Then came the hostage crisis during which Carter did nothing to rattle the ayatollahs who hung tough until Ronald Reagan was inaugurated, when they suddenly backed down.

- Alexander Haig

Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.

- Arthur Helps

I believe it's a real tedious hostage negotiation to have a marriage be what it is.

- Brad Garrett

Rushdie is a hostage.

- Don DeLillo

Has one hostage from Lebanon come back with a photograph of his abductors? Has any hostage ever come back with a photograph of his abductors smiling? I mean, this was so incredible!

- Dwight Schultz

It's hard being a hostage in somebody else's mouth - or a character in somebody else's novel.

- David Antin

'Collaborator' is a hostage tragicomedy, but it's also, kind of, everything I know about post-war America. Well, not everything, but it does reference a lot of the post-war period.

- Martin Donovan