Top 100 The Guest Quotes
#1. The main prank that we play with props is for people's birthdays. The special effects people will put a little explosive in the cake so it blows up in their face - that's always fun to play on a guest star, or one of the trainees or someone who's new.
Catherine Bell
#2. Columbus dreamed of an unknown shore at the rim of a far flung sky.
Edgar Guest
#3. I used to write bits and pieces of comedy material for various comics that were at the Windmill ... as well as my film job, I was under contract, I was allowed to do that and everything.
Val Guest
#4. People want me to be funny all the time. They think I'm being funny no matter what I say or do and that's not the case.
Christopher Guest
#5. There's something I want to show you. Do you think anyone would notice if we slipped away for a bit?" He raised an eyebrow at her. "Given that we make up a full quarter of the guest list, I would be a little insulted if they didn't notice." "It was a rhetorical question.
Marissa Meyer
#6. My first appearance as a guest on The Tonight Show was in '81.
Garry Shandling
#7. You come on as a guest. You don't get the girl anymore. But that is our lives. You start off as the boyfriend, then you are the lover, then you are the husband, then you are the father, and then you are the grandfather.
Albert Finney
#8. The Mexican people I know seem to respect the country in a way that many spoiled brats who were born here don't. So come on over folks, the more the merrier. But please, sign the guest book on the way in.
Dennis Miller
#9. The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.
Khalil Gibran
#10. The only guest star I really wanted to get but didn't was Bruce Springsteen.
Mike Scully
#11. I ended up living at OJ's because Nicole bought a home that no longer had a guest house. OJ offered his guest house to me. Anybody in LA looking for a place knows the best places to live are guest houses.
Kato Kaelin
#12. When you're a guest star, you kinda feel like you have to prove something. Everyone else is on the show and has started establishing relationships. And you're just hoping that they're happy you were cast.
Andrea Gabriel
#13. When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
Kangana Ranaut
#14. After you went, a low wind warbled through the house like a spacious bird, making it high but lonely. When you had gone the love came. I supposed it would. The supper of the heart is when the guest has gone.
Emily Dickinson
#15. Wake up, my guest /
You have slept long /
In the house of my ribs, /
The House of my heart /
Wake up now, /
See through my eyes, /
Walk with my feet, /
Yush, my old friend
Greg Keyes
#16. It's just odd being a guest at the wedding. When you dreamed about it for so long, even if you we're a different person, and it was years ago. Sounds so stupid. I was stupid.
Harriet Evans
#17. The things that haven't been done before, Are the tasks worthwhile today; Are you one of the flock that follows, or Are you one that shall lead the way? Are you one of the timid souls that quail At the jeers of a doubting crew, Or dare you, whether you win or fail, Strike out for a goal that's new?
Edgar Guest
#18. The new is a guest in the house of the old.
Marty Rubin
#19. Indeed, one would be hard put to say which was more real for him: the world of imagination in which he lived, or the world of reality in which he was but a temporary guest.
Joshua Foer
#20. The only way to permanently install a new habit is to direct so much energy toward it that the old one slips away like an unwelcome house guest.
Robin Sharma
#21. Water is poured onto the road as a guest departs, both to make the journey "as smooth and fluid as water" and to ensure their safe return.
Ayse Kulin
#22. You're a terrible liar, boy," Rand called after us.
"Is he right?" I asked quietly, once we'd put some distance between the guest cabin and us.
"That I'm a terrible liar? No. I'm a fantastic liar.
Richelle Mead
#23. I had no portrait, now, but am small, like the wren; and my hair is bold, like the chestnut bur; and my eyes, like the sherry in the glass, that the guest leaves.
Emily Dickinson
#24. One of the great things about doing series television is the guest actors that you can have come on and play around with.
David Duchovny
#25. The most important thing you can do is make the distinction between customer service and guest hospitality. You need both things to thrive, but they are completely different.
Danny Meyer
#26. The movies have a way of seeping out there over time. We don't put them in 2,000 theaters. It wouldn't work that way.
Christopher Guest
#27. When you're a guest star on TV shows - particularly in the 1960s - you're always the villain.
Robert Vaughn
#28. 'So You Think You Can Dance' comes on as a high-minded leap up the evolutionary ladder from other reality shows - on this one, you're supposed to learn something, and the guest judges are fellow dance professionals rather than actual celebrities.
Rob Sheffield
#29. Vimes' meeting with the Patrician ended as all such meetings did, with the guest going away in possession of an unfocused yet very nagging suspicion that he'd only just escaped with his life.
Terry Pratchett
#30. (T)here were always vacancies in the construct of life: blank spaces occupied by the unseen guest, the absent friend.
Stephanie Kallos
#31. Our guest tonight is Michelle Obama, first lady of the United States. She's here to announce her run for president.
David Letterman
#32. I'm a really good dinner party guest. I am always so appreciative, impressed that anyone has even managed to turn on the oven and cook for me.
Lucy Punch
#33. When I did the film Generations, in which the character died, I felt like a guest for the first time. That made me very sad.
William Shatner
#34. Although we are being presented in Carnegie Hall, we have to furnish a budget for our guest stars, and for the music writing - which is a huge budget in any orchestra that plays popular music.
Skitch Henderson
#35. In the course of interviewing, I've discovered that if you don't give your guest something to react to, they don't react. They simply say what they've been saying every time they've been interviewed. The last thing you want is to have people say to you what they've said to someone else.
Michael Silverblatt
#36. You can judge a country by the way it treats its prisoners, and you can always judge a show by the way it treats people coming on to do these guest shots.
Donal Logue
#38. Quinn," Alaric said quietly. "His aim is to ignite your temper. Perhaps you might allow me the chance to assist you this one time?"
"Fine, but you seem to be making a habit of it," she shot back. "We can discuss that later, too. Be my guest."
Alyssa Day
#39. History resembles a guest list in that sense of the invited and the gatecrashers: the people for whom we have been waiting, and those whose presence takes us unawares.
Sarah Churchwell
#40. If matter mute and inanimate, though changed by the forces of Nature into a multitude of forms, can never die, will the spirit of man suffer annihilation when it has paid a brief visit, like a royal guest, to this tenement of clay?
William Jennings Bryan
#41. Willy, one of the guys at the distillery, comes up with what Oliver and I agree is the best definition of what a 'dram' actually is: 'A measure of whisky that is pleasing to both guest and host.
Iain Banks
#42. she was only here because she didn't have the guts to be anywhere else. Because she felt like the last guest at an unsuccessful party, too guilt-ridden to leave.
Lisa Jewell
#43. Whenever someone makes out a guest list, the people not on it become officially uninvited, and that makes them the enemies of the invited. Guest lists are just a way of choosing sides.
E.L. Konigsburg
#44. The guest gets at least as much service with us as with some established airline, if not even more. And at by far a favourable price. Thus the passengers remain gladly with us.
Niki Lauda
#45. Doing that, then doing a lot of theater, which I love. Doing guest stars, did two independent films that are going around to all these festivals. Both of them are going to be at the Lake Tahoe Film Festival.
Austin Peck
#46. I always feel that I have two duties to perform with a parting guest: one, to see that he doesn't forget anything that is his; the other, to see that he doesn't take anything that is mine.
Alfred North Whitehead
#47. It wounded him to think that he would never be but a shy guest at the feast of the world's culture.
James Joyce
#48. I started on 'Saturday Night Live' the same time Conan started on Late Night. We just had a relationship because I would be upstairs in the studio and whenever he couldn't get a guest - which was often back then since he was just starting out - he would just call me down to be a guest.
Norm MacDonald
#49. Our enemies ... seem always with us. The greater our hatred the more persistent the memory of them so that a truly terrible enemy becomes deathless. So that the man who has done you great injury or injustice makes himself a guest in your house forever. Perhaps only forgiveness can dislodge him.
Cormac McCarthy
#50. I had my one guest star on The Flash, and that became several guest stars, and then they mentioned this new show.
Wentworth Miller
#51. When you guest-star, you're usually at the center of the dramatic arc, so that's fun.
Bellamy Young
#52. Basher shook his head. "No, we climbed in through a ground-floor guest bedroom all ninja-like. Snuck up the back stairs."
"Then you might be the cavalry," said Tom, "but I'm Santa Claus. Let's go downstairs and open some presents.
Jonathan Maberry
#53. That was the first time ever in history that anybody got Special Guest Star. I started that whole nonsense.
Jonathan Harris
#54. When I was 16, the guest speaker was King. And I was completely overwhelmed because I had been studying nonviolence, talking about it, reading about it, but here it was happening, here it was people boycotting the buses and people on the streets and taking risks, which I think was the key.
Joan Baez
#55. Just because you're a god doesn't mean I won't punch you." "Just because you're a guest in my house doesn't mean I won't drown you in the ocean.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#56. A balanced guest list of mixed elements is to a successful party what the seasoning is to a culinary triumph.
Letitia Baldrige
#57. Folk musicians have a lot of the same self-importance, but they're way more cruel and jealous than rock musicians - I know this for a fact because I used to be a folk musician.
Christopher Guest
#58. God happens only when you have moved out of the way and left yourself totally empty, spacious. It is a very strange phenomenon: The guest only comes inside the house when the host disappears.
Rajneesh
#59. Nearly every aspect of life was subject to some measure of legal restraint. At a local level, you could be fined for letting your ducks wander in the road, for misappropriating town gravel, for having a guest in your house without a permit from the local bailiff.
Bill Bryson
#60. But then he touched the flowers
With the dry tips of his fingers.
Tell me how men kiss you.
Tell me how you kiss.
Anna Akhmatova
#61. We have careful thought for the stranger,
And smiles for the sometime guest;
But oft for 'our own' the bitter tone,
Though we love our own the best.
Margaret E. Sangster
#62. The great distinction of a true Christian is the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. How careful should he be, lest anything in his thoughts or feelings would be offensive to the Divine Guest.!
Francis Schaeffer
#63. But keep on working and hoping still. For in spite of the grumblers who stand about, somehow, it seems, all things work out.
Edgar Guest
#64. I worked on this Showtime series called 'Beggars and Choosers,' this was like 2000, and Bea Arthur guest-starred on our show. I always loved 'The Golden Girls,' and thought she was a supreme comedy actress, supreme actress period.
Sherri Saum
#65. I've done festivals in the past where I'd be a guest, it was like, Wow, maybe someday I could play Town Hall - but that'll be a long way off. So it's very exciting.
John Mulaney
#67. Melville, in his relation to belief, was like the last guest who cannot leave the party; he was always returning to see if he had left his had and gloves.
James Wood
#68. A guest at a dinner party observed the strange expression on James Thurber's face. 'Don't be concerned,' said Thurber's wife. 'He's writing.'
Sophy Burnham
#69. With episodic, kind of one-hour directing, they always have guest directors come in, so they don't have the same person week after week. You get a break.
Melanie Mayron
#70. Drummond appreciated his guest's initial silence, his respect for the ancient, sacred act of imbibing. Drink first, talk later.
Jean Zimmerman
#71. You are the honoured guest,
Do not weep like a beggar
For pieces of the world.
Rumi
#72. However softly we speak, God is so close to us that he can hear us; nor do we need wings to go in search of him, but merely to seek solitude and contemplate him within ourselves, without being surprised to find such a good Guest there.
John Of The Cross
#73. 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
#74. THE soul should always stand ajar,
That if the heaven inquire,
He will not be obliged to wait,
Or shy of troubling her.
Depart, before the host has slid
The bolt upon the door,
To seek for the accomplished guest,
Her visitor no more.
Emily Dickinson
#75. I was 14 years old in August of 1968 and had earned the money and had managed to get tickets as a guest of the Massachusetts delegation to the Republican convention in Miami and where I was on the floor in the Rockefeller demonstrations.
Richard Norton Smith
#76. Death in Somalia seldom bothers to announce its arrival. In fact, death calls with the arrogance of a guest confident on receiving a warm welcome at any time, no question asked.
Nuruddin Farah
#77. Most commonly, hotel and airport networks restrict communication between machines on the local network, so even with the IP of the guest machine, you are unable to communicate.
Mitchell Hashimoto
#78. I want to be able, as days go by, always to look myself straight in the eye.
Edgar Guest
#79. I know what she used to do sometimes. She kept her best cape she wore on the street in there, and she used occasionally to go up there to get it and to take it into her room. She kept a great deal in the guest room drawers.
Lizzie Andrew Borden
#80. Television is a lot more fast-paced, where with films, you really have the ability to get to know your characters. When I was doing guest star roles, I was only one, like, one episode of a thirty minute to an hour show, so you don't really have time to get to know my characters.
Liana Liberato
#81. We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.
Horace
#82. Her occupation was the worst that anyone could think of. No guest in the park had to think of it because, unlike the wandering dwarf women, her job had no bearing on paper.
Pam Jones
#83. I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day; I'd rather one should walk with me than merely tell the way.
Edgar A. Guest
#84. He who believes in God and the Last Day should honour his guest; he who believes in God and the Last Day should not annoy his neighbours; and he who believes in God and the Last Day should say what is good or keep silent.
Elijah Muhammad
#85. An enemy, in Karhide, is not a stranger, an invader. The stranger who comes unknown is a guest. Your enemy is your neighbor.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#86. Pleasantest of all ties is the tie of host and guest.
Aeschylus
#87. But here in the struggle for fame and pelf
I want to be able to like myself.
I don't want to look at myself and know
That I'm bluster and buff and empty show.
Edgar Guest
#88. Many talk about a guest worker program. I think most reasonable people believe that a guest worker program in the farming industry, perhaps in the gardening and landscape industries, is reasonable.
Gary Miller
#89. Hence the mere chance of seeing Will occasionally was like a lunette opened in the wall of her prison, giving her a glimpse of the sunny air; and this pleasure began to nullify her original alarm at what her husband might think about the introduction of Will as her uncle's guest. On
George Eliot
#90. There's was no pressure on it for me - I just went in and had fun. Whatever Jason Moore, the director, asked me to do, I did it! I ran around the room acting like a crazy guest on "Jerry Springer" and yelling at the audience. I just went for it.
Max Von Essen
#91. The happy man is he who turns his soul Unto the light of joys that he can find; And pays each day its just demand of toll, But shuts the future troubles from his mind.
Edgar Guest
#92. I have long been a proponent of a guest-worker program between the United States and Mexico, and in particular I have proposed that Arizona would be an ideal location for a pilot project.
Janet Napolitano
#93. That was the aura of Cheers: It was special. It was more than TV; you could get people to guest on the show you couldn't normally get.
Bebe Neuwirth
#94. I was the first guest star asked to appear on 'Glee,' which we all know became huge.
John Lloyd Young
#95. Ladies and ... ladies" Luc said "since the sexual harassement has already started I assure you've recognized that we have a special guest.
Chloe Neill
#96. And so, little by little, I gradually divested myself of pretty nearly all of the guest conducting I used to do, because I was at the same time working in the places like the Met, where I could work in this sort of depth.
James Levine
#97. When I did TV, I only did little guest parts, and it hasn't been that long. There is a kind of pressure in this job that comes from your work every day being there forever. But this is all part of the brand-new world that I'm discovering.
Emma Stone
#98. I think the dying pray at the last not "please," but "thank you," as a guest thanks his host at the door.
Annie Dillard
#99. I wrote Murder at the Windmill. And it was accepted and we made it and it was the first film I made with Danny Angel, well the only film I actually made ... I made a lot of it at the Windmill itself.
Val Guest
#100. If you are not proud of your cellar, there is no thrill of satisfaction in seeing your guest hold up his wineglass to the light and look judicial.
George Eliot
