Quotes for All
During this period Steen and Fox were killed trying a single-engine instrument approach at Moline. Then Campbell and Leatherman hit a ridge near Elko, Nevada. In both incidents the official verdict was ‘pilot error,’ but since their passengers, who were innocent of the controls, also failed to survive, it seemed that fate was the hunter. … Read more
Myths that need clarification: Everyone in California lives on a white, sandy beach. False. The only people who live on California beaches are vacationers from Arizona, Utah, and Nevada who own condos. Erma Bombeck
Nevada’s one of the most conservative states in the Union, but you can do what you want in Vegas and nobody judges you. Drew Carey
There is supercomputer somewhere in the Nevada desert whose sole function is to count the number of times that I have said the following, because it is unquantifiable by human minds at this point, but this time it’s really true: I should have stayed home. David Rakoff
Over the weekend, John Kerry – the big John Kerry juggernaut moves on – he won primaries in Washington D.C., Nevada and, I think, Canada. And he’s so confident that he’s started nailing that intern again. David Letterman
Nevada has a very dynamic economy, with gambling being the number-one industry, followed closely by blood donorship. Dave Barry
The drive to Black Rock City from San Francisco leads through the Nevada flatlands, past the jittering neon sadness of Reno. Daniel Pinchbeck
Truth comes to us from the past, as gold is washed down from the mountains of Sierra Nevada, in minute but precious particles, and intermixed with infinite alloy, the debris of the centuries. Christian Nestell Bovee
With our abundance of wind, solar, and geothermal energy, Nevada has been a leader in moving away from carbon emissions and embracing a clean energy economy that has created good-paying jobs in our state that can’t be shipped overseas. Catherine Cortez Masto
I thought it might be fun to set my books in Nevada, which is in the West and still pretty Wild. You can still gamble, carry a loaded pistol and go into a silver-mine and they still have saloons with swinging doors, boardwalks, and horses. Caroline Lawrence