Hotel Quotes - Page 5

• It was the early 1970s and I was recently divorced. I had three kids and was totally broke. I managed to find work back east on the straw-hat circuit - summer stock - but couldn't afford hotels, so I lived out of the back of my truck, under a hard shell.

  William Shatner

  Summer, Kids, East

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• I like being on the road, living in hotels. While I've got a real nice house, I go crazy when I'm there.

  Tommy Shaw

  Crazy, Real, Nice

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• In America, Blackberry Farm in Tennessee is one of the most amazing hotels I've had the privilege of staying at.

  Gail Simmons

  America, Tennessee, Privilege

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• I look for the hotels that have figured out the comfortable balance - a modern room that is well designed, and really clean sheets.

  Simon Sinek

  Balance, Rooms, Looks

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• Life is a pilgrimage. The wise man does not rest by the roadside inns. He marches direct to the illimitable domain of eternal bliss, his ultimate destination.

  Sivananda

  Wise, Men, Doe

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• I just want to stay in my hotel room, read my book. I enjoy that private time.

  Hope Solo

  Book, Want, Rooms

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• I don't do much else but stay in my hotel room.

  Layne Staley

  Rooms, Hospitality, Hotel Rooms

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• Don't drink in the hotel bar, that's where I do my drinking.

  Casey Stengel

  Baseball, Drinking, Bars

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• I never write about the road. I never write about hotels or anything like that.

  Taylor Swift

  Writing

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• I am alone a lot, which is good. I need that time to just be alone after a long day, just decompress. So, I go to either my house or the hotel, or my apartment, or whatever - wherever I am, I go home and I watch TV and I sit there, with my cat, and I just watch TV or go online, check my emails.

  Taylor Swift

  Home, Cat, Long

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• I once went on the most grueling radio tour. Living in hotel rooms, sleeping in the backs of rental cars as my mom drove to three different cities in one day.

  Taylor Swift

  Mom, Sleep, Cities

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• I own almost 100 hotels in North America. Some of them are only in management, but some of them we have some small stakes in them.

  Al-Waleed bin Talal

  America, Management, Stakes

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

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• On 9/11, that morning, I was in a Christian Dior Couture appointment at the Hotel Pierre.

  Andre Leon Talley

  Christian, Morning, Dior

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• After years of hotels, I'm horribly inept at cleaning up after myself.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Years, Cleaning, Cleaning Up

  "Portrait of the artist: Rufus Wainwright, musician". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. April 12, 2010.

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• So many people treat you like you're a kid so you might as well act like one and throw your television out of the hotel window.

  Gerard Way

  Kids, People, Television

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• I've been having this really weird anxiety dream about arriving too late or too early, and the people in charge are like, 'You have to leave! You have to go back to the hotel and get ready!' And I use the wrong exit, and I'm running down the red carpet in ­pyjamas, like, 'No! Don't look at me!'

  Florence Welch

  Running, Dream, People

  "The unstoppable rise of Florence Welch". Interview with John Harris, www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2010.

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• On the stage of the Italian Terrace Room in the William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1938 ... the place where Champagne Music was born.

  Lawrence Welk

  Music, Pittsburgh, Hospitality

  "Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk".

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• [about the Hotel Marmont on Sunset Blvd., a piece of Hollywood history] I would rather sleep in a bathroom than in another hotel.

  Billy Wilder

  Sleep, Bathroom

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

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• I'm not afraid of werewolves or vampires or haunted hotels, I'm afraid of what real human beings to do other real human beings.

  Walter Jon Williams

  Real, Ghouls, Vampire

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• Luckily, unreasonable expectations go hand in hand with naive young scientists. The more naive the better - otherwise we would never have the audacity to try and build a 22,000-mile-high space elevator or some sprawling underwater hotel.

  Daniel H. Wilson

  Hands, Space, Expectations

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• This is an elegant hotel! Room service has an unlisted number.

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Humor, Numbers

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• Au revoir, jewelled alligators and white hotels, hallucinatory forests, farewell.

  J. G. Ballard

  Farewell, White, Forests

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• I often dream about the Dolphin Hotel.

  Haruki Murakami

  Dream, Dolphins

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• But we are alone, darling child, terribly, isolated each from the other; so fierce is the world's ridicule we cannot speak or show our tenderness; for us, death is stronger than life, it pulls like a wind through the dark, all our cries burlesqued in joyless laughter; and with the garbage of loneliness stuffed down us until our guts burst bleeding green, we go screaming round the world, dying in our rented rooms, nightmare hotels, eternal homes of the transient heart.

  Truman Capote

  Laughter, Children, Loneliness

  Truman Capote (2007). “Other Voices, Other Rooms”, p.124, Vintage

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• I am Eloise. I am six. I live at the Plaza hotel.

  Kay Thompson

  Eloise, Six

  Lisa McClatchy, Tammie Lyon, Kay Thompson (2006). “Eloise and the Snowman”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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