"I'm happy to report you still get nothing you don't need at Motel 6, and, therefore, you don't have to pay for it. I don't need valet parking. If I can drive the old crate 300 miles to the hotel all by myself, I can certainly handle the last nine feet to the parking space."

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Source : "Actually, Motel 6 Doesn't Leave the Light on for You". Interview with Kimberly D. Williams, adage.com. August 30, 2007.

Tom Bodett

#Feet Quotes #Space Quotes #Pay Quotes

“In the stormy current of life characters are weights or floats which at one time make us glide along the bottom, and at another maintain us on the surface.”

Source : Hippolyte Taine, John Durand (1896). “The philosophy of art. The ideal in art”
“Maybe that is why there are not a whole lot of problems between the church and worldly culture today, because we are not confronting the culture around us.”
“Knowing the plumbing of the universe, intricate and awe-inspiring though that plumbing might be, is a far cry from discovering its purpose.”
“If money had been the way to save the world, Christ himself would have been rich.”
“Become intensely conscious of the present moment.”
“If a big wave came at the wrong moment, it would sweep me off into forty-eight-degree water, where I might last twenty minutes. Drowning quickly might be better.”

Source : Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.126, Thomas Nelson Inc
“When one lover suffered from a broken heart, no matter how badly the other wanted to help, she couldn't be the one to heal it.”
“I have lived long enough in the world, Sir, . . . to know that the safety of a minister lies in his having the approbation of this House. Former ministers, Sir, neglected this, and therefore they fell; I have always made it my first study to obtain it...”

Source : 1739 Speech, House of Commons, 21 Nov.

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