Hotel Lobby Quotes

• The corporations don't have to lobby the government anymore. They are the government.

  Jim Hightower

  Government, Corporations, Armadillos

  "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy". Book by Greg Palast, p. 141, 2002.

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• The way defences are operating these days, the other team'starts picking you up when you walk out of the hotel lobby.

  Doc Hayes

  Basketball, Team, Way

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• I can walk through a hotel lobby and watch people at the desk and see what they're doing. People don't look at me. They don't even know I'm there.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  People, Watches, Looks

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• I've spent the last year and a half going through a very public separation, hiding in hotel lobbies.

  Phil Collins

  Years, Half, Lasts

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• I've paid for more pianos in hotel lobbies than you can imagine.

  Kid Rock

  Piano, Imagine, Paid

  FaceBook post by Kid Rock from Feb 22, 2013

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• ‎There's no way to cheat a sensualist like me, somebody who can die laughing for hours over the pattern of the carpet in a hotel lobby.

  Anne Rice

  Laughing, Patterns, Way

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• People always think women meet us in the hotel lobby, but it's the opposite. The majority of the time, you go out to eat with your teammates, then rest for the next day's game. It's not a vacation - most guys view the road as a business trip.

  Kevin Durant

  Thinking, Vacation, Views

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Airports, Freedom Of Speech, Desire

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.189, Vintage

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• Brenda [Carlin] went into therapy and I soon joined her. First we put the drugs behind us, then we began serious work on our relationship. And, in time, we got well together.She just drove through a hotel lobby. Now, that's bottoming out.

  George Carlin

  Drug, Together, Serious

  Source: reprints.longform.org

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• Europeans, like some Americans, drive on the right side of the road, except in England, where they drive on both sides of the road; Italy, where they drive on the sidewalk; and France, where if necessary they will follow you right into the hotel lobby.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humorous, France

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need”, p.114, Ballantine Books

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• For me, the best places to write are on planes, trains and at airports. Not hotel rooms but hotel lobbies. I'm really happy when I'm waiting for a plane and the message comes that it's three hours late. Great, I'll get to write!

  Jo Nesbo

  Writing, Airports, Waiting

  "Jo Nesbø: 'I am a vulture'". Interview with Andrew Anthony, www.theguardian.com. March 20, 2012.

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• I knew a girl named Nikki
  I guess u could say she was a sex fiend
  I met her in a hotel lobby
  Masturbating with a magazine
  She said "how'd u like 2 waste some time?"
  And I could not resist when I saw little Nikki grind.

  Prince

  Girl, Sex, Magazines

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• Italians are never punctual; the café, the convenient place to wait, absolves them from that. There is no question of hanging about, no looking lost and unwanted or even disreputable, as there is in hotel lobbies or the foyers of restaurants. One just sits and enjoys the scene, and waits.

  Shirley Hazzard

  Waiting, Foyers, Scene

  Shirley Hazzard (2004). “The Evening of the Holiday: A Novel”, p.30, Macmillan

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• I remember being in buses, hotel lobbies and bars leading up to the 1994 World Cup talking with guys about how great it would be to have a legitimate league of our own, so getting on the plane in Italy to return and be part of the first year of MLS was one of the proudest moments of my life.

  Alexi Lalas

  Life, Talking, Years

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• I'm not saying don't do the work you got, but instead of this two hours of watching TV at the hotel lobby or this three hours of sitting under the pier and reading comic books or worrying about what you're doing ... what value do you have? Can you read? There are people out there who can't read - go read to them.

  Andy Andrews

  Book, Reading, Two

  "Andy Andrews Interview: Modern Day Will Rogers Details His Latest Novel, 'The Noticer'". Interview with Melissa Parker, smashinginterviews.com. June 11, 2009.

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