Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bruce Goldstein

The conditions that make it a poor site for a casino by tenfold make it a poor site to serve alcohol.

Aimee Mann

The guy's a Vietnam vet and a boxer, but he's also a drug addict, and she's trying to get away from the dead-end world where she lives in the South, ... They run off together and wind up in a casino town, like Reno or Vegas, and their relationship falls apart.

Gary Jackson

The Gulf Coast I know and the people of the great state of Missisisppi are not dependent on casinos for whether they survive. They are dependent on what God put within them - that character I saw down there.

Nancy L. Johnson

the door to casino expansion in western Connecticut is closed.

Ron Porter

The coming of a casino will substantially change Pittsburgh, and I don't think that, as a city, we recognize just how much it may change.

Robert Clifford

This hearing was all about preventing this casino from going to the Village of Rosemont.

Wilford Brimley

The folks who own this hotel and casino are dear friends of mine. As far as I'm concerned, this is maybe the last old gamblin' joint in this town.

Pat James

That's really popular these days with the kids. Casino stuff.

William Schmitt

It will cannibalize, but the difference is you have a 50 percent tax rate and you have a slot parlor as opposed to a much lower tax rate in New Jersey and a full-blown casino resort. The level of amenities is going to be much less (in Pennsylvania).

Laura Stromberg

I think, in general, people just want a new, refreshing voice, and they're hearing that from Kinky.

Jim Kaat

He (Rodriguez) has been hearing it from the crowd.

Raymond Seed

What makes us nervous is we're hearing multiple accounts.

John Bracewell

What I'm hearing is he's struggling with throwing, he can't throw at the moment but he is making some progress.

Gerard Mestrallet

I don't know Mr. Conti, I have not had the pleasure of hearing his voice, even by telephone.

Anne Mills

I can feel your sympathy. But seeing is what will impact you, even more than hearing the stories.

Van Morrison

Hearing the blues changed my life.

Winona Ryder

I watched this documentary on Madonna. I remember I grew up hearing she wanted to rule the world. Actually, she worked really hard - really, really hard.

Corey Ostman

Institutions are always interested in hearing about these sorts of deal. They could do reasonably well and see a moderate pop.

Alexei Navalny

The questioning is a stupid formality aimed exclusively at preventing us from speaking at the demonstration.

Ben Bernanke

Preventing liquidation of an unbalanced market will leave you in tears.

Robert Belshe

Preventing influenza in children, we think, will reduce influenza in our society.

Councilman Pearlberg

There's nothing preventing us from making stronger rules.

Robin Quivers

So you start one person at a time. Change one person, you can change a village.

Mahatma Gandhi

True swadeshi is that alone in which all the processes through which cotton has to pass are carried out in the same village or town.

Matt Groening

I went to Bali, and I was in a small village, and somebody who was with me showed a woman a little figurine of Bart and asked: 'Do you know who this is?' And she said: 'Mickey Mouse.'

Muammar al-Gaddafi

I cannot recognise either the Palestinian state or the Israeli state. The Palestinians are idiots and the Israelis are idiots.

Sharon Olds

The amount of horror one used to hear about in one village could be quite extreme. But one might not have heard about all the other villages' horrors at the same time.

Paul McCartney

I was still 15 when I met John Lennon at a village fete in Woolton, in Liverpool.

Brian Johnson

Where I lived, it was a cold mining place, a village called Dunston. The only time you saw a Rolls-Royce was when somebody died.

Diane Abbott

Finally, there's a sense in which I look at this Westminster village and London intelligentsia as an outsider.

Adolph Green

I had met a young lady who wanted to be in the theater. It was Judy Holliday. She had somehow fallen down the steps of the Village Vanguard, which still exists today.