"People feel vulnerable when they travel. Nobody wants to be taken advantage of or talked into something they don't want. Staying at Motel 6 makes you feel smarter. In fact, I think it actually means you are smarter, but I have no hard data to support that."

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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

#Taken Quotes #Mean Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble.”

Source : FaceBook post by Yehuda Berg from Sep 15, 2010
“You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things are tough, you fight one more round.”
“I'm very romantic when I masturbate. Sometimes I light a candle...then I try and shoot it out. It's like a carnival.”

Source : "Skanks for the Memories". Comedy album, February 4, 2003.
“I worked for the Office of Management and Budget in the White House, on nuclear energy policy. But I decided it would be much more fun to have a specialty food store, so I left Washington D.C. and moved to the Hamptons. And how glad I am that I did!”

Source : "Barefoot Contessa: Back to Basics". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. November 24, 2008.
“If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go and that is down.”
“I don't know what I would do without my smartphone as I am on the go all day.”
“George Bush is just as much in the dark as I am, and it scares me.”
“whhheeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! The scream of jet engines rises to a crescendo on the runways of the world. Every second, somewhere or other, a plane touches down, with a puff of smoke from scorched tyre rubber, or rises in the air, leaving a smear of black fumes dissolving in its wake. From space, the earth might look to a fanciful eye like a huge carousel, with planes instead of horses spinning round its circumference, up and down, up and down. Whhheeeeeeeeeee!”

Source : David Lodge (1984). “Small world: an academic romance”, Macmillan Pub Co

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