Quotes About Hosting A Dinner

#1. Hosting is work. It means you don't get to go up to your room and disappear and take a nap. Like everybody else does after lunch. I'm talking about hosting, not hosting a dinner party, but hosting people staying in your home.

George Clooney

#2. To revolutionaries the significant reality is the world which they are fighting to bring about, not the world they are fighting to overcome.

Henry A. Kissinger

#3. A thing is not high if one can reach it; it is not great if one can reason it; it is not deep if one can see its bottom.

Ayn Rand

#4. We don't need a head of state who guts our defenses and draws phony red lines with a pink crayon.

Oliver North

#5. Not my will, but my heart's will.

Alcoholics Anonymous

#6. I believe the potluck tradition of entertaining is the equivalent of a teenage boy wanting to have sex with his girlfriend but who is too scared to go to CVS to buy condoms. If you can't handle providing all the courses for your dinner party, you can't handle the hosting duties of a dinner party.

Mindy Kaling

#7. there's a terrible silence
before a predator's night

sometimes
an absurd airplane
appears in the sky

it throws out leaflets
calling for surrender

I would be happy to surrender
but I've no one to surrender to

Zbigniew Herbert

#8. Too many questions had been left unanswered. Every day there were new rumours saying that the Kamari numbers were growing. Nick wondered why so many people were joining them.

Peter James West

#9. Manfred used to be a flock of pigeons
literally, his exocortex dispersed among a passel of bird brains, pecking at brightly colored facts, shitting semidigested conclusions. Being human again feels inexplicably odd. (331)

Charles Stross

#10. I like to think about stringing songs together like a string of pearls, or a string of beads, but ultimately it has to be stuff that really works with the band, and gives a spin to the older material.

Emmylou Harris

#11. I look forward to hosting an Iftar dinner celebrating Ramadan here at the White House later this week, and wish you a blessed month.

Barack Obama

#12. If I don't make music I'm going back to the hood. I'll sell crack. I'm gonna go back to sell crack if I can't make it in the music business and that's what I was doing before that.

Curtis Jackson

#13. Value manifests itself as exchange value, as a quantitatively determined relationship, in virtue of the fact that one commodity can be exchanged for another.

Rudolf Hiferding

#14. He's in his circle, and I'm in mine, and we just go around and around.

Jen Calonita

#15. Repetitiveness and discipline are the secrets of cake decorating. The art comes from the meticulous technique, the way it does for a dancer.

Ron Ben-Israel