Top 100 Quotes About Nevada
#1. 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
#2. Las Vegas, Nevada: A city where oddities don't make you lame, But instead bring you riches and fortune and fame.
Walter Wykes
#3. 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
#4. Of all the mountain ranges I have climbed, I like the Sierra Nevada the best.
John Muir
#6. Well, there's always Nevada," Benny said. "You can buy anything from a hand laser to an atom bomb there.
Joe Haldeman
#7. If Democrats start consistently winning Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Nevada, the electoral outlook for Republicans in the future is mighty bleak.
Mark McKinnon
#8. Nevada was hit hardest by the recession - highest unemployment, highest foreclosure rate, highest bankruptcy rate.
Brian Sandoval
#9. 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
#10. I represent a district in Nevada, a state that is home to more wild horses than all other states combined.
Jon Porter
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. nothing like it. The temperature on the north side of the Sierra Nevada stayed
Chris Stewart
#15. Nevada has a very dynamic economy, with gambling being the number-one industry, followed closely by blood donorship.
Dave Barry
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. Higher education is not growing fast enough to meet the needs of Nevada.
James E. Rogers
#30. 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
#31. Love is like the weather in Nevada
you don't know what the freak happens!
Selina
#32. 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
#33. I'm so proud to bring the title of Miss USA back to Nevada.
Nia Sanchez
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. Nevada appeared to be a firewall for Hillary Clinton.
Renee Montagne
#38. 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
#39. 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
#40. 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
#41. 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
#42. 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
#43. Which idiot put the GOP convention the same time as 'Burning Man' in Nevada? Is there time to change this?
Grover Norquist
#44. 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
#45. The Sierra Nevada is five hundred miles of rock put right. Granite freed by glaciers and lifted through clouds where water, frozen and fine, has scraped and washed it into a high country so brilliant it brings light into night.
Willard Wyman
#46. I think Nevada is going to really be the first true test of whether or not these candidates have particular strengths in particular demographics.
Lucy Flores
#47. Nevada once again has shown double digit increases in tax revenue ... Nevada continues to show economic stability with its desirable business climate and booming tourism sector.
Kenny Guinn
#48. A politician taking campaign money from gamblers in Nevada is like one taking campaign money from the auto people in Michigan. Gambling is our legal business.
Paul Laxalt
#49. Truth comes to us from the past, as gold is washed down from the mountains of Sierra Nevada, in minute but precious particles, and intermixed with infinite alloy, the debris of the centuries.
Christian Nestell Bovee
#50. Barefoot, exhausted and bloody, Harris Borden turned and left the underground prison that had been his home for the past twelve years and walked out into the Nevada desert.
Glen Robinson
#51. Mad Rogan: "Resistance is futile."
Nevada: "You are not assimilating me!
Ilona Andrews
#52. 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
#53. Ya can't get to Nevada on five bucks and a bad heart ...
Dave Matthes
#54. I know there has long been a great frustration among the African Americans in Nevada over their belief that we have not adequately responded to their desires to become more educated and more productive citizens.
James E. Rogers
#55. I'm gonna do between 75 and 100 dates. A lot of it will be in Laughlin, Nevada; I'll be there for two weeks. And I'll work some casinos here and there, and the fair dates.
Mel Tillis
#56. I am occasionally enraptured by Western landscape. But I don't identify that state of mind as having to do with my own origins, having grown up in the West, although I certainly crisscrossed Nevada countless times growing up, and then as a young adult, in cars and on motorcycles.
Rachel Kushner
#57. I like theme parks. The fastest roller coaster I've ever been on is at a casino in Nevada.
Tia Carrere
#58. When my wife and I leave California, I want to have my marriage recognized in Nevada, Arizona, all the way to New York. How can you stop people from loving each other? How can you get upset about loving?
Wanda Sykes
#59. The drive to Black Rock City from San Francisco leads through the Nevada flatlands, past the jittering neon sadness of Reno.
Daniel Pinchbeck
#60. Patenting and purchase of lands are absolutely vital to the health of Nevada's rural communities.
Jim Gibbons
#61. 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
#62. Gaming is the backbone of Nevada's economy.
Kenny Guinn
#63. When I saw all of the people I have known all these years, when we got together, it was scary because B.B King and I lived in the same place in Nevada.
Ruth Brown
#64. The state of our state is fragile, but I know our spirit and love for Nevada is not.
Kenny Guinn
#65. Her voice was as dead as the summer before last. (Nevada Gas)
Raymond Chandler
#66. People in Nevada know me from the street to the ring to the Senate chambers. I've never had to prove my manhood to anyone.
Harry Reid
#67. 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
#68. Nevada is certainly more representative of what the entire country looks like demographically, so you really are testing how these candidates are doing across ethnicities, across genders, across cultures.
Lucy Flores
#69. Nevada involved cattle, right? First of all, I thought the Lord owned the cattle on the thousand hills. What about the fact that even in early Scripture, the issue of water and forage rights is actually talked about by Abraham?
Matt Shea
#70. Had I stayed longer in some primaries, I would have probably done better in states like Nevada, California, and New Mexico - but I ran out of the money after the second primary in New Hampshire.
Bill Richardson
#71. My mother had never openly protested my relationship with Sydney. Really, there'd been no chance. I'd simply shown up at Court with a bride in tow, and no one had been able to put asunder those whom the state of Nevada had brought together.
Richelle Mead
#72. Donald Trump was building a pyramid in the Nevada desert to house his eventual remains. When done, it will be ten meters taller than the Great Pyramid at Giza.
Robert J. Sawyer
#73. 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
#74. When I was little, we moved around a lot, actually. In second grade, I think I went to three different schools. We were in Nevada and Oregon and as well as a few different places in Nebraska. I did go to high school in the same town.
Emily Kinney
#75. ...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
#76. We must work to ensure that the Nevada Cancer Institute continues to receive the dollars necessary to make it a vibrant source of research and clinical assistance for cancer victims throughout the state of Nevada and the nation.
Jon Porter
#77. For the message of television as metaphor is not only that all the world is a stage but that the stage is located in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Neil Postman
#78. 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
#79. Gambling is so pervasive in Nevada that maybe the state should just go the whole hog. There'd be gum machines that dispensed chewing tobacco if you lost. You could gamble for the toilet paper in public bathroom stalls. And fill out Keno cards in an attempt to win cancer therapy at the hospital.
P. J. O'Rourke
#80. Nature was taking back what had once been hers.
Nevada Barr
#81. 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
#82. She who showed weakness to teenagers would be picked on to death. True fact of life.
Ilona Andrews
#83. 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
#85. What are your qualifications for this job?" she asked. "I'm expendable," I said.
Ilona Andrews
#86. 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
#88. Mr. Rogan," I frosted my voice over. "What I put into my body is my business." Okay, that didn't sound right.
Ilona Andrews
#89. 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
#90. 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
#91. 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
#92. 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
#93. Now, finally, the earth was hers with no taint of Heaven.
Nevada Barr
#94. 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
#95. 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
#96. 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
#97. 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
#98. 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
#99. 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
#100. 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
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