"Incredibly, almost every hotel I ever played in Vegas was blown up shortly afterward: The Dunes, The Sands, The Landmark, The Aladdin, The Frontier, The Hacienda, The Stardust - all were imploded."

-- Elayne Boosler

#Vegas Quotes #Stardust Quotes #Sand Quotes

“Wealth brings noble opportunities, and competence is a proper object of pursuit; but wealth, and even competence, may be bought at too high a price. Wealth itself has no moral attribute. It is not money, but the love of money, which is the root of all evil. It is the relation between wealth and the mind and the character of its possessor which is the essential thing.”

Source : George Stillman HILLARD (1854). “The Dangers and Duties of the Mercantile Profession. An Address Delivered Before the Mercantile Library Association, Etc”, p.31
“Culturally we don't allow women to be as free as they would like, because that is frightening. We either shun those women or deem them crazyâ€¦ But being that woman who pushes the boundaries means you also bring in less desirable aspects of yourself. At the end of the day, women are expected to hold up the world, not annihilate it.”

Source : Kim Gordon (2015). “Girl in a Band”, p.109, Faber & Faber
“Weep not for little Leonie, abducted by a French Marquis. Though loss of honor was a wrench, just think how it's improved her French.”

Source : Harry Graham (1930). “More Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes”
“To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.”
“The world is filled with invisible realities. But, if people do not see or hear, then these realities do not exist.”

Source : William Segal (1998). “Opening: Collected Writings of William Segal, 1985-1997”, Continuum International Publishing Group
“The surer of himself an admiral is, the finer the tactical development of his fleet, the better his captains, the more reluctant must he necessarily be to enter into a melee with equal forces, in which all these advantages will be thrown away, chance reign supreme, and his fleet be place on terms of equality with an assemblage of ships which have never before acted together.”

Source : Alfred Thayer Mahan (2010). “Sea Power and World History: 1660-1783”, p.7, Fireship Press
“Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art.”
“One of my favorite beauty products is Vincent Longo Water Canvas creamy blush. I have it in every color and I've been using it for 5 years and that's all I put on when I leave the house. It looks so natural I just put a little bit on my cheeks to give them some color.”

Source : "Model Minute: Alessandra Ambrosio Loves Melissa's Shoes". Interview with Chrissy Rutherford, www.harpersbazaar.com. August 7, 2012.

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