Overlook Hotel Quotes

#1. Amount of freedom you have in your life is not the measure of the worth of your life. Just as safety is an empty and even self-defeating goal to live for, so ultimately is autonomy.

Atul Gawande

#2. Harrow the house of the dead; look shining at New styles of architecture, a change of heart.

W. H. Auden

#3. To Vik Lovell who told me dragons did not exist, then led me to their lairs ...

Ken Kesey

#4. Accumulating years in the act of living is no guarantee of maturity. In fact, it is possible to be born, grow old and die without ever maturing.

Tian Dayton

#5. Life is the art of finding or building a bridge with a great determination every time you come across a precipice!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#6. Jack stood in the dining room just outside the batwing doors leading into the Colorado Lounge, his head cocked, listening. He was smiling faintly. Around him, he could hear the Overlook Hotel coming to life. It

Stephen King

#7. I would bring myself down to his level. I would talk to him about bridge, and golf, and politics, and neckties. And the grown-up would be greatly pleased to have met such a sensible man.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#8. We talked, she and I. She asked about my work and it was a pretense, she was not interested in my work. And when I answered, it was a pretense. I was not interested in my work either. There was only one thing that interested us, and she knew it. She had made it plain by her coming.

John Fante

#9. There's always good news wrapped up in bad news.

Frank Delaney

#10. I may be the wrong person for my life.

Thomas McGuane

#11. Why does everybody think I argue? I never argue." Skye hesitated. "Or at least, I'm not going to argue as much anymore."
"That would be a miracle."
Skye chose to pretend she hadn't heard.

Jeanne Birdsall

#12. The world was the Overlook Hotel, where the party never ended. Where the dead were alive forever.

Stephen King

#13. Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.

Miguel De Unamuno

#14. Encouragement is about drawing forth a child's potential. As we raise and educate our kids on how to be good people, how to work hard, and how to do the right thing, we must find ways to draw it out of them, as opposed to "filling them up" with our words and values.

Kelly Bartlett

#15. His Majesty's Government looks with favour upon the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jews.

Arthur Balfour

#16. It was a famous old hotel called the Overlook. It burned down ten years ago. The caretaker burned it down. He was crazy. Everybody in town said so. But never mind: he's dead.

Stephen King

#17. There is something in man which can detect real love. We rub it out, or muffle it, by substitute-love.

Idries Shah

#18. Children will not pretend to be enjoying books, and they will not read books because they have been told that these books are good. They are looking for delight.

Helen Dunmore

#19. A week and a half later two feet of snow lay white and crisp and even on the grounds of the Overlook Hotel.

Stephen King