"I go to Las Vegas--or at least I went to Las Vegas--because even though I knew everything that was sinister, calculating, and evil about it, I loved Las Vegas. Only in Vegas could I dare to fantasize that I was a Friend of Frank. Or that I was throwing the dice at Dino's favorite table. Or that I might luck out and sip bourbon with Rickles after his last lounge show. The D.I. oozed that kind of heady fantasy."

-- Marc Cooper

#Vegas Quotes #Evil Quotes #Luck Quotes

“I'm not supposed to be the one that's caught with his pants down.”
“Putting your name on something and having no idea how it came about if someone else did all the work - that's not me.”
“Certainty is usually a sign of pathology.”

Source : "Mystic Trudeau: The Fire and the Rose". Book by B. W. Powe, 2007.
“When you go to commercial, you want something to call the viewers back, and if you don't have a decent act out, the audience probably won't be there in the numbers you want when the show returns.”
“Our whole way of life today is dedicated to the removal of risk. Cradle to grave we are supported, insulated, and isolated from the risks of life - and if we fail, our government stands ready with Bandaids of every size.”
“Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.”
“The book of the moment often has immense vogue, while the book of the age, which comes in its company from the press, lies unnoticed; but the great book has its revenge. It lives to see its contemporary pushed up shelf by shelf until it finds its final resting-place in the garret or the auction room.”

Source : Hamilton Wright Mabie (1893). “My Study Fire”
“Just an intention to be free makes you immediately free!”

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