Host Quotes - Page 8

• When I use music on stage, the prime directive is to entertain the public, so it is different.

  Cliff Richard

  Different, Use, Prime

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• I just like to entertain myself by sitting down and writing songs.

  Richard Thompson

  Song, Writing, Down And

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• Must not I then entertain the saints because I must keep my conscience.

  Anne Hutchinson

  Saint, Conscience

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• I found that if I got up on the stage to entertain the troops I could make them shut up and look.

  Kenneth Williams

  Troops, Looks, Shut Up

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

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• Miles Davis turned his back to the audience when he came out on stage, and he offended people. But, he wasn't there to entertain; he was all about the music. I kind of do that.

  Bobby McFerrin

  People, Kind, Stage

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• If the guests want to wrest the check away from the host, because the host is also the guest of honor, then the guest who volunteers has to cover the whole thing. A guest can't volunteer -all- of the guests to pay for the host/honoree.

  Carolyn Hax

  Volunteer, Honor, Guests

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• Childhood vaccines are one of the great triumphs of modern medicine. Indeed, parents whose children are vaccinated no longer have to worry about their child's death or disability from whooping cough, polio, diphtheria, hepatitis, or a host of other infections.

  Ezekiel Emanuel

  Children, Polio Vaccine, Vaccines

  "How We Can Save Over 4 Million Children" by Ezekiel Emanuel, M.D., Ph.D., www.huffingtonpost.com. October 7, 2010.

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• Every new discovery in science brings with it a host of new problems, just as the invention of the automobile brought with it gas stations, roads, garages, mechanics, and a thousand other subsidiary details.

  Banesh Hoffmann

  Discovery, Gas Stations, Details

  Banesh Hoffmann (1959). “The Strange Story of the Quantum: An Account for the General Reader of the Growth of the Ideas Underlying Our Present Atomic Knowledge”, p.4, Courier Corporation

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• We may all host ourselves to death, and if we're all dead who will host our funerals?

  Amy Poehler

  Funeral, May, Ifs

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• The bodys immune system is like any other system of the body. Each of them have their vital function for the human host.

  Anthony S. Fauci

  Body, Immune System, Function

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• I just don't think America wants a female host. It's like men don't walk around in skirts in this country. Why change a good thing?

  Vanna White

  Country, Men, Thinking

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• There are like to be short graces where the devil plays host.

  Charles Lamb

  Play, Grace, Devil

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• A guest is really good or bad because of the host or hostess who makes being a guest an easy or a difficult task.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Guests, Tasks, Hospitality

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• [To her host upon leaving a party:] Don't think it hasn't been charming, because it hasn't.

  Margot Asquith

  Party, Thinking, Leaving

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• [On being told their loquacious, domineering host was 'outspoken':] By whom?

  Dorothy Parker

  Outspoken, Wit

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• Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet,
  Lest we forget--lest we forget!

  Rudyard Kipling

  God, Forget, Thanksgiving Day

  "Recessional" st. 1 (1897)

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• It is a widespread and firm belief among guests that their departure is always a matter of distress to their hosts, and that in order to indicate that they have been pleasantly entertained, they must demonstrate an extreme unwillingness to allow the entertainment to conclude. This is not necessarily true.

  Judith Martin

  Order, Departure, Guests

  Judith Martin (1989). “Miss Manners' guide for the turn-of-the-millennium”

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• Visiting the sick is supposed to exhibit such great virtue that there are some people determined to do it whether the sick like it or not. ... All visitors everywhere are supposed to make plans to depart if they observe their hosts visibly wilting or in pain, but this is especially true at hospitals.

  Judith Martin

  Pain, People, Sick

  Judith Martin (1996). “Miss Manners Rescues Civilization: From Sexual Harassment, Frivolous Lawsuits, Dissing, and Other Lapses in Civility”, Crown

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• on Broadway money rules. Like a host of vultures, the ticket brokers, the speculators, the craft unions, the agents, the backers, the real estate owners move in on the creative body and take their bite. The world of dreams breathes in an iron lung; and without this mechanical pumping it dies.

  Marya Mannes

  Dream, Real, Moving

  Marya Mannes (1961). “The New York I Know”

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• Housekeeping is not beautiful; it cheers and raises neither the husband, the wife, nor the child; neither the host nor the guest;it oppresses women. A house kept to the end of prudence is laborious without joy; a house kept to the end of display is impossible to all but a few women, and their success is dearly bought.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Cheer, Children

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters”, p.93, London S. Low, Son & Marston 1870.

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• Greatness is always envied - it is only mediocrity that can boast of a host of friends.

  Marie Corelli

  Greatness, Envy, Mediocrity

  Marie Corelli (1972). “Free Opinions, Freely Expressed on Certain Phases of Modern Social Life and Conduct”, p.332, Health Research Books

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• Another point important to recognize is that the creation was 'mature' from its birth. It did not have to grow or develop from simple beginnings. God formed it full-grown in every respect, including even Adam and Eve as mature individuals when they were first formed. The whole universe had an 'appearance of age' right from the start. It could not have been otherwise for true creation to have taken place. 'Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them' (Genesis 2:1).

  Henry M. Morris

  Taken, Simple, Heaven

  Henry M. Morris, John David Morris (1996). “Scripture and creation”

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• Don't hit the person across from you with bits of toast, And don't, when dinner is nearly through, say 'Who's the host' It isn't done.

  Cole Porter

  Food, Cooking, Done

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• The people that keep coming back every year are diehards. I'll go out there to host a panel and I know half of the audience. I see them, every year, and they come back for more because they believe in us. That's one of the coolest things.

  Zachary Levi

  Believe, Years, People

  "Zachary Levi Talks Heroes Reborn, the Tangled Tv Series, the Nerd Machine, Comic-con & More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 3, 2015.

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• When you host a show you have to hopefully be funny at the top and set the tone for a really fun evening.

  Amy Poehler

  Fun, Evening, Tone

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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