“The hotel was once where things coalesced, where you could meet both townspeople and travelers. Not so in a motel. No matter how you build it, the motel remains the haunt of the quick and dirty, where the only locals are Chamber of Commerce boys every fourth Thursday. Who ever heard the returning traveler exclaim over one of the great motels of the world he stayed in? Motels can be big, but never grand.” WorldMatterBigsBoysHeardRemainsLocalsDirtyHotelFourthCommerceTravelerChamberThursdayMotelsChamber Of Commerce Author:William Least Heat-Moon
“I learned an invaluable lesson from a kid in Argentina when we were playing Buenos Aires in 2002. I came out of the hotel and this 16-year-old-boy asked me to sign his copy of my Six Wives of Henry VIII album. As I was signing it I asked him 'what does a 16 year-old like about this old music?' and he looked at me, quite hurt, and said, 'it might be old to you, Mr Wakeman, but I only heard it for the first time last week. When you hear something for the first time, it's new.' I've never forgotten that.” YearsFirstsDoeSaidMightKidsLastsHurtBoysWifeHeardWeekLessonsSixFirst TimeForgottenAlbumsHotelCopiesSigningInvaluableArgentinaOld MusicHenry ViiiBuenos AiresHenry V Author:Rick Wakeman
“This was in San Francisco, in 1987. A bunch of kids were camped out in the Riviera Hotel - boy hustlers and their sugar daddy. One boy, Tank, showed us his gun. 'It's not loaded,' he said. He pointed the gun to his head, then out the window, and then to the ceiling. When the gun was pointed to the ceiling, he pulled the trigger and it went off. The gun was loaded after all.” SaidKidsBoysGunWindowBunchHotelSugarDaddySan FranciscoTriggersTanksCeilingsLoadedSugar Daddy Author:Jim Goldberg
“Boy what a hotel that was, why they stole my towel.” HumorFunnyBoysHotelTowels Author:Rodney Dangerfield
“Julian Schnabel painted a picture that he dedicated to my character in Rumble Fish. It was called The Motorcycle Boy. I remember when he brought it over to me at the Mayflower Hotel [in New York] years ago. This is when you and I knew each other.” YearsCharacterRememberBoysNew YorkYears AgoFishesHotelDedicatedRemember WhenMotorcycleRumbleMayflower Author:Mickey Rourke
“There are names like Savoy Hotel, Caruso, Shangri-La, Pavlove, Mount Everest and the Treorchy Male Choir that just hang up there as peaks of excellence - perfect things that we simply take for granted as symbols of greatness. So imagine how delighted and honoured I am to join with all the other small peaks in congratulating the Choir of Choirs on its anniversary. In admiration, since I was a boy!” NamesPerfectBoysImagineGreatnessExcellenceMalesSymbolsGrantedHotelAdmirationDelightedChoirEverestHang UpsMount EverestPerfect ThingsShangri Author:Ron Moody
“For the first movie, they had the girls in one hotel and the boys in another hotel. Then, we found out that they actually preferred their hotel, so we moved over there and all hell broke loose.” FirstsGirlFoundBoysHellMovedBrokeHotel Author:Elizabeth Reaser
“It's cute when you meet young boys and they're bright red and breathing like they've run up the stairs, but they're just sitting outside the door. I've had phone calls in the middle of the night when I stay at hotels.” RunningYoungNightBoysDoorsMiddleSittingRedPhonesBreathingCuteHotelStairsPhone CallsMiddle Of The Night Author:Cameron Diaz