Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Michael Mina

I love San Francisco, it's very hard to compete with San Francisco when it comes to availability of product, but one thing you can't replace about Las Vegas or Miami is people are walking in the door and they want to have a good time. They walk in, and this is the start of their good time.

Nicholas Pileggi

Las Vegas is a city of kickbacks. A desert city of greased palms. A place where a $20 bill can buy approval, a $100 bill adulation and $1,000 canonization.

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.

Hunter S. Thompson

Las Vegas makes Reno seem like your friendly neighborhood grocery store.

Hunter S. Thompson

We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers... and also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get locked into a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can.

Hunter S. Thompson

A little bit of this town goes a very long way.

Hunter S. Thompson

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold.

Hunter S. Thompson

We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something like "I feel a bit lightheaded; maybe you should drive...." And suddenly there was a terrible roar all around us and the sky was full of what looked like huge bats, all swooping and screeching and diving around the car, which was going about a hundred miles an hour with the top down to Las Vegas.

Pat Lester

This group is such a wonderful, friendly group. We're very nurturing of each other.

Albert Einstein

When Albert Einstein was asked what he would really like to know about the Universe he replied,'is it friendly?

T. E. Lawrence

The desert was held in a crazed communism by which Nature and the elements were for the free use of every known friendly person for his own purposes and no more.

Rick Riordan

Destroy them later?" Cal offered, which was probably as close to friendly as he ever got.

Rick Riordan

What about a compromise? I’ll kill them first, and if it turns out they were friendly, I’ll apologize.

Rush Limbaugh

The love had just vanished. We're still friendly.

Susan Orlean

I've noticed lately that it seems most intimate to not use any closing on your e-mail at all, because it seems to make it feel like you are engaged in an ongoing conversation - as if this one e-mail doesn't represent the beginning and end of the interaction but is just part of a perpetual loop of friendly back-and-forth.

Mignon McLaughlin

After he has had his tantrum, the neurotic expects those around him to feel friendly and relaxed; after all, he does.

Mark Greene

She's usually pretty happy-go-lucky, just friendly and always up. But she's in a different place right now.

Sam Rockwell

You hit 41 and you don't burn calories like you used to.

Martin McDonagh

It doesn't feel like you're preaching, if you can say something in a joke.

Ira Glass

Everything is more compelling when you talk like a human being, when you talk like yourself.

Herb Kelleher

You have to treat your employees like your customers. When you treat them right they will treat your outside customers right.

Warren Buffett

Buy stocks like you buy your groceries, not like you buy your perfume.

Tracy Chapman

When you feel like you've had a good show, you go backstage and you talk to yourself about it, and if you have a bad show you talk to yourself about it.

Djimon Hounsou

Until you are somewhat comfortable and confident and embrace who you are, as a person, you can't possibly love somebody else because you don't like yourself that much.

David Nail

Over the course of a day, you get to get a feel for where you're playing, so when you get out on stage, you already feel like you've had a bit of a bonding experience with them.

Carlos Delgado

If you hit, they're going to like you. If you don't hit, they're not going to like you.