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Christopher Guest movies are my top of the line favorites. -- Nina Blackwood
A courteous, yet harrowing Grace, As Guest, that would be gone -- Emily Dickinson
I've gotten to portray things in [Christopher Guest's] movies that I wouldn't have in others. -- Parker Posey
Guest blogging is probably the sort of thing that you should be thinking about doing in moderation. -- Matt Cutts
Not to sound too much like Christopher Guest in 'Waiting for Guffman,' but on Thanksgiving you're putting on a show! -- Ted Allen
Farewell, farewell! but this I tell To thee, thou Wedding-Guest! He prayeth well, who loveth well Both man and bird and beast. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Grief for a dead Wife, and a troublesome Guest, Continues to the threshold, and there is at rest But I mean such wives as are none of the best -- Benjamin Franklin
Grief for a dead Wife, and a troublesome Guest, Continues to the threshold, and there is at rest; But I mean such wives as are none of the best -- Benjamin Franklin
I knew 'Be Our Guest' would be performed on a set and in costume, but anyone with a history in Theatre In Education will know that can mean anything. -- Pippa Evans
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
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
I have heard upscale adult U.S. citizens ask the ship's Guest Relations Desk whether snorkeling necessitates getting wet...I now know the precise mixocological difference between a Slippery Nipple and a fuzzy navel. -- David Foster Wallace
When the Guest is being searched for, it is the intensity of the longing for the Guest that does all the work. Look at me, and you will see a slave of that intensity. -- Kabir
I'm a comedic actor, not to mix words, but it's something I think about. A comedic actor. I like to think that Christopher Guest, Phil Hartman, Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness are comedic actors. And Dan Aykroyd, too. Those are my heroes. -- Mike Myers
Fame is a fickle food Upon a shifting plate, Whose table once a Guest, but not The second time, is set. Whose crumbs the crows inspect, And with ironic caw Flap past it to the Farmer's corn; Men eat of it and die. -- Emily Dickinson
I was producing things I was acting in, but I had never directed and I felt it was time. I was looking for a piece of material that was about behavior and feelings. When I read Judith Guest's book, I thought, This is it. -- Robert Redford
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
I would love to interview Michael McKean and his wife, who wrote the songs for 'A Mighty Wind,' which is my favorite Christopher Guest movie. I'm just a sucker for any funny guy that has a wife who is intelligent and that he collaborates with. -- Julie Klausner
Lance Guest in The Last Starfighter had such integrity and held himself to such a high standard that I just wanted to raise your own standard to meet it. He is a hard-working, giving actor. He made me feel secure and better in my role opposite him. -- Catherine Mary Stewart
Lance Guest in 'The Last Starfighter' had such integrity and held himself to such a high standard that I just wanted to raise your own standard to meet it. He is a hard-working, giving actor. He made me feel secure and better in my role opposite him. -- Catherine Mary Stewart
Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To be an ideal guest, stay at home. -- E. W. Howe
A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast. -- Friedrich Schiller
What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest? -- Aeschylus
You have to always remember who your guest is, and that's who we cater to. -- Michael Mina
When you're a guest star on TV shows - particularly in the 1960s - you're always the villain. -- Robert Vaughn
No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days. -- Plautus
The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master. -- Khalil Gibran
If history starts as a guest list, it has a tendency to end like the memory of a drunken party: misheard, blurred, fragmentary. -- Sarah Churchwell
A lot of people said to me, 'Enough with the guest vocalists for a while. We want to hear the Mexican play the guitar!' -- Carlos Santana
As for my stuff, I'm just doing guest verses for other people's records. I try to stay recording, because if I don't, I get rusty. -- Eminem
My dog is vicious to the uninvited guest, lavishly affectionate to the invited one, and so freakishly acute that he has mastered the English language. -- Jean Hanff Korelitz
I like to go to anybody else's birthday, and if I'm invited I'm a good guest. But I never celebrate my birthdays. I really don't care. -- Mikhail Baryshnikov
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
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
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
The Doctor' is the kind of character - because the guest cast is changing all the time, there are very few constants in the show, so the 'Doctor'- when you're there, you're in it a lot. You're speaking a lot. -- David Tennant
In the past, I had a knee-jerk approach to work, and it showed on screen. I was doing movies for the wrong reasons - trying to juggle dates, do too many guest appearances, take up projects under pressure or for emotional reasons. -- Salman Khan
I like to take a long time over breakfast, and I can't bear to talk. If a guest is a breakfast talker it's very important to invite another so they can talk to each other. Otherwise they spoil the newspaper reading and everything else. -- Julian Fellowes
I wanted to go back on 'Dancing With the Stars,' I did it. One of my favorite shows is 'Hawaii Five-0.' I went on, guest starred. I wanted to be in a film, did 'Tasmanian Devils' in Vancouver. Wanted to host a show, boom, did it. -- Apolo Ohno
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
Do you know what you call those who use towels and never wash them, eat meals and never do the dishes, sit in rooms they never clean, and are entertained till they drop? If you have just answered, 'A house guest,' you're wrong because I have just described my kids. -- Erma Bombeck
It's a fascinating job, to come in and be the most interesting person in an episode. Whoever the guest star is, that's the job - to maintain the interest and the focus for that 42 minutes or whatever, and it should be a huge relief to those people that are the leads in the shows. -- Mark Sheppard
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
My dad sung and played piano. But he was also a man of God. He was a minister. So when Sam Cooke would come in town, you know, with The Soul Stirrers at that time, he was singing gospel, they would end up at my dad's church, and it would always be a guest singer for Sunday morning. -- Merry Clayton
I was always prepared for my 'Fringe' journey to end immediately. I had only signed up for a guest role but they kept bringing me back in the third season as a recurring character. So pretty much every time I went to film a 'Fringe' episode I kind of said goodbye to the show, but then they kept bringing me back. -- Seth Gabel
Dignified, like a guest. -- Laozi
Inquisitiveness is an uncomely guest. -- Philip Sidney
I've always done guest-starring stuff. -- Christina Ricci
Tomorrow is the mysterious, unknown guest. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The future comes like an unwelcome guest. -- Edmund Gosse
His faithful dog salutes the smiling guest. -- Thomas Campbell
Like a full-fed guest, depart to rest ... -- Michel de Montaigne
A pretty woman is a welcome guest. -- Lord Byron
Anger should never be an overnight guest. -- Neal A. Maxwell
A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast -- Friedrich von Schiller
The world's an Inn; and I her guest. -- Francis Quarles
You are a guest of nature - behave. -- Friedensreich Hundertwasser
The soul on earth is an immortal guest. -- Hannah More
Nobody can be as agreeable as an uninvited guest. -- Kin Hubbard
Certify border is secure; only then allow guest workers. -- John McCain
Farid had brought an invisible guest with him. Fear. -- Cornelia Funke
Care, admitted as guest, quickly turns to be master. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
Brevity never fatigues; therefore, brevity is always a welcome guest. -- Theophile Gautier
To be an agreeable guest one need only enjoy oneself. -- Joseph Joubert
Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest. -- Horace
A guest is a jewel on the cushion of hospitality -- Rex Stout
Love lodged in a woman's breast is but a guest. -- Henry Wotton
I don't do a lot of guest shots on television. -- John Larroquette
A guest and a fish after three days are poison -- Proverb
Let a man behave in his own house as a guest. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pleasantest of all ties is the tie of host and guest. -- Aeschylus
Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy. -- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
BEFORE THERE WAS BILLY COLLINS & TED KOOSER, THERE WAS EDGAR GUEST -- Ron Silliman
I did a guest appearance on The Practice and loved it. -- Sharon Stone
I do favor guest workers, H1B visas and student visas. -- Jim Kolbe
We shall never deny a guest even the most ridiculous request. -- Mr. Krabs
The guest will judge better of a feast than the cook -- Aristotle
A guest never forgets the host who has treated him kindly. -- Homer
A guest of one's time and not a member of the household. -- George F. Kennan
Whoever expects to walk peacefully in the world must be money's guest. -- Norman O. Brown
Oh my gosh, I would love to guest star on 'Entourage.' -- Autumn Reeser
I do a happy dance even when I get a guest-star role. -- Robert Knepper
Time is an eternal guest that banquets on our ideals and bodies. -- Elbert Hubbard
Inspiration is a guest who does not like to visit lazy people. -- Andre Tchaikowsky
I prefer to leave standing up, like a well-mannered guest at a party. -- Leontyne Price
The vices come as passengers, visit us as guest and stay as masters. -- Confucius
It would drive me crazy to be a guest in my own house. -- Francesca Marciano
My first appearance as a guest on The Tonight Show was in '81. -- Garry Shandling
I have a guest house because I don't want people in my home. -- Karl Lagerfeld
A civil guest Will no more talk all, than eat all the feast. -- George Herbert
If you wish to view this as a cautionary tale, be my guest. -- Philip Plait
Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son. -- Evelyn Waugh
Americans have the right to choose to be unarmed and helpless. Be my guest. -- Ted Nugent
If a guest in your lair annoys you, treat him cruelly and without mercy. -- Anton Szandor LaVey
The guest is always right - even if we have to throw him out. -- Charles Ritz
After three days men grow weary, of a wench, a guest, and weather rainy. -- Benjamin Franklin
A hotel isn't like a home, but it's better than being a house guest. -- William Feather
Soft pity never leaves the gentle breast where love has been received a welcome guest. -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
When you guest-star, you're usually at the center of the dramatic arc, so that's fun. -- Bellamy Young
Conversation is but carving! Give no more to every guest Than he's able to digest. -- Jonathan Swift
True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest. -- Alexander Pope
Always remember to set a place at the table of life for the unexpected guest. -- Linda Ellerbee
Content with his past life, let him take leave of life like a satiated guest. -- Horace
To turn away a guest is poorest poverty;To bear with fools is mightiest might. -- Thiruvalluvar
I seem to myself, as in a dream, Am accidental guest in this dreadful body. -- Anna Akhmatova
Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest. -- Bertolt Brecht
You have to always remember who your guest is, and thats who we cater to. -- Michael Mina
I don't want to be the honored guest. I want to be the invisible person. -- Paul Theroux
I think I must admit so fair a guest when it asks entrance to my heart. -- Charlotte Bronte
Every house guest brings you happiness. Some when they arrive, and some when they are leaving -- Confucius
For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest. -- Alexander Pope
You are the honoured guest, Do not weep like a beggar For pieces of the world. -- Rumi
To dismiss a guest is a more ungracious act than not to admit him at all. -- Ovid
When you feel most alive, find out why, This is one guest you won't greet twice. -- Kabir
Peace is a stranger to the rigid mind. Peace is a guest of the flexible heart. -- Sri Chinmoy
I was on the show previously as a guest host, so I had a little practice. -- Rocco DiSpirito
The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest. -- Jean de la Bruyere
This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. Welcome and entertain them all! -- Rumi
Winter, a bad guest, sitteth with me at home; blue are my hands with his friendly handshaking -- Friedrich Nietzsche

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