LAS VEGAS QUOTES V

quotations about Las Vegas, Nevada

If you aim to leave Las Vegas with a small fortune, go there with a large one.

ANONYMOUS

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No one thinks Las Vegas is real; it is illusion, but visitors willingly suspend disbelief and pretend.

HAL ROTHMAN

Neon Metropolis


Las Vegas exists chiefly to satisfy the needs and desires of its visitors, and this it does in spectacular fashion. Sin City has taken or re-created the best that other great cities have to offer and then upped the ante -- making it bigger, grander, flashier.

SCOTT DOGGETT

Lonely Planet Las Vegas

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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

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There's really only one constant in Las Vegas and that's change.

TRAVIS HOIUM

"3 Projects That Will Totally Change the Las Vegas Strip", The Motley Fool, March 19, 2016


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


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 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


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 is like that, a place that resonates in such a way that wouldn't now if the place is real.

IAN ASTBURY

"The Cult's Ian Astbury brings the fire, but can simmer, too", Las Vegas Sun, May 19, 2016


It shouldn't come as a shock that Las Vegas has a dark side. A secret about the valley -- which really isn't much of a secret if you can decode the messages behind the overly sexualized billboards.

SANDY LOPEZ

"Is Las Vegas a good place to raise a family?", Las Vegas Review-Journal, March 27, 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

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Vegas is a city built on over-expectation. The whole, largely unspoken, theme of the place is that if you have money, you're going to have a much better time than those other guys, and you can make sure to be seen spending it, which must simply make you a better person.

PAUL SCULPHER

"Las Vegas risks pricing itself out of the market", Gambling Insider, March 23, 2016


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


Las Vegas is the entertainment capital of the world, where sleep is a mere inconvenience interrupting a continuous stream of fun and hedonism, and where everything is bigger, louder, flashier and trashier than anywhere else in the world.

JACKIE STADDON & HILARY WESTON

Fodor's 25 Best Las Vegas


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


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

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Nationally, Las Vegas is known as the city of slot machines and 24-hour strip clubs. Billboards serve as a constant reminder of all "Sin City" has to offer. But venture off the Strip and beyond downtown, and you'll find parts of the valley that resemble any other piece of suburban America.

SANDY LOPEZ

"Is Las Vegas a good place to raise a family?", Las Vegas Review-Journal, March 27, 2016


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