Guests Quotes - Page 20

• In TV, when you're doing guest roles, you're gliding into a zone where people are already very comfortable. They go in and go to work every day. You're coming in, and it's a brand-new environment, so you have to get it... and then you're gone again.

  Stephen Root

  People, Gliding, Roles

  Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. February 21, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I went to Broadway and I've been doing some fun guest spots with 'Entourage' and 'Glee' and I'm ready to have my own show.

  John Stamos

  Fun, Glee, Broadway

  16 Copy quote

• I built the ideal house down in the Caribbean. All Englishmen dream of leaving the rain of England and getting a place in the sun - out in the grounds with separate guest houses; that is the ideal scenario.

  Robin Leach

  Dream, Rain, House

  "Interview: Robin Leach interview". www.askmen.com.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.

  Agnes Repplier

  Leisure, Delight, Hospitality

  Agnes Repplier (1894). “In the Dozy Hours, and Other Papers”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The soul on earth is an immortal guest,
  Compelled to starve at an unreal feast:
  A spark, which upward tends by nature's force:
  A stream diverted from its parent source;
  A drop dissever'd from the boundless sea;
  A moment, parted from eternity;
  A pilgrim panting for the rest to come;
  An exile, anxious for his native home.

  Hannah More

  Home, Sea, Parent

  Hannah More, “Reflections Of King Hezekiah, In His Sickness”

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Los Angeles people are incapable of passively mainlining TV and movies. Here you have to read who produced or directed every episode, who wrote it, who had guests shots and whether you know them personally and if they like you. You have to figure out who everybody's agent is and whether yours is better. You not only know but deeply care about the difference between such job titles as Producer, Supervising Producer, and Executive Story Editor. ... So while the rest of the country is lying stupid in a media-induced coma, people in L.A. are in constant withdrawal.

  Cynthia Heimel

  Country, Jobs, Stupid

  Cynthia Heimel (2004). “Get Your Tongue Out of My Mouth, I'm Kissing You Good-bye”

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Love entered in my heart one dayA sad, unwelcome guest.But when it begged that it might stayI let it stay and restIt broke my nights with sorrowingIt filled my heart with fearsAnd, when my soul was prone to sing,It filled my eyes with tears.But...now that it has gone its way,I miss the dear ole pain.And, sometimes, in the night I prayThat Love might come again.

  J. California Cooper

  Pain, Eye, Heart

  FaceBook post by J. California Cooper from Dec 30, 2011

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• The only occasion when the traditions of courtesy permit a hostess to help herself before a woman guest is when she has reason to believe the food is poisoned.

  Emily Post

  Believe, Helping, Tradition

  13 Copy quote

• 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.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• That was the aura of Cheers: It was special. It was more than TV; you could get people to guest on the show you couldn't normally get.

  Bebe Neuwirth

  Cheer, People, Special

  Source: www.gq.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's when most of the guests have gone that the party really gets interesting - peering under the table and into the bath to see who's stayed and what shape they're in. It is then that those who are still conscious divulge things you had not known before: sometimes about themselves, sometimes about other people and sometimes about you. It does not necessarily make pleasant hearing but it is always fascinating. In the relaxed atmosphere, in the wake of the hubbub, they unwind and grow confidential - nay, indiscreet. If they are not already, they end up as your closest friends.

  Alice Thomas Ellis

  Party, Interesting, People

  8 Copy quote

• The most welcome guest in society will ever be the one to whose mind everything is a suggestion, and whose words suggest something to everybody.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Women, Mind, Suggestions

  Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1868). “Manners”, p.147

  21 Copy quote

  Show source

• When the last sea is sailed and last shallow charted,
  When the last field is reaped and the last harvest stored,
  When the last fire is out and the last guest departed
  Grant the last prayer that I pray, Be good to me, O Lord.

  John Masefield

  Death, Prayer, Fire

  John Masefield (1922). “The Poems and Plays of John Masefield: Poems”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• By about a week before the big day, you will have received less than half of your invitation response cards. Panic sets in when it occurs to you that everyone invited will actually show up. You couldn't have made it easier for your guests. You have included a card that had boxes for 'will attend' or 'will not attend.' You included a pre-addressed, stamped envelope. How inconvenient could it be for them simply to check it off and drop it in in a mailbox? Very inconvenient. You, evil bride-to-be, are confronting two basic human fears. A terror of correspondence and the dread of decision-making.

  Mimi Pond

  Two, Evil, Decision

  Mimi Pond (1993). “A Groom of One's Own: And Other Bridal Accessories”, Plume Books

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Euphemisms, like fashions, have their day and pass, perhaps to return at another time. Like the guests at a masquerade ball, they enjoy social approval only so long as they retain the capacity for deception.

  Freda Adler

  Fashion, Long, Deception

  4 Copy quote

• Misery is a guest that we are glad to part with, however certain of her speedy return.

  Fanny Burney

  Return, Misery, Unhappiness

  Frances Burney, Fanny Burney (2015). “Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)”, p.3775, Delphi Classics

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• One uncongenial guest can ruin a dinner more easily than a poor salad, and that is saying a great deal.

  Myrtle Reed

  Dinner, Salad, Ruins

  Myrtle Reed (1909). “Old Rose and Silver”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• it is bad manners to contradict a guest. You must never insult people in your own house - always go to theirs.

  Myrtle Reed

  People, House, Insult

  Myrtle Reed (1904). “The Book of Clever Beasts: Studies in Unnatural History”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Guest blogging is probably the sort of thing that you should be thinking about doing in moderation.

  Matt Cutts

  Thinking, Blogging, Moderation

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source