The Host Quotes

Give to a gracious message An host of tongues, but let ill tidings tell Themselves when they be felt.

Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arm outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer.

I've often talked about that, and I've been asked that a couple of times and my feeling are that if you have a good show, a bad host will not even hurt the show.

Do we recognize the platform that Indian cinema has been given? Of course. And typically India of us, we gracefully acknowledge our host's grace and we thank you for celebrating us and our cinema.

History, it is easily perceived, is a picture-gallery containing a host of copies and very few originals.

As soon as it is held that any belief, no matter what, is important for some other reason than that it is true, a whole host of evils is ready to spring up.

If you're a host of a video show and you're on the cleanest show on television for eight years, people want to say, 'Well, that's what that person does.' That was the dilemma for me, career-wise.

Writers are in the entertainment business, and it gives me lots of pleasure to entertain my readers.

I’m not being weird, you’re being a little rude. Don’t you think as a host, when I say ‘this is what I want to talk about’ that’s what we should address?

In great quantity, madame. In great quantity.

[On being told their loquacious, domineering host was 'outspoken':] By whom?

My theme is memory, that winged host that soared about me one grey morning of war-time. We possess nothing certainly except the past.

And wilt thou sing the shadowy hosts that never march again?

I didn't feel like it was essential to have a white host or a black host, I wanted a good host.

And then all the host of Rohan burst into song, and they sang as they slew, for the joy of battle was on them, and the sound of their singing that was fair and terrible came even to the City.

I do not know why anyone would host an awards show. No matter how unbelievably well you do at it, the only thing that can happen is you get asked again to host an awards show.

The slow rejection of the foreign skin grafts fascinated me. How could the host distinguish another person's skin from his own?

You never know how much time you have with someone.

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

I'm hosting a quiz show, but I never considered myself a game show host.

I could do John Wayne, Jack Benny, Jack Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and entertain my friends. But I never seriously considered it as a career choice.

Her name is Wanda, not it. You will not touch her. Any mark you leave on her, I will double on your worthless hide.

You never know how much time you'll have.

A virus has three purposes: to duplicate, to infiltrate and to spread from one host to the next. Ultimately, even a single virus can shut down an entire system.

Modern society has not rid itself of religion, as it fondly believes; it has merely replaced the historical religions by a host of idolatrous cults struggling for possession of the soul of man.

O heart the winds have shaken, the unappeasable host Is comelier than candles at Mother Mary's feet.

My first language, the true language of the soul spoken only on our planet of origin, had no word for betrayal or traitor. Or even loyalty- because without the opposite, the concept had no meaning.

Ares ever loves to pluck all the fairest flower of an armed host.

When you're a houseguest and you leave, it's nice to straighten something up or send your hosts a useful gift. And when you leave the planet, it's nice to have made a positive contribution.

I always like to think I'm having a dinner party, and I'm the host, and the audience are my guests.

I always wanted to host a show, throw whipped-cream pies. Theater is not my cup of tea.

There is, though I do not know how there is or why there is, a sense of infinite peace and protection in the glittering hosts of heaven.

Planning a dinner party in a way that you're actually capable of getting it done without panicking is important. It's bad hospitality for the host to be freaked out.

My wife and I love to host wine and cheese parties. They are simple and elegant and you don't have to put a lot of effort and time into it.

Sleep, Silence's child, sweet father of soft rest, Prince whose approach peace to all mortals brings Indifferent host to shepherds and kings Sole comforter to minds with grief oppressed.

I wanted the monster back and that was plainly wrong.

Those who lived in peaceful nations had looked the other way as members of their own species starved on their door step.

It was very relaxing to be away from civilization, and this bothered me. I should not have found the loneliness so welcoming.

My job is to find the politicians and the presidents and the pompous people who are telling other people how to live, powerful, visible creatures and ... go at them.

It is good to dress in fair clothes to dine with friends. It honors your host, if you are a guest; and your guest if you are a host. And both adorn the feast, and so celebrate the gifts of the world.

We may all host ourselves to death, and if we're all dead who will host our funerals?

When you host a show you have to hopefully be funny at the top and set the tone for a really fun evening.

I wouldn't want to be a talk show host. That's another awkward compliment people make. 'You should have your own talk show.' And I think, no thank you.

There's a host of difficult issues here, and that's why when you mentioned at the top of the show that the committees were looking at this, that's where I think we should be going.

I have called the co-host job at the 'Today Show' my dream job, and I would be lying if I said it was easy to leave that job.

Must not I then entertain the saints because I must keep my conscience.

I think the dying pray at the last not "please," but "thank you," as a guest thanks his host at the door.

The bodys immune system is like any other system of the body. Each of them have their vital function for the human host.

When the sins of our fathers visit us We do not have to play host. We can banish them with forgiveness As God, in his His Largeness and Laws.

Al Qaeda, the Taliban, a whole host of networks that are bent on attacking America, who have a distorted ideology, who have perverted the faith of Islam, and so we have to go after them.