Famous Quotes & Sayings

Adam Sandler

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

Drew Barrymore

I love roller coasters that make my stomach drop. One ride in Las Vegas, the Big Shot, straps you into a row of seats and catapults you into the air from the top of the Stratosphere Tower - then plummets back down. I ride it over and over; it's exhilarating.

Douglas Rushkoff

Your email inbox is a bit like a Las Vegas roulette machine. You know, you just check it and check it, and every once in a while there's some juicy little tidbit of reward, like the three quarters that pop down on a one-armed bandit. And that keeps you coming back for more.

Clive James

The thing about making a documentary in Las Vegas is there isn't much to film apart from other people making documentaries about Las Vegas.

Davy Jones

And actually, about three weeks ago, Micky, Peter and I were in Vegas at the MGM Grand. And we did about 12 shows in seven days. It was quite an experience.

Billy Gardell

I've been trying to watch my weight a bit, but when I come to Las Vegas, all bets are off. I get enough healthy food in L.A. where the food is the size of a quarter and costs $40 - when I'm in Vegas, I want a steak!

Jan Morris

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.

Cal Thomas

The Obama 'stimulus' plan is a $1 trillion dollar gamble more suited to Las Vegas than Washington.

Greg Fitzsimmons

I was just in Las Vegas, where prostitution is legal. Which is a relief because I live in Los Angeles, where it is mandatory.

Councilman Lopez

Our own people are going to other cities because we can't provide our own fields.

Jenny Williams

Our New York office, ... went to all the major music cities and said, 'Do you want to show us?' Cleveland got the most petitions and raised the most money.

Susan Williams

Sports as economic development has been a good deal for Indianapolis. It's now become a critical economic measure for our city, which we have to retain. Lots of cities are looking at this and want what we have.

Giovanni Peri

Our work shows that cities with more diversity -- more immigrants -- in the work force exhibit higher productivity for the American-born employees.

Laura Bush

Out of this rubble is going to come some good, ... Out of this devastation is going to come new cities and new hope.

Jim Bennett

Pinellas is probably a huge headache because you have 24 cities and the county that they have to negotiate with.

Barry McGee

That's immediately how I gauge how healthy a city is-by the amount of tags. It's just in direct competition with advertising. It's still one of the last things that hasn't been corrupted.

Billy Corgan

I often have deer on my property and there's a fox and owls. You're not going to see that in the city.

Bethany McLean

No city embraced privatization more eagerly than Chicago, where I live.

Suzanne Somers

I was actually going to be a chef before I got sidetracked. I used to make deserts for restaurants as a young teenage mother to make money.

Viggo Mortensen

I have never been in a natural place and felt that was a waste of time. I never have. And it's a relief. If I'm walking around a desert or whatever, every second is worthwhile.

Jim Bell

He's done a wonderful job as far as when he's represented Desert Vista High School.

Thomas B. Macaulay

He . . . felt towards those whom he had deserted that peculiar malignity which has, in all ages, been characteristic of apostates.

Sorin Cerin

There is no greater desert than that of life.

Benito Mussolini

I am not a collector of deserts!

Paul Murphy

Mount Desert is a key member of our partnership. We would hate to see that partnership dissolve.

Will Johnson

So it's a celebration of our new release, and the fact that we're old. But desert plants are old and beautiful.

Edward Abbey

Why do I live in the desert? Because the desert is the *locus Dei*.