Ward McAllister Quotes

A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend.

Ward McAllister

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• When I initially moved to the city, I had to stay in hotels for almost two years. I was fed up of that life, and it was then that I decided that I wanted a home in the city, so I shifted base permanently.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Life
  • Up
  • Home

• I have one of these bodies. When I was younger, I could never put weight on, and now that I'm a little older, there's a natural sort of chubbiness coming. But honestly, if I work out for a week, it drops off in no time.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Time
  • Work
  • Week

• First of all, I'm not the kind of guy that likes to rehash the show and so forth and so on.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Guy
  • Kind
  • First

• I love Tom Kenny. And Jill Talley. And Jennifer Aniston, too!

  

  Wayne Knight
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Tom

• I've never had a problem finding a team, a league, or a pickup game. Actually, I'm not sure I want soccer to get bigger. We have so many teams in San Francisco that there aren't enough fields.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Game
  • Team
  • Problem

• I try to shave at night so my skin has a chance to settle by the early morning call-time.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Time
  • Night
  • Morning

• Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Hope
  • Conviction
  • Turn

• I definitely want people to laugh because I don't think there's a better feeling - I think it's just so fabulous to laugh. I don't mind if people think, either. I think the brain is a very sexy organ.

  

  Kate Clinton
  • People
  • Mind
  • Feeling

• I find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Find
  • Donald
  • Rumsfeld

• There are things that bother me. I try not to let them, but they do.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Me
  • Things
  • Try

• Gender equality and women's empowerment have been a top priority for me from day one as Secretary-General. And I am committed to making sure that the U.N. leads by example.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Women
  • Equality
  • Priority

• I think what we've been able to do with 'Longmire' is balance this procedural with a bit of a soap opera, and it's a character study of this character, Walt Longmire, and the people around him.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • People
  • Character
  • Study

• I think it's horrible that people have to be told. Don't smoke! Everybody knows it's bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • People
  • Bad
  • Think

• The lies of the empire and the treason of the quislings shall be defeated.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Lies
  • Defeated
  • Empire

• I was angry but not at God. I feel that you are closer to God when you are messed up. Definitely. That's when you most need God, and God cannot control what man does.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Up
  • God
  • Man

• A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

  

  Harold Coffin
  • Something
  • Consumer
  • Sore

• A lot of people say I tried to emulate Tupac, but when I look back at my career, we're very different artists. I took pages out of Pac's book, of course, and lots of other rappers - Biggie, Nas - of course you take pages out of those books, but you eventually make it your own thing. And I think I did a good job of that.

  

  Ja Rule
  • People
  • Good
  • Different

• Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its own sake.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
  • Love
  • Science
  • Literature

• I was condemned to be beheaded, or burnt, as the king pleased; and he was graciously pleased, from the great remains of his love, to choose the mildest sentence.

  

  Sarah Fielding
  • King
  • Sentence
  • Condemned

• If you're not at least willing to die for something- something that really matters- in the end, you die for nothing.

  

  Andrew Klavan
  • Die
  • Matter
  • Nothing

• I don't mind people writing about me. Personal attacks are different, but political arguments? I'm putting myself out there on a daily basis. I'm giving my opinion. So it only makes sense that others might differ and will criticize me.

  

  Kimberly Guilfoyle
  • People
  • Different
  • Writing

• 'Anybody who French bashes just might as well wear a badge that says 'I am a follower! I don't think for myself and I have no idea what I'm talking about.' That would be a French basher.'

  

  Janeane Garofalo

• My mother used to tell me, “Things always look worse at night.” For the most part, I believe her. But some of the troubles that keep me from sleeping look just as bad in the morning.

  

  Carolyn Custis James
  • Mother
  • Night
  • Things

• A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend.

  

  Ward McAllister
  • Die
  • Dinner
  • Obligation