Quotes of Nevada - somelinesforyou

“ The difference between Las Vegas and Atlantic City is the difference between getting conned by a beautiful call girl and getting mugged by a crack head. ”

- Drew Carey

“ To some, Vegas is a vacation from being overinhibited, in that highly overinhabited yet uninhabitable place of complete uninhibition. ”

- Terri Guillemets

“ In Vegas, I got into a long argument with the man at the roulette wheel over what I considered to be an odd number. ”

- Steven Wright

“ Las Vegas is the only town in the world whose skyline is made up neither of buildings, like New York, nor of trees, like Wilbraham, Massachusetts, but signs. ”

- Tom Wolfe

“ For a loser Vegas is the meanest town on earth. ”

- Hunter S. Thompson

“ In the case of an earthquake hitting Las Vegas, be sure to go straight to the Keno Lounge. Nothing ever gets hit there. ”

- Unknown

“ Las Vegas looks the way you'd imagine heaven must look at night. ”

- Chuck Palahniuk

“ Nevada has a world-class economy. It will only build a world-class culture with world-class research universities coupled with the Desert Research Institute. ”

- James E. Rogers

“ I have been a resident of Nevada for 52 years. When I moved here, Las Vegas had a little over 22,000 people and Reno was only slightly larger. ”

- James E. Rogers

“ Presidents and presidential assassins are like Las Vegas and Salt Lake City. Even though one city is all about sin and the other is all about salvation, they are identical, one-dimensional company towns built up by the sheer will of true believers. ”

- Sarah Vowell

“ There is always a sneer in Las Vegas. The mountains around it sneer. The desert sneers. And arrogant in the middle of its wide valley, dominating those diligent sprawling suburbs, the downtown city sneers like anything. ”

- Jan Morris

“ The night before I left Las Vegas I walked out in the desert to look at the moon. There was a jeweled city on the horizon, spires rising in the night, but the jewels were diadems of electric and the spires were the neon of signs ten stories high. ”

- Norman Mailer

“ I know there has long been a great frustration among the African Americans in Nevada over their belief that we have not adequately responded to their desires to become more educated and more productive citizens. ”

- James E. Rogers

“ I was born and raised in the high desert of Nevada in a tiny town called Searchlight. My dad was a hard rock miner. My mom took in wash. I grew up around people of strong values - even if they rarely talked about them. ”

- Harry Reid

“ The terrorist attacks of September 11th did far more than destroy the World Trade Center, damage the Pentagon, and leave a scar in the heartland of Pennsylvania.The terrorists struck at the heart of business and industry, and no industry was hit harder than the tourism industry, the lifeblood of Nevada. ”

- Kenny Guinn
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