Guests Quotes - Page 10

• I don't mind doing occasional guest appearances on shows, but I have other things I'd like to do in my life now.

  Jodi Sweetin

  Mind, Appearance, Occasional

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When I came back from Pakistan, I wanted to take computer classes nearby. I asked my brother. I was in my home, cooking for my family, and all our relatives and guests. But I said, "I want to live my life as a woman, but I want to study." But, he told me, "Just study at home, you don't need to go out." He said, "If you go to the courses, what will our relatives say? They will lose respect for us." They told me, "We know you're feeling different, but we cannot do anything about it."

  Malina Suliman

  Brother, Home, Class

  "Afghan graffiti artist risks her life to challenge the burqa under the Taliban". Interview with Katie Booth, womenintheworld.com. May 21, 2015.

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• Decorating in relation to hotels is really nothing more than planned showmanship or the art of attracting attention in a delightful way and thus creating an increased consumer acceptance. It gives the guest the feeling of anticipation, excitement, expectancy, delight, and pride in the management of his favorit hotel.

  Dorothy Draper

  Art, Pride, Acceptance

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• Winter, a bad guest, sitteth with me at home; blue are my hands with his friendly handshaking

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Home, Winter, Blue

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• Grief for a dead Wife, and a troublesome Guest, Continues to the threshold, and there is at rest; But I mean such wives as are none of the best

  Benjamin Franklin

  Grief, Mean, Wife

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.20, Nayika Publishing

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• Like hungry guests, a sitting audience looks / Plays are like suppers; poets are the cooks / The founder's you; the table is this place / The carvers we; the prologue is the grace / Each act a course, each scene, a different dish.

  George Farquhar

  Play, Grace, Theatre

  James Pocock, James Townley, David Garrick, George Farquhar, Nicholas Rowe (1818). “Hit Or Miss! A Musical Farce in Two Acts”

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• Why dost thou not retire like a guest sated with the banquet of life, and with calm mind embrace, thou fool, a rest that knows no care?

  Lucretius

  Calm Mind, Care, Fool

  Titus Lucretius Carus (1947). “Titi Lucreti Cari De Rerum Natura Libri Sex: Prolegomena. Text. Translation”

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• Gansey leaned back, head thrown to the side, drunken and silly with happiness. "I love this car," he said, loud enough to be heard over the engine. "I should buy four more of them. I'll just open the door of one to fall in to the other. One can be a living room, one can be my kitchen, I'll sleep in one..." "And the fourth? Butler's pantry?" Blue shouted. "Don't be so selfish. Guest room.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Selfish, Silly, Fall

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• Why can't we be friends now?" said the other, holding him affectionately. "It's what I want. It's what you want." But the horses didn't want it — they swerved apart: the earth didn't want it, sending up rocks through which riders must pass single file; the temple, the tank, the jail, the palace, the birds, the carrion, the Guest House, that came into view as they emerged from the gap and saw Mau beneath: they didn't want it, they said in their hundred voices "No, not yet," and the sky said "No, not there.

  E. M. Forster

  Horse, Rocks, Views

  E. M. Forster (2010). “A Passage to India”, p.322, RosettaBooks

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• I went to the guest room and pretended to write. I hit the space bar again and again and again. My life story was spaces.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Writing, Space, Bars

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.176, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• On Monday they went out for a private picnic. On Tuesday they went for a carriage drive. On Wednesday they went to pick bluebells. On Thursday they fished at the lake, returning with damp clothes and sun-glazed complexions, laughing together at a joke they didn't share with anyone else. On Friday they danced together at an impromptu musical evening, looking so well matched one of the guests remarked it was a pleasure to watch them. On Saturday Matthew woke up wanting to murder someone.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Friday, Monday, Clothes

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• He fell in love with Manhattan's skyline, like a first-time brothel guest falling for a seasoned professional. He mused over her reflections in the black East River at dusk, dawn, or darkest night, and each haloed light-in a tower or strung along the jeweled and sprawling spider legs of the Brooklyn Bridge's spans-hinted at some meaning, which could be understood only when made audible by music and encoded in lyrics.

  Arthur Phillips

  Fall, Reflection, Night

  Arthur Phillips (2004). “The Egyptologist: A Novel”, p.515, Random House

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• He entertained these thoughts awkwardly, as a man entertains unexpected guests. Then, as he reached his objective, he pushed these thoughts away, as a man apologizes to his guests, and leaves them, muttering something about a prior engagement.

  Neil Gaiman

  Men, Unexpected, Apologizing

  Neil Gaiman (2009). “Stardust”, p.15, Harper Collins

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• THE soul should always stand ajar, That if the heaven inquire, He will not be obliged to wait, Or shy of troubling her. Depart, before the host has slid The bolt upon the door, To seek for the accomplished guest, -- Her visitor no more.

  Emily Dickinson

  Doors, Waiting, Heaven

  Emily Dickinson (2016). “The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.300, First Avenue Editions

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• Who needs a house? I'm talking about your heart. You have plenty of guest rooms there. And that's what you do. You open your heart to people. You keep lovely little rooms in there, just waiting for your friends to come visit. People feel as if they can come right in, just as they are. You don't entertain, you love. That's what lasts. That's why people like me feel as if I will always be your friend. You hold a special place for me in your heart.

  Robin Jones Gunn

  Heart, Talking, People

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• Things that are unsightly: birthmarks, infidelity, strangers in one's kitchen. Too much sunlight. Stitches. Missing teeth. Overlong guests.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Missing, Kitchen, Infidelity

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• There's one sad truth in life I've found While journeying east and west - The only folks we really wound Are those we love the best. We flatter those we scarcely know, We please the fleeting guest, And deal full many a thoughtless blow To those who love us best.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Relationship, Smile, Im Sorry

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• Harry Potter has kindly joined us for my rebirthing party. One might go so far as to call him my guest of honor.

  J. K. Rowling

  Party, Honor, Potters

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• Hopes were wallflowers. Hopes hugged the perimeter of a dance floor in your brain, tugging at their party lace, all perfume and hems and doomed expectation. They fanned their dance cards, these guests that pressed against the walls of your heart.

  Karen Russell

  Wall, Party, Heart

  FaceBook post by Karen Russell from Aug 08, 2013

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• If his drunkenness had legs, it would be Alexander the Great and conquer the known world. Then it would puke for a week into a solid gold toilet it stole from Zeus's guest room.

  Richard Kadrey

  Gold, Rooms, Would Be

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• He was a volatile mixture of confidence and vulnerability. He could deliver extended monologues on professional matters, then promptly stop in his tracks to peer inquisitively into his guest's eyes for signs of boredom or mockery, being intelligent enough to be unable fully to believe in his own claims to significance. He might, in a past life, have been a particularly canny and sharp-tongued royal advisor.

  Alain de Botton

  Believe, Eye, Intelligent

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• A comma . . . catches the gentle drift of the mind in thought, turning in on itself and back on itself, reversing, redoubling, and returning along the course of its own sweet river music; while the semicolon brings clauses and thoughts together with all the silent discretion of a hostess arranging guests around her dinner table.

  Pico Iyer

  Sweet, Rivers, Mind

  Pico Iyer (2011). “Tropical Classical: Essays from Several Directions”, p.431, Vintage

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• I. At Tea THE kettle descants in a cosy drone, And the young wife looks in her husband's face, And then in her guest's, and shows in her own Her sense that she fills an envied place; And the visiting lady is all abloom, And says there was never so sweet a room. And the happy young housewife does not know That the woman beside her was his first choice, Till the fates ordained it could not be so.... Betraying nothing in look or voice The guest sits smiling and sips her tea, And he throws her a stray glance yearningly.

  Thomas Hardy

  Sweet, Husband, Fate

  Thomas Hardy (1998). “Hardy: Selected Poems”, p.96, Penguin

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• Basher shook his head. "No, we climbed in through a ground-floor guest bedroom all ninja-like. Snuck up the back stairs." "Then you might be the cavalry," said Tom, "but I'm Santa Claus. Let's go downstairs and open some presents.

  Jonathan Maberry

  Santa, Might, Ninja

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• They leave things behind sometimes, the guests. A bottle of scent. A crumpled handkerchief. A pearl button that fell off a dress and rolled under a bed. And sometimes they leave other sorts of things. Things you can't see. A sigh trapped in a corner. Memories tangled in the curtains. A sob fluttering against the windowpane like a bird that flew in and can't get back out. I can feel these things. They dart and crouch and whisper.

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Memories, Tangled, Bird

  Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “A Gathering Light”, p.82, Bloomsbury Publishing

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