Guests Quotes - Page 14

• A mountaineer’s house, before being his home and the home of his family, is the home of God and of guests.

  Ismail Kadaré

  Home, House

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• An Albanian’s house is the dwelling of God and the guest.’ Of God and the guest, you see. So before it is the house of its master, it is the house of one’s guest. The guest, in an Albanian’s life, represents the supreme ethical category, more important than blood relations. One may pardon the man who spills the blood of one’s father or of one’s son, but never the blood of a guest.

  Ismail Kadaré

  Father, Son, Men

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• It is a great, a pleasant thing to have a friend with whom to walk, untroubled, through the woods, by the stream, saying nothing, at peace--the heart all clean and quiet and empty, ready for the spirit that may choose to be its guest.

  Catherine Drinker Bowen

  Peace, Heart, May

  Catherine Drinker Bowen (1939). “Friends and fiddlers”

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• Make sure your characters are worth spending ten hours with. That’s how long it takes to read a book. Reading a book is like being trapped in a room for ten hours with those characters. Think of your main characters as dinner guests. Would your friends want to spend ten hours with the characters you’ve created? Your characters can be loveable, or they can be evil, but they’d better be compelling. If not, your reader will be bored and leave.

  Po Bronson

  Book, Reading, Character

  "Advice on Writing". www.pobronson.com.

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• It's as though some poor devil were to set out for a large dinner party with the knowledge that the following morning he would be hearing exactly what each of the other guests thought of him.

  Cornelia Otis Skinner

  Morning, Party, Devil

  1959 Of opening night reviews.The Ape In Me.

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• It has never been recommended to confuse "loving" with "seeking to please"... ...Salome pleased Herod's guests; I can hardly believe she was burning with love for them. As for poor John the Baptist... ...she certainly did not envelop him in her love.

  Jacques Maritain

  Believe, Burning, Baptists

  Jacques Maritain (2013). “The Peasant of the Garonne: An Old Layman Questions Himself about the Present Time”, p.91, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Well, the American public always wanted to vote for a guy — and Bush was the perfect guy — who they'd want to have over for pot-roast. And George Bush is that guy. He does that well. You'd like to have him over for pot-roast. He reminds you of yourself. Okay. Well, now he's been over, he's had the pot-roast. But he's getting drunk and now he's talking about stem cells and Terri Schiavo and gay marriage. And now he's the guest that won't leave.

  Bill Maher

  Gay, Cells, Perfect Guy

  "Real Time" with Bill Maher, April 29, 2005.

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• Ourselves within us lethal forces nurse; We make of our own enemies our guests.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Nurse, Enemy, Force

  Sri Aurobindo (1994). “Gems from Sri Aurobindo, 2nd Series”, p.134, Lotus Press

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• I get a handsome amount. I could definitely buy a car off one of my guest appearances. & I'm not talking about a Hyundai.

  Nicki Minaj

  Talking, Car, Handsome

  "Nicki Minaj's naughty gift for Lil Wayne". Details magazine interview, www.rap-up.com. April 19, 2010.

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• As long as you don't practice it, this dying and becoming, You are only a dreary guest on this dark earth.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Courage, Dark

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• Hospitality is always an act that benefits the host even more than the guest. The concept of hospitality arose in ancient times when the reciprocity was easier to see: in nomadic cultures, the food and shelter one gave to a stranger yesterday is the food and shelter one hopes to receive from a stranger tomorrow. By offering hospitality, one participates in the endless reweaving of a social fabric on which all can depend-thus the gift of sustenance for the guest becomes a gift of hope for the host.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Offering, Yesterday, Culture

  Parker J. Palmer (2017). “The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life”, p.51, John Wiley & Sons

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• Not to sound too much like Christopher Guest in 'Waiting for Guffman,' but on Thanksgiving you're putting on a show!

  Ted Allen

  Thanksgiving, Waiting, Sound

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

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• All of the guests on 'Faces of America' were deeply moved by what we revealed about their ancestry. We were able to trace the ancestry of Native American writer Louise Erdrich back to 438 A.D. We found that Queen Noor is descended from royalty, and that's before she married King Hussein of Jordan.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Kings, Queens, Native American

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• You notice patterns. White guests often are mortified - that word again - when they learn their ancestors owned slaves. But I've never had a black guest who was upset to learn about white ancestry that probably involved forced sexual relations.

  Henry Louis Gates

  White, Upset, Black

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• We set up one rule in our house, which is, 'Guests of guests cannot bring guests.' That rule was required because that happened one weekend, and we finally said, 'Okay, you know what? That's a little too much.'

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Weekend, House, Littles

  "Elizabeth Gilbert Serves Up a New Classic". Interview with Michael Hainey, www.gq.com. May 24, 2012.

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• It only looks like I get to eat a lot of food on TV. I really just get the one bite and the crew and guests eat everything else.

  Rachael Ray

  Looks, Tvs, Crew

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• Do you know how pale & wanton thrillful comes death on a strange hour unannounced, unplanned for like a scaring over-friendly guest you've brought to bed Death makes angels of us all & gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as raven's claws

  Jim Morrison

  Angel, Wings, Ravens

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• I wanted to tell her not to entertain despair like this. Despaire wasn't a guest, you didn't play its favorite music, find it a comfortable chair. Despair was the enemy." -white oleander

  Janet Fitch

  Play, White, Enemy

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• My father once nearly came to blows with a female dinner guest about whether a particular patch of embroidery was fuchsia or magenta. But the infinite gradations of color in a fine sunset - from salmon to canary to midnight blue - left him wordless.

  Alison Bechdel

  Father, Sunset, Blow

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• Chiron, I don't think the attic is the proper place for our new Oracle, do you?" "No, indeed." Chiron looked a lot better now that Apollo had worked some medical magic on him. "Rachel may use a guest room in the Big House for now, until we give the matter more thought." "I'm thinking a cave in the hills," Apollo mused. "With torches and a big purple curtain over the entrance . . . really mysterious. But inside, a totally decked-out pad with a game room and one of those home theater systems.

  Rick Riordan

  Home, Thinking, Games

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• I wandered through the stacks, running my hands along the spines of the books on the shelves, they reminded me of cultured or opinionated guests at a wonderful party, whispering to each other.

  Janet Fitch

  Running, Party, Book

  Janet Fitch (2013). “White Oleander”, p.82, Hachette UK

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• Did I tell you I finally found the perfect page-cutter? It's a pearl-handled fruit knife. My mother left me a dozen of them, I keep one in the pencil cup on my desk. Maybe I go with the wrong kind of people but i'm just not likely to have twelve guests all sitting around simultaneously eating fruit.

  Helene Hanff

  Mother, Knives, People

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• One of the traps of auditioning is walking into that room feeling as though you're a guest in someone's house, and being really careful not to spill wine on the carpet. What you have to do is walk in there as though you're the host.

  Wentworth Miller

  Wine, House, Being Real

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Like the trees, we are visitors, guests of the earth.

  Kim Stafford

  Tree, Earth, Visitors

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• Seven minutes is all you get to make a positive first impression. In the first seven minutes of contact with your church, your first-time guests will know whether or not they are coming back. That’s before a single worship song is sung and before a single word of the message is uttered.

  Nelson Searcy

  Song, Church, First Impression

  Nelson Searcy (2010). “Fusion: Turning First-Time Guests into Fully-Engaged Members of Your Church (Large Print 16pt)”, p.28, ReadHowYouWant.com

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