Famous Quotes & Sayings

We want them to be regular customers of Atlantic City before slot machines come into Pennsylvania.

Michael Specter

There are people who could watch a hurricane like Sandy blow out of the Atlantic every other day and blame it on anything but human activity. They are like those who, having been diagnosed with diabetes, eat donuts for breakfast. There's not much to do about them.

Michael Shannon

If Mother Theresa went to Atlantic City, I don't think she'd start playing Blackjack.

Donald Trump

We stuck when Wynn left town and ran like a little rabbit out of town, ... and I stuck and we went through some rough times in Atlantic City 'cause Atlantic City was not doing the kind of business it's doing now.

We have seen a marked increase in the number of Atlantic hurricanes, starting in 1995. This year, things have come together just right, with warm sea surface temperatures and favorable upper-level winds.

Dawn Staley

We have aspirations of becoming a contender for a national championship, but you have to take really small steps and winning the Atlantic 10 championship is one way of taking those steps. But you have to use it and go further and further in the NCAA tournament.

Mark Twain

Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him until he emerges on the other side of his Atlantic with his verb in his mouth.

United didn't miss a beat when Atlantic pulled 80 jets right out from under them.

We're going to come very close to reaching or exceeding Atlantic City. These aren't going to be cut-and-paste barges like we had in the past,

We extended our track record for double-digit earnings growth to a fourth consecutive year even while integrating Bell Atlantic and Nynex following our merger,

Robert Reich

Economies are risky. Some industries rise, and others implode, like housing. Some places get richer, and others drop, like Atlantic City. Some people get new jobs that pay better, many lose their jobs or their wages.

When I got the call, it was a one-second decision. The opportunity to open a restaurant at Caesars in Atlantic City was an honor and a compliment. And for a restaurant geek like myself, you can't turn down an opportunity like that.

Stephen Harper

Minister MacKay, as you all know, has deep roots in Atlantic Canada and is very familiar with PEI and its provincial government. He will serve Islanders well in our new cabinet.

The only ones we exempted were the rich moneybags in Atlantic City.

David Crosby

When it all started, record companies - and there were many of them, and this was a good thing - were run by people who loved records, people like Ahmet Ertegun, who ran Atlantic Records, who were record collectors. They got in it because they loved music... Now, record companies are run by lawyers and accountants.

Barack Obama

Whether our forebears were strangers who crossed the Atlantic or the Pacific or the Rio Grande, we are here only because this country welcomed them in and taught them that to be an American is about something more than what we look like, or what our last names are, or how we worship.

Donald Trump

The only real reason that Steve Wynn is coming to Atlantic City is because we're doing so well, ... If Atlantic City wasn't doing well, he and others wouldn't want to come here. They want to come here because the market is good right now, the market is better than Las Vegas and that's where they want to be.

Wynter Gordon

When I first started, the very first body of music I made when I got signed to Atlantic were songs with titles like 'Unify' and 'You're Special.' And there's this song that reminds me of Meghan Trainor that I wrote, about a woman's body and not conforming, when I first started in music.

Gordon Bethune

Grounding airplanes to cover your butt would never have let Orville or Wilbur change the world. We would still be spending weeks to cross the Atlantic to do business in London.

Lita Ford

We are ready to take on an extremely challenging schedule. The non-conference schedule is filled with tough games on the road including Boston College and Florida State of the ACC and Connecticut of the Big East. The home schedule features the Atlantic 10 teams with the richest basketball history such as Temple, Saint Joseph's, Xavier, Dayton and Charlotte. We think our fans will be very excited that the top teams in our conference will be coming to the Mullins Center, especially late in the year when they can support us.

Lita Ford

We are ready to take on an extremely challenging schedule, ... The non-conference schedule is filled with tough games on the road including Boston College and Florida State of the ACC and Connecticut of the Big East. The home schedule features the Atlantic 10 teams with the richest basketball history such as Temple, Saint Joseph's, Xavier, Dayton and Charlotte. We think our fans will be very excited that the top teams in our conference will be coming to the Mullins Center, especially late in the year when they can support us.

Wesley Clark

For the United States to be a global leader, we have to have a very tight relationship with Europe. And we've held that relationship since 1949 when we established the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, NATO. NATO is the bond. It's a security bond.

We were kind of still feeling the effects of the Atlantic meet last week (at conference) so I think we'll do better. The kids know what they have to do and they've been working hard.

We were able to wear Atlantic down a bit and that may have made the difference in the game.

Terence Winter

I started with the book 'Boardwalk Empire' and then immersed myself in the history of Atlantic City, World War I, the temperance movement, Prohibition, pop culture. I even read the news and magazines of the period just to soak in it. That was before I even started thinking of the story.

People would prefer to come to Atlantic City.

Vaclav Havel

Mr. President, for the enlargement of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization there's no doubt in my mind that it was personal leadership that made this historic development possible.

Maureen has been a strong proponent of Atlantic City for years. We know she'll bring her valuable experience and vast body of knowledge to our team in promoting the city and our efforts in supporting the Atlantic City Convention Center and Boardwalk Hall.

Calvin Ayre

Online poker has served as a learning platform for many players who have now started to take part in poker tournaments in Las Vegas, Atlantic City and elsewhere. The online poker rooms are less intimidating for many new players and serve as a stepping stone for their move to land-based poker rooms.

There are more than four teams under consideration for the four No. 1 seed slots, and there is nothing that would prevent the Atlantic Coast Conference from claiming three of those No. 1 positions.

Michael Perry

I believe we'll be one of the top teams in the league. Some people have us seventh or eighth. One picked us last. I don't think that guy knew what he was talking about. The Atlantic Sun is a much tougher league than other people realize.

Terry Teachout

I feel quite confident that audiences on both sides of the Atlantic are growing 'dumber,' if what you really mean to say is 'less culturally literate.'

Dusty Rhodes

I feel like we have a good schedule. It's a tough schedule, maybe one of the toughest in the country, but that's what we wanted. We are working to set a standard for our players and you do that by playing the best teams out there. It also helps the conference out. The tougher our schedule, the better we will look in the RPI and that helps the Atlantic Sun.