quotations about Las Vegas, Nevada
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
If you aim to leave Las Vegas with a small fortune, go there with a large one.
ANONYMOUS
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, 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
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 and the American Dream: two ideas intertwined like crossed fingers on a bloated corpse.
JONATHAN HEATT
Teaching Snapping Turtles How to Chew Bubblegum
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
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 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
For decades, Las Vegas has loved Elvis Presley tender -- and loved him true -- but the King's presence in modern day Sin City has lately been diminishing, one impersonator at a time.
CORY COOPER
"Elvis no longer a major draw for Las Vegas tourism", Fox News, March 16, 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
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
Las Vegas always seems to have one more ace in the hole, one more trick up its sleeve to keep the lights on, the casino floors humming and the dreamers, the players and the suckers coming back over and over again.
BEN COSGROVE
"Vintage Vegas: Scenes From a Desert Boomtown", Time, May 8, 2014