Las Vegas is the only place I know where money really talks--it says, Goodbye.
Interpretation
The quote humorously highlights the fleeting nature of money in certain environments, particularly in gambling settings like Las Vegas.
Frank Sinatra's quote about Las Vegas poignantly captures the idea that in a city famous for its gambling and entertainment, money comes and goes swiftly. It reflects on how wealth can be easily lost in such a setting, where the allure of chance and excitement often leads to financial loss, making the phrase 'money talks' a sardonic commentary on the impermanence of wealth in a city built on risk and lavish lifestyles.
In practice
This quote could be used in a discussion about the gambling culture in Las Vegas.
With few exceptions, every major pop singer in the US during her generation has been touched in some way by her genius. It is Billie Holiday who was, and still remains, the greatest single musical influence on me. Lady Day is unquestionably the most important influence on American popular singing in the last twenty years.
When lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday, cash me out.
There have been many accolades uttered about Elvis' talent and performances through the years, all of which I agree with wholeheartedly. I shall miss him dearly as a friend. He was a warm, considerate and generous man.
Dare to wear the foolish clown face.
I want to wake up in a city that never sleeps
I think my greatest ambition in life is to pass on to others what I know.
My existence from day to day has become a matter of averting my eyes, of cringing. Death is the only truth left. Death is what I cannot bear to think. At every moment when I am thinking of something else, I am not thinking death, am not thinking the truth.
Life externalizes at the level of our thought.
Religion was fading into the background. He had shovelled away all the beliefs that would hamper him, had cleared the ground, and come more or less to the bedrock of belief that one should feel inside oneself for right or wrong, and should have the patience to gradually realise one's God. Now life interested him more.
God has not bowed to our nervous haste nor embraced the methods of our machine age. The man who would know God must give time to Him.
Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.
I use New York to talk about home, but the ideas in 'Colossus' could be transferred to other cities. The story about Central Park is really about the first day of spring in any park. The Coney Island chapter is really about beaches and summer and heat waves.
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