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Hotels are temporary people storage, no matter how big the boxes are. Remember that. -- Naomi Watts
Hotels are the only proper places for lecturers. When I am ill-natured I so enjoy the freedom of a hotel where I can ring up a domestic and give him a quarter and then break furniture over him. -- Mark Twain
Major theme of the book [ Hotels of North America], from my point of view: what is persona, what is self, in the digital sphere, and/or what is the effect of it on self in a prolonged interaction. -- Rick Moody
With the advent of Twitter and Facebook and other social networking sites, genuine privacy can only be found by renting a private villa for a holiday. Hotels are now out of the question for my wife and I. -- Robert Powell
I lost in the second round of the French Open and had 10 days off. I went to the Hard Rock Cafe. It was exciting to be away from my parents, to stay in a hotel. Hotels at 17 meant freedom. -- Boris Becker
Indian hotels are doing well globally because they understand hospitality. -- Zubin Mehta
I always found the road exciting. I liked stinking hotels and freezing dressing rooms. -- Suzi Quatro
All good hotels tend to lead people to do things they wouldn't necessarily do at home. -- Andre Balazs
Of course great hotels have always been social ideas, flawless mirrors to the particular societies they service. -- Joan Didion
I think it's fair to say more adultery goes on in hotels than any other place in the world. -- Andre Balazs
My business partner Robert De Niro knows a lot about hotels; he opened the Greenwich Hotel in New York City. -- Nobu Matsuhisa
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
Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture. -- Ernest Hemingway
Africa is really a place for the wealthy traveler. It's got some nice hotels, but they're very expensive hotels. It doesn't really cater to the backpacker or to the overland traveler. -- Paul Theroux
I always worked in institutions, I never had a restaurant of my own before, but I have opened over 30 hotels, restaurants and casinos. I understand what it takes to keep them running. -- Robert Irvine
At hotels, you are an actress. Absolutely. You can do what you want. Go where you want. I love my home too. But I love to arrive in a hotel. They have books, chocolate, food. I put things in the little refrigerator. -- Sonia Rykiel
The buyer is entitled to a bargain. The seller is entitled to a profit. So there is a fine margin in between where the price is right. I have found this to be true to this day whether dealing in paper hats, winter underwear or hotels. -- Conrad Hilton
Governance is complex, difficult, and on the whole, thankless - why ever should the Bright Young Things leave the management of their hotels, newspapers, banks, TV channels and corporations to join, like fleas on a behemoth, the government? Wherein lies the difference between the two worlds? -- Upamanyu Chatterjee
At the risk of sounding pedestrian, I'll be completely honest: the first thing I do in the morning is check Google News, partially because it seems sort of random and unbiased and partially because I tend to stay in hotels that don't necessarily have the fastest Internet connections. -- Moby
Here in Russia,, in many cities, people are irritated by Caucasian intrusion. Caucasians come from foreign countries; they are ubiquitous: in markets, shops, hotels, restaurants. They misbehave, and in this sense we have feelings similar to those that the Germans have toward the Turks and the French toward Algerians. -- Vladimir Zhirinovsky
Money doesn't mean anything to me. I've made a lot of money, but I want to enjoy life and not stress myself building my bank account. I give lots away and live simply, mostly out of a suitcase in hotels. We all know that good health is much more important. -- Keanu Reeves
In Singapore, there is this life and locals and restaurants and then big casinos and an array of chefs, and even Miami is almost close to Vegas when it comes to an amazing presentation of chefs. But they don't have these massive hotels that have become their own culinary villages. -- Daniel Boulud
Once you get over the culture shock, Filey is a pleasant spot, particularly at the beginning or end of the summer, when the hotels are half full. The brave go in winter, when the wind can be bitter and biting and Filey resumes its real life as a tiny, introverted fishing community. -- David Hewson
I was happy to find out that when on tour, Dolly Parton doesn't use hotels but stays on her bus every night, to the point of having her buses shipped from Austria to Australia so she can tour the way she sees fit. I used one of her buses once - an honor. -- Henry Rollins
I am obsessed with planning travel! Not just traveling, which I love, but the whole planning process and all the details that go into it. I subscribe to all these travel blogs and airline forums and research hotels and activities and destinations for hours on end, and I volunteer to plan trips for everyone I know. -- Lauren Weisberger
We all have heard it claimed that 13 is an 'unlucky number.' Indeed, there are many hotels in America that for this very reason claim not to have a 13th floor, in the sense that there is no button bearing the label '13' in their elevators (I recently stayed in one in New York, in fact). -- Douglas Hofstadter
I always wish the hotels were like they are in movies and TV shows, where if you're in Paris, right outside your window is the Eiffel Tower. In Egypt, the pyramids are right there. In the movies, every hotel has a monument right outside your window. My hotel rooms overlook the garbage dumpster in the back alley. -- Gilbert Gottfried
Jurassic World' takes place in a fully functional park on Isla Nublar. It sees more than 20,000 visitors every day. You arrive by ferry from Costa Rica. It has elements of a biological preserve, a safari, a zoo, and a theme park. There is a luxury resort with hotels, restaurants, nightlife and a golf course. And there are dinosaurs. -- Colin Trevorrow
When you come to a hotel room, you want it to be grand, functional and beautiful. But you don't want things that are not useful. Sometimes you go to hotels and there are all these frames and pictures of people you don't know, and you end up hiding everything in the drawer, and then housekeeping come and put it out again. -- Diane von Furstenberg
I don't like staying in hotels. I like to be in my own bed. San Diego as a city is really awesome. The only hard part of it for me is that I'm away from my family and my house. But as far as shooting down there, we get amazing locations, and the crew is really, really stellar down there. They are really fun. -- Kristen Bell
There was a point where I was making four movies a year. I was always on a set. I had no stories to tell. I was feeling empty. My life was just luggage and hotels and from set to set, from character to character. And one day, I said, 'And where is mine?' You know? And the moment I started to feel that fear, I stopped and I slowed down. -- Penelope Cruz
I only watch TV when I go to hotels. -- Joss Stone
I've been working in boutique hotels my whole life. -- Geoffrey Zakarian
My stepfather used to run hotels all around the world. -- DJ Rap
Au revoir, jewelled alligators and white hotels, hallucinatory forests, farewell. -- J. G. Ballard
People should have literary and cultural taste and should not bomb hotels. -- Upamanyu Chatterjee
Hong Kong has plenty of superlative hotels, amazing food, and cool shopping. -- Hanya Yanagihara
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I grew up in the motel business, and it evolved into hotels. -- Penny Pritzker
Ikea people do not drive flashy cars or stay at luxury hotels. -- Ingvar Kamprad
My new hotels will play a leading role in promoting world peace. -- Conrad Hilton
After years of hotels, I'm horribly inept at cleaning up after myself. -- Rufus Wainwright
I've discovered writers by reading books left in airplane seats and weird hotels. -- Lee Child
Why is Wi-Fi free at cheap hotels but $14 a night at expensive ones. -- David Pogue
I rarely stay in hotels because I have friends all over the world. -- Cilla Black
Love is like those second-rate hotels where all the luxury is in the lobby. -- Paul-Jean Toulet
I lived in several hotels, yeah. You have to try to make it home. -- Matt Bomer
I never write about the road. I never write about hotels or anything like that. -- Taylor Swift
Players are spoiled by charter airplanes, the finest hotels, a big per diem every day. -- Chick Hearn
I'm happy because I won't have to train again, or travel or sit in team hotels. -- Romario
Boston: Their hotels are bad. Their pumpkin pies are delicious. Their poetry is not so good. -- Edgar Allan Poe
I prefer temperance hotels - although they sell worse kinds of liquor than any other kind of hotels. -- Artemas Ward
I was so tired of playing tennis, so tired of traveling, of hotels, everything related to this sport. -- Thomas Muster
Mess is fairly good. It is like what is found in American hotels except for cake and pie. -- Knute Nelson
My mother made me do all the housework as a boy. I still do it, even in hotels. -- Ernest Borgnine
The elephants were being slaughtered in masses. Some were even killed in the vicinity of big tourist hotels. -- Richard Leakey
Most big companies don't like you very much, except hotels, airlines and Microsoft, which don't like you at all. -- Bill Bryson
I've just always liked hotels. I like the bed and the sheets and everything that comes along with it. -- David Boreanaz
Whenever I write for hotel reservations, I always enclose a set of rules I have made for the hotels. -- Ethel Waters
There have been plenty of very bare hotels with couples humping next door. I don't stay in very grand hotels. -- Honor Blackman
Heaven knows what I have not been through with, since I saw you-dust, dirt, dyspepsia, hotels, railroads, prairies, tobacco juice. -- Julia Ward Howe
Sure, we loaned money to build hotels and casinos in Las Vegas. So what? Las Vegas borrowers were good customers. -- Jimmy Hoffa
In America, Blackberry Farm in Tennessee is one of the most amazing hotels I've had the privilege of staying at. -- Gail Simmons
Hmmmm... It's fun being in front of people, playing shows and all. But hotels? Being away from home? That's different. -- Grandmaster Flash
Films and hotels have many aspects that are the same. For example, there is always a big vision, an idea. -- Francis Ford Coppola
I am tired of hotels promising to go the extra mile only to have them refuse to go round the corner! -- Richard Quest
It's very expensive to be a professional tennis player with all the travel and the flights and the hotels and everything. -- Caroline Wozniacki
Ordering pizza and jamming out with the contestants in our hotels and traveling the country together brought me so much joy. -- Rayvon Owen
I like staying in hotels. I like their tiny soap. I like to pretend it's regular-sized and my muscles are huge. -- Jerry Seinfeld
Truthfully, I despise hotels. I've had such better experiences staying at people's houses and guesthouses; it's so much more comfortable and homey. -- Rob Machado
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
I find it hard to get enthusiastic about hotels because, as a touring comic, I spend a lot of time in them. -- Marcus Brigstocke
We will spend more time in America, we're going to get a place in LA as hotels aren't great for the baby. -- Anna Friel
In its current incarnation in my life touring is a lot of airports and hotels and car services and only OK food. -- Jami Attenberg
I used to be a regular college student and now I go all over the country and stay at really nice hotels. -- Steven Hill
The economy is so bad that bedbugs are now infesting sleeping bags and tents, because they can't afford to stay in hotels anymore. -- Jay Leno
People in hotels strike no roots. The French phrase for chronic hotel guests even says so; they are called dwellers sur la branche. -- E. V. Lucas
I've been down to the Ecolodge in Panama, but there really are only a handful of real green hotels in the U.S. -- Barry Sternlicht
I love hotels for their solitude and comfort, but I believe a seedy one can have as much promise as a plush one. -- Freema Agyeman
I spend so much time living by myself - mostly in hotels - and I pick up cats when I'm feeling particularly lonely. -- Penelope Cruz
If the guidebook used to be critical, today it seems largely a celebratory adjunct to the publicity operations of hotels, resorts, and even countries. -- Paul Fussell
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
You may not know it but I'm no good at coping with all the attention in the luxury hotels I sometimes find myself in. -- Paul Theroux
I don't flaunt my money. I like to stay at nice hotels but I'm not a flashy chick. I haven't got much jewellery or anything. -- Beyonce Knowles
Staying in luxury hotels still gives me a kick, especially Oulton Hall in Yorkshire. I'd stay in a hotel for the breakfast and room service. -- Jimmy Carr
Boutique hotels are great, but they get too cute. Some hotels have shoe polish. It's like, come on, this isn't 1960. No one's polishing their shoes. -- Jim Gaffigan
Staying in luxury hotels still gives me a kick, especially Oulton Hall in Yorkshire. I'd stay in a hotel for the breakfast and room service." -- Jimmy Carr
I think the business affairs people at the studios get some kind of perverse satisfaction in finding the worst hotels for actors to stay in. -- James Purefoy
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
I used to stay at the Trump [hotels] and I just wouldn't now. The people were great, but I wouldn't stay at a 'birther' hotel. -- Bill Maher
I've got used to touring. If you make calculations of the nights spent in hotels in my life, multiplied by the tattoos I have for hundred. -- Anthony Kiedis
Eat where the people eat, not the hotels and touristy restaurants. If a local teacher makes $50 a month and they're living decently, see what they do. -- Rita Gelman
I've gotten very cynical and kind of anhedonic about all the things I have to do to get to do comedy: all the travel, hotels, and airports. -- Patton Oswalt
Some of the greatest businesses operating from a deeper purpose have a real commitment to service, like Four Seasons, Joie de Vivre hotels, Southwest Airlines, and JetBlue. -- John Mackey
The fun of working on the road means stealing from hotels. I've been doing it for so long, I have a set of towels from the Ark. -- Joan Rivers
I see a lot of nice hotels, but I never really get to enjoy the cities, because I have to be on a plane the next day. -- Gabriel Iglesias
When I first came to Nashville, people hardly gave country music any respect. We lived in old cars and dirty hotels, and we ate when we could. -- Loretta Lynn
The internet in hotels should be free - and I really resent it when they charge you five dollars for a bottle of water beside your bed. -- Francis Ford Coppola
Minimalism in interior design has become a caricature. Everywhere you find shops or hotels with an ambience that makes you feel like you are in a refrigerator. -- Andree Putman
For us as entertainers traveling, the schedule gets really crazy - flying all the time, being on a bus tour, changing hotels every day. And it's challenging. -- Sheila E.
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
I would rather live in Russia on black bread and vodka than in the United States at the best hotels. America knows nothing of food, love or art. -- Isadora Duncan
And it's tough traveling. You know, the hotels and the airports and all that. That part, eating and getting around to the hotel room and then going on. -- Harvey Korman
This book was company for me - I wrote these things when I was in hotels, far from where I normally live. I never intended to publish it. -- Catherine Deneuve
Baseball is a lot like the Army, there aren't many individuals. About the only difference is that baseball players get to stay in nice hotels instead of barracks. -- Bill Lee
I learned a lot about what it was like to have to use different hotels and not use the bathrooms, which made me more determined to be an activist. -- Bonnie Raitt
....decay and disfavor came together as other parts of the coast were developed, and the canals became weed-clogged ditches breeding mosquitoes, and the hotels were turned into third-rate apartments. -- Edward Bunker
The first of my father's illusions was that bears could survive the life led by human beings; the second was that human beings could survive a life in hotels. -- John Irving
The doors of churches, hotels, concert halls and reading rooms are alike closed against the Negro as a man, but every place is open to him as a servant. --
I used to play pianos in bars. You know in hotels, you'd see guys playing piano with a snifter? That was me, with a painted-on mustache. I was about 15. -- Brian McKnight
A few years ago no hotel or restaurant in Boston refused Negro guests; now several hotels, restaurants, and especially confectionary stores, will not serve Negroes, even the best of them. -- Ray Stannard Baker
When healthcare is at its best, hospitals are four-star hotels, and nurses, personal butlers at the ready - at least, that's how many hospitals seem to interpret a government mandate. -- Alexandra Robbins
What makes the world such a wonderful place is the diversity. I have always strived to fill my home, my office and my hotels with the most diverse crowds possible. -- Petter Stordalen
Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter. -- John Muir
I carry music in my head, so I don't need more. It drives me nuts that, in hotels or on boats, people seem to think you need music 24 hours a day. -- Miranda Richardson
You know, if you want to meet a lot of Iraqi leaders, the best places are the hotels in Amman or in London. In general the government here is amazingly unpopular. -- Patrick Cockburn
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
The three of them left the noodle shop and went to a nearby love hotel. It was on the edge of town, on a street where love hotels alternated with gravestone dealers." -- Haruki Murakami
To tell you the truth, man, we spend most of the time travelling in hotels, in festivals, in concert halls, clubs, airports. The most unenjoyable part is all the security at airports. -- Hugh Masekela
Instead of growing old gracefully, at home with my family - reading and writing and praying and thinking - too much of my time has been spent at airports and in hotels. -- Desmond Tutu

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