Hotel Quotes - Page 30

• 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, Hotel Lobby, Freedom Of Speech

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

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• Never relinquish clothing to a hotel valet without first specifically telling him that you want it back.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Literature, Want, Firsts

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.287, Vintage

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• You show up in Paris, and on the drive from the airport to the hotel you're like, 'This is so cool! I want to see something! I want to go to the Eiffel Tower!' And then you leave the next morning. You think, Oh, I didn't get to do anything. I tell people: I've been just about everywhere, but I've seen nothing.

  Taylor Lautner

  Morning, Thinking, Airports

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• Now my dad is with me, traveling with me and a big part of this whole thing is I like to mix it up a little bit, you know. Who gets to take their father on a private jet across the country and stay in first class hotels? So we're enjoying it, but I'd stop if it's not possible.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Country, Dad, Father

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• Madrid is enjoyed most from the ground, exploring your way through its narrow streets that always lead to some intriguing park, market, tapas bar or street performer. Each night we'd leave our hotel to begin a new adventure in Madrid and nine out of 10 times, we'd walk through the Plaza Mayor.

  Emilio Estevez

  Travel, Adventure, Night

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• When I'm doing a book tour in the States, I'll wake up in the room sometimes in an anonymous chain hotel, and I don't know where I am right away. I'll go to the window, and it doesn't help there either, especially if you're in an anonymous strip and it's the usual Victoria's Secret, Gap, Chili's, Applebee's.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Book, Secret, Usual

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, tv.avclub.com. January 8, 2008.

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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

  Hotel Lobby, Waiting, Foyers

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

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• When I was a kid, like 14 or 15, I played with the waiters from the hotel, 'cause that was the best game. And these guys, they'd let me play. And they were black guys.

  Larry Bird

  Kids, Games, Play

  "Larry and Earvin still magic". Interview with Rick Reilly, www.espn.com. March 6, 2012.

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• Be kind to your mother-in-law, but pay for her board at some good hotel.

  Josh Billings

  Mother, Law, Boards

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• We call ourselves a free nation, and yet we let ourselves be told what cabs we can and can't take by a man at a hotel door, simply because he has a drum major's uniform on.

  Robert Benchley

  Men, Doors, Uniforms

  Robert Benchley (1970). “Benchley Lost and Found: 39 Prodigal Pieces”, p.43, Courier Corporation

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• I still, at hotel rooms, I do this one sort of not-so-cool thing: continually shoving my room service tray in front of someone else's door. Because I don't want the remnants. I don't want to be caught, like, being like the pig that I was at two in the morning.

  Drew Barrymore

  Morning, Pigs, Doors

  "An Interview With Ben Stiller And Drew Barrymore". Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. September 24, 2003.

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• 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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  I have walked into the palaces of kings and queens and into the houses of presidents. And much more. But I could not walk into a hotel in America and get a cup of coffee, and that made me mad.

  Josephine Baker

  Kings, Queens, Coffee

  "March on Washington had one female speaker: Josephine Baker". Josephine Baker's speech at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in Washington, D.C., www.washingtonpost.com. August 28, 1963.

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• I have been known to buy e-versions of my books because I was in a hotel room and I needed one right away to look up something in it; very handy for that - you can have it just the next minute; you can press the button and just have it.

  Margaret Atwood

  Book, Buttons, Looks

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• At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics met at the same time in the same hotel.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Confusion, Hospitality, Mets

  Rudolf Arnheim (1990). “Parables of Sun Light: Observations on Psychology, the Arts, and the Rest”, p.39, Univ of California Press

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• If I ever woke up with a dead hooker in my hotel room, Matt would be the first person I'd call.

  Ben Affleck

  Would Be, Rooms, Firsts

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• If I get a week off, I'll go to a hotel that has a golf course. I like to come downstairs and go right onto the course. I'll do that five days in a row.

  Lewis Black

  Golf, Week, Courses

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• I still get nervous about singing. I drink tea with honey and lemon before every concert. And I need to have scented candles in all of my hotel rooms.

  Mary J. Blige

  Tea, Singing, Needs

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• John Boehner - doesn't he look like every guy you've ever seen at a hotel bar? He looks like the kind of guy who licks his thumb when he counts his money.

  David Letterman

  Guy, Bars, Looks

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• When we were kids, we would never open the minibar. A $6 Snickers bar? But the other day I was in a hotel and I was staring at a Snickers bar, and I finally just ate it. Then it was like something in me snapped. I opened all these drinks. I thought: I can do it now. Now I'm all grown-up. I can eat things from the minibar.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Kids, Bars, Snickers

  "Jennifer Lawrence's April 2012 Cover-Shoot Gallery" by Alyssa Shapiro, www.glamour.com. April 2012.

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• I'm like everyone else, on the stage it's good. Not too much fun in the hotel or the airplane or the bus, but you got to do it.

  Ringo Starr

  Fun, Airplane, Too Much

  Source: alltheseletters.com

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• I can't walk down the streets. It's very difficult. I can't go to the mall. I have to go to hotels just to have a meal. Everybody wants to say hi and say thank you and congratulate me, so it's very difficult.

  Manny Pacquiao

  Meals, Want, Saying Thank You

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• You have to assume everything is going to end up online, even if you're alone in a hotel elevator.

  Megan Fox

  Assuming, Online, Elevators

  "What Megan Fox Looks for in a Man (and Turtle)". Interview with J. Rentilly, www.menshealth.com. August 8, 2014.

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• I get my most creative energy after a show, so I love to go back to the hotel and compose new material. I generally do it in a rush. I have to get it out, otherwise I can't sleep.

  Jason Mraz

  Sleep, Creative, Energy

  Source: www.student-weekly.com

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• the loneliest place to be is a hotel room in a big city in early evening.

  Willa Gibbs

  Travel, Cities, Rooms

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