“I go to Rome for Easter (Grand Hotel) to avoid the horrors of the English liturgy.”
Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966) British writer
Letter to Ann Fleming (3 March 1964), quoted in The Letters of Evelyn Waugh, ed. Mark Amory (1980), p. 618
“I was on the way to my hotel, and I passed a hotel going in the opposite direction.”
— Bob Hope
He arrived in Saigon on the day that Vietcong agents blew up an American officers' billet. <br class="br"> New York Times obituary, July 28, 2003 http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/28/obituaries/28CND-HOPE.html?pagewanted=1
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“My wife and I went to a hotel where we got a waterbed. My wife called it the Dead Sea.”
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"The Haunted Smile: The Story of Jewish Comedians in America" (2001)
“Is the hotel Marge? It has to be Marge. I want atmosphere.”
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