Vegas Sayings and Quotes

Las Vegas is a city of excess, glitz, and glamour. The city’s entertainment, nightlife, and food scene is unmatched. Below you’ll find a collection of wise and humorous quotes about Vegas, America’s gambling capital.

Las Vegas is a 24-hour city. It never stops. Eli Roth
Las Vegas, Nevada: a city where oddities don’t make you lame, but instead bring you riches and fortune and fame. Walter Wykes
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 is sort of like how God would do it if he had money. Steve Wynn
Las Vegas gets talked about: on TV, in movies, books and magazines and newspaper articles. It’s not always positive attention. Stephanie Grimes
Las Vegas looks the way you’d imagine heaven must look at night. Chuck Palahniuk
Hatred is not what Las Vegas is about. Oscar Goodman
Adopted by the Las Vegas Conventions and Visitors Authority in 2002, the saying, along with 'What Happens in Vegas, Stays in Vegas,' helped the Las Vegas brand become the second-most recognized brand in the country, after Google. Stephanie Grimes
Las Vegas suggests that the thirst for places, for cities and gardens and wilderness, is unslaked, that people will still seek out the experience of wandering about in the open air to examine the architecture, the spectacles, and the stuff for sale, will still hanker after surprises and strangers. That the city as a whole is one of the most pedestrian-unfriendly places in the world suggests something of the problems to be faced, but that its attraction is a pedestrian oasis suggests the possibility of recovering the spaces in which walking is viable. Rebecca Solnit
The first thing he noticed was that Las Vegas seemed to have invented a new school of functional architecture, 'The Gilded Mousetrap School' he thought it might be called, whose main purpose was to channel the customer-mouse into the central gambling trap whether he wanted the cheese or not. Ian Fleming
The temptation is always to think of Las Vegas as a gambling mecca, the ‘Entertainment Capital of the World’. Well, it’s that. But, it’s a lot more than that as well. There are beautiful natural rock formations, rare plants and animals, and even pseudo-alpine regions. Just because you can see for a hundred miles doesn’t mean that there’s nothing there to see, and open desert allows you to see things in a different way. There is nothing to block your view, and nothing to hide behind. James Stanford
The secret of Vegas is that money is boring. Hence all the bluster. Jace Clayton
And the desert shall reclaim, it’s wealth! Danikelii
Little bit of this town goes a very long way. After five days in Vegas you feel like you've been here for five years. Hunter S. Thompson
The people who say New York never sleeps must have never visited Las Vegas. Michelle Madow
The casino played a song of its own—slot machines dinging, chips clacking as the dealer passed them out to the players at the tables, and the chatter of people throwing down money with the hope of hitting it big. It was like a carnival for adults. A person could get lost for days in a place like this. Michelle Madow
Outside, Vegas stretched out with thousands of glittering lights, as if the city waged war on the stars above. Katherine McIntyre
What happens in Vegas ends up all over the world news. Steven Magee
Boy, you get greedy in Vegas. Louie Anderson
Every time I go to Vegas, I seem to incur some kind of fine. Artie Lange
You're not supposed to like Vegas. It's just this creeping virus that people catch sometimes. William Goldman
Here in Vegas there's only one way to make sure you don't lose any money: the moment you step off the plane, you walk right into the propellers. Gene Roddenberry
Ah, Las Vegas, Nevada. The best getaway city in these United States. A place so carefree and lawless that the law itself is outlawed. It's a place so magical and mystical that it more or less had to give birth to the term 'What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.' Brad Jones
The Poet of Las Vegas Boulevard / steals emotion from the night / Holding a vigil in the darkness / waiting for the light Kurt Philip Behm
Like a little toy drummer beats over and over incessantly / Like a little toy monkey bangs two cymbals together / I hear the words repeating constantly / Las Vegas Las Vegas Las Vegas / and then Hummmmmmmmmmmm / I love you I hate you Beau Golden
I'm leaving Las Vegas / Lights so bright / Palm sweat blackjack / On a Saturday night David Ricketts
Lift off, take flight / I'm living the life / Racing down the boulevard / Under the Vegas lights Terius Nash
When I was young I left my home / And went away, to Vegas / With my guitar and my dreams / I had to try to play and sing Buck Owens
I had to try to play and sing, in Vegas / But my momma told me I was wrong / And she begged me to stay at home / But my will was strong and / I had to make it big, in Vegas Buck Owens
Las Vegas is a nice place / Where you can go to stay / There's a lot of casinos / Where you can go to play Ismael Gallegos