Host Quotes - Page 24

• 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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• Detroit's political leadership is a parasite that has outgrown its host.

  Kevin D. Williamson

  Political, Detroit, Parasites

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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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• time past is not time gone, it is time accumulated with the host resembling the character in the fairytale who was joined along the route by more and more characters none of whom could be separated from one another or from the host, with some stuck so fast that their presence caused physical pain.

  Janet Frame

  Pain, Character, Past

  Janet Frame (1985). “To the is-land: an autobiography”, George Braziller

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• Enthusiasm is a virtue rarely to be met with in seasons of calm and unruffled prosperity. Enthusiasm flourishes in adversity, kindles in the hour of danger, and awakens to deeds of renown. The terrors of persecution only serve to quicken the energy of its purposes. It swells in proud integrity, and, great in the purity of its cause, it can scatter defiance amidst hosts of enemies.

  Thomas Chalmers

  Integrity, Adversity, Enemy

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• Fascism is more of a natural state than democracy. To assume blithely that we can export democracy into any country we choose can serve paradoxically to encourage more fascism at home and abroad. Democracy is a state of grace that is attained only by those countries who have a host of individuals not only ready to enjoy freedom but to undergo the heavy labor of maintaining it.

  Norman Mailer

  Country, Home, Grace

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• It was a feature peculiar to the colonial wars of North America, that the toils and dangers of the wilderness were to be encountered, before the adverse hosts could meet. A wide, and, apparently, an impervious boundary of forests, severed the possessions of the hostile provinces of France and England. The hardy colonist, and the trained European who fought at his side, frequently expended months in struggling against the rapids of the streams, or in effecting the rugged passes of the mountains, in quest of an opportunity to exhibit their courage in a more martial conflict.

  James F. Cooper

  War, Struggle, Book

  "The Last of the Mohicans". Book by James F. Cooper, 1826.

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• If you cannot come to the party, do not cancel at the last minute or give a message to a child to inform the host. And don't bother explaining why you can't attend because anything after 'because' is bullshit.

  Amy Sedaris

  Children, Party, Bullshit

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• A guest should be permitted to graze, as it were, in the pastures of his host's kindness, left even to his own devices, like a rational being, and handsomely neglected.

  Louise Imogen Guiney

  Kindness, Past, Guests

  Louise Imogen Guiney (1885). “Goose-quill Papers”

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• To native peoples, there is no such thing as the first, second, and third worlds; there is only an exploiting world ... whether its technological system is capitalist or communist ... and a host world. Native peoples, who occupy more land, make up the host world.

  Winona LaDuke

  Land, World, Firsts

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• Finally ... You have accomplished your mission in going there tonight - you were 'seen,' and you furnished your host and hostess with the sincerest proof of your great love and friendship for them - you endured their cocktail party.

  Letitia Baldrige

  Party, Great Love, Love And Friendship

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• It`s the nature of cable news that we [TV hosts] do a lot of clipping and quoting of other broadcasts and outlets, sometimes to make a narrative point, sometimes to make a political one, and sometimes just to make a joke.

  Chris Hayes

  Political, Narrative, Tvs

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I think that in a country as successful as ours, we still have a long way to go in terms of parity for women, whether it’s equal pay in the workforce or a whole host of other issues.

  Valerie Jarrett

  Country, Successful, Thinking

  "An Interview With Valerie Jarrett: Senior Advisor to President Obama Talks Gender Parity". Interview with Rahim Kanani, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 3, 2011.

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• I don't mind being accused of being a bad comedian and I don't even mind being accused of being a bad talk-show host, but I never want to be accused of being an arrogant, pompous showbiz asshole.

  David Letterman

  Comedian, Mind, Arrogant

  "David Letterman's 1984 Playboy Interview. A Candid Conversation with the Comedy Genius In His Youth". Playboy Interview, playboysfw.kinja.com. April 3, 2014.

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