Hotel Quotes - Page 12

• My dream is to walk around the world. A smallish backpack, all essentials neatly in place. A camera. A notebook. A traveling paint set. A hat. Good shoes. A nice pleated (green?) skirt for the occasional seaside hotel afternoon dance.

  Maira Kalman

  Notebook, Dream, Travel

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• One night I was sitting on the bed in my hotel room on Buker Hill, down in the middle of Los Angeles. It was an important night in my life, because I had to make a decision about the hotel. Either I paid up or I got out: that was what the note said, the note the landlady had put under my door. A great problem, deserving acute attention. I solved it by turning out the lights and going to bed.

  John Fante

  Night, Light, Doors

  John Fante (2014). “The Bandini Quartet: Wait Until Spring, Bandini: The Road to Los Angeles: Ask the Dust: Dreams from Bunker Hill”, p.411, Canongate Books

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• That moment - to this ... may be years in the way they measure, but it's only one sentence back in my mind - there are so many days when living stops and pulls up and sits and waits like a train on the rails. I pass the hotel at 8 and at 5; there are cats in the alleys and bottles and bums, and I look up at the window and think, I no longer know where you are, and I walk on and wonder where the living goes when it stops.

  Charles Bukowski

  Cat, Thinking, Years

  Charles Bukowski (2016). “On Love”, p.9, Canongate Books

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• She left me the way people leave a hotel room. A hotel room is a place to be when you are doing something else. Of itself it is of no consequence to one's major scheme. A hotel room is convenient. But its convenience is limited to the time you need it while you are in that particular town on that particular business; you hope it is comfortable, but prefer, rather, that it be anoymous. It is not, after all, where you live.

  Toni Morrison

  Life, People, Needs

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• ...out of the blue, he kissed me. Right in the middle of the Robert E. Lee Hotel Restaurant, he kissed me so slowly with an open mouth and every single thing in my body-my skin, my collarbone, the hollow backs of my knees, everything inside of me filled up with light.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Light, Blue, Filled Up

  Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.183, Penguin

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• But we are alone, darling child, terribly, isolated each from the other; so fierce is the world's ridicule we cannot speak or show our tenderness; for us, death is stronger than life, it pulls like a wind through the dark, all our cries burlesqued in joyless laughter; and with the garbage of loneliness stuffed down us until our guts burst bleeding green, we go screaming round the world, dying in our rented rooms, nightmare hotels, eternal homes of the transient heart.

  Truman Capote

  Laughter, Children, Loneliness

  Truman Capote (2007). “Other Voices, Other Rooms”, p.124, Vintage

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• I often dream about the Dolphin Hotel.

  Haruki Murakami

  Dream, Dolphins

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• I own almost 100 hotels in North America. Some of them are only in management, but some of them we have some small stakes in them.

  Al-Waleed bin Talal

  America, Management, Stakes

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• On 9/11, that morning, I was in a Christian Dior Couture appointment at the Hotel Pierre.

  Andre Leon Talley

  Christian, Morning, Dior

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• After years of hotels, I'm horribly inept at cleaning up after myself.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Years, Cleaning, Cleaning Up

  "Portrait of the artist: Rufus Wainwright, musician". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. April 12, 2010.

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• It used to kind of upset me when I'd be working on a part in my hotel room, and I'd get an idea for a song and find myself on the guitar for an hour when I should be working on my lines. But I've discovered that when I start to shake up my creativity it wants to be expressed in all kinds of different ways. They all kind of inform each other.

  Jeff Bridges

  Song, Creativity, Upset

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• So many people treat you like you're a kid so you might as well act like one and throw your television out of the hotel window.

  Gerard Way

  Kids, People, Television

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• I've been having this really weird anxiety dream about arriving too late or too early, and the people in charge are like, 'You have to leave! You have to go back to the hotel and get ready!' And I use the wrong exit, and I'm running down the red carpet in ­pyjamas, like, 'No! Don't look at me!'

  Florence Welch

  Running, Dream, People

  "The unstoppable rise of Florence Welch". Interview with John Harris, www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2010.

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• On the stage of the Italian Terrace Room in the William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1938 ... the place where Champagne Music was born.

  Lawrence Welk

  Music, Pittsburgh, Hospitality

  "Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk".

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• [about the Hotel Marmont on Sunset Blvd., a piece of Hollywood history] I would rather sleep in a bathroom than in another hotel.

  Billy Wilder

  Sleep, Bathroom

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm not afraid of werewolves or vampires or haunted hotels, I'm afraid of what real human beings to do other real human beings.

  Walter Jon Williams

  Real, Ghouls, Vampire

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• Luckily, unreasonable expectations go hand in hand with naive young scientists. The more naive the better - otherwise we would never have the audacity to try and build a 22,000-mile-high space elevator or some sprawling underwater hotel.

  Daniel H. Wilson

  Hands, Space, Expectations

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• This is an elegant hotel! Room service has an unlisted number.

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Humor, Numbers

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• Au revoir, jewelled alligators and white hotels, hallucinatory forests, farewell.

  J. G. Ballard

  Farewell, White, Forests

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• Diana: "I wish I were rich, and I could spend the whole summer at a hotel, eating ice cream and chicken salad." Anne: "You know something, Diana? We are rich. We have sixteen years to our credit, and we both have wonderful imaginations. We should be as happy as queens." [gestures to the setting sun] Anne Shirley: "Look at that. You couldn't enjoy its loveliness more if you had ropes of diamonds.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Summer, Queens, Ice Cream

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• I'm not just a female chef. I'm a woman in a brand new hotel, and that's why I think it's so perfect to be at the Cromwell, in a corner of one of the busiest intersections of the world, with my name in lights. It's different in all those sorts of ways, and I'm hoping I'll be able to carry that through. Because if I can't, it's a step back for women in general. People will say - men will say - "See, that's why it's mostly men".

  Giada De Laurentiis

  Men, Thinking, People

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• The day Tarzan opened in London, I sat in a hotel room and discussed the project in detail.

  Phil Collins

  Details, London, Rooms

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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, Hotel Lobby, Half

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• Often there's a BA crew, because half the time we stay at the same hotels, especially in Australia. I can remember spending quite a lot of time with crews around the pool there. They always make themselves known to us.

  Phil Collins

  Australia, Half, Remember

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• I never trashed a hotel room or did drugs.

  Sean Connery

  Drug, Rooms, Hospitality

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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