Famous Quotes & Sayings

This is something that's been ongoing forever and ever. As soon as you get two casinos next to each other, there is going to be some sort of competition. They see somebody's doing something and it's cutting into their market share, they're going to act.

The only way most people can play poker right now is either online or in a cushy casino where you sit in comfortable chairs and people fetch drinks for you. We want to put poker players in intense conditions to see how they perform.

When you put the casino out there, there's nothing going to happen downtown. Why would it? There's nothing down there. I think that's a mistake long?term for the community.

We had a very snowy early January (2005), and that ended up being very problematic for casinos in the northern tier ...

We reached out to other casinos on the Strip, but everyone was filled. Our main effort was to make our guests as comfortable as they could be until the situation was resolved.

Everything to do with travel and leisure and theme parks and hotels and casinos is just getting mashed. But I think once people get over their shock and sadness, a vacation might seem like a good idea.

Patrick Wilson

I love to go to casinos with my wife. I play poker, and she's an old-fashioned slot queen. She even has a visor.

Up to 1,000 patrons were inside the casino when the suspect ran inside with a weapon, so you can imagine the chaotic situation,

We certainly would have preferred that the mayor talk to us before he went to the press given that we have the exclusive right to operate a land-based casino in New Orleans.

There's still about two months to go before the casino proposals are submitted. It's too early in the game to write them off.

We're planning big things. It will be as competitive as any casino anywhere.

We have a very serious situation facing the future of our casino industry,

The problem that all of us are trying to figure out is: When did out-of-state casinos become more important than in-state small businesses? We tried to persuade the Senate, and we tried to persuade the House. . . . We are now going to try to persuade the governor.

You have obvious valuation discrepancies between the two for a start. You have also got a slight issue that the number of London casinos could come under scrutiny from the Competition Commission.

Tia Carrere

I like theme parks. The fastest roller coaster I've ever been on is at a casino in Nevada.

E. P. Thompson

Las Vegas is mass marketing to a mass audience, ... If they want a small, niche casino that's fine but it's not going to make a lot of money.

Maria Cantwell

Let's embrace productive capitalism, not casino capitalism, by restoring transparency and true competition in the commodities markets.

Seventy percent of the traffic to the hotel casino comes through that area.

Pools, that are used by people as they are meant to be used, are not making them (casinos) any money. We can offer a casino a revenue enhancement.

Full casinos are tourist destinations. They're not just casinos. They're shows, they're shopping, and dining.

If all the ducks are lined in a row, these casinos can open the doors as soon as the conditional license is received.

If the studies that are supposed to be done are done, then there will never be a casino in this community because it will never make sense.

If the casinos don't re-prime the pump, then the pump's not going to get re-primed. There is nothing else down here that could do it.

I would be able to drive to a casino instead of paying to ride a bus. I could come and go when I wanted to.

Changing the entire identity of our town from a historic national treasure to a casino town won't come as cheap as the offer on the table before you tonight.

George is a smart casino operator, but he is equally as smart when it comes to public relations and publicity. These rooms will drive huge amounts of publicity for the Palms, which in turn drives huge amounts of customer volume for the casino.

No one is more eager to get this casino up and running than the Isle of Capri.

Berenice Marlohe

I really enjoyed 'Casino Royale' because suddenly something changed with this modernity and with Daniel bringing life to James Bond in a very new way.

I think people get desensitized by cameras. They get used to them in casinos and then are less surprised when they are elsewhere.

We do not have any dealings with Mr. Stanley Ho. There was no application for casino operation or any floating casino.

David Anders

I think the Suncoast will have minimal impact on the locals market. The market grows fast enough to more than make up for increases in casino supply.

We intend to create a nationwide casino network, not unlike that of some of our larger competitors.

We have to think about the people first. Then we can think about the business. We're dealing with a scale of disaster we've never seen before (in the casino industry). We're literally at square one right now.