Hotel Quotes - page 14

Supergroupies don't have to hang around hotel corridors. When you are one, as I have been, you get invited backstage. (Germaine Greer)
Strange, but when he closed his eyes he had an image of the hotel above them restored to its former grandeur. A concierge and porter in the lobby. Someone behind the desk waiting to take his key. Sintra in an evening gown. They'd be about to take a motored vehicle to the opera. The streets would be busy with merchants and people coming home from work. The buildings, the storefronts, would be bright and cheery with lights. Like it had been in those mayfly beautiful moments between wars, before the Rising. View quote
Jeff VanderMeer
It's my responsibility to walk around the hotel with a big smile on my face and not worry about what's happened in the last game. View quote
David Beckham
On 9/11, that morning, I was in a Christian Dior Couture appointment at the Hotel Pierre. View quote
André Leon Talley
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. View quote
Martha Gellhorn
Every holiday on the calendar, I check in a hotel and fast - I don't eat, I don't drink, I don't talk. View quote
Dick Gregory
I was involved with organising migrant worker nannies, domestic workers, in New York State with the IAF. We flew them to a hotel, got them together, and got them to talk to each other about what their issues were. What was incredible was that out of those 300 nannies all of them were prepared to pay a not insubstantial part of their wages to join a union that could articulate their concerns. They were getting sexual harassment, exploitation. It only grew out of them meeting each other, they had to have that initial investment to get them together. They came from all over the world but what they found when they got together was they had the same issues. If people knew you could join a union, get on, and protect each other it would be transformative – we've got to find a way, to put it bluntly, of supporting good work. There needs to be a complete transformation of the language and agenda of unions. View quote
Maurice Glasman, Baron Glasman
The strange thing about hotel rooms is that they look familiar and seem familiar and have many of the accoutrements that seem domestic and familiar, but they are really weird, alien and anonymous places. View quote
Moby
I'm like a bad musical cliche because I bring my guitar on the road and try to write songs in hotel rooms. View quote
Moby
When I am in a hotel, and I turn off the lights and the TV, I just freak out. I turn the TV back on and don't get any sleep. View quote
Louis C.K.
I've paid for more pianos in hotel lobbies than you can imagine. (Kid Rock)
Make no mistake: Bob Ritchie's up early in the morning taking pictures of his son on the first day of his senior year. Kid Rock is passed out in a hotel room somewhere with four scantily-clad women. View quote
Kid Rock
When I was a rapper, the groupies didn't have to try too hard with me. Just show up at the hotel. View quote
Mark Wahlberg
The only trend I do not like in rap right now is the message rap. I consider the message rap the equivalent of what strings were to rock 'n' roll in the late '50s - a capitulation to the adult norm who can't accept the music on its own terms. The people who considered "Sixty Minute Man" by Billy Ward and the, "Annie Had a Baby" - as the pinnacles of '50s R&B now are super uptight over the - in quotes - hotel/motel lyrics of rap. Rap is definitely as true to the essence of rock 'n roll as anything that's out there today. View quote
Aaron Fuchs
In a lot of ways, I envy someone like Omar Sharif who lived in a hotel for decades. View quote
Viggo Mortensen
In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth will be seen to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel. View quote
Teresa of Ávila
I try to work out with my personal trainer for an hour, four times a week - we mainly concentrate on weights and running. If I'm on the road I sometimes do DVD work-outs in my hotel room - P90X and Insanity are a couple of my favourites. View quote
Fergie
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. View quote
Lewis Black
I can write anywhere. I write in airports. I write on airplanes. I've written in the back seats of taxis. I write in hotel rooms. I love hotel rooms. I just write wherever I am whenever I need to write. View quote
Garrison Keillor
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. View quote
Margaret Atwood
The stabbing horror of life is not contained in calamities and disasters, because these things wake one up and one gets very familiar and intimate with them and finally they become tame again. No, it is more like being in a hotel room in Hoboken let us say, and just enough money in one's pocket for another meal. (Henry Miller)
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. View quote
Larry Bird
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. View quote
Jason Mraz
They can't take your house and give it to the mayor's mistress, even if they pay you for it. But they can, apparently, take your house and tear it down to make room for a development of trendy shops and restaurants, a hotel and so on. View quote
Michael Kinsley
GAVRAS: Well, he's bigger than a pop star. I mean, when he came to Paris in 2007, he was supposed to stay at the Hôtel de Marigny, which is the best hotel. But Gaddafi came with a tent. It was this huge flagged tent-just him and his army guards, who were all girls. They were in these crazy leopard outfits. I mean, Gaddafi is way better dressed than any pop star in the world. View quote
M.I.A.