Guests Quotes - Page 26

• Sponsors obviously care more about a ninety-second commercial and want to pay you more than any guest star gets for a ninety-minute acting performance.

  Barbara Stanwyck

  Stars, Acting, Care

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• The Ancient Mariner seizes the guest at the wedding feast and will not let go until he has told all his story: the prototype of the bore.

  Mason Cooley

  Letting Go, Wedding, Boredom

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• The irrational may be attractive in the abstract, but not in cab drives, dinner guests, or elderly relatives.

  Mason Cooley

  Elderly, Dinner Guests, May

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• ...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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• 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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• Marriage partners are to serve each other. Elevate, help, teach, strengthen each other, but above all, serve. Raise their children honorably, lovingly and with detachment. A child is a
  guest in the house, to be loved and respected - never possessed, since he belongs to God. How wonderful, how sane, how beautifully difficult, and therefore true. The joy of responsibility
  for the first time in my life.

  J. D. Salinger

  Children, Responsibility, House

  "Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters (1955)". "Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction". Book by J. D. Salinger, 1963.

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• I was in a cab in New York. The cab had a sign, "Please do not smoke, Christ is our unseen guest." This guy was reaching. I figure, if he could overcome being nailed to a cross, I don't
  think a Marlboro Light's gonna faze him that much.

  Bill Hicks

  New York, Thinking, Light

  "Dark Poet". Comedy album by Bill Hicks, 1991.

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• Like all guests, after a fortnight, grief is best beyond the door.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Grief, Doors, Fortnight

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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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• If history starts as a guest list, it has a tendency to end like the memory of a drunken party: misheard, blurred, fragmentary.

  Sarah Churchwell

  Memories, Party, Lists

  Sarah Churchwell (2013). “Careless People: Murder, Mayhem and the Invention of The Great Gatsby”, p.71, Hachette UK

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• I've done so many television pilots. I've done eleven I think and I've never had one get picked up. There was never one that I was a guest star on. It's just fascinating, but I don't think it would be fun to be recognized all the time.

  Missi Pyle

  Stars, Fun, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm a much worse guest than I am a host, and I'm not an awfully good host either. I really like being alone.

  Gore Vidal

  Like Being Alone, Host

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• With my employees, if something is wrong and we can figure it out, okay, otherwise goodbye. Your employees are part of your success, so you have to share that, but the guests and the atmosphere have to be happy first.

  Julie King

  Goodbye, Atmosphere, Firsts

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• I deal with my guests the same. I just love them. I deal with the issue as it is. There's no issue that can't be overcome. I don't tolerate disrespect of themselves or of me. And dishonesty. Those are two things that upset me. Don't tell me you said something or did something and you didn't. I'm very clear. I warn them early. There always comes a moment when you don't like me!

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Two, Issues, Disrespect

  "Iyanla Vanzant Interview for Fourth Season of ‘Iyanla: Fix My Life’ Returning Sept. 6". Interview with Rodney Ho, radiotvtalk.blog.ajc.com. September 06, 2014.

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• When I did TV, I only did little guest parts, and it hasn't been that long. There is a kind of pressure in this job that comes from your work every day being there forever. But this is all part of the brand-new world that I'm discovering.

  Emma Stone

  Jobs, Long, Forever

  Interview with Cameron Crowe, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 19, 2012.

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