quotations about Las Vegas, Nevada
Today, we must look to the city of Las Vegas, Nevada as a metaphor of our national character and aspiration, its symbol a thirty-foot high cardboard picture of a slot machine and a chorus girl. For Las Vegas is a city entirely devoted to the idea of entertainment, and as such proclaims the spirit of a culture in which all public discourse increasingly takes the form of entertainment. Our politics, our religion, news, athletics, education and commerce have been transformed into congenial adjuncts of show business, largely without protest or even much popular notice.
NEIL POSTMAN
Amusing Ourselves to Death
Luxurious and lowbrow. Restrained and flamboyant. Antique and ultra-mod. Fashion loves gutsy juxtaposition, and so does Las Vegas.
ERIN RYAN
"Spring Style: The Season Gets Electric in Main Street's Indie Fashion Corridor", Las Vegas Weekly, March 17, 2016
Mostly, Las Vegas is just good fun, cheerfully ersatz -- why not build an Eiffel Tower and a New York skyline? -- though the Strip has for some years been developing in a way that almost nobody could have seen coming: tastefully.
KEVIN D. WILLIAMSON
"At Home in Vegas", National Review, October 3, 2017
Las Vegas is a city built on hopes, dreams, and a little bit of crazy.
MICHAEL MCDONALD
"Las Vegas' New Lights Will Be Powered by Footsteps", The Fiscal Times, March 26, 2016
What they wanted was Monte Carlo. They didn't want Las Vegas. What they got was Las Vegas.
STUART MENDELSON
London Times, May 29, 1978
Contemporary Las Vegas is astonishing. At night, it is a brilliant cluster of jewels of all shapes, sizes, and colors, glowing in the middle of a vast, black velvet canopy. By day, it is also an amazing sight, almost like a mirage. There is nothing but desert and rugged mountains all around, and then--in the middle of it all--one of the largest and fastest growing cities in the United States ... truly an enigma.
THOMAS TAJ AINLAY
Las Vegas: The Fabulous First Century
Las Vegas is maybe the fastest-changing city in the country. Major resorts are built and blown up on a regular basis, making way for the new "next best thing" to come to town.
TRAVIS HOIUM
"3 Projects That Will Totally Change the Las Vegas Strip", The Motley Fool, March 19, 2016
The brand of Las Vegas is adult freedom, and our campaigns reflect that brand. The 'What Happens in Vegas Stays in Vegas' is still a wildly popular slogan and lauded as one of the top tourism-related campaigns of all time.
HEIDI HAYES
"Family-friendly Sin City: What does Las Vegas have for kids?", Las Vegas Review-Journal, March 27, 2016
March in Las Vegas is like no other time of year. The air is warm but crisp, the sky is bright and the sun hasn't yet pulled its yearly Lenny by crushing us beneath its heat and proclaiming, "I had some little friends, but they don't move no more."
MIRANDA BOYD
"The weather's right for outdoor drinking in Las Vegas", Lights Vegas Action, March 10, 2016
I have a confession, and it's one that often startles my travel-savvy friends: Las Vegas is one of my favorite places in the world. I adore every marabou-trimmed, neon-lit inch of a place whose patron saint should be Liberace.
MARK ELLWOOD
"Why It's Okay to Love Las Vegas", Condé Nast Traveler, March 15, 2016
Las Vegas is finding the government A-bombs bouncing the greatest tourist lure since the invention of the nickel slot machines.
PERRY KAUFMAN
"The Best City of Them All: A History of Las Vegas, 1930-1960"
I shouldn't be near Vegas and have money in my pocket.
ADAM SANDLER
Adam Sandler: America's Comedian
Mainly, Las Vegas is like a big, cheerful Rancho Mirage with a more convenient airport and without the hassles of living in California.
KEVIN D. WILLIAMSON
"At Home in Vegas", National Review, October 3, 2017
Las Vegas is the most malleable tourist destination on the planet. It holds up a figurative mirror to visitors and asks, "What do you want to be, and what will you pay to be it?"
HAL ROTHMAN
Neon Metropolis
In my view, the greatest trick ever pulled by anyone on the planet was Vegas -- and now the rest of the US -- convincing the club scene youngsters that it's a good idea to spend $400 on a $20 bottle of vodka to sit in a so-called VIP area, served by a waitress who's mainly comprised of plastic and makeup, all to look ever so slightly down on the non-VIP guests, who generally have exactly the same disposable income but are having their VIP experience the night before or the night after.
PAUL SCULPHER
"Las Vegas risks pricing itself out of the market", Gambling Insider, March 23, 2016
Las Vegas exists chiefly to satisfy the needs and desires of its visitors, and this it does in spectacular fashion. Sin City has taken or re-created the best that other great cities have to offer and then upped the ante -- making it bigger, grander, flashier.
SCOTT DOGGETT
Lonely Planet Las Vegas
Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
I think the problem with Vegas is Las Vegas is trying to escape from itself, either rewrite history or make new history. All these properties that started Las Vegas, nothing's there anymore.
CORY COOPER
"Elvis no longer a major draw for Las Vegas tourism", Fox News, March 16, 2016
No one thinks Las Vegas is real; it is illusion, but visitors willingly suspend disbelief and pretend.
HAL ROTHMAN
Neon Metropolis
In Las Vegas, people seem to believe, the prosperity spawned by tourism and gaming can make them whole, financially and spiritually. Las Vegas now melds fun, work, and wealth, showing a path toward the brightest vistas of the post-industrial world. It is the first city of the twenty-first century.
HAL ROTHMAN
introduction, The Grit Beneath the Glitter