Host Quotes:

The thing about a good podcast is you have to have a good host. If you don't have a compelling host then you have nothing.

- Adam Carolla

topic: Host, Compelling

There is a paranoid streak in American life. Radio talk show hosts tend to foment that paranoid streak in American life.

- Alan Dershowitz

topic: Radio, Host, Paranoid

Being a good host offsets the deprivation and loneliness of my youth

- Alan Ladd

topic: Loneliness, Youth, 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.

- Alexander Payne

source: "Alexander Payne: 'Don't remove the lint'". Interview with Catherine Shoard, www.theguardian.com. May 10, 2012.

topic: Nice, Host, Made

A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.

- Alexander Pushkin

topic: Deception, Host, Lows

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

- Amy Poehler

topic: Funeral, May, Host

You instinctively discover how to entertain an audience.

- Anna Held

topic: Host, Audience

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

- Anne Hutchinson

topic: Saint, Host, Conscience

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

- Anthony S. Fauci

topic: Body, Host, Immune System

The man with a host of friends who slaps on the back everybody he meets is regarded as the friend of nobody.

- Aristotle

topic: Men, Host, Popularity

The only thing binding individuals together is ideas. Ideas mutate and spread; they change their hosts as much as their hosts change them.

- Bernard Beckett

source: "Genesis". Book by Bernard Beckett, 2010.

topic: Ideas, Together, Host

Thought, like any parasite, cannot exist without a compliant host.

- Bernard Beckett

source: "Genesis". Book by Bernard Beckett, 2006.

topic: Host, Parasites

It is my fondest desire to bust a host of caps into multitudes of fleshy personages.

- Bill Willingham

topic: Desire, Host, Caps

Miles Davis turned his back to the audience when he came out on stage, and he offended people. But, he wasn't there to entertain; he was all about the music. I kind of do that.

- Bobby McFerrin

topic: People, Host, Kind

I'm coming for Ryan Seacrest - I want to be the black Ryan Seacrest for BET. I want to host, I want to produce, I want to do everything for the network.

- Bow Wow

topic: Black, Want, Host

London has what it takes to host the greatest sporting show on earth [on the 2012 Olympic bid

- Bradley Wiggins

topic: Earth, London, Host

I mean, most actresses can't host and most hostesses can't act, and that's the general rule in the industry.

- Brooke Burke

topic: Mean, Actresses, Host, Hostesses

Emily was feeling the elation of conscientious hosts when they can temporarily escape a ubiquitous houseguest.

- Carol Bly

topic: Feelings, Elation, Host

I don't host a show and go, 'Have you got my best angle?'

- Cat Deeley

topic: Host, Angle, Shows

I'd watched a lot of David Letterman for sure. As far as who I watched as a late-show host, it was definitely Letterman.

- Chad VanGaalen

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Host, Letterman, Shows

As it takes two to make a quarrel, so it takes two to make a disease, the microbe and its host.

- Charles V. Chapin

source: Papers 'The Principles of Epidemiology'

topic: Two, Disease, Host, Microbes

No, I do a bunch of things to entertain myself. I paint, I make music, I take photographs.

- Charlie Hunnam

topic: Host, Photograph, Paint

I bet I'm the only person in history who went from being the star of a sitcom to the host of a public-access show in less than a year.

- Chris Gethard

topic: Stars, Years, Host

When I use music on stage, the prime directive is to entertain the public, so it is different.

- Cliff Richard

topic: Different, Use, Host

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

topic: Done, Dinner, Host

In great quantity, madame. In great quantity.

- Curnonsky

topic: Food, Host, Quantity

Our purpose is to educate as well as to entertain.

- Curtis Mayfield

source: "The Sociology of Rock". Book by Simon Frith, 1978.

topic: Purpose, Host, Wells

You can be a great reporter and not be such a great talk show host.

- Dan Abrams

topic: Host, Shows

After a geological epoch passed in which single-celled organisms evolved into talk show hosts, Mr. Coffee was still holding out on me.

- Darynda Jones

topic: Coffee, Host, Shows

The second host that I had was an actress I didn't know named Susan St. James.

- Dick Ebersol

topic: Actresses, Host

I was the worst game show host that ever lived, and I knew it.

- Dick Van Dyke

topic: Games, Host, Worst, Game Shows

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

- Diego Della Valle

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

topic: Father, Host, Employers

The one who knows and fears the Lord of Hosts need fear no other.

- Edmund Clowney

topic: Needs, Host, Lord

For a gourmet wine is not a drink but a condiment, provided that your host has chosen correctly.

- Edouard de Pomiane

topic: Wine, Gourmet, Host, Condiments

The Chancellor also in effect asks us to bargain away whatever obligation or interest we have as regards the neutrality of Belgium. We could not entertain that bargain either.

- Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon

topic: Neutrality, Host, Belgium

I am going to make everything around me beautiful - that will be my life.

- Elsie de Wolfe

topic: Beautiful, Host, Interior Design, Beautification, Interiors

The good guest is almost invisible, enjoying him or herself, communing with fellow guests, and, most of all, enjoying the generous hospitality of the hosts.

- Emily Post

topic: Guests, Host, Hospitality

I don't think I'd be a very good talk show host. I mean, I'm very talkative but I don't know if I could do that all the time.

- Emma Roberts

topic: Mean, Thinking, Host

National Socialism is simply this - a proposal that the German people rid themselves of the parasitic Jews. The gentile host dared to protest against the continued presence of the parasite, and attempted to throw it off.

- Eustace Mullins

topic: People, Host, Socialism, Gentiles

Few enjoy noisy overcrowded functions. But they are a gesture of goodwill on the part of host or hostess, and also on the part of guests who submit to them.

- Fannie Hurst

topic: Guests, Gestures, Host, Goodwill

What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and anthropomorphisms: in short, a sum of human relations which have been poetically and rhetorically intensified, transferred, and embellished, and which, after long usage, seem to a people to be fixed, canonical, and binding. Truths are illusions which we have forgotten are illusions — they are metaphors that have become worn out and have been drained of sensuous force.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Long, People, Host, Anthropomorphism, Usage

If I can go from burglar for the government to talk show host, you can go from entertainer to congressman.

- G. Gordon Liddy

topic: Government, Host, Shows, Burglars, Congressman

If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.

- Gabriel Heatter

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

topic: Being Happy, Games, Host, Game Shows

Let me mention that not all sun-like stars host planets - perhaps about 30% of them are planet-builders. It's not so easy to form a planet!

- Garik Israelian

topic: Stars, Sun, Host

The only way I would go back to hosting would be if it were something entirely new. It would prevent me from wanting to host a standard-fare kind of talk show.

- Garry Shandling

topic: Would Be, Way, Host, Talk Shows

Your car goes where your eyes go. Lonliness is unable to survive without a willing host.

- Garth Stein

topic: Eye, Car, Host

I'm so used to talk-show hosts just giving you a sound bite and not really being interested.

- Genevieve Gorder

topic: Giving, Sound, Host, Sound Bites, Talk Shows

Curt Gowdy was a pioneer in our business and set the highest standards for everyone. His many contributions to ABC as host of 'American Sportsman' and other ABC Sports programs are indelible .

- George Bodenheimer

topic: Sports, Pioneers, Host, Sportsman

We have him [God] before our eyes, masked in the sacred Host

- Gerard Manley Hopkins

topic: Eye, Sacred, Host

When you do a reality show and host shows, it's hard to have secrets.

- Giuliana Rancic

topic: Reality, Secret, Host

We're going to march on Washington with a host of Republicans, Democrats, business leaders, legislators.

- Gray Davis

topic: Leader, March, Host, March On Washington

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

- Guru Nanak

topic: Eye, Host, Form

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.

- H. G. Wells

topic: Stars, Heaven, Host

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

- Harry Kemp

source: Harry Kemp (1914). “The Cry of Youth”

topic: March, Host

Art in its widest sense is the extension of the personality: a host of artificial limbs.

- Herbert Read

topic: Art, Personality, Host, Extensions

Ajax the great Himself a host.

- Homer

topic: Greatness, Ajax, Host

An inefficient virus kills its host. A clever virus stays with it.

- James Lovelock

topic: Clever, Viruses, Host

It is not possible for minds degraded by a host of trivial concerns to ever rise to anything great.

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

topic: Mind, Host, Concern

Form is the host; content is the virus.

- Jeff Noon

source: "Portrait of the Author as a Vurtual Man: Jeff Noon talks to London Calling’s Tom Hunter". London Calling Interview, londoncalling.com. August 11, 2012.

topic: Viruses, Host, Form

We want to create these dramatic situations, whether they are real or not, to entertain audiences.

- Jerry Bruckheimer

topic: Real, Want, Host, Dramatic Situations

I'm actually the daytime host of the Olympics on NBC.

- Jim Lampley

topic: Nbc, Olympics, Host, Daytime

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

- Joseph Murray

topic: Rejection, Skins, Host

I found that if I got up on the stage to entertain the troops I could make them shut up and look.

- Kenneth Williams

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

topic: Troops, Looks, Host

I never thought I would become a television host, but I never thought anybody would pay me to just talk.

- Kimberly Caldwell

topic: Television, Pay, Host

If I don't eat something after I work out, I get shaky and cranky - not a good combination when you're a television host.

- Lara Spencer

topic: Work Out, Television, Host

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

- Liza Minnelli

topic: World, Host, Audience

He testified that when you looked at it through the eyes of 'let's do it,' the costs were very small. They were less than they'd had to spend to host a convention of transportation executives. The cost was not that great.

- Major Owens

topic: Eye, Cost, Host, Through The Eyes

Once you understand that everybody's going to get connected, a lot of things follow from that. If everybody gets the Internet, they end up with a browser, so they look at web pages - but they can also leave comments, create web pages. They can even host their own server! So not only is everybody consuming, they can also produce.

- Marc Andreessen

topic: Looks, Pages, Host, Server, Web Page

Eventually, somewhere - be it on the Internet or somewhere else - I will host some version of 'The Daily Show.'

- Marcus Brigstocke

topic: Host, Internet, Shows, Daily Show

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

- Maury Povich

topic: Games, Host, Quiz, Quiz Show, Game Shows

People are either born hosts or born guests.

- Max Beerbohm

topic: People, Guests, Host

To mankind in general Macbeth and Lady Macbeth stand out as the supreme type of all that a host and hostess should not be.

- Max Beerbohm

topic: Lady Macbeth, Host, Standing Out, Hostesses

Public discourse has been polluted now for decades by corporate-funded disinformation - not just with climate change but with a host of health, environmental and societal threats. The implications for the planet are grim.

- Michael E. Mann

source: "Death threats, intimidation and abuse: climate change scientist Michael E. Mann counts the cost of honesty" by Robin McKie, www.theguardian.com. March 03, 2012.

topic: Environmental, Climate, Host, Public Discourse

God is as really present in the consecrated Host as He is in the glory of Heaven

- Paschal Baylon

topic: Heaven, Host, Glory, Eucharistic, Eucharist

Jesus has prepared not just one Host, but one for everyday of our life. The Hosts for us are ready. Let us not forfeit even one of them

- Peter Julian Eymard

topic: Jesus, Everyday, 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.

- Phil Hartman

topic: Careers, Choices, Host, Careers Choices, Jack Kennedy

You always try to work for your audience, to entertain them, but that being said, obviously, within the studio system you feel the sense of responsibility to the bank.

- Phillip Noyce

topic: Responsibility, Trying, Host

I get to do the most amazing things. We call it Host in Peril quite often, because people love to see me risk my life or be in danger.

- Rick Mercer

topic: People, Risk, Host

I'm working 2 days a week right now, narration usually on Wed., and host on camera on Friday.

- Robert Stack

topic: Friday, Cameras, Host, Happy Friday

I could take over as host of The Daily Show for Jon Stewart and make that thing actually watchable.

- Seth Rollins

source: "Watch Jon Stewart Kick a Wrestler in the Nuts on Monday Night Raw" by Ryan Bort, www.esquire.com. March 3, 2015.

topic: Host, Shows, Daily Show

The Gandhi family has a tradition of being good hosts. When you call upon them, they treat you with a lot of respect.

- Sharad Pawar

topic: Host, Tradition, Treats

Tonight, I am pleased to announce that I have secured $1 million from the Convention Host Committee to fund the beautification of Boston's neighborhoods.

- Thomas Menino

topic: Boston, Tonight, Host, Beautification

I will entertain anything; it doesn't matter. You know, it's not obviously about the price, it's not about who, it's kind of about when and what. It's material, that's all.

- Tom Hanks

topic: Matter, Kind, Host

Historically, the host nations do well in Euro 2000.

- Trevor Brooking

topic: Host, Wells, Euro

I can't wait to work for Rick Kaplan. He's a great producer. I would host an infomercial if he would produce it.

- Tucker Carlson

topic: Waiting, Host, Produce, Infomercials

We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare.

- Uta Hagen

topic: Host, Screws, Hostesses

You can either be a Host to God, or a Hostage to your ego!

- Wayne Dyer

topic: Ego, Host, Hostage

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.

- Angus King

source: "Congress Should Decide Encryption Issue, Sen. Angus King Says". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. February 19, 2016.

topic: Thinking, Issues, Host

It's better to play to the host as though in a real conversation and let the audience listen in- which they are.

- Franklyn Ajaye

source: Franklyn Ajaye (2002). “Comic Insights: The Art of Stand-up Comedy”

topic: Real, Play, Host, Real Conversation

A major puzzle for which nobody has an answer is this: is there some size at which the planets change their nature from water-rich planets like Neptune, to rocky planets like the Earth? We have found two planets that are the size of the Earth in radius, but they are very close to their host star, so water on the surface would evaporate away.

- Geoffrey Marcy

source: "Hunting for the Great Galactic Internet". Interview with Slate, www.slate.com. April 8, 2012.

topic: Water, Earth, Host

Chris Martin is more of a musician and hasn't really put himself out there as a television host or anything like that.

- Ian Astbury

topic: Musician, Television, Host

I would love to host someone's bar mitzvah. I would love to do that.

- Ilana Glazer

source: Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

topic: Mitzvah, Bars, Host, Bar Mitzvah

Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts; the whole earth is full of His glory.

- Isaiah

topic: Earth, Host, Glory, Holiness Of God, Attributes Of God

Every man knows that he will die: and nobody believes it. On that paradox stand not only a host of religions but the entity of a sane being.

- John Myers

topic: Believe, Men, Host

You never know how much time you have with someone.

- Lisa Jakub

topic: Host, Know How, Knows

I would host a show where I take famous people out into the woods every week to find Bigfoot. I would do that. And you know what? We would find him in like a week.

- Rob Huebel

topic: People, Woods, Host, Bigfoot

I have a theory that the hosts are like babies. Whatever you do, they will learn, imitate, and do it back. It's like the purity and clarity of a newborn. If they're a clean slate, there's no agenda - just the need to survive.

- Angela Sarafyan

source: "'Westworld' Star Angela Sarafyan on the Major Finale Twist You Probably Missed". Interview with Mehera Bonner, www.marieclaire.com. December 5, 2016.

topic: Baby, Newborn, Host

Under Sharia law, If a woman has money, she can invest her money. The thing is, what we are concerned about is, in the public arena, there's a difference between a man and a woman. We would have complete segregation in the public arena, but other than that, if she wants to go to the market, if she wants to go to visit her relatives or for medicine or for education. There's a whole host of reasons why she would be out and about but, what we are saying is she not obliged to work. That is the job of the man.

- Anjem Choudary

source: Source: www.yahoo.com

topic: Men, Host, Segregation

I and others on FIFA executive committee agreed to accept bribes in conjunction with selection of South Africa as host nation.

- Bryan Swanson

source: Twitter post from Jun 03, 2015

topic: Fifa, Host, Accepting

A basket of freshly baked pastries like scones make breakfast easy for your host the next day.

- Clinton Kelly

topic: Next Day, Breakfast, Host, Pastries, Scones

When economic structures and policies allow people to have access to capital, it releases a host of productivity that could humanize many bringing a greater flourishing to our society to the glory of God.

- David Kim

topic: People, Our Society, Host

God’s Word, when rightly expounded, is medicinal for a whole host of spiritual diseases.

- Joel Beeke

topic: Spiritual, Disease, Host

On from room to room I stray,Yet mine Host can ne'er espy,And I know not to this day,Whether guest or captive I.

- William Watson

topic: Guests, Rooms, Host

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

- Kevin D. Williamson

topic: Political, Detroit, Host, Political Leadership

To be an author, and an executive producer, and a host, and I don't even know, I mean I actually have a resume now, which is pretty cool.

- Sophia Amoruso

source: "#GirlBoss Sophia Amoruso on Her New Book, Nasty Galaxy". Interview with Maddy Budd, www.harpersbazaar.com. September 13, 2016.

topic: Mean, Host, Resumes

I've been accused of being unambitious, but what I do takes up every minute. I'm executive producer, I'm a writer and the host.

- Stephen Colbert

topic: Host, Minutes, Producers

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

- Aeschylus

source: Aeschylus (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aeschylus (Illustrated)”, p.347, Delphi Classics

topic: War, Flower, Host

Government is basically a parasite, and if the host doesn't grow, then government suffers.

- Jeb Bush

topic: Government, Suffering, Host

you will not falter, because you will have the Everlasting Arm of the Lord God of Hosts to lean on. Yes. With God’s help you will stand.

- Stephen King

source: Stephen King, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa (2011). “The Stand Vol. 5: No Man's Land”, p.166, Marvel Entertainment

topic: Arms, Helping, Host, Lord God

Just because you want something to be true doesn’t make it that way.” -The Host

- Stephenie Meyer

topic: Want Something, Way, Host

You never know how much time you'll have.

- Stephenie Meyer

topic: Host, Know How, Knows

The best timed joke or the best timed phrase comes at spontaneous moments and just relies on me as the host to be very quick, and that's what I do.

- Steve Harvey

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

topic: Phrases, Host, Moments

You're absolutely right: Bob Grant is a racist, Bob Grant is a bigot, he's a despicable talk show host and I agree with that.

- Alan Dershowitz

topic: Racist, Bob, Host

A good host is someone who really takes care of everyone, from the food to their daily programme. I can't.

- Christian Louboutin

topic: Care, Host, Programmes

Our politicians, they all seemed like game show hosts to me.

- Sting

source: Song: If I Ever Lose My Faith In You

topic: Games, Politics, Host, Game Shows

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.

- Jerry Seinfeld

topic: Awards, Matter, Host, Award Shows

Serious illness doesn't bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host.

- Albert Schweitzer

topic: Serious Illness, Long, Host

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

- Alexis de Tocqueville

source: Alexis de Tocqueville (2013). “The Old Regime and the Revolution: The controversial bestselling guide to the origins of the French Revolution”, p.100, Harriman House Limited

topic: Host, Gallery, Copies

Madness, like small fish, runs in hosts, in vast numbers of instances.

- Philip K. Dick

source: Philip K. Dick (2011). “The Transmigration of Timothy Archer”, p.227, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Running, Numbers, Host, Small Fish

MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell is saying Donald Trump lied when he said he made $20 million a year off his 'Apprentice' series on NBC. NBC also denied Trump's claim, saying, 'We don't have $20 million. We're NBC.'

- Jimmy Fallon

topic: Nbc, Years, Host, Apprentice

Beneath the Sacred Host, Christ is contained, the Redeemer of the world

- Pope John Paul II

topic: World, Sacred, Host

I've hosted the Soul Train awards, the American Music Awards... and I had my own talk show. So if I can't host by now, what the hell can I do?

- Queen Latifah

topic: Awards, Soul, Host, Soul Train

As I said, the matter of the Pan African Parliament was raised with us by other African countries who said we should host.

- Thabo Mbeki

source: Source: www.gov.za

topic: Country, Matter, Host

We were asked to host the Pan African Parliament and we agreed to this.

- Thabo Mbeki

source: Source: www.gov.za

topic: Host, Parliament

And though we do have him before our eyes, masked in the Sacred Host, at mass and Benediction and within our lips receive him at communion, yet to hear of him and dwell on the thought of him will do us good.

- Gerard Manley Hopkins

source: "The note-books and papers of Gerard Manley Hopkins".

topic: Eye, Sacred, Host

The Mollusks—generous hosts when they weren’t trying to kill you.

- Dave Barry

topic: Trying, Host, Mollusks

My ultimate goal is to do whatever I want, whenever I want to do it. And that keeps changing. I didn't want to host my own show until I wrote for someone else's.

- Anthony Jeselnik

source: Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. July 9, 2013.

topic: Goal, Want, Host

Myself, and all the Angelic Host, that stand in the sight of God enthroned, our happy state hold, as you yours, while our obedience hold. On other surety none: freely we serve, because we freely love.

- John Milton

source: John Milton, Alastair Fowler (2007). “Paradise Lost”, p.315, Pearson Education

topic: Angel, Sight, Host

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

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Like Being Alone, Guests, Host

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

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

topic: Awards, Host, Charm, Academy Awards, Third Time

We from every religion feel comfortable in Britain because there is a host. The Church of England is a good host, it has been a major force in shaping England into such a tolerant society.

- Jonathan Sacks

topic: Church, England, Host, Church Of England

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

topic: Tvs, Host, Stranger, Gregarious

10 years ago, I would've host Saturday Night Live. But to me, the show has declined. For some reason, humor isn't what it was. It just, to me, it's not as funny as it was, not as sharply satirical.

- Dick Van Dyke

topic: Night, Host, Reason, Satirical

Russia hosts a lot of forums, including the International Economic Forum in St Petersburg, [usually in the beginning of summer], as well as the Economic Forum in Sochi.

- Vladimir Putin

source: Source: thesaker.is

topic: Summer, Russia, Host, Sochi

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

- Dorothy Parker

topic: Host, Outspoken, Wit

One more drink and I'd have been under the host.

- Dorothy Parker

source: Quoted in Bennett Cerf, Try and Stop Me (1944)

topic: Beer, Host, Drink

It is a disaster that wisdom forbids you to be satisfied with yourself and always sends you away dissatisfied and fearful, whereas stubbornness and foolhardiness fill their hosts with joy and assurance.

- Michel de Montaigne

source: Michel de Montaigne (1995). “Four Essays”, Penguin Group USA

topic: Joy, Host, Stubbornness, Dissatisfied

Aggression which is flagitious when committed by one, is not sanctioned when committed by a host.

- Herbert Spencer

topic: Host, Committed, Aggression

For a host, above all, must be kind to his guests.

- Dr. Seuss

topic: Guests, Be Kind, Host

A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius.

- Horace

source: "Satires". Book by Horace, Book II, satire viii, lines 73 - 74, c. 35 BC, 30 BC.

topic: Genius, Host, Calamity

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

topic: Guests, Tasks, Host, Hostesses

You have to do every movie one at a time. Trilogy is contrary to this ideology. My nightmare is to wake up and find myself the host of a TV series.

- Jack Nicholson

topic: Wake Up, Tvs, Host, Tv Series, Trilogies

The body is not a permanent dwelling, but a sort of inn which is to be left behind when one perceives that one is a burden to the host.

- Seneca the Younger

source: Epistulae ad Lucilium CXX

topic: Dwelling, Body, Host

Begin to act from your dominion. Declare the truth by telling yourself that there is nothing to be afraid of, that you no longer entertain any images of fear.

- Ernest Holmes

topic: Truth, Dominion, Host

I only got the opportjnity to co-host a talk show because I failed at news.

- Oprah Winfrey

topic: News, Host, Shows