Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

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.

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.

Kevin Carter

I do know guys, have played with guys, that hit the casino hard.

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.

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.

It looks like the South Coast had a very strong opening. The local casino market is certainly robust and I think South Coast's results had a ripple effect throughout the local casino market.

John Maynard Keynes

It is generally agreed that casinos should, in the public interest, be inaccessible and expensive. And perhaps the same is true of Stock Exchanges.

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

The casino never closed. We worked in cooperation with Metro and as for the casino, the customer volume was pretty normal for that time of night.

The casino is now all on one floor as opposed to being spread out over three decks. It's a much more spacious environment. We have a non-smoking area. We have about 500 more slot machines than we did previously.

The conditions that make it a poor site for a casino by tenfold make it a poor site to serve alcohol.

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.

the door to casino expansion in western Connecticut is closed.

The coming of a casino will substantially change Pittsburgh, and I don't think that, as a city, we recognize just how much it may change.

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

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.

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.

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.

Tia Carrere

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