Hospitality Quotes - Page 8

• I was signed to MGM. I was in Vegas for sixteen weeks at the Sands Hotel.

  Solomon Burke

  Vegas, Sixteen, Sand

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• Just when did I get to the point when staying at a hotel wasn't fun?

  Ira Glass

  Stay Strong, Fun, Hotel

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• We don't welcome the naked and hungry so they can be naked and hungry in our company. We clothe and feed. Hospitality is not toleration but transformation.

  Peter Leithart

  Naked, Welcome, Transformation

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• Sir Patrick Rackrent lived and died a monument of old Irish hospitality.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Monument, Died

  1800 Castle Rackrent,'An Hibernian Tale'.

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• I'll never forget that show season. It was completely mad. I was staying between Christy and Naomi's rooms and it was all limos and the Ritz Hotel and all that kind of business.

  Kate Moss

  Stay Strong, Business, Mad

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

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• suffering is as necessary to entertaining as vermouth is to a Martini - a small but vital ingredient.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Suffering, Ingredients, Martini

  Phyllis McGinley (1965). “Sixpence in Her Shoe”

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• Do you want to sell sugar water all your life, or do you want to come with me and change the world?

  Steve Jobs

  Leadership, Motivation, Water

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• We need to bridge the gap between the medical libraries and the hospital rooms; take the information out there already, add to it, focus it, harness it - and bring it to the patient who was just diagnosed today.

  Bruce Vento

  Bridges, Focus, Library

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• Our little kinsmen after rain
  In plenty may be seen,
  a pink and pulpy multitude
  The tepid ground upon;
  A needless life if seemed to me
  Until a little bird
  As to a hospitality
  Advanced and breakfasted.

  Emily Dickinson

  Rain, Garden, Bird

  Emily Dickinson (1963). “Poems: Including Variant Readings Critically Compared with All Known Manuscripts”

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• A guest is really good or bad because of the host or hostess who makes being a guest an easy or a difficult task.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Guests, Tasks, Host

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• We shall always keep a spare corner in our heads to give passing hospitality to our friends' opinion.

  Joseph Joubert

  Friendship, Giving, Opinion

  Joseph Joubert (1928). “Pensées and letters of Joseph Joubert”

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• Entertaining is one method of avoiding people. It is very often the negation of hospitality.

  Elizabeth Bibesco

  People, Method, Avoiding

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• Visiting is a pleasure; being visited is usually a mixed or ambivalent joy. ... The visitor can always go home; the visitee is already home, trapped like a rat in a drainpipe.

  Barbara Holland

  Home, Joy, Rats

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• A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Home, House, May

  Philip Dormer Stanhope (4th earl of Chesterfield.), Charles Caleb Colton (1861). “Lord Chesterfield's advice to his son on men and manners. To which are added, selections from Colton's 'Lacon'.”, p.184

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• My father was a guy who, because of the businesses he was in - the hotel business, the hospitality business - he didn't differentiate between the waiter serving you dinner, from the maitre d from the guy who owns a restaurant. Everybody was the same to him. He didn't look at who you were. He didn't look at your wallet.

  Steve Tisch

  Father, Guy, Dinner

  "Super Bowl Q&A with … Steve Tisch". Interview with Steve Serby, nypost.com. February 5, 2012.

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• What higher praise can we bestow on any one than to say of him that he harbors another's prejudices with a hospitality so cordial as to give him, for the time, the sympathy next best to, if indeed it be not edification in, charity itself. For what disturbs more and distracts mankind than the uncivil manners that cleave man from man?

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Men, Giving, Prejudice

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1872). “Concord Days”, p.31

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• I am simply in favor of intellectual hospitality-that is all. You come to me with a new idea. I invite you into the house. Let us see what you have. Let us talk it over. If I do not like your thought, I will bid it a polite "good day." If I do like it, I will say: "Sit down; stay with me, and become a part of the intellectual wealth of my world."

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Good Day, Ideas, House

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2196, Library of Alexandria

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• The supply of good fellows is by no means in excess of the demand. A man has only to hoist the flag of hospitality to insure a very considerable amount of custom.

  Robert Smith Surtees

  Mean, Men, Flags

  Robert Smith Surtees (1930). “The novels of R.S. Surtees”

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• Aside from hospitality and delicious food, our [restaurateurs'] job is to entertain people. Restaurants should make people feel special, excited and fulfilled.

  Joe Bastianich

  Jobs, People, Special

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• The study of tavern history often brings to light much evidence of sad domestic changes. Many a cherished and beautiful home, rich in annals of family prosperity and private hospitality, ended its days as a tavern.

  Alice Morse Earle

  Beautiful, Home, Light

  Alice Morse Earle (2016). “Stage-coach and Tavern Days”, p.40, Library of Alexandria

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• There is a special mystique to Texas. Texans represent many things to the uninitiated: We are bigger than life in our boots and Stetsons, rugged individualists whose two-steppin' has achieved world-wide acclaim, and we were the first to define hospitality.

  Ann Richards

  Texas, Two, Special

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• I did feel Dr. Cox, the character that I was auditioning for, was too similar to the head of the hospital. He was too arrogant and mean. I approached him kind of like I had a miniature Max sitting on my shoulder. I pictured Max saying, "This guy has got to give love every once in a while. He has to!" I knew there had to be tiny little windows of redemption.

  John C. McGinley

  Character, Mean, Giving

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• I never would have thought of that word, "hospitality." I settle into the rhythm of my steps.

  Paul Auster

  Steps, Settling, Rhythm

  "An Interview with Paul Auster" by Nathalie Cochoy and Sophie Vallas, transatlantica.revues.org. March 2014.

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• My son loves the Hotel du Cap, in the south of France.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Son, France, Caps

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• I was overwhelmed with the kindness of people [in Afghanistan] and found that they had managed to retain their dignity, their pride, and their hospitality under unspeakably bleak conditions.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Kindness, Pride, People

  Interview with Razeshta Sethna, newslinemagazine.com. November 2003.

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