Host Quotes - Page 4

• Audiences are the same all over the world, and if you entertain them, they'll respond.

  Liza Minnelli

  World, Audience, Ifs

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• There's always a host of voices you're inspired by. I love Don DeLillo, and I love Isaac Bashevis Singer, and I love Beckett, and I love Pinter. He's one of the funniest voices in English literature since Dickens.

  Dylan Moran

  Voice, Literature, Singers

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• I saw music as a way to entertain people and take them away from their daily lives and put smiles on their faces, as opposed to what I see it being now, which is a way for me to actually communicate, and a way for me to tap into my subconscious.

  Alanis Morissette

  People, Faces, Saws

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• After I left the White House, I kept a foothold in the business of American politics; as a talk-show host, analyst, commentator, speechmaker, and occasional writer. I was no longer a practitioner, but I was still a partisan, a Democrat, a blue-stater through and through.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Blue, White, House

  Dee Dee Myers (2009). “Why Women Should Rule the World”, p.15, Harper Collins

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• Thou has a thousand eyes and yet not one eye; Thou host a thousand forms and yet not one form.

  Guru Nanak

  Eye, Form, Thousand

  "Encyclopaedia of Sikhism". Book by Harbans Singh, 1992.

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• A middle-aged woman who looked like someone's cleaning lady, a shrieking adolescent lunatic and a talkshow host with an orange face... It didn't add up. Suicide wasn't invented for people like this. It was invented for people like Virginia Woolf and Nick Drake. And Me. Suicide was supposed to be cool.

  Nick Hornby

  Suicide, Virginia, Orange

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• We settled Mama into the wheelchair and loaded her down with both our pocketbooks and a vase of flowers I had picked to present to our host in hopes of softening the effects of any opinions Mama might vent during the evening.

  Bailey White

  Flower, Vases, Might

  Bailey White (2009). “Mama Makes Up Her Mind: And Other Dangers of Southern Living”, p.22, Da Capo Press

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• I'm too short to host a late-night talk show. It's like the bar at an amusement-park ride. You have to be six foot two or over.

  Jon Stewart

  Night, Feet, Two

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• I'm thrilled to be asked to host the Academy Awards for the second time because, as they say, the third time's a charm.

  Jon Stewart

  Awards, Charm, Third Time

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

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• When they tried me out as a host on TV, I found that I just couldn't be that gregarious person. I was stranger than that.

  Barbra Streisand

  Tvs, Stranger, Found

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• Athens will again be the host of the Games in 2004, but there are rumors that they might be switched if the Greeks don't begin to construct the sites faster.

  Bill Toomey

  Games, Greek, Rumor

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• I hope one day I will host my own charity event to give back to society.

  Yani Tseng

  Giving, One Day, Events

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• I hope I will be remembered as a good father and a fair employer. And a good host, of course!

  Diego Della Valle

  Father, Employers, Remembered

  Interview with Blue Carreon, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 23, 2011.

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• I know I could be the host of 'SportsCenter' in two years if I changed my show today to sports.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Sports, Years, Two

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• In February 2003, I signed a three-year contract with MSNBC to host a talk show. Having recently decided not to run again for governor of Minnesota, I was still a pretty hot commodity. The show was originally scheduled for an hour, four nights a week.

  Jesse Ventura

  Running, Night, Years

  Jesse Ventura, Dick Russell (2013). “DemoCRIPS and ReBLOODlicans: No More Gangs in Government”, p.185, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.

  Gore Vidal

  Thinking, Years, Numbers

  Gore Vidal (1991). “A view from the diners club: essays 1987-1991”

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• Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Father, Son, Guests

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• I'm sure the next time Piers Morgan asks me to host his show again I will ask President Obama to be my guest.

  Harvey Weinstein

  President, Guests, Piers

  "Harvey Weinstein:‘Obama Will Win’". www.huffingtonpost.com. June 15, 2012.

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• Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.

  H. G. Wells

  War, Army, Air

  H. G. Wells (2015). “Anticipations: H. G. Wells Collections”, p.97, 谷月社

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• With a host of proposals on the table and a President examining new ideas for health reform, we have an obligation to give real reform our best shot.

  Ron Wyden

  Real, Ideas, Giving

  "A Plan for Health Reform" by Ron Wyden, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 8, 2007.

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• Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than to listen to him?

  Brigham Young

  Thinking, Silence, May

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• If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Ah" said Dumbledore gently, "Yes I thought we might hit that little snag!" "Snag?" said Fudge, his voice still vibrating with joy. "I see no snag, Dumbledore!" "Well," said Dumbledore apologetically, "I'm afraid I do." "Oh, really?" "Well it's just that you seem to be labouring under the delusion that I am going to -- come quietly. I am afraid I am not going to come quietly at all, Cornelius. I have absolutely no intention of being sent to Azkaban. I could break out, of course -- but what a waste of time, and frankly, I can think of a whole host of things I would rather be doing.

  J. K. Rowling

  Thinking, Voice, Joy

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• With blue vinyl-tile floor, pale-green wainscoating, pink walls, a yellow ceiling, and orange-and-white stork-patterned drapes, the expectant fathers' lounge churned with the negative energy of color overload. It would have served well as the nervous-making set for a nightmare about a children's-show host who led a secret life as an ax murderer. The chain-smoking clown didn't improve the ambience.

  Dean Koontz

  Children, Wall, Father

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Life Expectancy”, p.8, Bantam

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• God loves us. He's watching us, he wants us to succeed, and we'll know someday that he has not left one thing undone for the eternal welfare of each of us. If we only knew it, there are heavenly hosts pulling for us -- friends in heaven that we can't rememer now, who yearn for our victory.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Heaven, Victory, Want

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