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Quotes About Host

Every host in Hollywood has made that mistake: "Let's invite some comedy writers to the party! That'll brighten things up." Sure… till the paramedics arrive.
~ Robert McKee
Graft-versus-host disease is more apt to be seen with bone-marrow transplants, not solid organ transplants.
~ Robin Cook
In recoiling from its own extremist past, Germany inadvertently became the host of a new totalitarian movement.
~ Lawrence Wright
The host with the most horrible manners. If he invites you, send a sick note. If he insists, take to your bed and die.
~ Lindsey Davis
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
It's not listed in the Bible, but my spiritual gift, my specific calling from God, is to be a television talk-show host.
~ Jim Bakker
Such exponential growth does not occur in the natural world, except maybe for cancer—and that growth ceases once the host has been consumed.
~ Douglas Rushkoff
For a host, above all, must be kind to his guests.
~ Dr. Seuss
The host in question, the chapel's owner, Grayston Boscastle, the fifth Marquess of Sedgecroft, sat thinking that the bride had the most appealing derriere he had seen in a long time. Not that he made a point of lusting after young women in wedding dresses, but he had been staring at the back of her for over two hours now. A normal man's curiosity could not help but be aroused. What else was he to look at? He wondered whether the rest of her was appealing.
~ Jillian Hunter
The host in question, the chapel's owner, Grayson Boscastle, the fifth Marquess of Sedgecroft, sat thinking that the bride had the most appealing derriere he hadseen in quite a long time. Not that he made a point of lusting after young women in wedding dresses, but he had been staring at the back of her for over two hours now.
~ Jillian Hunter
Cable television is basically now the business of former political professionals. Joe Scarborough, a former Florida Congressman, is a far more successful cable host than he ever was a politician.
~ Michael Wolff
I have to tell you, though, the sexism in late night talk is so profound.
~ Kathy Griffin
Even on that convivial evening I could feel my host emanating little magnetic waves of social uneasiness, creating, rather, a pool of general embarrassment about himself in which he floated with log-like calm.
~ Evelyn Waugh
My theme is memory, that winged host that soared about me one gray morning of war-time.
~ Evelyn Waugh
It was as though Banquo had turned host.
~ Evelyn Waugh
As soon as I arrived I made an attempt to find my host but the two or three people of whom I asked his whereabouts stared at me in such an amazed way and denied so vehemently an knowledge of his movements that I slunk off in the direction of the cocktail table--the only place in the garden where a single man could linger without looking purposeless and alone.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
A sudden emptiness seemed to flow now from the windows and the great doors, endowing with complete isolation the figure of the host, who stood on the porch, his hand up in a formal gesture of farewell.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
As soon as I arrived I made an attempt to find my host but the two or three people of whom I asked his whereabouts stared at me in such an amazed way and denied so vehemently any knowledge of his movements that I slunk off in the direction of the cocktail table—the only place in the garden where a single man could linger without looking purposeless and alone. I
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
I glanced back once. A wafer of a moon was shining over Gatsby's house, making the night fine as before, and surviving the laughter and the sound of his still glowing garden. A sudden emptiness seemed to flow now from the windows and the great doors, endowing with complete isolation the figure of the host, who stood on the porch, his hand up in a formal gesture of farewell.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
A wafer of a moon was shining over Gatsby's house, making the night fine as before, and surviving the laughter and the sound of his still glowing garden. A sudden emptiness seemed to flow now from the windows and the great doors, endowing with complete isolation the figure of the host, who stood on the porch, his hand up in a formal gesture of farewell.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Over the years, during television interviews, whenever the host or the reviewer or whoever gets cynical and nasty with me, I will behave accordingly. I will defend myself.
~ John Lydon
I am a wholesale entertainer.
~ Prosenjit Chatterjee
I'm a terrible interviewer. I'm not a journalist - although I have a Peabody Award - and I'm not really a late-night host. What I am is honest.
~ Craig Ferguson
I believe the 'Jeopardy!' test is more difficult than being a contestant on the program.
~ Alex Trebek