Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Charlie Munger

A lot of our respected financial institutions are just casinos in drag.

Neil Harbisson

There's no legal protection for cyborgs. In 2010, I started the Cyborg Foundation to defend our rights. Cyborgs have been kicked out from several places because they are seen as a possible security threat. I've been kicked out from places such as Harrods, Casino Montecarlo, and many supermarkets.

We've always had our casinos on barges. They've always had to be over water. Due to the hurricane, there was a lot of interest to move our casinos on land.

The region is home to the fastest growing casino market.

That's a large casino development, and that's only the first phase. They're planning on coming back in with different phases on the south side of the property.

That means you should forget about whatever title you have at work. Everyone who works at a casino is in the guest service business. Employee titles are meaningless. Each employee must view guests as an opportunity to make a lasting positive impression.

Sarah MacLean

'A Rogue by Any Other Name' is the first book in the 'Rules of Scoundrels' series, centered on a legendary pre-Victorian casino and her four scandalous aristocratic owners.

The L.A. market is important to the growth of the casino market in San Diego.

In many ways, it confirms our fears that the tribe wasn't going to stop at just a casino or parking structure,

I'm ready to pull them out and get out of the casino business.

In general, we didn't find in the polling that casinos were all that favorable, but that doesn't mean that some form of slots wouldn't be acceptable.

It was a great challenge. What we are doing is offering people the chance to experience what a gourmet casino restaurant is like in a comfortable price range. People have been pleasantly surprised.

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).

Paul Robinson

They were typical communities, the Gulf Coast naval ship yards and bases, the casinos and the fisherman. These people have been very impacted. They were functioning. Now they have nothing.

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 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.

In West Texas, he was making them to get the Native American casinos out there. He has been spreading money around in return for currying political favors." ()

In the past month we've seen record-breaking earning announcements from a number of the top casino gaming companies. It didn't seem to matter went on with the economy or gas prices, people found their way to the casinos and race tracks.

I just don't think they ought to have a monopoly on the casino licenses,

Chris Moneymaker

If you're a poker player and you show up at a casino at 8 a.m., you're going to be by yourself or with some people that are rocks and just don't give you any action.

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.

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.

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.

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

Saturday night we had five young Italian people in here. They were heading to the casinos and stopped here. They got espressos, but they saw this and went crazy.

Donald Trump

People don't want to hear about the casino business, ... We have never done better as a company, and yet our stock price is lousy.

There's been not enough made out of the ripple effect that the casinos bring. It extends into individual proprietorships like the coffee shops.

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.

This casino was originally the first casino to open in the market back in 1992, and we are the first land-based Gulf Coast casino to open today following the devastation of Hurricane Katrina.

Think Sinatra and Dean Martin and Hollywood starlets throwing down chips in Art Deco casinos like the Dunes and Sands. That's where these pieces come from.