Host famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The thing about a good podcast is you have to have a good host. If you don't have a compelling host then you have nothing.
-- Adam Carolla -
There is a paranoid streak in American life. Radio talk show hosts tend to foment that paranoid streak in American life.
-- Alan Dershowitz -
Being a good host offsets the deprivation and loneliness of my youth
-- Alan Ladd -
When you're a houseguest and you leave, it's nice to straighten something up or send your hosts a useful gift. And when you leave the planet, it's nice to have made a positive contribution.
-- Alexander Payne -
A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
-- Alexander Pushkin -
We may all host ourselves to death, and if we're all dead who will host our funerals?
-- Amy Poehler -
You instinctively discover how to entertain an audience.
-- Anna Held -
Must not I then entertain the saints because I must keep my conscience.
-- Anne Hutchinson -
The bodys immune system is like any other system of the body. Each of them have their vital function for the human host.
-- Anthony S. Fauci -
The man with a host of friends who slaps on the back everybody he meets is regarded as the friend of nobody.
-- Aristotle -
The only thing binding individuals together is ideas. Ideas mutate and spread; they change their hosts as much as their hosts change them.
-- Bernard Beckett -
Thought, like any parasite, cannot exist without a compliant host.
-- Bernard Beckett -
It is my fondest desire to bust a host of caps into multitudes of fleshy personages.
-- Bill Willingham -
Miles Davis turned his back to the audience when he came out on stage, and he offended people. But, he wasn't there to entertain; he was all about the music. I kind of do that.
-- Bobby McFerrin -
I'm coming for Ryan Seacrest - I want to be the black Ryan Seacrest for BET. I want to host, I want to produce, I want to do everything for the network.
-- Bow Wow -
London has what it takes to host the greatest sporting show on earth [on the 2012 Olympic bid
-- Bradley Wiggins -
I mean, most actresses can't host and most hostesses can't act, and that's the general rule in the industry.
-- Brooke Burke -
Emily was feeling the elation of conscientious hosts when they can temporarily escape a ubiquitous houseguest.
-- Carol Bly -
I don't host a show and go, 'Have you got my best angle?'
-- Cat Deeley -
I'd watched a lot of David Letterman for sure. As far as who I watched as a late-show host, it was definitely Letterman.
-- Chad VanGaalen -
As it takes two to make a quarrel, so it takes two to make a disease, the microbe and its host.
-- Charles V. Chapin -
No, I do a bunch of things to entertain myself. I paint, I make music, I take photographs.
-- Charlie Hunnam -
I bet I'm the only person in history who went from being the star of a sitcom to the host of a public-access show in less than a year.
-- Chris Gethard -
When I use music on stage, the prime directive is to entertain the public, so it is different.
-- Cliff Richard -
Don't hit the person across from you with bits of toast, And don't, when dinner is nearly through, say 'Who's the host' It isn't done.
-- Cole Porter -
Our purpose is to educate as well as to entertain.
-- Curtis Mayfield -
You can be a great reporter and not be such a great talk show host.
-- Dan Abrams -
After a geological epoch passed in which single-celled organisms evolved into talk show hosts, Mr. Coffee was still holding out on me.
-- Darynda Jones -
The second host that I had was an actress I didn't know named Susan St. James.
-- Dick Ebersol -
I was the worst game show host that ever lived, and I knew it.
-- Dick Van Dyke -
I hope I will be remembered as a good father and a fair employer. And a good host, of course!
-- Diego Della Valle -
The one who knows and fears the Lord of Hosts need fear no other.
-- Edmund Clowney -
For a gourmet wine is not a drink but a condiment, provided that your host has chosen correctly.
-- Edouard de Pomiane -
The Chancellor also in effect asks us to bargain away whatever obligation or interest we have as regards the neutrality of Belgium. We could not entertain that bargain either.
-- Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon -
I am going to make everything around me beautiful - that will be my life.
-- Elsie de Wolfe -
The good guest is almost invisible, enjoying him or herself, communing with fellow guests, and, most of all, enjoying the generous hospitality of the hosts.
-- Emily Post -
I don't think I'd be a very good talk show host. I mean, I'm very talkative but I don't know if I could do that all the time.
-- Emma Roberts -
National Socialism is simply this - a proposal that the German people rid themselves of the parasitic Jews. The gentile host dared to protest against the continued presence of the parasite, and attempted to throw it off.
-- Eustace Mullins -
And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald -
Few enjoy noisy overcrowded functions. But they are a gesture of goodwill on the part of host or hostess, and also on the part of guests who submit to them.
-- Fannie Hurst -
What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and anthropomorphisms: in short, a sum of human relations which have been poetically and rhetorically intensified, transferred, and embellished, and which, after long usage, seem to a people to be fixed, canonical, and binding. Truths are illusions which we have forgotten are illusions — they are metaphors that have become worn out and have been drained of sensuous force.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche -
If I can go from burglar for the government to talk show host, you can go from entertainer to congressman.
-- G. Gordon Liddy -
If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.
-- Gabriel Heatter -
Let me mention that not all sun-like stars host planets - perhaps about 30% of them are planet-builders. It's not so easy to form a planet!
-- Garik Israelian -
The only way I would go back to hosting would be if it were something entirely new. It would prevent me from wanting to host a standard-fare kind of talk show.
-- Garry Shandling -
Your car goes where your eyes go. Lonliness is unable to survive without a willing host.
-- Garth Stein -
I'm so used to talk-show hosts just giving you a sound bite and not really being interested.
-- Genevieve Gorder -
Curt Gowdy was a pioneer in our business and set the highest standards for everyone. His many contributions to ABC as host of 'American Sportsman' and other ABC Sports programs are indelible .
-- George Bodenheimer -
We have him [God] before our eyes, masked in the sacred Host
-- Gerard Manley Hopkins -
When you do a reality show and host shows, it's hard to have secrets.
-- Giuliana Rancic -
We're going to march on Washington with a host of Republicans, Democrats, business leaders, legislators.
-- Gray Davis -
Thou has a thousand eyes and yet not one eye; Thou host a thousand forms and yet not one form.
-- Guru Nanak -
There is, though I do not know how there is or why there is, a sense of infinite peace and protection in the glittering hosts of heaven.
-- H. G. Wells -
And wilt thou sing the shadowy hosts that never march again?
-- Harry Kemp -
Art in its widest sense is the extension of the personality: a host of artificial limbs.
-- Herbert Read -
An inefficient virus kills its host. A clever virus stays with it.
-- James Lovelock -
It is not possible for minds degraded by a host of trivial concerns to ever rise to anything great.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
We want to create these dramatic situations, whether they are real or not, to entertain audiences.
-- Jerry Bruckheimer -
I'm actually the daytime host of the Olympics on NBC.
-- Jim Lampley -
God’s Word, when rightly expounded, is medicinal for a whole host of spiritual diseases.
-- Joel Beeke -
The slow rejection of the foreign skin grafts fascinated me. How could the host distinguish another person's skin from his own?
-- Joseph Murray -
I found that if I got up on the stage to entertain the troops I could make them shut up and look.
-- Kenneth Williams -
I never thought I would become a television host, but I never thought anybody would pay me to just talk.
-- Kimberly Caldwell -
If I don't eat something after I work out, I get shaky and cranky - not a good combination when you're a television host.
-- Lara Spencer -
Audiences are the same all over the world, and if you entertain them, they'll respond.
-- Liza Minnelli -
He testified that when you looked at it through the eyes of 'let's do it,' the costs were very small. They were less than they'd had to spend to host a convention of transportation executives. The cost was not that great.
-- Major Owens -
Once you understand that everybody's going to get connected, a lot of things follow from that. If everybody gets the Internet, they end up with a browser, so they look at web pages - but they can also leave comments, create web pages. They can even host their own server! So not only is everybody consuming, they can also produce.
-- Marc Andreessen -
Eventually, somewhere - be it on the Internet or somewhere else - I will host some version of 'The Daily Show.'
-- Marcus Brigstocke -
I'm hosting a quiz show, but I never considered myself a game show host.
-- Maury Povich -
People are either born hosts or born guests.
-- Max Beerbohm -
To mankind in general Macbeth and Lady Macbeth stand out as the supreme type of all that a host and hostess should not be.
-- Max Beerbohm -
Public discourse has been polluted now for decades by corporate-funded disinformation - not just with climate change but with a host of health, environmental and societal threats. The implications for the planet are grim.
-- Michael E. Mann -
God is as really present in the consecrated Host as He is in the glory of Heaven
-- Paschal Baylon -
Jesus has prepared not just one Host, but one for everyday of our life. The Hosts for us are ready. Let us not forfeit even one of them
-- Peter Julian Eymard -
I could do John Wayne, Jack Benny, Jack Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and entertain my friends. But I never seriously considered it as a career choice.
-- Phil Hartman -
You always try to work for your audience, to entertain them, but that being said, obviously, within the studio system you feel the sense of responsibility to the bank.
-- Phillip Noyce -
I get to do the most amazing things. We call it Host in Peril quite often, because people love to see me risk my life or be in danger.
-- Rick Mercer -
I'm working 2 days a week right now, narration usually on Wed., and host on camera on Friday.
-- Robert Stack -
I could take over as host of The Daily Show for Jon Stewart and make that thing actually watchable.
-- Seth Rollins -
The Gandhi family has a tradition of being good hosts. When you call upon them, they treat you with a lot of respect.
-- Sharad Pawar -
Just because you want something to be true doesn’t make it that way.†-The Host
-- Stephenie Meyer -
Tonight, I am pleased to announce that I have secured $1 million from the Convention Host Committee to fund the beautification of Boston's neighborhoods.
-- Thomas Menino -
I will entertain anything; it doesn't matter. You know, it's not obviously about the price, it's not about who, it's kind of about when and what. It's material, that's all.
-- Tom Hanks -
Historically, the host nations do well in Euro 2000.
-- Trevor Brooking -
I can't wait to work for Rick Kaplan. He's a great producer. I would host an infomercial if he would produce it.
-- Tucker Carlson -
We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare.
-- Uta Hagen -
You can either be a Host to God, or a Hostage to your ego!
-- Wayne Dyer -
There's a host of difficult issues here, and that's why when you mentioned at the top of the show that the committees were looking at this, that's where I think we should be going.
-- Angus King -
It's better to play to the host as though in a real conversation and let the audience listen in- which they are.
-- Franklyn Ajaye -
A major puzzle for which nobody has an answer is this: is there some size at which the planets change their nature from water-rich planets like Neptune, to rocky planets like the Earth? We have found two planets that are the size of the Earth in radius, but they are very close to their host star, so water on the surface would evaporate away.
-- Geoffrey Marcy -
Chris Martin is more of a musician and hasn't really put himself out there as a television host or anything like that.
-- Ian Astbury -
I would love to host someone's bar mitzvah. I would love to do that.
-- Ilana Glazer -
Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts; the whole earth is full of His glory.
-- Isaiah -
Every man knows that he will die: and nobody believes it. On that paradox stand not only a host of religions but the entity of a sane being.
-- John Myers -
You never know how much time you have with someone.
-- Lisa Jakub -
I would host a show where I take famous people out into the woods every week to find Bigfoot. I would do that. And you know what? We would find him in like a week.
-- Rob Huebel -
I have a theory that the hosts are like babies. Whatever you do, they will learn, imitate, and do it back. It's like the purity and clarity of a newborn. If they're a clean slate, there's no agenda - just the need to survive.
-- Angela Sarafyan