Visitee Quotes

#1. Visiting is a pleasure; being visited is usually a mixed or ambivalent joy ... The visitor can always go home; the visitee is already home, trapped like a rat in a drainpipe.

Barbara Holland

#2. Try to enjoy the great festival of life with other men.

Epictetus

#3. It's entirely to do with personality, I think. There are good directors who talk a lot, bad directors who talk a lot, and good directors who don't say much and vice-versa. It just depends on whether people respond to that personality and whether people have a willingness to do something for them.

Colin Firth

#4. The trouble with a great sadness is that it doesn't fit inside your body.

Manuel Rivas

#5. But at this point the four hundred richest people on the planet owned half the planet's wealth, and the top one percent owned fully eighty percent of the world's wealth. For them it wasn't so bad.

Kim Stanley Robinson

#6. The greatest presidents have been those who demonstrated astute judgment in times of crisis - often despite the advice they were getting.

Robert Dallek

#7. I have been rejected 120 times, probably because I didn't write the right book.

Pierce Brown

#8. Next time there would be no mercy. He looked round fiercely, daring them to contradict.

William Golding

#9. Knowing comes from learning, finding from seeking.

Vaddey Ratner

#10. As soon as the recovery is well under way, we need to set up a long-term plan to reduce the structural deficit and make sure we are not leaving a mountain of debt for the next generation.

Barack Obama

#11. Tears and grief are good for reflection, moving on is still the best solution.

Mat Luthfi

#12. Surround yourself with friends and family who want to practice empathy and kindness. New mothers and parents are the ones who can benefit enormously from this support - we all can.

Iben Dissing Sandahl

#13. I'll be truly happy when we're not counting the number of ethnically diverse models on a fashion runway or campaign, when having a representation of the entire human race is the norm and not an exception.

Iman

#14. There are all kinds of addictions, and I've got every single one. If you set me in front of anything, I will do it until I ram it into the ground and it's done working for me.

Andy Dick

#15. For immigrant generations especially, family is the first structure, or shelter, for a people who are in exile.

Alice McDermott