#invite

If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#been #better #books #come #had

My vanity was flattered by having been mistaken for our revered sovereign. I ordered a banquet to be got ready for the following evening, under the trees before my house, and invited the whole town. ↗

— Adelbert von Chamisso

#been #before #evening #flattered #following

I have lovely memories of Los Angeles in the 1930s. I came down to live with my mother's cousin and they invited me to come and go to junior college for a year. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

#came #college #come #come and go #cousin

There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people's safety and greatness. ↗

— Eldridge Cleaver

#calamity #consequent #defended #equals #follows

Most of the time one is discouraged by the work, but now and again by some grace something stands out and invites you to work on it, to elaborate it or animate it in some way. It's a mysterious process. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#animate #discouraged #elaborate #grace #invites

He who pardons easily invites offense. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#invites #offense #pardons #who

You have to face the fact that I have no reputation as a composer; I have my reputation as a songwriter and a performer-and that opportunity came this summer, when I was invited to perform at the Lincoln Centre festival in New York... three nights. ↗

— Elvis Costello

#centre #composer #face #fact #festival

I'm not comfortable leaving my house. If someone invites me over, I would go but it's not like I'm one to say, 'Hey, let's hang out at your house tonight.' ↗

— Courteney Cox

#go #hang #hey #house #i

Kennedy invited us into the White House-the first time in the history of the White House picketers had been invited inside. This made front page headlines. ↗

— Peter Coyote

#first #first time #front #had #headlines

I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men. ↗

— Imogen Cunningham

#hollywood #i #invited #like #me