Hotel Quotes - Page 32

• Father expected a good deal of God. He didn't actually accuse God of inefficiency, but when he prayed his tone was loud and angry, like that of a dissatisfied guest in a carelessly managed hotel.

  Clarence Day

  God, Father, Guests

  CLARENCE DAY (1948). “THE BEST”

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• Life is a stranger's sojourn, a night at an inn.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Night, Definitions, Life Is

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• In the case of drama (stage, movies, television ), there appear to be people in almost every audience who never quite fully realize that a play is a set of fictional, symbolic representations. An actor is one who symbolizes other people, real or imagined. [...] Also some years ago it was reported that when Edward G. Robinson, who used to play gangster roles with extraordinary vividness, visited Chicago, local hoodlums would telephone him at his hotel to pay their professional respects.

  S. I. Hayakawa

  Real, Drama, Years

  "Language in Thought and Action". Book by S. I. Hayakawa (p.27-28), 1991.

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• In 1992 I was doing one of my first ever tours and I was in Heathrow airport and I saw these middle-aged musicians who had clearly been on tour for decades, and they all looked haggard and unhappy and unhealthy. I vowed to myself that I would never be that person. Flash forward 20 years and I found myself in Heathrow looking haggard and unhappy and unhealthy. I decided I would rather spend my time staying home working on music and making dinner with friends, instead of spending six months in a hotel in a state of depressing suspended adolescence.

  Moby

  Depressing, Home, Airports

  Source: articles.chicagotribune.com

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• I realized that I don't like touring. I'll never complain about it because no one wants to hear about a relatively successful musician complain about the hardships of staying in a hotel.

  Moby

  Successful, Musician, Complaining

  Source: articles.chicagotribune.com

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• One day I'll be old, dead, forgotten. And at this very moment, while I'm sitting here thinking these things, a man in a dingy hotel room is thinking, "I will always be here."

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Men, Thinking, One Day

  "All Men are Mortal". Book by Simone de Beauvoir, p. 28, 1946.

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• One's homesickness for Heaven finds at least an inn there; and it's an inn on the right road.

  Ruth Pitter

  Heaven, Homesick, Inns

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• Man, I did love this game. I'd have played for food money... I used to love traveling on the trains from town to town. The hotels... brass spittoons in the lobbies, brass beds in the rooms. It was the crowd, rising to their feet when the ball was hit deep. Shoot, I'd play for nothing!

  Ray Liotta

  Money, Men, Games

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• In Positano, I like the San Pietro Hotel, which is run by a friend whose family has owned the hotel for more than 100 years.

  Ivana Trump

  Running, Years

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• Being at home with my family always inspires me. I find it hard to be inspired when I'm on the move. I'm not creative when I'm jet-lagged and sleeping in strange hotels.

  Stefon Harris

  Moving, Home, Sleep

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• One reason for the tremendous increase in health-care costs in the U.S. is managerial neglect of the "hotel services" by the people who dominate the hospital, such as doctors and nurses.

  Peter Drucker

  Doctors, Nurse, People

  Peter Drucker (2013). “People and Performance”, p.185, Routledge

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• Each religion has got their own way of making you feel like a victim. The Christians say "you are a sinner", and you better just zip up your trousers and give the money to the pope and we'll give you a room up in the hotel in the sky.

  Timothy Leary

  Christian, Sky, Giving

  "Timothy Leary's Last Trip". Documentary, 1997.

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• I used to write letters to the wounded in the Palace Hotel, and I used to drive a station wagon with blood in bottles to a battalion aid station.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Writing, Blood, Bottles

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• Sure, we loaned money to build hotels and casinos in Las Vegas. So what? Las Vegas borrowers were good customers.

  Jimmy Hoffa

  Vegas, Casinos, Borrowers

  "Hoffa The Real Story" by Jimmy Hoffa, (p. 119), 1975.

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• A foreign correspondent is someone who lives in foreign parts and corresponds, usually in the form of essays containing no new facts. Otherwise he's someone who flies around from hotel to hotel and thinks that the most interesting thing about any story is the fact that he has arrived to cover it.

  Tom Stoppard

  Thinking, Interesting, Stories

  'Night and Day' (1978) act 1

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• I was staying in a hotel in San Francisco for a couple of nights, before flying back to the UK. My hotel was a desperate grey block made from paper and people’s screams. At night the sound of strangers having icy sex echoed off the building and poured through the broken air conditioning, like tiny daggers I couldn't see, reminding me of just the tip of what I was missing.

  Craig Stone

  Sex, Couple, Block

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• London is a huge shop, with a hotel on the upper storeys.

  George Gissing

  London, Shops, Huge

  George Gissing (2015). “New Grub Street”, p.467, Booklassic

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• In Blue Crush , we meet three Hawaiian surfers who work as hotel maids, live in a grotty rental, and are raising the kid sister of one of them. Despite this near-poverty, they look great; there is nothing like a tan and a bikini to overcome class distinctions.

  Roger Ebert

  Crush, Kids, Blue

  Roger Ebert (2004). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2005”, p.76, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Well, we've made some changes on this tour. We're no longer sleeping in the parking lots and swimming in the fountains. We've been staying in hotels most of the way, though I will say some hotels have declined to take us because we're just having too much fun.

  Bill Walton

  Basketball, Fun, Sleep

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• As a model, it's a gypsy kind of life: living in hotels, working all the time, ordering room service instead of cooking for yourself. There's absolutely no nest-building.

  Eva Herzigova

  Cooking, Room Service, Nests

  "Eva Herzigova: Model, Mom, Activist". Interview with Violet Moon Gaynor, www.elle.com. April 20, 2010.

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• I was in the show for 21 days once-the 21 greatest days of my life. You know, you never handle your luggage in the show, somebody else carries your bags. It was great. You hit white balls for batting practice, the ballparks are like cathedrals, the hotels all have room service, and the women all have long legs and brains.

  Kevin Costner

  Money, Practice, White

  "Fictional character: Crash Davis". "Bull Durham", www.imdb.com. 1988.

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• Imagine a set of people all living in the same building. Half of them think it is a hotel, the other half think it is a prison. Those who think it a hotel might regard it as quite intolerable, and those who thought it was a prison might decide that it was really surprisingly comfortable. So that what seems the ugly doctrine is one that comforts and strengthens you in the end. The people who try to hold an optimistic view of this world would become pessimists: the people who hold a pretty stern view of it become optimistic.

  C. S. Lewis

  Optimistic, Thinking, Views

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• Clerks in downtown hotels were said to be asking guests whether they wished the room for sleeping or jumping. Two men jumped hand-in-hand from a high window in the Ritz. They had a joint account.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Sleep, Men, Jumping

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1980). “The Great Crash 1929”

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• This life at best is but an inn, and we the passengers.

  James Howell

  Life, Inns, Passengers

  James Howell (1705). “Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ, familiar letters domestic and forren, by J.H. (A new volume of letters, by I. Howell. [Followed by] The vote). [2 vols. in 6 pt.]. With a fourth volume of new letters”, p.386

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• You can be in Tokyo or Alberta at four in the morning in your hotel and you can still practice if you feel like it. A trombone cannot do that at four in the morning.

  Toots Thielemans

  Morning, Practice, Four

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