Top 100 Nevada's Quotes
#1. Nevada's one of the most conservative states in the Union, but you can do what you want in Vegas and nobody judges you.
Drew Carey
#2. I know that many students take personal responsibility for their education and succeed as a result. I want them to know they are not alone - that Nevada's system can and will support them.
Brian Sandoval
#3. Patenting and purchase of lands are absolutely vital to the health of Nevada's rural communities.
Jim Gibbons
#4. Gaming is the backbone of Nevada's economy.
Kenny Guinn
#5. But unlike Nevada, Ireland had to fend for itself when it came to propping up its banks and paying its unemployment benefits. Lacking a printing press, it had to go cap in hand to the money markets to borrow huge quantities of money that, in Nevada's case, had been paid for at the federal level.
Yanis Varoufakis
#6. Part of her soul ... gloried in the sheer bodacious unnaturalness of it. Putting a great blue-green water park smack down in the red desert complete with cactus, trading posts, genuine Navajo Indians, and five kinds of rattlesnakes was theater of the absurd at its most outrageous.
Nevada Barr
#7. Speak to me."
"I hate you."
"Okay." Mad Rogan let go of me. "You're fine.
Ilona Andrews
#8. I'm of Irish descent, so I'm practically flammable in sunlight, and there's nothing quite as vicious as the cruel dry heat of the southern Nevada desert.
Bethany Walker
#9. That's the nature of our relationship". A spark lit his eyes. "We both do what's necessary, and after it's over, I watch you freak out about it."
"I don't."
"Oh, I don't want you to stop. I find it highly amusing
Ilona Andrews
#10. And your skin is like honey. I wonder how you taste."
Bitter and tired. "Mhm.
Ilona Andrews
#11. Tax cuts continue to benefit families, seniors, and small business owners, as evidenced by unparalleled economic growth in Nevada and across the country.
Jon Porter
#12. Oh. "So the best way to fight you is to strip naked and attack?"
His eyes flashed with a wicked light. "Yes. You should try it and see what happens.
Ilona Andrews
#13. Anna drove with the window rolled down, breathing in the essence of autumn: an exhalation of a forest readying itself for sleep, a smell so redolent with nostalgia a pleasant ache warmed her bones and she was nagged with the sense of a loss she could not remember.
Nevada Barr
#14. Nevada appeared to be a firewall for Hillary Clinton.
Renee Montagne
#15. A man had no right to be this fiercely sexual without even trying.
Ilona Andrews
#16. But he was big and, superwoman or not, Anna knew when all else was equal, big won. Young won. The point was to make sure all else was as unequal as possible.
Nevada Barr
#17. Against my mouth she groaned. "I hate being quiet."
A breathless chuckled escaped me.
"Me too. Once we're home ... "
"Lots of noise.
Lisa Kessler
#18. I'm so proud to bring the title of Miss USA back to Nevada.
Nia Sanchez
#19. In 2001, Katie Couric told 'Today Show' audiences that 7 percent of Americans doubt the moon landing happened - that it was staged in the Nevada desert.
Annie Jacobsen
#20. 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.
Michael Connelly
#21. Love is like the weather in Nevada
you don't know what the freak happens!
Selina
#22. Myths that need clarification: "Everyone in California lives on a white, sandy beach." False. The only people who live on California beaches are vacationers from Arizona, Utah, and Nevada who own condos.
Erma Bombeck
#23. Higher education is not growing fast enough to meet the needs of Nevada.
James E. Rogers
#24. Prison would kill him. Not neatly or cleanly or quickly, It would kill him with ten thousand days of gray, each taking a bite of his sanity until all that remained was huddled terror with the body of a man wrapped around it.
Nevada Barr
#25. From its founding, [Nevada] has always struggled to belong. It has had a series of masters
the mining industry, the railroads, the federal government, and now gaming and tourism
that have driven the state's economy and compelled its direction.
Hal Rothman
#27. From long experience she knew that she wore her loneliness like armor. Very few people ever recognized it for what it was. To the casual observer it looked very much like arrogance. Sometimes it was.
Nevada Barr
#28. Perhaps love was like the mumps. If a woman came down with it after forty, it could kill her
Nevada Barr
#29. I think what's going to hurt the Republicans enormously is the extremist position of Mitt Romney on the immigration issue and states like New Mexico, states like Colorado, Nevada, Arizona - and I think it's going to be the margin of victory for President Obama, a very narrow victory.
Bill Richardson
#30. Can you turn so you're not pressed against me?"
"I could," he said, his voice amused. "But then you would have to lie on top of me."
My brain said, "NO." My body went, "Wheee!
Ilona Andrews
#31. ...the Sierra Nevada claimed me, aching knees and pumping heart, as one of it's own. Here, like nowhere else, I'm home.
Chris Robertson
#32. I don't believe in luck.'
'Then it's for blessings. God gives us children in blessings. It's never by chance.'
- Charisse & Nevada, Ch. 33
Sylvia Hubbard
#33. Over the weekend, John Kerry - the big John Kerry juggernaut moves on - he won primaries in Washington D.C., Nevada and, I think, Canada. And he's so confident that he's started nailing that intern again.
David Letterman
#34. You've got to stay in the game. Your luck's bound to change. Be a shame to miss it,
Nevada Barr
#35. Maybe I should drive," Troy said. "She knows what she's doing," Mad Rogan said. I sniffed. "What?" "The fragrance of a genuine compliment from Mad Rogan. So rare and sweet.
Ilona Andrews
#36. For a while they sat without talking. Anna got her daypack and dug out a paperback copy of Ivanhoe. It produced a book's inevitable effect. In cats it stimulated the urge to sit on the pages. In humans it stimulated conversation.
Nevada Barr
#37. You can screw Nevada,
Mess with Maine,
Leave Hawaii in a puddle of pain.
You can beat Virginia
till she's down on the floor.
But if you fuck with Tex,
You'll be on your knees for sure!
Jeff Williams
#38. Nevada is a little different than most states. We only meet every other year in the legislature. So it's very important to have good relationships on both sides of the aisle ... I have to have those relationships.
Brian Sandoval
#39. Anna ... envied Joan's deep connection with the human race. She was a member of the club. Anna was half convinced she'd been begotten by a passing alien life-form on a human woman. It was as good an explanation as any for the sense she had of being an outsider.
Nevada Barr
#40. And if you like 14.4 percent unemployment, if you like the fact that 70 percent of home mortgages in Nevada are underwater, then stay the course. Vote for Harry Reid.
John Cornyn
#41. Only humans, cursed with the knowledge of their own mortality and that of those whom they loved, were truly alone; each trapped in an ivory tower of skull and bone peeking out through the windows of the soul. THE
Nevada Barr
#42. Chicago is not the most corrupt of cities. The state of New Jersey has a couple. Need we mention Nevada? Chicago, though, is the Big Daddy. Not more corrupt, just more theatrical, more colorful in its shadiness.
Studs Terkel
#43. Which idiot put the GOP convention the same time as 'Burning Man' in Nevada? Is there time to change this?
Grover Norquist
#44. But if you go over the line, you don't want to get stuck in a Nevada State court room. Honestly, because Nevada has been doing a good job of putting California criminals in jail. I mean, we couldn't put OJ in jail, but they did. We couldn't put Paris Hilton in jail, but they did.
James Belushi
#45. The National Endowment of the Humanities is the reason we have in northern Nevada every January a cowboy poetry festival. Had that program not been around, the tens of thousands of people who come there every year would not exist.
Harry Reid
#46. I have a family full of quirky people. Someone has to be sensible so all of you can enjoy being reckless weirdos.
Ilona Andrews
#47. I am humbled and grateful for the four years the people of the state of Nevada have given me as governor and I am proud of the work we all did.
Jim Gibbons
#48. To be human was to be melodramatic, to feel things acutely, love and hate and lust, to search for the Holy Grail, outrun the other kids in the fifty-yard dash and care mightily about it.
Nevada Barr
#49. You seem to be under the impression that I work for you and you can give me orders. Let me fix that. I hung up.
Ilona Andrews
#50. Generally speaking, it's a very hard thing to wrap your head around that a drone operator in Nevada can be releasing munitions in the Middle East.
Neill Blomkamp
#51. How long does it take?" I asked. "I'm sorry?" "How long does it take you to get dressed for work in the morning?" "Two and a half hours," she said. "Do they pay you overtime for that?
Ilona Andrews
#52. Dose it ever amaze and delight you that of all the places in the world - cold grassy nests under hedgerows, warm patches of sun on a carpet - the cat chooses to sit on your lap?
Nevada Barr
#54. Obviously, Nevada doesn't prohibit all forms of gambling, but you have to submit yourself to a very rigorous regulatory process to run a gambling operation in Nevada.
Eric Schneiderman
#56. Nevada has a very dynamic economy, with gambling being the number-one industry, followed closely by blood donorship.
Dave Barry
#57. nothing like it. The temperature on the north side of the Sierra Nevada stayed
Chris Stewart
#58. I can buy your contract." "No, you can't. Any sale of our mortgage requires my consent, and I won't consent to it." He grinned. "You don't want to work under me?" "I'm not even going to dignify that with an answer.
Ilona Andrews
#59. What are your qualifications for this job?" she asked. "I'm expendable," I said.
Ilona Andrews
#60. In 1984, Nevada Senator Paul Laxalt gave me the opportunity of a lifetime to serve as a legislative intern in his office in Washington, D.C. Coming from humble beginnings, the experience changed my life and charted me on a path of public service.
Brian Sandoval
#61. There is supercomputer somewhere in the Nevada desert whose sole function is to count the number of times that I have said the following, because it is unquantifiable by human minds at this point, but this time it's really true: I should have stayed home.
David Rakoff
#63. I represent a district in Nevada, a state that is home to more wild horses than all other states combined.
Jon Porter
#64. Nevada was hit hardest by the recession - highest unemployment, highest foreclosure rate, highest bankruptcy rate.
Brian Sandoval
#65. President Bush is a liar. He betrayed Nevada and he betrayed the country ... All Americans should be concerned, not just because he lied to me or the people of Nevada and indeed all Americans, but because the President's decision threatens Americans' lives.
Harry Reid
#66. If Democrats start consistently winning Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Nevada, the electoral outlook for Republicans in the future is mighty bleak.
Mark McKinnon
#67. Well, there's always Nevada," Benny said. "You can buy anything from a hand laser to an atom bomb there.
Joe Haldeman
#68. I'm moving to Nevada. Either there or kill myself.
Raymond Carver
#69. If you're really hard up, I can introduce you to my grandmother. She's a fan." Adam blinked. "She doesn't typically sleep with pretty young things, but she would make an exception in your case. You might even learn a trick or two.
Ilona Andrews
#70. She who showed weakness to teenagers would be picked on to death. True fact of life.
Ilona Andrews
#71. Of all the mountain ranges I have climbed, I like the Sierra Nevada the best.
John Muir
#72. You use your whole body like you did when you played as a kid. Grown-up amusements don't allow for crawling and wriggling, getting good and muddy, and tearing the knees of your pants.
Nevada Barr
#73. Nature was taking back what had once been hers.
Nevada Barr
#74. As I said in my state of the state address, we can no longer rely on gaming and sales taxes to pay our way. Indian gaming next door in California is eroding our major industry in Nevada.
Kenny Guinn
#75. Las Vegas, Nevada: A city where oddities don't make you lame, But instead bring you riches and fortune and fame.
Walter Wykes
#76. I had come to appreciate the long open stretches of two-lane highway across the sagey sea and mountain-studded plateau of the Great Basin, but the towns and cities were another thing. I liked the natural face of Nevada, but was not as impressed by the human face.
Neil Peart
#77. Nevada has a world-class economy. It will only build a world-class culture with world-class research universities coupled with the Desert Research Institute.
James E. Rogers
#78. And let's be honest, you weren't exactly harmed. I even took you home." "You dumped me on my doorstep. According to my mother, I looked half dead." "Your mother exaggerates. A third dead at most." I stared at him. Wow. Just wow.
Ilona Andrews
#80. Did you see how she got all hot under the collar?" Grandma Frida said in a theatrical whisper behind me. She's not over him.
"I can hear you!
Ilona Andrews
#81. Hers was an evil-sounding chuckle that Anna loved. The sort of chortle Dorothy might have heard shortly before all hell broke loose in the land of Oz
Nevada Barr
#82. Worry about right and wrong wasn't a concept he embraced. Right and wrong were ephemerals; they changed from every angle, from hour to hour, depending on which side of any of a thousand borders a soldier was born.
Nevada Barr
#83. Anna remembered her fifth grade teacher, Mr. White, telling her that hatred wasn't the worst of emotions. If one hated, one still cared. Indifference was the most inhuman.
Nevada Barr
#84. Anna took her solace where she always did. The smell of the earth, the touch of the sky held for her a special alchemy, able to turn loneliness into aloneness, and so make it, if not sacred, at least bearable.
Nevada Barr
#85. Whoever had come up with the chant "Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me" had been an idiot.
Nevada Barr
#86. He looked like he needed some jungle ruins to explore or some bad people to hit with a chair. Trouble was, he was the bad people.
Ilona Andrews
#87. Now, finally, the earth was hers with no taint of Heaven.
Nevada Barr
#88. Area 51 is located in southern Nevada desert about 75 miles north of Las Vegas. It's set inside a greater land parcel that's about the size of the state of Connecticut that's called the 'Nevada Test and Training Range.'
Annie Jacobsen
#89. I was born and raised in the high desert of Nevada in a tiny town called Searchlight. My dad was a hard rock miner. My mom took in wash. I grew up around people of strong values - even if they rarely talked about them.
Harry Reid
#90. When I went to college at the University of Nevada back in Las Vegas, I got tricked into singing in choir. The first thing we did was the Mozart 'Requiem.' That was the piece that changed my life overnight.
Eric Whitacre
#91. American mythology would have it that divorced or widowed women in their middle years were desperate to remarry. That had not been Polly's experience. Most had made lives they enjoyed and would only compromise for a very shiny white knight with a particularly breathtaking steed.
Nevada Barr
#92. Seat belts. Welcome to Psi Services. I'm Zach and I'll be your driver on this epic quest to freedom. If you look out your windows
but, obviously, don't because Ruby just told you not to
you can give Nevada the finger as we pull away.
Alexandra Bracken
#93. The travel and tourism industry is the lifeblood of many states around the country - including Florida, California, New York and Nevada, to name a few.
Mark Foley
#94. I'm a known fugitive who likes to set people on fire. Come away with me so we can have hot sex while the entire city is trying to shoot me in the head. If I get bored, I'll barbecue you for my amusement. Sure, let me get my shoes.
Ilona Andrews
#95. How do we get out of this circle?" I asked him.
"We kill him," he said.
"Good. Let's kill him and go home."
"I thought you'd never ask.
Ilona Andrews
#96. One school of thought says that the best way to handle an issue like this is exposure therapy," Mad Rogan said. "For example, if you're terrified of snakes, repeated handling of them will cure it."
Aha. "I'm not handling your snake.
Ilona Andrews
#97. It's not how much you spend, it's how you spend it. We have been putting a lot of money into education in the state of Nevada, and it's gotten us to 50th in the country in graduation rates. We needed more accountability in our system.
Brian Sandoval
#98. The premise of my whole campaign has been not that people need to believe what I say to them, but they need to look at what I have done. And what I have done in the state of Nevada, I have voted over a 100 times against tax and fee increases, poor public policy, and unconstitutional bills.
Sharron Angle
#99. Mr. Rogan," I frosted my voice over. "What I put into my body is my business." Okay, that didn't sound right.
Ilona Andrews
#100. I thought it might be fun to set my books in Nevada, which is in the West and still pretty Wild. You can still gamble, carry a loaded pistol, and go into a silver-mine, and they still have saloons with swinging doors, boardwalks, and horses.
Caroline Lawrence
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