Best 121 quotes in «las vegas quotes» category

Water problems in the western United States, when viewed from afar, can seem tantalizingly easy to solve: all we need to do is turn off the fountains at the Bellagio, stop selling hay to China, ban golf, cut down the almond trees, and kill all the lawyers.

If what happens in Las Vegas is supposed to stay in Las Vegas, how did Harry Reid get out?

While I began my career as a painter in the early 1980s, I became increasingly curious about the possibilities promised by digital tools - so I switched my traditional media for computer equipment. Digital Camera, 2017

You always thought you were better than everyone,” he snarled as he slung her to the floor by her hair.

A little bit of this town goes a very long way.

Hatred is not what Las Vegas is about.

History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of "history" it seems entirely reasonable to think that every now and then the energy of a whole generation comes to a head in a long fine flash, for reasons that nobody understands at the time--and which never explain, in retrospect, what actually happened.

I also want to return to doing stand-up. I've become frightened of live audiences. This is a really telling sign that I need to go back on the comedy circuit again.

I do a lot of Vegas work and work with the comedians.

What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas ... but that doesn’t matter when you live there.

When I first started showing the “Indra’s Jewels” work, I had people coming out of the woodwork saying “Who is this guy? What is he doing? Who does he think he is doing this stuff?” and the more they’d find out they’d go “Oh, he was a painter? He taught for more than decade on the university level? He knows what he’s talking about? Oh, well let’s look at it a little closer.

When I take a picture of a derelict sign, I already begin to see and find the patterns and shapes that will form the final piece. Once I get the image in the studio, I begin to layer the patterns created, making sure to save the patterns I particularly like. I never lose a layer of work during this process; I simply continue to build and modify those patterns that appeal to me. Digital Camera, 2017

With the academic background that I had, I found that I was able to stretch my imagination and stretch my exploration beyond what I thought I was capable of, which was really fascinating to me, and very fulfilling.

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You can lead if you want." He whipped them around so he moved backward, pulling her with him across the floor. "You're still leading," she said. "Perception is a tricky thing." He kissed the side of her neck, and shivers followed. "I know on way to lead." She dropped her hand from his shoulder to the band of his shorts, and slipped her hand in his waistband. He sucked in a breath, and her hand snaked downward. She stroked the length of him, feeling him grow hard and rigid. "Mei." He pulled her closer...

You’ve got to do what interests you. And it can’t matter [how popular it is]—maybe it’s not what’s current now, or what’s being celebrated—but sooner or later people will take notice because it’ll have a vibrancy and a truthfulness to it; it is you, it’s you speaking, it’s you painting. So to me, I thought, why fight it? Let’s see how it goes. I have nothing better to do in this life, so let’s just see where it goes, and where it takes me.

I always feel like an interloper when I do serious drama. It's my own paranoia.

If an original piece of wardrobe came up from Star Wars, I'd probably spend a lot of money on it.

I like the Eiffel Tower in Las Vegas more than the actual one.

I have always loved Las Vegas. It's a traditional place for lounge comics to perform, and I love that.

I had a great time doing Vegas. It's just that it takes a lot of time.

I like Vegas for its spontaneity.

I love coming to Las Vegas. I've always loved it and always had a good time.

I love Las Vegas. I like that Las Vegas has everything. Everything and anything you want to do, you can do in Las Vegas.

It's like a crapshoot in Las Vegas, except in Las Vegas the odds are with the house. As for the market, the odds are with you, because on average over the long run, the market has paid off.

I love performing in Las Vegas.

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.

In Las Vegas, nothing ends very well.

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

In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.

I shouldn't be near Vegas and have money in my pocket.

I started a big part of my career in Vegas.

I've played a lot in Las Vegas in my life.

My work's never been accepted by my family, but it's something I'll always carry on with.

Las Vegas is a SimCity game gone horribly wrong.

I work a lot, and not just in Las Vegas.

Las Vegas is a 24-hour city. It never stops.

Las Vegas was such a teeny, tiny place.

Man, I really like Vegas.

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.

This desert town was man's own miracle of pure purposelessness.

No sympathy for the devil; keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride...and if it occasionally gets a little heavier than what you had in mind, well...maybe chalk it off to forced conscious expansion: Tune in, freak out, get beaten.

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.

There's just no quiet in Vegas.

Secretly, I had always wanted to go to Vegas, and have my own really bad act!

We'd just released a zebra in Las Vegas.

Too weird to live, and too rare to die.

What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas - except the drone.

We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something like "I feel a bit lightheaded; maybe you should drive...." And suddenly there was a terrible roar all around us and the sky was full of what looked like huge bats, all swooping and screeching and diving around the car, which was going about a hundred miles an hour with the top down to Las Vegas.

Best workout ever." Darius sat next to her and rested his back against the soft mat. She laughed and fumbled to put on her bra. He lifted the weight of her hair from her back and helped her pull down her silk shirt. For a moment, he held the length of her hair in his hand as he had the swing rope. He tugged gently to turn her face to his, and then released it. His face was open and relaxed, his pale blue eyes warm and content. His knees fell open to rest against hers. The feel of skin on skin, bone to bone, was easy, the most natural thing in the world. "Next time we should try the pommel horse." Mei laughed. "You still got pommeling on your mind?" "Oh yeah." He signed and tilted his chin to the ciling, exposing the length of his throat. "Some pommeling and tumbling would be good. We've got time to make up for.