- Johnny Carson: Nevada is a rich state, with 38% of the nation's gold - most of that in the teeth of six cocktail waitresses in Reno.
- Johnny Carson: Many states have been glorified in song, such as "Beautiful Ohio", "Oklahoma", and "The Yellow Rose of Texas". But there's one song that means more to the residents of Nevada than any other, and that's "California, Here I Come".
- Tim Conway: [on his early job as a racetrack exercise boy] An ambulance actually follows the horses around, you know - so, uh, in case anybody - something happens, which often it does. And, uh, I finally got it into my head that it wasn't a very good job that you could be occupied in where an ambulance actually followed you to work.