Las Vegas. I think I was appearing with Tom Jones and he came backstage to say hello to Tom or we went to his dressing room to say hello. View quote
Norm Crosby
Howard Hughes himself was a regular at the restaurant, and in a way it became his headquarters, too. Howard had recently relocated to Las Vegas, so when he wanted to do business in Los Angeles, he went into the back of our restaurant to use the telephone. View quote
Esther Williams
I had a big troupe, a big army and it was a lot of fun. And, after 10 years of that, I just decided that I wanted to travel and do special dates. I go to Las Vegas these days. View quote
Bobby Vinton
Las Vegas is a very strange place. It's a place of broken dreams. View quote
Concha Buika
I love the live performances and Las Vegas. I also like making films that are being discovered by another generation. Having been a teen idol of the '60s is great because you realize you left your generation with a smile and good memories. View quote
Connie Stevens
My daughter just graduated college and she's a dance major. She's done a couple of dance videos already and won Miss Massachusetts a couple of weeks ago. She's going out for Miss United States the second week of July, out in Las Vegas. She will probably wind up going to New York and trying the Broadway thing. View quote
Doug Flutie
Las Vegas is a 24-hour city. It never stops. View quote
Eli Roth
If you were black, you experienced prejudice. It wasn't a real horrible thing for us; we went through it. We noticed it mostly in the South and in Las Vegas, where we couldn't stay in the hotels where we entertained. But that began to change. View quote
Harold Nicholas
Las Vegas without Wayne Newton is like Disneyland without Mickey Mouse. (Merv Griffin)
Obviously, I try to make the films work for an audience. That's the main point of making a film, and in retrospect, one can see that certain films, let's say Leaving Las Vegas, demonstrated its own success. View quote
Mike Figgis
I really love Las Vegas. It's, like, my favorite place to be. I love to DJ out there. It is the place to be as a DJ. View quote
Pauly D
The success of one market model cannot be migrated to another. Ignoring Macau's special characteristics and duplicating a Las Vegas or an Atlantic City would not be a successful strategy. View quote
Stanley Ho
The guys have a lot of good cars built up. We're going to do some more testing before we go back to Las Vegas and try to win at Vegas again. We need to get off to a quick start. View quote
Sterling Marlin