Motels Quotes

• Camping is nature's way of promoting the motel business.

  Dave Barry

  Inspiration, Reality, Hiking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• And takin' a bath in the creek. That's the stuff that really made it worthwhile. Anybody can stay in a motel.

  Chris LeDoux

  Stuff, Baths, Creeks

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• The hotel was once where things coalesced, where you could meet both townspeople and travelers. Not so in a motel. No matter how you build it, the motel remains the haunt of the quick and dirty, where the only locals are Chamber of Commerce boys every fourth Thursday. Who ever heard the returning traveler exclaim over one of the great motels of the world he stayed in? Motels can be big, but never grand.

  William Least Heat-Moon

  Dirty, Boys, World

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• These men both publicly and privately have done so much for me. Without Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick I would be living in a little motel just around the corner here, trying to make ends meet.

  Mel Brooks

  Men, Trying, Would Be

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• There is a certain kind of respect for authenticity today that there wasn't back in the days when they did 'Cleopatra,' where everything looked like a giant motel. People want to have it be authentic in the look, and authentic in the way people behave.

  John Milius

  People, Giants, Looks

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• I don't know of any wrestler who hasn't, at one time or another, been with a fan. One time I met a woman at a match in Tennessee, and afterward we went to a little roadside motel. We checked in, went to the room, and enjoyed each other for an hour or so.

  Jerry Lawler

  Littles, Rooms, Fans

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• But I can also write in crappy motel rooms, while standing in line, or sitting in the dentist's chair.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Writing, Sitting, Lines

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• I was hoping for it to be possibly a movie career as I still would like to see that happen. I enjoyed making 200 Motels and did try out for a few things when I lived in LA, but nothing ever happened. I'm still hoping though.

  Jimmy Carl Black

  Careers, Trying, Stills

  Jimmy Carl Black Interview by Stephen Moore in Munich, Germany, www.stevemoorebooks.com. March 29, 2000.

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• I love everything about motels. I can't help myself. I still get excited every time I slip a key into a motel room door and fling it open.

  Bill Bryson

  Keys, Doors, Rooms

  Bill Bryson (2000). “The Complete Notes”, Random House

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• A motel is where you give up good dollars for bad quarters.

  Henny Youngman

  Giving Up, Dollars, Quarters

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• You think the two of us and a slummy motel make for a dangerous combination?

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Thinking, Two, Combination

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.200, Simon and Schuster

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• There's a vacancy, won't you come to me And fill my empty spaces I'm a motel man in a promised land That's filled with empty faces So won't you bring your sorrows bring your dreams, It's a place for you to be There's no more tomorrow or that's how it seems Won't you come to me? I've got a vacancy

  Harry Chapin

  Dream, Men, Land

  Song: Vacancy, 1974

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• I used to dream of a week-long beach vacation with white sand under my toes... right now, I'd settle for 48 hours at a Motel 6 with some Lysol and a UV lamp.

  Ingrid Weir

  Dream, Beach, Vacation

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• One time I stayed at a haunted motel. When I checked into my room, there was a sheet on the floor, and I thought it was a ghost that had passed out, so I kicked it.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Rooms

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• The first time I remember women reacting to me was when we were filming Hud in Texas. Women were literally trying to climb through the transoms at the motel where I stayed. At first, it's flattering to the ego. At first. Then you realize that they're mixing me up with the roles I play - characters created by writers who have nothing to do with who I am.

  Paul Newman

  Character, Texas, Who I Am

  "Paul and Joanne: A Biography of Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward". Book by Joe Morella and Edward Z. Epstein, 1988.

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• Isn't this a wonderful country? I was in Florida. I'm staying at a motel called the Three Palms. It's run by a middle-aged couple, one of whom is missing a hand. OK! That's what I thought, too! But they got upset when I asked.

  Emo Philips

  Running, Country, Couple

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• I’m not going anywhere near a motel with you.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.200, Simon and Schuster

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• Deserts possess a particular magic, since they have exhausted their own futures, and are thus free of time. Anything erected there, a city, a pyramid, a motel, stands outside time. It's no coincidence that religious leaders emerge from the desert. Modern shopping malls have much the same function. A future Rimbaud, Van Gogh or Adolf Hitler will emerge from their timeless wastes.

  J. G. Ballard

  Religious, Cities, Shopping

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• If you live in a good neighborhood, you drive home and there's a bank. There's grocery stores and big houses - but no motels. What that tells you psychologically is you protect your money and buy good things for your family to eat in your nice big house.

  will.i.am

  Nice, Home, House

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

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• Why is it that they have Bibles in every motel room? Why should a man want to read the Bible when he's with a woman alone in a motel room? Why would he be interested? Whatever he's praying for, he's already got!

  Jackie Mason

  Men, Want, Rooms

  Jackie Mason (1983). “Jackie Mason's America”, Lyle Stuart

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• Without stopping kissing her, he swept her up into his arms. They stood in the motel lobby kissing until someone called, "Get a room." Donia pulled back and laughed. "That was the plan. They said no.

  Melissa Marr

  Kissing, Stopping, Arms

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• So one time when I was working in this motel one of the toilets leaked and I had to replace the flapper ball. Here's what it said on the package; I kept it till I knew it by heart: 'Please Note. Parts are included for all installations, but no installation requires all of the parts.' That's kind of my philosophy about men. I don't think there's an installation out there that could use all my parts.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Philosophy, Heart, Men

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• Working alone on stories, I began to feel the anonymity of motels on interstate highways reached by jet planes and rental cars. It was hard to have a good time, and the only way I could make the loneliness excusable was by taking pictures I thought were very good, even valuable.

  John Loengard

  Loneliness, Car, Working Alone

  John Loengard (1987). “Pictures under discussion”, Amphoto Books

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• What makes humans human is precisely that they do not know the future. That is why they do the fateful and amusing things they do: who can say how anything will turn out? Therein lies the only hope for redemption, discovery, and-let’s be frank—fun, fun, fun! There might be things people will get away with. And not just motel towels. There might be great illicit loves, enduring joy, faith-shaking accidents with farm machinery. But you have to not know in order to see what stories your life’s efforts bring you. The mystery is all.

  Lorrie Moore

  Fun, Lying, Discovery

  Lorrie Moore (2010). “The Collected Stories of Lorrie Moore”, p.259, Faber & Faber

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• Whenever I hear some bigmouth in Washington or the Christian heartland banging on about the evils of sodomy or whatever, I mentally enter his name in my notebook and contentedly set my watch. Sooner rather than later, he will be discovered down on his weary and well-worn old knees in some dreary motel or latrine, with an expired Visa card, having tried to pay well over the odds to be peed upon by some Apache transvestite.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Notebook, Christian, Names

  Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Hitch 22: A Memoir”, p.82, Atlantic Books Ltd

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