Vegas Casinos Quotes

#1. Wall Street investment banks are like Las Vegas casinos: They set the odds. The customer who plays zero-sum games against them may win from time to time but never systematically, and never so spectacularly that he bankrupts the casino.

Michael Lewis

#2. Bailing out people who made ill-advised mortgages makes no more sense that bailing out people who lost their life savings in Las Vegas casinos.

Thomas Sowell

#3. Of all the communities available to us, there is not one I would want to devote myself to except for the society of the true seekers, which has very few living members at any one time.

Albert Einstein

#4. Sure, we loaned money to build hotels and casinos in Las Vegas. So what? Las Vegas borrowers were good customers.

Jimmy Hoffa

#5. Which is better: to dare to look directly into the blinding present, no matter how painful, or to await the detachment of hindsight -- which, being less painful, is more objective?

Thomas Buergenthal

#6. What had passed between Eleanor Harding and Mary Bold need not be told. It is indeed a matter of thankfulness that neither the historian nor the novelist hears all that is said by their heroes or heroines, or how would three volumes or twenty suffice!

Anthony Trollope

#7. Losing a parent is a hard thing ... I often sit here and think it would be great if mum and dad were alive and had a chance to see their grandkids grow up.

Wayne Swan

#8. I played with children so that I could learn from them.

Shinichi Suzuki

#9. President Obama flew to a rally in Las Vegas last night. However, he did not visit any of the casinos. You know why? When you're $16 trillion in debt, they don't let you in.

Jay Leno

#10. Lourdes was an intoxicating place. I remember thinking that it was probably what Las Vegas would have been like if casinos and nightclubs had been replaced by Catholicism.

Arthur Matthews

#11. Mars looks like Vegas without the casinos.

Sam Neill

#12. I am an Ivy league graduate. I have a Harvard MBA. I've opened casinos in Las Vegas, Atlantic City, and the French Riviera. I've worked for the Santangelo's, the Lucchetti's and the Gambino's.

Jackie Chanel

#13. Remember that during your life you received your good things, just as Lazarus received bad things, but now he is comforted here, while you are in agony.

Anonymous

#14. When fatigue finally forced him to pause, he ordered the men who were left to have their hearts torn out and their carcasses burned

Geoffrey Of Monmouth

#15. I love Vegas. God knows that I know how to find my way around the buffets in Las Vegas.

Rick Majerus

#16. Before I was in my forties. If you're still doing this

Meg Jay

#17. There's a big link between trains and film. One of the first filmed objects was a train. The clickety-clack of the projector and the clickety-clack of the train are similar. There is the idea of the voyage - every voyage is a story. I wonder if film would have been invented without the train.

Walter Murch

#18. I happen to believe that no one inherently deserves anything, except basic human rights, and not to have to watch an ad before you watch a trailer on YouTube.

Mindy Kaling

#19. In Singapore, there is this life and locals and restaurants and then big casinos and an array of chefs, and even Miami is almost close to Vegas when it comes to an amazing presentation of chefs. But they don't have these massive hotels that have become their own culinary villages.

Daniel Boulud

#20. Trump tried to book Penn & Teller once in Vegas at one of his casinos, but we were priced out of his budget.

Penn Jillette