Hotel Quotes - Page 27

• I have legendary massive breakfasts at hotels. I don't hold back. I'll get there at 7A.M. and I'll be the last out at 11 A.M., having gone up and down the buffet seven times.

  Calvin Harris

  Gone, Breakfast, Buffets

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• You know the first time I sat in the chair I felt anything but up, it was very emotional for me. I had a chair in my hotel room, a chair at rehearsal, and I was trying to spend as much time as I could in the chair.

  Gregory Hines

  Emotional, Trying, Rehearsal

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• I'll sing as long as I can because I enjoy doing that. I enjoy the fans and what I do. I love the traveling and the hotels and just seeing the world over and over again.

  Ronald Isley

  Long, Fans, World

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• During my second draft pass on my last book I made 20,000 words happen in a week, which is practically supernatural for me, and it would never have been possible without three nights in a hotel in my own city.

  Laini Taylor

  Book, Night, Cities

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• A hotel isn't like a home, but it's better than being a house guest.

  William Feather

  Home, House, Guests

  William Feather (1949). “The Business of Life”

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• I tore up and ate my own passport in an airport hotel once. I'm bloated with language I can’t afford to forget.

  Warsan Shire

  Airports, Language, Forget

  Warsan Shire, “Conversations About Home (At The Deportation Centre)”

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• Immigration reform is important in our country. We have a lot of employers over on the beaches that rely upon workers and especially in this high-growth environment, where are you going to get people to work to clean our hotel rooms or do our landscaping? We don't need to put those employers in a position of hiring undocumented and illegal workers.

  Alex Sink

  Country, Beach, Rely Upon

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• Today many Caribbean workers can be found in the hospital, construction, service and hotel industries, but there is also a growing professional sector.

  Charles Rangel

  Growing, Today, Hospitality

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• I'm happy because I won't have to train again, or travel or sit in team hotels.

  Romario

  Team, Train

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• All my jobs have been with food in one way or another since 1948. My parents were in the hotel business, and I just loved the warm hearted people who worked so hard with such good humor.

  Graham Kerr

  Jobs, Humor, People

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• When George asked me to be the prequels, it was the same kind of meeting - it was very short and to the point. It was nice to see him after a long time, and we met in a hotel room.

  Ian McDiarmid

  Nice, Long, Rooms

  Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.ign.com. October 12, 2005.

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• He (Tesla) was 84, and he died in a hotel, completely broke and alone. In love with a pigeon. This is a nightmare. I'm in hell. This is hell. I'm talking about Tesla in my puke. Tesla was the electric Jesus. I can't breathe.

  Duncan Trussell

  Jesus, Talking, Tesla

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• I always worked in institutions, I never had a restaurant of my own before, but I have opened over 30 hotels, restaurants and casinos. I understand what it takes to keep them running.

  Robert Irvine

  Running, Casinos, Restaurants

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  I have always had a hidden wish, a frustrated desire, to run a hotel.

  Edward Heath

  Running, Frustrated, Wish

  Edward Heath's speech at the Hotel Exhibition in Olympia, 1969.

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• I had moved out of the Edison Hotel because I couldn't pay the bill and was living at the Lincoln Hotel, where I couldn't pay the bill either, but it was cheaper.

  Allan Sherman

  Pay, Bills, Hospitality

  Allan Sherman (1965). “A gift of laughter: the autobiography of Allan Sherman”

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• If you think God has promised this world will be a five-star hotel, you will be miserable as you live through the normal struggles of life. But if you remember that God promised we would be pilgrims and this world may feel more like a desert or even a prison, you might find your life surprisingly happy.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Stars, Struggle, Thinking

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• I'd read Up in the Old Hotel, and I wanted to do something with Mitchell's stuff for a long time.

  Stanley Tucci

  Long, Stuff, Hospitality

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• I lived in a hotel across the street from Disneyland for a month.

  Steve Cropper

  Months, Hospitality, Streets

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• The elephants were being slaughtered in masses. Some were even killed in the vicinity of big tourist hotels.

  Richard Leakey

  Elephants, Tourism, Tourists

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• On the information sheet in a New York hotel, I recently read: 'Dear guest! To guarantee that you will fully enjoy your stay with us, this hotel is totally smoke-free. For any infringement of this regulation, you will be charged $200.' The beauty of this formulation, taken literally, is that you are to be punished for refusing to fully enjoy your stay.

  Slavoj Žižek

  New York, Taken, Guarantees That

  Slavoj Žižek (2009). “First As Tragedy, Then As Farce”, p.58, Verso

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• I was very nervous at the beginning of Hotel du Nord.

  Marcel Carne

  Hospitality, Nervous

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• I remember we were out on the road when the album finally came out in February 1973. I listened to it in my hotel room and just got this really big smile. I was thinking, 'It's amazing, we're really pulling this off'. The album was very, very unique and very, very different. I was really proud of the songs, especially 'No More Mr Nice Guy', 'Billion Dollar Babies' and 'Generation Landslide'.

  Michael Bruce

  Song, Baby, Nice

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• I don't have a special place or ritual for writing songs, basically I write songs whenever an idea hits me, in my hotel room, on the road, in the plane.

  Kelly Jones

  Song, Writing, Ideas

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• Why is Wi-Fi free at cheap hotels, but $14 a night at expensive ones?

  David Pogue

  Night, Expensive

  "Pogue’s Imponderables". pogue.blogs.nytimes.com. October 18, 2007.

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• I don't open the newspapers (to see what's written about me). I don't read them and you can see them hanging at the stand outside my hotel room. I focus on my game only. Last 21 years have been really special for me and I throughly enjoyed my joyful journey

  Sachin Tendulkar

  Journey, Years, Games

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