Balazs Quotes & Sayings

One of the few luxuries left is travel. And the aspect of travel that is luxurious is not the movement, but the being there. — Andre Balazs

I think it's fair to say more adultery goes on in hotels than any other place in the world. — Andre Balazs

All good hotels tend to lead people to do things they wouldn't necessarily do at home. — Andre Balazs

The genius of Coleridge is like a sunken treasure ship, and Coleridge a diver too timid and lazy to bring its riches to the surface. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue. — William Hazlitt

It is to be steadily inculcated, that virtue is the highest proof of understanding, and the only solid basis of greatness. — Samuel Johnson

I don't think it ever does any harm in any business to feel that there is someone there who cares about it. If you look at any business, fashion being the most obvious, the aura, or the reality of the designer, is part of what creates it. It's true in luxury goods stores and in good food stores. It leaves a palpable sense that someone cares. — Andre Balazs

The nation of Iran is threatening to sue the makers of the movie Argo. They say the movie was an unrealistic portrayal of their country. You can't do that! That would be like Scotland suing over the movie Shrek. — Craig Ferguson

Do I believe in ghosts? ... I am prepared to consider evidence and accept it if it satisfies me. — M.R. James

All that matters is the way he's angling my face up to his, thumb and forefinger still on my jaw and my chin. It makes me think of someone taking a drink, only the drink in question is my lips. He wants to taste me there, and oh, that's exactly what it feels like.
He doesn't press his mouth to mine, too hard and too frantic. He just dips in, getting a little of me on his lips before going back for something deeper and sweeter. It's so much sweeter I could cry. I feel like I've been waiting for this for a thousand years, and, if his reaction is anything to go by, so has he. — Charlotte Stein

Soho is a gritty former mercantile area that has, of course, evolved into the most bourgeois neighborhood in New York. — Andre Balazs

Could you get O positive this time? That's my favorite. — Heather Brewer

Don't hate me for what tabloids write about me, because I guarantee it's a lie. — Taylor Momsen

Bathtubs, pools, water - to me, it's a very essential part of being grounded and sensual and feeling yourself. — Andre Balazs

In God's eyes all children are beautiful but here on earth we have higher standards. — Stephen Colbert

I love water - I'm an Aquarius, but that has nothing to do with it - and I've never been away from water in any place. — Andre Balazs

An impressionistic map of the South China Sea has been dashed across these covers by molecularly reconstructed Ming Dynasty calligraphers using brushes of combed unicorn mane dipped into ink made of grinding down charcoal slabs fashioned by blind stylite monks from hand-charred fragments of the True Cross. — Neal Stephenson

It's been a long time since I've won a race in anything, — Matt Kenseth

I often compare putting a hotel together to old-time movie production. You come up with a story line, you hire the writer, the director, the stars, the set designer. — Andre Balazs