quotations about Las Vegas, Nevada
So much of Las Vegas falls under the heading "it has to be seen to be believed."
JEFF MAGUIRE
"Las Vegas is mostly fake but it's good fake", Inside Ottawa Valley, March 18, 2016
Las Vegas is finding the government A-bombs bouncing the greatest tourist lure since the invention of the nickel slot machines.
PERRY KAUFMAN
"The Best City of Them All: A History of Las Vegas, 1930-1960"
Today, we must look to the city of Las Vegas, Nevada as a metaphor of our national character and aspiration, its symbol a thirty-foot high cardboard picture of a slot machine and a chorus girl. For Las Vegas is a city entirely devoted to the idea of entertainment, and as such proclaims the spirit of a culture in which all public discourse increasingly takes the form of entertainment. Our politics, our religion, news, athletics, education and commerce have been transformed into congenial adjuncts of show business, largely without protest or even much popular notice.
NEIL POSTMAN
Amusing Ourselves to Death
Las Vegas is a city built on hopes, dreams, and a little bit of crazy.
MICHAEL MCDONALD
"Las Vegas' New Lights Will Be Powered by Footsteps", The Fiscal Times, March 26, 2016
I love how they're trying to bring culture to Vegas. Like the art museums. The Bellagio had an art museum. I get a kick out of that. C'mon. Where else in the world but Vegas could you stand in front of a Picasso with a bucket of nickels?
RAY ROMANO
stand-up routine
Las Vegas and the American Dream: two ideas intertwined like crossed fingers on a bloated corpse.
JONATHAN HEATT
Teaching Snapping Turtles How to Chew Bubblegum
Las Vegas is like being inside of trashy-fun snow globe.
LINETTE LOPEZ
"I went to the biggest Wall Street party of the year and everyone was miserable", Business Insider, May 16, 2016
If you aim to leave Las Vegas with a small fortune, go there with a large one.
ANONYMOUS
Las Vegas has changed a lot over the years. It's no longer a mob-controlled adult play-land. Now it's a corporate, family-friendly place where no one bats an eyelid when some schmuck pushes his kid's stroller through the craps tables at 1 a.m. I'm not sure what they call Family Services folks here, but they're probably busy playing Keno anyway.
BRIAN SACK
Banterist, Jun. 15, 2006
Many a man who goes to Las Vegas to get away from it all soon finds that Las Vegas gets it all away from him.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
It's hard to imagine a bigger desert oasis than Las Vegas.
CINNAMON STOMBERGER
"9 great quotes about Las Vegas", Las Vegas Review Journal, Nov. 15, 2013
Las Vegas marks itself out by nothingness. All the negative descriptions that can generally be used in labelling a city apply to it, for its absence of consistency actually makes its existence doubtful: no man's land, waste ground, non-place, ghost town, urban simulacrum, nowhere city, etc. For us it is Zeropolis, the non-city which is the very first city, just as zero is the very first number. The nothing that counts, the nothingness of neon.
BRUCE BEGOUT
Zeropolis
Las Vegas is known for discarding its past, like most people discard clothing, imploding buildings with little care for their historic value.
PAUL W. PAPA
It Happened in Las Vegas: Remarkable Events that Shaped History
Las Vegas has become, just as Bugsy Siegel dreamed, the American Monte Carlo--without any of the inevitable upper-class baggage of the Riviera casinos. At Monte Carlo there is still the plush mustiness of the nineteenth century noble lions.... There are still Wrong Forks, Deficient Accents, Poor Tailoring, Gauche Displays, Nouveau Richness, Cultural Aridity--concepts unknown in Las Vegas. For the grand debut of Monte Carlo as a resort in 1879 the architect Charles Garnier designed an opera house for the Place du Casino; and Sarah Bernhardt read a symbolic poem. For the debut of Las Vegas as a resort in 1946 Bugsy Siegel hired Abbot and Costello, and there, in a way, you have it all.
TOM WOLFE
The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby
Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Capitalism is a warrior culture, a hierarchical mode, and Las Vegas is its epitome.
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
Vegas has a knack for resilience and reinvention that even vintage-era Madonna might envy: The Strip is unrecognizable from my first trip there in the nineties, when I overnighted at the soon-to-be-demolished Sands Hotel. It adds and subtracts attractions with the fluency of a math prodigy.
MARK ELLWOOD
"Why It's Okay to Love Las Vegas", Condé Nast Traveler, March 15, 2016
Las Vegas, Nevada:
A city where oddities don't make you lame,
But instead bring you riches and fortune and fame.
WALTER WYKES
"The Tragical Tale of Melissa McHiney McNormous McWhale", One Act Plays from the Edge
Let's go back 20 years, to my first few trips to Sin City. Back then, genuine resorts were pretty thin on the ground, and the Vegas experience was very different. The emphasis wasn't on spectacular hotel rooms and wildly extravagant public spaces. It was more about providing facilities so gamblers could cover their basic hierarchy of needs -- bed, gambling, boozing and getting out of the desert heat.
PAUL SCULPHER
"Las Vegas risks pricing itself out of the market", Gambling Insider, March 23, 2016
Las Vegas is the latest travel company to let travellers have a taste of a destination or experience via virtual reality before they go. The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority has released an application providing travelers with a glimpse of what happens in Vegas. The Virtual Reality Companion app, available for both Apple and Android devices, offers 12 Las Vegas clips that can be viewed on a smartphone or using a virtual reality device such as Google Cardboard or Oculus.
LINDA FOX
"What happens in Las Vegas is now virtual", Tnooz, March 17, 2016