Guests Quotes - Page 27

• I will gladly lecture for fifty dollars, but I'll not be a guest for less than a hundred.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Dollars, Fifty, Lectures

  Elbert Hubbard (1922). “Selected Writings of Elbert Hubbard ...”

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• The latter end of a fray, and the beginning of a feast, Fits a dull fighter, and a keen guest.

  William Shakespeare

  Dull, Fighter, Fit

  William Shakespeare, Roma Gill (2002). “Henry IV”, p.96, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Happiness can come in a single moment. And in a single moment it can go again. But a single moment does not create it. Happiness is created through countless choices made and then made again throughout a lifetime. You are its host as well as its guest. You give it form, shape, individuality, texture, tone. And what it allows you to give can change your world. Happiness can be stillness. But it isn't still. It wraps, enchants, heals, consoles, soothes, delights, calms, inspires and connects. It is on your face and in your body. It is in your life and being.

  Stephanie Dowrick

  Single Mom, Choices Made, Giving

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• You want to do Olympics just like you do a pro football game or a basketball game? Be my guest. Watch it all fade away.

  Dick Ebersol

  Basketball, Football, Games

  "Just how valuable is owning the Olympic Games TV rights?" by Lawrence Donegan, www.theguardian.com. June 6, 2011.

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• Death in Somalia seldom bothers to announce its arrival. In fact, death calls with the arrogance of a guest confident on receiving a warm welcome at any time, no question asked.

  Nuruddin Farah

  Arrogance, Receiving, Facts

  Nuruddin Farah (2015). “Hiding in Plain Sight”, p.18, Oneworld Publications

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• I never actually got around to taping conversations with my guests, but there are a lot of things you can learn from a man like Nixon.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Men, Conversation

  "Memoirs". Book by Pierre Trudeau, 1993.

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• Clerks in downtown hotels were said to be asking guests whether they wished the room for sleeping or jumping. Two men jumped hand-in-hand from a high window in the Ritz. They had a joint account.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Sleep, Men, Jumping

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1980). “The Great Crash 1929”

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• It's so much better for me to do a talk show. You still have that energy of the audience, and the audience is just as important as that guest that's sitting next to me. It's not about me and that guest exchanging energy and talking. It's about everything that's going on in that room, and they're as much a part of the show as anything. I like this better than anything I've ever done.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Talking, Important, Rooms

  "Ellen Degeneres to freshen her talk show". The Associated Press Interview, www.today.com. September 2, 2006.

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• You know, what 'New Girl' is doing is they're bringing in really cool people. These are home-run people who aren't your typical guest-star-type people.

  Jake M. Johnson

  Girl, Running, Stars

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

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• I'm a really good dinner party guest. I am always so appreciative, impressed that anyone has even managed to turn on the oven and cook for me.

  Lucy Punch

  Party, Dinner, Appreciative

  "Q & A With Lucy Punch: Woody Allen's New Film, Eating Geographically and Why Offal Is Off-Limits". Interview with Margy Rochlin, www.laweekly.com. September 20, 2010.

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• Conversation is but carving! Give no more to every guest Than he's able to digest.

  Jonathan Swift

  Giving, Able, Carving

  Jonathan Swift (1860). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Copious Notes and Additions, and a Memoir of the Author”, p.332

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• By the study of their biographies, we receive each man as a guest into our minds, and we seem to understand their character as the result of a personal acquaintance, because we have obtained from their acts the best and most important means of forming an opinion about them. "What greater pleasure could'st thou gain than this?" What more valuable for the elevation of our own character?

  Plutarch

  Character, Mean, Men

  Plutarch (2012). “Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans: Complete”, p.330, Simon and Schuster

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• Anacharsis coming to Athens, knocked at Solon's door, and told him that he, being a stranger, was come to be his guest, and contract a friendship with him; and Solon replying, "It is better to make friends at home," Anacharsis replied, "Then you that are at home make friendship with me.

  Plutarch

  Home, Doors, Athens

  Plutarch (1861). “Plutarch's Lives: The Translation Called Dryden's”, p.172

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• He (King Philip) wanted as many Greeks as possible to take part in the festivities in honour of the gods, and so planned brilliant musical contests and lavish banquets for his friends and guests. Out of all Greece he summoned his personal guest-friends and ordered the members of his court to bring along as many as they could of their acquaintances from abroad.

  Diodorus Siculus

  Kings, Greek, Musical

  Histories 16.91.5-6,

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• In time you shall see Fate approach youIn the shape of your own image in the mirror;Or you shall sit alone by your own hearth,And suddenly the chair by you shall hold a guest,And you shall know that guest,And read the authentic message of his eyes.

  Edgar Lee Masters

  Eye, Fate, Mirrors

  Edgar Lee Masters (2012). “Spoon River Anthology”, p.188, The Floating Press

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• To turn away a guest is poorest poverty;
  To bear with fools is mightiest might.

  Thiruvalluvar

  Might, Poverty, Fool

  "Tirukkural". Book by Thiruvalluvar, 1840.

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• On one occasion, Daniel Day-Lewis, Jeremy Irons and myself were due to appear at the Sarajevo film festival and were turned off a UN plane on orders from Geneva. We had to get local journalists to transport the films in for us. I tell you this only to demonstrate that festivals can be a lifeline. But, after all the difficulties I'd had in getting there, in 1996 I found myself being flown in on a four-seater RAF plane as an official guest, endorsed by the British Embassy. Ironically, the film I was to present was Mission: Impossible.

  Vanessa Redgrave

  Order, Iron, Raf

  "Vanessa Redgrave: 'I want to give people the jolliest time'". Interview with Michael Billington, www.theguardian.com. April 11, 2012.

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• Painting is still to a great extent dominated by a central image; corners in most cases are like uninvited guests at a party, uneasy and unattended.

  Harold Town

  Party, Painting, Cases

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• Towns are full of people, houses full of tenants, hotels full of guests, trains full of travelers, cafés full of customers, parks full of promenaders, consulting-rooms of famous doctors full of patients, theatres full of spectators, and beaches full of bathers. What previously was, in general, no problem, now begins to be an everyday one, namely, to find room.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Beach, Doctors, People

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• When you are in deep meditation, you feel a great serenity, a joy that is unknown to you, a watchfulness that is a new guest. Soon this watchfulness will become the host. The day the watchfulness becomes the host, it remains twenty-four hours with you. And out of this watchfulness, whatever you do has a wisdom in it. Whatever you do shows a clarity, a purity, a spontaneity, a grace.

  Rajneesh

  Meditation, Joy, Serenity

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• Jessica Seinfeld made a toast. She turned to the assembled guests. 'And you are all so lucky to be part of Gwyneth's world. Because this is the real deal. And she's invited all of you good people in here. I would never do that.'

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Real, People, World

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• The Church is a family expecting guests.

  Andy Stanley

  Church, Expecting

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• To take advantage of the last precious minutes, you've got to stay afield as late as the birds do, regardless of a houseful of guests, the sanguine promises you've made the missus, or the overdraft bank notice at home. To heck with everybody and everything when birds are feeding and fish are biting. Stay late and lie like a dog if necessary.

  Havilah Babcock

  Dog, Lying, Home

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• Courtesy demands that you, when you are a guest, shall show neither annoyance nor disappointment--no matter what happens.

  Emily Post

  Disappointment, Demand, Matter

  Emily Post (2007). “Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home”, p.436, Cosimo, Inc.

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• He comes as a guest to the feast of existence, and knows that what matters is not how much he inherits but how he behaves at the feast, and what people remember and love him for.

  Boris Pasternak

  Life, What Matters, People

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