Inns Quotes - Page 2

• Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.

  Maxim Gorky

  Air, Castles, Reader

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• The road to the inn is much better than the stay.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Life

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• They still talk about the night that Augie Pabst, a fresh-faced heir to the brewing fortune, drove a rented Falcon into the swimming pool of the Mark Thomas Inn in Monterey, California. His reviews were so good that he repeated the act at a Howard Johnson's outside Denver.

  Brock Yates

  Swimming, Night, California

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• It is the privilege of tale-tellers to open their story in an inn, the free rendezvous of all travellers, and where the humour of each displays itself, without ceremony or restraint.

  Walter Scott

  Book, Stories, Privilege

  Sir Walter Scott (1831). “Waverley Novels: Kenilworth”, p.3

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• My face has been tucked in more times than a bedsheet at the Holiday Inn.

  Joan Rivers

  Fashion, Holiday, Faces

  "Joan Rivers dies: Celebrate comedian's life with her 80 bitchiest putdowns and funniest one-liners" by Steve Anglesey and Carl Greenwood, www.mirror.co.uk. September 04, 2014.

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• I'd been staying at the Holiday Inn with my girlfriend, honestly the most beautiful woman I'd ever known, for three days under a phony name, shooting heroin. We made love in the bed, ate steaks at the restaurant, shot up in the john, puked, cried, accused one another, begged of one another, forgave, promised, and carried one another to heaven.

  Denis Johnson

  Beautiful, Girlfriend, Holiday

  "Jesus' Son". Book by Denis Johnson, December 1992.

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• J.R.R.Tolkien has confessed that about a third of the way through The Fellowship of the Ring, some ruffian named Strider confronted the hobbits in an inn, and Tolkien was in despair. He didn't know who Strider was, where the book was going, or what to write next. Strider turns out to be no lesser person than Aragorn, the unrecognized and uncrowned king of all the forces of good, whose restoration to rule is, along with the destruction of the evil ring, the engine that moves the plot of the whole massive trilogy, The Lord of the Rings.

  Ansen Dibell

  Kings, Moving, Book

  Ansen Dibell (1988). “Plot”, Writers Digest Books

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• It was an eight-harlot inn, if that's how you measure an inn. (I understand that now they measure inns in stars. We are in a four-star inn right now. I don't know what the conversion from harlots to stars is.)

  Christopher Moore

  Stars, Eight, Four

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• If you're thinking of coming to America, this is what it's like: you've got your Comfort Inn, you've got your Best Western, and you've got your Red Lobster where you eat. Everybody's very fat, everybody's very stupid and everybody's very rude - it's not a holiday programme, it's the truth.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Stupid, Holiday, Thinking

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• Inebriate of air am I, And debauchee of dew, Reeling, through endless summer days, From inns of molten blue.

  Emily Dickinson

  Summer, Air, Blue

  "I taste a liquor never brewed" l. 5 (ca. 1861)

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• I have no objection to any person's religion, be it what it may, so long as that person does not kill or insult any other person, because that other person don't believe it also. But when a man's religion becomes really frantic; when it is a positive torment to him; and, in fine, makes this earth of ours an uncomfortable inn to lodge in; then I think it high time to take that individual aside and argue the point with him.

  Herman Melville

  Believe, Men, Thinking

  'Moby Dick' (1851) ch. 17

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• If you go out on the Appalachian Trail, you have to bring so much more equipment - a tent, sleeping bag - but if you go hiking in England, or Europe, generally, towns and villages are near enough together at the end of the day you can always go to a nice little inn and have a hot bath and something to drink.

  Bill Bryson

  Nice, Sleep, Europe

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• Where is Arland?" "Rapunzel decided to walk around in the woods to get 'the feel of the battleground.' He won't leave the grounds and he promises to defend the inn with 'all the strength in his body.' I told him if he gets in trouble, he should try singing prettily so his woodland friends will come to the rescue. I don't think he got it.

  Ilona Andrews

  Thinking, Promise, Singing

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• For the next inn he spurs amain,
  In haste alights, and skuds away,
  But time and tide for no man stay.

  William Somervile

  Time, Men, Spurs

  William Somervile (1802*). “The poetical works of William Somervile, with the life of the author. Cooke's ed”, p.136

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• We are in this life as it were in another man's house.... In heaven is our home, in the world is our Inn: do not so entertain thyself in the Inn of this world for a day as to have thy mind withdrawn from longing after thy heavenly home.

  Gerhard

  Life, Home, Men

  "Meditations", XXXVIII in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (p. 440-455), 1922.

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• This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Spiritual, Home

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• This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time. Seneca Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

  Aristotle

  Home, Two, Soul

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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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• For a long time I found the celebrities of modern painting and poetry ridiculous. I loved absurd pictures, fanlights, stage scenery, mountebanks backcloths, inn-signs, cheap colored prints; unfashionable literature, church Latin, pornographic books badly spelt, grandmothers novels, fairy stories, little books for children, old operas, empty refrains, simple rhythms.

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Love, Children, Latin

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• There are many Green Dragons in this world of wayside inns, even as there are many White Harts, Red Lions, Silent Women and other incredible things.

  William Henry Hudson

  Dragons, White, World

  William Henry Hudson (1923). “The Collected Works of W. H. Hudson: A traveller in little things”

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• Nor do I regret that I have lived, since I have so lived that I think I was not born in vain, and I quit life as if it were an inn, not a home.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Death, Regret, Home

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• What is meditation?... It is fleeing from the self, it is a short escape of the agony of being a self, it is a short numbing of the senses against the pain and the pointlessness of life. The same escape, the same short numbing is what the driver of an ox-cart finds in the inn, drinking a few bowls of rice wine or fermented coconut-milk.

  Hermann Hesse

  Pain, Drinking, Wine

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.1457, Google Publishing

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• Vishous screamed. The only thing that was louder was the pop as the hip was relocated, as it were. And the last thing he saw before he checked out of the Conscious Inn & Suites was Jane's head whipping around in a panic. In her eyes was stark terror, as if the single worst thing that she could imagine was him in agony... And that was when he knew that he still loved her.

  J.R. Ward

  Eye, Agony, Panic

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• Dawn was coming. The Waystone Inn lay in silence, and it was a silence of three parts.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Silence, Three, Dawn

  Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two”, p.12, Penguin

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• But there was no room at the inn"; the inn is the gathering place of public opinion; so often public opinion locks its doors to the King.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Kings, Doors, Public Opinion

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