Historic Hotel Quotes & Sayings

Any event that has occurred just five times since the first animal with a backbone appeared, some five hundred million years ago, must qualify as exceedingly rare. — Elizabeth Kolbert

The wrong people always worry. The people who are the real problem never worry about anything. — James Lee Burke

Its circumference was tiny, but he had a life, and he would not give it up. — Robin Sloan

Her lips said 'no', but her eyes said 'read my lips'. — David Hyde Pierce

My mother refused to let me fail. So I insisted. — Walker Percy

He had eaten Kate's map so — Roland Smith

Poxviruses keep herds and swarms of living things in check, preventing them from growing too large and overwhelming their habitats. Viruses are an essential part of nature. If all the viruses on the planet were to disappear, a global catastrophe would ensue, and the natural ecosystems of the earth would collapse in a spectacular crash under burgeoning populations of insects. Viruses are nature's crowd control, and a poxvirus can thin a crowd in a hurry. — Richard Preston

Hang up the phone on a vampire, the definition of carefree. — Steve Aylett

He had illuminated the heartbreaking cruelty of war: When men who fight become nothing, only packages of bones and blood deposited in the earth with no clarion call to memory, those they love are left without a way to make such devastating loss hold meaning. — Patricia O'Brien

There's something inherently comic about the fact that politicians make things worse by worrying too much about something. — Armando Iannucci

I think every guy that hits his 40s has a little bit of a wake-up call and wants to just keep things real, as they say, and just to push yourself. — Bill Rancic