Guests Quotes - Page 18

• As my guests leave even my most simple parties, I consistently hear the same thing: 'That was the best time I ever had,' and it's always me saying it. But I do know in my heart they all feel the same way, probably.

  Amy Sedaris

  Party, Heart, Simple

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• I don't want to be the honored guest. I want to be the invisible person.

  Paul Theroux

  Want, Invisible, Persons

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• Not everyone knows how to be silent or to leave in good time. It happens that even people of good breeding fail to notice that their presence provokes in the weary or preoccupied host a feeling akin to hatred, and that this feeling is tensely concealed and covered up with lies.

  Anton Chekhov

  Lying, Covered Up, People

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• Let the progress of the meal be slow, for dinner is the last business of the day; and let the guests conduct themselves like travelers due to reach their destination together.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Progress, Together, Meals

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• In the course of interviewing, I've discovered that if you don't give your guest something to react to, they don't react. They simply say what they've been saying every time they've been interviewed. The last thing you want is to have people say to you what they've said to someone else.

  Michael Silverblatt

  People, Giving, Want

  Interview with Sarah Fay, believermag.com. June 2010.

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• A talk show is difficult because the formula is always the same: there's a host and there's guests. Really what you can change is only so much. So, I don't have any pre-interviews, which forces real conversation.

  Jenny McCarthy

  Real, Interviews, Host

  "Jenny McCarthy Breaks Down Her New Talk Show". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.etonline.com. February 6, 2013.

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• Every house guest brings you happiness. Some when they arrive, and some when they are leaving

  Confucius

  House, Leaving, House Guests

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• The only way to permanently install a new habit is to direct so much energy toward it that the old one slips away like an unwelcome house guest.

  Robin Sharma

  House, Energy, Way

  FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from Dec 02, 2013

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• ...I prefer not to have among my guests two people or more, of any sex, who are in the first wild tremours of love. It is better to invite them after their new passion has settled, has solidified into a quieter reciprocity of emotions. (It is also a waste of good food, to serve it to new lovers.)

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Sex, Food, Passion

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.78, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Our enemies ... seem always with us. The greater our hatred the more persistent the memory of them so that a truly terrible enemy becomes deathless. So that the man who has done you great injury or injustice makes himself a guest in your house forever. Perhaps only forgiveness can dislodge him.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Memories, Men, Hatred

  Cormac McCarthy (2013). “The Border Trilogy: Picador Classic”, p.861, Pan Macmillan

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• The rule for hospitality and Irish "help," is, to have the same dinner every day throughout the year. At last, Mrs. O'Shaughnessylearns to cook it to a nicety, the host learns to carve it, and the guests are well served.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Years, Dinner, Lasts

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• Objects of charity are not guests.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Charity, Objects

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.236, Penguin

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• In order to prove a friend to one's guests, frugality must reign in one's meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat to live, not live to eat.

  Moliere

  Order, Meals, Reign

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• We shall never deny a guest even the most ridiculous request.

  Mr. Krabs

  Ridiculous, Deny, Request

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• We may sing 'welcome, welcome, Holy Spirit', but He does not come because of our welcome. He is no guest, no stranger invited in for an hour or two. He is the Lord from heaven and He invites us into His presence.

  Reinhard Bonnke

  Two, Heaven, Doe

  Reinhard Bonnke (2017). “Holy Spirit Are We Flammable or Fireproof?”, p.104, CFAN Publications

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• Love is a gracious host to his guests though to the unbidden his house is a mirage and a mockery.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love Is, House, Mirages

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• Good thoughts are blessed guests, and should be heartily welcomed, well fed, and much sought after. Like rose leaves, they give out a sweet smell if laid up in the jar of memory.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Sweet, Memories, Blessed

  Charles Spurgeon (2012). “John Ploughman's Talks”, p.31, Whitaker House

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• Inquisitiveness is an uncomely guest.

  Philip Sidney

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.217

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• Lust may be in the heart, though it be not seen by others; as guests may be in the house, though they look not out at the windows.

  Billie Holiday

  Heart, House, Lust

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• Tea with us became more than an idealisation of the form of drinking; it is a religion of the art of life. The beverage grew to be an excuse for the worship of purity and refinement, a sacred function at which the host and guest joined to produce for that occasion the utmost beatitude of the mundane.

  Okakura Kakuzo

  Art, Drinking, Tea

  Okakura Kakuzo (2012). “The Book of Tea: Classic Edition”, p.21, Tuttle Publishing

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• Whoever expects to walk peacefully in the world must be money's guest.

  Norman O. Brown

  World, Walks

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• After spending the last 15 years guest hosting, I couldn't be happier to get the opportunity to host my own show! I'm looking forward to talking sports, connecting with listeners, and interviewing amazing guests every day, while being a part of the FOX Sports Radio family. It was worth the wait.

  Jay Mohr

  Sports, Opportunity, Years

  "Jay Mohr Joins Fox Sports Radio as New Midday Host". Statement to the Press, www.hollywoodreporter.com. December 19, 2012.

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• If you feel like keeping a journal-that neither you nor anyone else on earth will ever want to read-be my guest. But if you want to write something that may eventually see the light of day, that a magazine might buy or a publisher publish, then you'll have to knock off the journaling and do the grunt work that real writing requires.

  Robert Masello

  Real, Writing, Light

  Robert Masello (2005). “Robert's Rules of Writing”, p.11, Writer's Digest Books

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• Guests can be, and often are, delightful, but they should never be allowed to get the upper hand.

  Elizabeth von Arnim

  Friendship, Hands, Upper Hand

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• Every body we know surrounds himself with a fine house, fine books, conservatory, gardens, equipage, and all manner of toys, as screens to interpose between himself and his guest. Does it not seem as if man was of a very sly, elusive nature, and dreaded nothing so much as a full rencontre front to front with his fellow?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Men, Garden

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.145, Graphic Arts Books

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