Best 121 quotes in «las vegas quotes» category

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.

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

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

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.

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.

You can Cut Back or you can Make More Money

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...

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.

Hatred is not what Las Vegas is about.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I like Vegas for its spontaneity.

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

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

I love performing in Las Vegas.

I started a big part of my career in Vegas.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Las Vegas is a SimCity game gone horribly wrong.

Las Vegas was such a teeny, tiny place.

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.

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.

Man, I really like Vegas.

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

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.

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.

There's just no quiet in Vegas.

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

Bosch had never liked Las Vegas, though he came often on cases. It shared a kinship with Los Angeles; both were places desperate people ran to. Often, when they ran from Los Angeles, they came here. It was the only place left.

After the tragedy of Las Vegas sad incident... Definition of terrorism has got two meanings now, If done by a Muslim, IT IS AN ACT OF TERRORISM, but if committed by a non Muslim, it is an "ACT OF PURE EVIL!" Hypocrisy redefined...

Are ya glad to see me, or is that a roll of poker chips in your pants?

As the other two men moved toward the parking lot, Jay turned Ellie so that she had to face him. Now that she was safe and he was able to touch her, the anger burning inside him pushed toward the surface. “We talk here or at home. Your choice.” “Jay…” “No,” he said savagely. “I come home on a break to find a bullshit note from you, throwing away our relationship like it meant nothing, then I find out from Wyatt that you quit with no notice. You’re going to talk about whatever the fuck scared you enough to run. So you get a choice. Here. Or home.” Shifting from one foot to the other and still not looking at him, she finally whispered, “Home.