#invitation

Nicholas: I know you, brother. You've been threatened with matrimonial pursuits before. Why are you really here? William: I received an invitation. Nicholas: Not from me you didn't. William: Of course not from you, brother. Parliament would go up in flames before I receive a social invitation from you. ↗

— Donna MacMeans

#invitation #parlimament #romance #education

The review process was conducted in an extremely bipartisan manner. Minority members of the Judiciary Committee were responsible for the invitation of 1/3 of the witnesses who appeared. ↗

— Jo Bonner

#bipartisan #committee #conducted #extremely #invitation

I see the Beijing National Stadium as an architectural project. I accepted Herzog and De Meuron's invitation to collaborate on the design, and our proposal won the competition. From beginning to end, I stayed with the project. I am committed to fostering relationships between a city and its architecture. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#am #architectural #architecture #beginning #beijing

I thank you for your kind invitation to introduce me to the president of the Republic. Since I have not been out of my atelier for two months, I have no appropriate costume for this circumstance. Please excuse me. ↗

— Camille Claudel

#been #circumstance #costume #excuse #i

I believe an invitation from the Commission on Presidential Debates is similar to a draft notice - a civic responsibility. ↗

— Jim Lehrer

#civic #commission #debates #draft #i

If I have to climb to heaven on a ladder, I shall decline the invitation. ↗

— Mercedes McCambridge

#decline #heaven #i #invitation #ladder

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

— Ward McAllister

#attend #before #die #dinner #invitation

At such a loving invitation, Pinocchio, with one leap from the back of the orchestra, found himself in the front rows. With another leap, he was on the orchestra leader's head. With a third, he landed on the stage. ↗

— Carlo Collodi

#back #found #front #head #himself

But as a woman, I really started feeling vulnerable on the set, and I really felt that it was important that I should not be open for invitation or making myself look as though I was waiting for something. ↗

— John Lone

#felt #i #important #invitation #look

Today, the US spends less on defense as a percentage of our economy than we did at any time since he Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. For the world's only superpower, that is an invitation to very serious trouble. ↗

— Steve Forbes

#attack #defense #did #economy #harbor