Richard Quest Quotes

Richard Quest vents about travel and hotel letdowns for anyone tired of empty promises.

15 quotes

  1. I am tired of hotels promising to go the extra mile only to have them refuse to go round the corner!

  2. I am not angry. I am just disappointed that, once again, a hotel has tried to convince me it will move heaven and earth to ensure I am comfortable when, in reality, it won't even pass me the coffee pot!

  3. A question: when is a bed not a bed? When it is angled lie-flat. My back hurts, my legs ache and my clothes are all rumpled - and all because the airline, which claimed to have a bed, actually offered up a torture machine which I prefer to call a slide.

  4. When there's a firestorm going on around you, you have very little idea of what's next.

  5. It is a very cynical, skeptical, foolish person that suggests Israel does not need a peace process to have a growing economy.

  6. I don't think many people would disagree that the world is fractured.

  7. I would have become a pilot if it wasn't for my poor eyesight and the fact that I am hopeless in science.

  8. 'Selfie' is the word du jour, and it became cause celebre at Nelson Mandela's funeral when the Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt took a selfie with U.S. President Barack Obama and U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron.

  9. Whenever there's a big story with vast potential to get social media content and find out what's happening, your first object is to prod into that and then test it to see whether it's valid. If you don't do the second part, you're basically a bilge pump.

  10. Any idiot can throw together a program or report and shove it out, but to get the balance and to get the skill set, that is what they pay us for. They don't pay us to prattle on the television; anybody can do that.

  11. If I remember back to when I wasn't open about my sexuality, I spent a great deal of time worried about it.

  12. The big story of the day is always going to be driven by what's happened and by the facts and the events.

  13. When I speak, I ask the people, particularly since there are many of us, 'Where will you spend your hard-earned money? Why spend it where it is not gay-friendly? Why should you spend your money in countries that are not gay-friendly just because they have beautiful beaches?'

  14. I hope I'm wrong, but I think the victory of the screen is going to win out. It raises the fundamental question: is the quality of reading and comprehension as good when you read it on a screen as when you read it on a physical paper?

  15. The fundamental rule of the business traveller must be nothing must stop you from getting there.