Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charlie Munger

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

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.

We had a very snowy early January (2005), and that ended up being very problematic for casinos in the northern tier ...

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.

Full casinos are tourist destinations. They're not just casinos. They're shows, they're shopping, and dining.

If all the ducks are lined in a row, these casinos can open the doors as soon as the conditional license is received.

We have to be competitive to stay alive. The casinos can give food, rooms and drinks away, but we can't. Now, you can only smoke at the casinos ? this is going to be devastating to business.

If the casinos don't re-prime the pump, then the pump's not going to get re-primed. There is nothing else down here that could do it.

Gabe Kaplan

Maybe 10 times a year I'll do a corporate date, but no casinos or no nightclubs or no comedy clubs.

There has been a high level of interest by the casinos that's only going to intensify after today.

Berenice Marlohe

I really enjoyed 'Casino Royale' because suddenly something changed with this modernity and with Daniel bringing life to James Bond in a very new way.

I think people get desensitized by cameras. They get used to them in casinos and then are less surprised when they are elsewhere.

The problem that all of us are trying to figure out is: When did out-of-state casinos become more important than in-state small businesses? We tried to persuade the Senate, and we tried to persuade the House. . . . We are now going to try to persuade the governor.

You have obvious valuation discrepancies between the two for a start. You have also got a slight issue that the number of London casinos could come under scrutiny from the Competition Commission.

All these casinos got blowed up into the woods and into houses. That's costing the state half a million dollars a day. It's a lot of money. You can be sure it ain't gonna be long before they're up and running again.

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.

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.

This is an effort by regulators to bully, intimidate and threaten casinos in a totally inappropriate manner. Clearly, they are playing with fire.

Everything to do with travel and leisure and theme parks and hotels and casinos is just getting mashed. But I think once people get over their shock and sadness, a vacation might seem like a good idea.

The stigma of playing in casinos is long gone. They've improved over the years.

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.

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

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." ()

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.

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.

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.

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.