Guests Quotes - Page 6

• Enforcement is the long overdue step to protect our Nation from external threats in a time of war. And then once we do that, we can effectively discuss a guest worker program.

  J. D. Hayworth

  War, Long, Enforcement

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• There's fierce competition between all the networks to get the guest who can bring the most pertinent information about whatever the story of the moment happens to be.

  Bob Schieffer

  Competition, Stories, Information

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• Keeping one's guests supplied with liquor is the first law of hospitality.

  Margaret Way

  Law, House Guests, Firsts

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• Unnur Birna is a Reykjavik-based violinist and singer. She has performed as a session musician with countless Icelandic and international artists while recording and appearing as a solo artist as well. Unnur has joined me as an unpaid guest on a few Icelandic shows in recent years, so it is a great pleasure to return the favour and appear on one of her songs at last. This new track, Sunshine, came about in Italy, written as an ode to sunlight and happiness after fleeing the dark winter in Iceland

  Ian Anderson

  Song, Sunshine, Dark

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• On being the guest of honor at an awards banquet: "Thank you for making this day necessary."

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Awards, Honor

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• Always remember to set a place at the table of life for the unexpected guest.

  Linda Ellerbee

  Life, Tables, Unexpected

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• I think it's time to stop carping on the blunders of the President and give him some credit for creativity. I mean, where do you even FIND a Jewish hard-line conservative Republican pot-smoker? Sounds like an Oprah Winfrey guest.

  A. Whitney Brown

  Creativity, Mean, Thinking

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• My guest Newt Gingrich shut down the government during the Clinton administration. I'll ask him when it's gonna start working again.

  Stephen Colbert

  Government, Administration, Clinton

  Twitter post from Nov 14, 2012

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• Romulan or Vulcan?' the ushers asked each guest. Marion, who had been poised to say 'friends of the bride' had responded to the question with an open-mouthed stare, and Jay Omega answered, 'Klingon!" which got them seats in the back row of the Romulan side.

  Sharyn McCrumb

  Sides, Staring, Brides

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• During Congress rule terrorism was countered effectively and firmly, whereas during the BJP regime terrorists were treated like guests and released in their own country.

  Sonia Gandhi

  Country, Bjp, Terrorism

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• ...stories about [the German composer Johannes] Brahms's rudeness and wit amused me in particular. For instance, I loved the one about how a great wine connoisseur invited the composer to dinner. 'This is the Brahms of my cellar,' he said to his guests, producing a dust-covered bottle and pouring some into the master's glass. Brahms looked first at the color of the wine, then sniffed its bouquet, finally took a sip, and put the glass down without saying a word. 'Don't you like it?' asked the host. 'Hmm,' Brahms muttered. 'Better bring your Beethoven!'

  Arthur Rubinstein

  Wine, Glasses, Dust

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• The glasses were half full, which meant that the guests were completely so

  Guy de Maupassant

  Wine, Glasses, Half

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• Weeds don't need planting in well-drained soil; they don't ask for fertilizer or bits of rag to scare away the birds. They come without invitation; and they don't take the hint when you want them to go. Weeds are nobody's guests: More like squatters.

  Norman Nicholson

  Weed, Bird, Scare

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• Inspiration is a guest who does not like to visit lazy people.

  Andre Tchaikowsky

  Inspiration, Lazy People, Innovation

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• When you open the door and invite in all sentient beings as your guests, you have to drop your agenda.

  Pema Chodron

  Freedom, Doors, Inspire

  Pema Chodron (2001). “Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living”, p.183, Shambhala Publications

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• Everybody is afraid of death for the simple reason that we have not tasted of life yet. The man who knows what life is, is never afraid of death; he welcomes death. Whenever death comes he hugs death, he embraces death, he welcomes death, he receives death as a guest. To the man who has not known what life is, death is an enemy; and to the man who knows what life is, death is the ultimate crescendo of life.

  Rajneesh

  Death, Men, Simple

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• I have never been to a court s gracious as the one Neha keeps. Dmitri played a knife through his fingers, one of the three he'd brought back from Neha's territory. "She truly believes in giving honor to a visitor." He threw to knife at Jason. "He threw it back as Venom added, "Thought she might have that guest neatly executed as the court sleeps.

  Nalini Singh

  Believe, Sleep, Knives

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• Don’t lick the guests, darling. Bad manners.

  Patricia Briggs

  Manners, Darling, Bad Manners

  Patricia Briggs (2006). “Moon Called”, p.170, Penguin

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• No guest rooms.” I shake my head resolutely. “I want to be in a room room. A lived-in room.

  Lauren Oliver

  Want, Rooms, Shakes

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• I’ve missed you,” he whispers softly. The air between them is electric as he leans in, gently brushing his lips against her neck. In the next room, the guests complain about the sudden increase in temperature. Fans are drawn from colorful bags, fluttering like tropical birds.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Air, Bird, Fans

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• Little soul, gentle and drifting, guest and companion of my body, now you will dwell below in pallid places, stark and bare; there you will abandon your play of yore. But one moment still, let us gaze together on these familiar shores, on these objects which doubtless we shall not see again....Let us try, if we can, to enter into death with open eyes.

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Eye, Play, Soul

  Marguerite Yourcenar (1957). “Hadrian's Memoirs”

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• I had long ago learned that when you are the giant, alien visitor to a remote and foreign culture it is sort of your job to become an object of ridicule. It’s the least you can do, really, as a polite guest.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Jobs, Long Ago, Visitors

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “Committed: A Sceptic Makes Peace With Marriage”, p.22, A&C Black

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• There is no doubt that even the greatest musical geniuses have sometimes worked without inspiration. This guest (inspiration) does not always respond to the first invitation. We must always work, and a self-respecting artist must not fold his hands on the pretext that he is not in the mood. If we wait for the mood, without endeavouring to meet it half-way, we easily become indolent and apathetic. We must be patient, and believe that inspiration will come to those who can master their disinclination.

  Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

  Believe, Inspiration, Artist

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• Children of the Nephilim," Magnus said. "Well, well. I don't recall inviting you." Isabelle took out her invitation and waved it like a white flag. "I have an invitation. These"--she indicated the rest of the group with a grand wave of her arm--"are my friends." Magnus plucked the invitation out of her hand and looked at it with fastidious distaste. "I must have been drunk," he said. He threw the door open. "Come in. And try not to murder any of my guests." Jace looked at him, "Even if one of them spills something on my new shoes?" "Even then." - 219

  Cassandra Clare

  Children, Hands, Shoes

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