Quotes About Concierge

#1. Who has ever heard of a maid and a concierge making use of their afternoon break to ponder the cultural significance of interior decoration? You would be surprised by what ordinary little people come out with.

Muriel Barbery

#2. There's an image that some of us have of Jackie Onassis, stepping out in the rain, and Maurice Tempelsman is holding her umbrella. We want that man. We want the man to be the concierge and the masseur and the travel booker.

Sandra Tsing Loh

#3. The concierge was a snapper who was over the hill and down a disused mine-shaft. Her hair was every bit as natural as a parade goose-stepping down the Wilhelmstrasse, and she'd evidently been wearing a boxing-glove when she's applied the crimson lipstick to her paperclip of a mouth.

Philip Kerr

#4. That was a strange thing, the death of Coco. Not that he should die, for owing to the unexpected folly of the concierge it was inevitable that he should, but his manner of doing it. Even at this distance of time, the remembrance agonises me. There

Elizabeth Von Arnim

#5. I'm very sorry for the inconvenience.
And he shot the concierge once between astonished eyes.

Jeff Abbott

#6. Getting into Sundance is a certain sort of passport to a level of anxiety I've never experienced, even having had a baby in the NICU for a week. For about ten minutes, you're a world-class director. Then you become an entry-level, harried, low level concierge with absolutely no juice.

Jill Soloway

#7. I know that atmosphere of the Parisian apartment building, with the twin menaces of the concierge on the ground floor and the landlord upstairs.

Roman Polanski

#8. Don't let the cat out or the concierge in: this is the first principle of socialist ladies.

Muriel Barbery

#9. I was referred to Mike Jones from the concierge at a Marriott hotel when I asked for a masseur.

Ted Haggard

#10. His name was Mr. Quan and he was the concierge, which explained the black suit and the lavender shirt but not the oversized bow tie in chrome-yellow silk. Perhaps nothing could.

Carsten Stroud

#11. 'Concierge' comes from the Latin for 'slave.'

Ben Elliot

#12. Olympe is not one for affected charades, the way some people in the building are, to prove that because she is a well-brought-up-child-of-leftists-without-prejudices she is conversing with the concierge.

Muriel Barbery

#13. Librarians who are arguing and lobbying for clever e-book lending solutions are completely missing the point. They are defending the library-as-warehouse concept, as opposed to fighting for the future, which is librarian as producer, concierge, connector, teacher, and impresario.

Seth Godin

#14. I write about what I know: sex, pornography, art, fame obsession, drugs, and alcohol. I mean, why would anyone care to listen to me if I wasn't an expert in what I write about?

Lady Gaga

#15. My father is a very strict man.

Nneka

#16. A welfare state is frightened of every poor person who tries to get in and every rich person who tries to get out.

Harry Browne

#17. It is now almost my sole rule of life to clear myself of cants and formulas, as of poisonous Nessus shirts.

Thomas Carlyle

#18. Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it.

David Lloyd George

#19. There is no one quite as popular in any form of football as the backup QB.

Verne Lundquist

#20. To a surrounded enemy, you must leave a way of escape.

Sun Tzu

#21. Those nights when the future seemed to last only till the morning and he would count off the hours, one by one, by the chimes of distant church bells.

Paolo Giordano

#22. Rock n' roll is dying because people became OK with Nickelback being the biggest band in the world.

Patrick Carney

#23. Women have a tendency not to give up realms once they take over new ones. We are still proprietary over the domestic realm even as we take over new professional realms, and that is a real problem.

Hanna Rosin

#24. Nonviolence is the rock on which the whole structure of non-co-operation is built.

Mahatma Gandhi

#25. If you take your thumb and your index finger and look right where they meet - go ahead and do that now - and relax your hand, you'll see a crinkle, and then a wrinkle within the crinkle, and a crinkle within the wrinkle. Right? Your body is covered with fractals.

Ron Eglash

#26. Life is what we do when we're on the way to live it.

Lauren Hutton

#27. Even when there are banalities, they're usually kind of benign banalities.

Michael McKean

#28. The cool thing about my profession is that I can do it until the day I die.

Candace Cameron Bure