Sherill Tippins > Quotes

“Her new friends especially liked the southern phrases she recalled from her childhood, such as her father's remark that 'if I hadn't sold that Coca Cola stock I could just sit and pat my foot.”
― Sherill Tippins

“Americans were endangering their mental and physical health through overwork,” and all in pursuit of the dollar. “Life is not for learning, nor is life for working,” he ranted, “but learning and working are for life.”
― Sherill Tippins, Inside the Dream Palace: The Life and Times of New York's Legendary Chelsea Hotel

“Hazel McKinley, savvy as always, did take the time to advise the restaurant manager to cut out and frame that piece of vomit-splattered carpet, as it was likely to be worth millions someday.”
― Sherill Tippins

“Life all around me here in the village: Tragedy”
― Sherill Tippins, Inside the Dream Palace: The Life and Times of New York's Legendary Chelsea Hotel

“Everybody knows that the dice are loaded Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed.   —LEONARD COHEN”
― Sherill Tippins, Inside the Dream Palace: The Life and Times of New York's Legendary Chelsea Hotel

“the hotel was no longer Gardner’s “once rather noble Chelsea,” despite its rather bizarrely timed designation as a national historic landmark that year.”
― Sherill Tippins, Inside the Dream Palace: The Life and Times of New York's Legendary Chelsea Hotel