Hotel Quotations

Whenever I am not traveling during the winter, I am pushing hard in the gym. Even when I am traveling, I try to fit a workout in at the hotel. And if the hotel doesn't have a gym? You can get a good workout in your room with an exercise band and some imagination.

Supergroupies don't have to hang around hotel corridors. When you are one, as I have been, you get invited backstage.

It is very important that a leader in the hotel industry be both creative, I think, and compassionate.

Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul.

Black is overrated. You'll never find it in my stores. Of course it's slimming, but it's just used too much, especially for men. One black suit by one designer, another one by another - they all look the same in the end. If I walk into a crowded hotel lobby and I'm wearing a black suit, I just look like everyone else.

I know I'm really lucky to do what I do, but sometimes with the hours and the travelling, I don't get to see my family and friends as much as I'd like. It can be lonely on the road. Sometimes I come offstage after a massive adrenaline rush, and then when I go to an empty hotel room on my own, it can be an anti-climax.

If you're a person who says yes most of the time, you'll find yourself in the hotel business and the restaurant business.

In college, everything's structured. In the NBA, it's like, you have a lot of free time, and you have to use it wisely. A lot of the time, you're in a hotel room all day. And rest is really the most important thing. Then, just trying to enjoy yourself and have fun.

When I went to India, I became absolutely obsessed with the idea of building a hotel in India. I've never done a hotel, and I'd love to do public spaces in that culture.

Indian hotels are doing well globally because they understand hospitality.

You couldn't get me to go travel around and sit in a hotel room again. I have no interest in doing that. So everybody's happy. I am, at 74. Some people like doing it, but I never was much for that, anyway. It's a lot of work. So the only thing I miss about all of it is the camaraderie of the tour, but that doesn't offset the rest of it.

I pretend I'm one of the royal family when I'm in a hotel and that the hotel belongs to me - it is a palace.

I lived at the Gramercy Park Hotel for about 10 years. It was terrific. It was a pleasantly run-down hotel of the '70s and '80s with a mix of older, rent-controlled apartment dwellers, Europeans and new wave and punk bands. The room service was great, the hamburger was terrific, and they had a doctor who made house calls.

Drinking beer is easy. Trashing your hotel room is easy. But being a Christian, that's a tough call. That's rebellion.

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.

I've been working in boutique hotels my whole life.

And then Dick called and said, I'm going to do a special called Dick Van Dyke and the other woman, that would be you, because every time I try to check into a hotel with my wife, they look at me as though I'm cheating on Laura.

I started in the kitchen of a Holiday Inn in Birmingham. I wanted to be a sponge, wanted to learn and progress. I knew I didn't want to work in a hotel forever, but I had some good teachers there.

I'm a filmmaker; I want to make films. I don't want to sit in a hotel room waiting to make films, and I can control my thing in Denmark; I can make the film I want to make... of course, I have to write a good script, all that, but if I do my job, it will happen.

If you travel too often, you actually come face-to-face with what you're trying to escape. I feel like when I travel alone, sometimes it's like being locked in a hotel room with my own worst enemy.

If it's a romantic holiday, the only thing I need is my wife. We love quiet and calm places where we can't be disturbed. Neither of us likes being in busy places; we would much rather stay in our hotel room and enjoy each other's company.

You're at the hotel and after that you go to the venue and sit there and wait.

These days I travel so much it's hard to get into a routine. When I'm on the road, I tend to use hotel gyms. When I'm home in L.A., I like to hike and hit the surf. All in all, I try to keep a balanced diet and exercise routine, which has stood me in good stead to date.

The fans are always at the hotel waiting, they like to get pictures and autographs. I enjoy it all, the displays of love and support at the hotel and the shows.

When I was a rapper, the groupies didn't have to try too hard with me. Just show up at the hotel.

'Hurt Village' is based on a real housing project in Memphis, about three minutes away from the Lorraine Hotel where Dr. King was assassinated, so in my work I'm focusing on a very specific area in Memphis. I see 'Hurt Village' as a natural extension of 'The Mountaintop.'

Once a month, I get together with my girlfriends and we usually check into a hotel or go to someone else's house. We can talk for 15 hours, and it just flies by.

The first thing I do when I walk into a hotel is find the gym, and if they don't have a gym, I start looking for a handhold where I can do my pull-ups. Sometimes if a shower curtain rod is sturdy enough, I'll do them there.

The smell of the carpet in a hotel room is the same everywhere.

I have my guy Semi who is my on the road - he's my personal trainer. He helps me out with training and stuff like that, and he's shown me a lot of things I can do on the road. We were trying to figure out something that I can do everywhere, like in my hotel room, so I don't have to have a gym.

I'd love a day devoid of responsibilities. I've often thought about going to a hotel just to have a day away from everything.

I would rather sleep in a bathroom than in another hotel.

My definition of a good hotel is a place I'd stay at.

I can't live without my cup of tea. When I was a judge on 'America's Next Top Model,' they had to put me in a hotel where I had my own kitchen, because they can't make tea in America. I was happy then because I could make my own.

Just when did I get to the point when staying at a hotel wasn't fun?

If I'm staying in a hotel or I'm sleeping on my own I have the hairdryer on.

Lack of courage or means often deters the European woman from more independent business activity, and this in spite of increasing freedom to choose her occupation, in spite of brilliant examples of successful undertakings of women, in photography, hotel or boarding-house management, dress-making, etc.

My dinners at home are startlingly simple. Every night, I stop at the market near my hotel and pick up a steak, lamb chops or some liver, which I broil in the electric oven in my room. I usually eat four or five raw carrots with my meat, and that is all. I must be part rabbit; I never get bored with raw carrots.

I love Parisian hotels. I usually stay in either Le Bristol, which is gorgeous, or Hotel Paris Rivoli, which is very French and feels like a step back in time. I also love the luxury of Waldorf Astoria hotels.

When most artists walk offstage, they go to a lonely hotel room. I went home to my family. They were there before the show, during and after. It's been great. I never would have done it any other way. I wasn't gonna miss raising my kids. There was no way that was gonna happen.

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.

Owning great landmarks such as the Empire State Building or Trump Tower or the General Motors Building or the Plaza Hotel - there are certain just spectacular landmarks - it's an honor; it's really an honor.

I keep a hotel room in my town, although I have a large house. And I go there at about 5:30 in the morning, and I start working. And I don't allow anybody to come in that room. I work on yellow pads and with ballpoint pens. I keep a Bible, a thesaurus, a dictionary, and a bottle of sherry. I stay there until midday.

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When we were fundraising to go down to the Detroit area, we figured we had to raise $10,000 to $15,000 to finance the trip. It's four nights in a hotel plus all the means.

When I was a kid, I loved a heavy metal band called Motley Crue. I was thirteen when they came to my city, and I called every hotel in the Yellow Pages asking for a room by the name of their manager in hopes of meeting the band. After two or three hours of calling hotels, I got through, and the manager's brother answered the phone.

When we got there, our luggage got lost and our hotel was bad. Everything was awful. When we finally got to our final hotel, it was like 2 in the morning. I said then, 'Even if I win this tournament, it's going to be the worst tournament ever.' It ended up being not so bad, though.

When we got here on Monday, we rented a hotel and started to get help.

We can do anything a hotel does for corporations looking for a facility to hold a meeting. Our audio-visual is killer and it helps when they can make a presentation on a 40-foot movie screen with state-of-the-art AV equipment.

We felt like last year was great preparation for this year. I'm in the same room in the same hotel with the same manager at the same practice field. There are a few more (media) here than there were last year. ... It's the same game with more stakes.

We bring a hotel mentality to renting condos.

Unfortunately I went to a hotel in Krakow, and unfortunately, one night, there was a brawl in the bar because a horrible anti-Semitic remark was made to one of my fellow Israeli actors, one of my fellow actors who was an Israeli, sorry, and we were all extremely upset. I reacted rather violently, I'm afraid.

With the launch of this website, Choice is opening the door to a new generation of hotel owners. The site will continue to evolve as we are focused on providing first-timers with the tools to make the right business decision, with the right partner.

We're expecting at least 160 people this year. This is a life-changing experience for them ... some have never been on a plane, never been in a hotel or near the water. They come as far as Alaska and Hawaii to get here.

We're famous for going to the hotel rooms and actually cleaning them up.

We're hoping for downtown hotel stays. We're hoping for the volume of downtown dining to increase.

Why is Wi-Fi free at cheap hotels but $14 a night at expensive ones.

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.

With three days, you practice more what you're going to do than look at the other teams. We'll give them a little bit of a scouting report in the hotel room, but that'll be about it.

Would you have guests come to your hotel and die of thirst? Or would you possibly send notice not to come? We'd possibly have our guests not come that year. You build that in to your business plan.

We're staying in this hotel that I've never been able to stay in. I'm a college student. I don't have any money. This is like a place the president stays in.

We've tried very hard to be neutral. And we've tried not to let the hotel become some 'Disney Oriental' and remain rather traditional.

It was never decreed that a god mustn't pay hotel bills.

We have seen a continuation of the hotel recovery in almost all areas of the world helped both by higher occupancies and higher rates,

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.

We are going to make each hotel obscenely rich and obscenely beautiful and position them at the top off their markets.

We did have one to two families displaced, and the Red Cross was able to put them up at the Howard Johnson Hotel in North Bergen.

There are no hotel rooms to be had in Houston because we had 55,000 evacuees from Louisiana,

There are more women being accepted and graduating from college today, whether it be the hotel schools or law schools or medical schools, than ever before. It's over 50 percent.

We really felt like we were representing the Gulf area, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, all the people down there. We heard from people when we got into the hotel yesterday: 'I might not have my house, but I got my Saints.' Football means something to these people.

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We've seen airfares as low as $179 each way from the East Coast to major European cities for travel between November 1 and March 31, and many hotel deals to match.

When I got shoulder to shoulder with Allen Johnson, I felt that I was going to win. The crowd was amazing but they did give me pressure, too. From the moment I left the hotel to the moment I entered the stadium, they were shouting out my name and I had to respond. That distracted me a little, but it was okay.

When this article comes out, girls will be lining up outside his hotel door.

Let's just not take anyone who wants a hotel room. Let's take people who want to start a life in Denver, a productive life in Denver,

Last year saw a doubling of financing activity for hotel real estate in the commercial mortgage-backed securities sector and we see another strong year ahead.

Many people who buy at the Trump International Hotel & Tower Las Vegas are second-home buyers. This type of purchase is ideal for them because they can purchase a unit, use it as they please and rent if out when they're not using it. The buyers are able to enjoy all of the amenities and services Trump has to offer without anything to worry about.

Many consumers dismiss hotel suites as solely for celebrities and expense-account business travelers, but we want to show them that living in style is not only affordable, but also a great value.

Several hotel guests have complained to me that they have seen no map, no signs, not even a brochure on what to do if a tsunami occurs. People who sleep in the rooms will not hear the warning from sirens if the hotel has not installed a warning system in their rooms.

Seventy percent of the traffic to the hotel casino comes through that area.

Solitary confinement ... Two months of staring at the four walls of my hotel room.

So if you visit Chicago, enjoy the many great courses, the Midwestern friendliness, and the cities other amenities. But if a stranger with a goofy swing wants to play for more than loose change, take a pass. It's a long walk back to your hotel in bare feet.

Should all the contingencies be met, the hotel would then be sold.

Most of us are sane enough not to carry out strange, intrusive thoughts. Jon McGee was not able to do that in the hotel room.

Maybe you could build a hotel around it and it could be a ship in port.

Me and my wife put a family of five in a hotel seven or eight nights. It's kind of hard to imagine waking up one day and losing everything. They were sleeping on a floor in a relative's house. My wife, Judy, gave them some cash to go by some essentials. Hopefully they're on the road to recovery.

One of the things we talked about is that we played ... at Texas A&M against LSU and Tulane because they don't have the facilities, and they don't have the hotel availability in Baton Rouge because of the hurricane,

One piece that looked like it was doomed - we were going to shoot it in this hotel hallway, and it was just my character musing that maybe this was just the beginning of something, maybe we were on our way out of obscurity or something, and then we were setting up to do it - and we just had to get this other shot.

One night she slipped a note in my hotel mailbox. It was a small essay of encouragement and praise from out of the blue.

One thing that's great is if you're staying downtown at the Renaissance, you don't even have to leave the hotel. The hotel has been fantastic and the people are real good. So far it's been great.

One thing that I think it helps to keep in mind if you're just the average consumer is that the worst nightmare for a hotel manager is to have an empty room because it generates no revenue.

One time, we were up in Cooperstown and Judy got sick, and Dallas Green went to the hotel manager and gave him his credit card

My hotel is full of people who need to work here but they don't have a home. We've had to shift gears a little bit ? we're more like a dormitory now.

My father wanted people to stay on the slopes and ski with their hotel people.

Newsletters and Web sites are a great opportunity for couples to put all of the information about the wedding in one place -- where they're registered, guest hotel accommodations, events that will be going on surrounding the wedding. And you could also include events leading up to the wedding, such as showers and parties.