Dinner Quotes

Holly McGhee said I should come to dinner with them. That first dinner, I said something pretty smart-alecky, and Alison [McGhee] laughed really hard at it. It made me happy.

Plan what you are going to wear ahead of time. If you're going to an important dinner, you should always plan what you're going to wear because you don't want to look silly.

Maybe I’m old, but to me, ‘going out’ means going out to dinner. It’s about the conversation: someone recognizing your intellect, the charm of flirting, and really speaking to somebody.

You have to be generous if you want to spend your time making someone else dinner. Even if you're charging, you're still giving.

Natalie Spenser was giving a dinner. She was not an easy hostess.

The irrational may be attractive in the abstract, but not in cab drives, dinner guests, or elderly relatives.

Reagan didn't socialize with the press. He spent his evenings with Nancy, watching TV with dinner trays. But he knew that to transcend, you can't condescend.

Avoid buying frozen dinners and processed foods, as they are often overloaded with salt.

Food became, for dinner parties in the sixties, what abstract expressionism had been in the fifties.

Prayer is like Thanksgiving dinner. It takes one hour to eat it and ten hours to prepare it.

Jacques Cousteau, the last man to see Jimmy Hoffa. Never got a dinner!

Billy Carter, who asked his brother Jimmy, Do you think you could get me on the Gong Show? Never got a dinner!

I grew up with a lot of dinner table conversations about health care and ways in which the system was inadequate for the needs of many of the patients they took care of.

Most often the person you would die for would settle for dinner and a movie.

When we're discussing who to invite to a dinner party, my wife Chaz and I sometimes use the shorthand, 'good value for money,' which indicates guests expected to be entertaining.

If we're sitting at dinner and there's no conversation going on because everybody's got their head someplace else in their iPhone, that's a family problem that needs to be solved.

The television set's on while the family's sitting around having dinner or talking. Nobody's watching TV; it's there; they're aware of it, but they're not participating. That's passive.

You can play golf with liberals, be neighbors with them, go out to dinner. I just don't want them in power.

I like doing something romantic with a girl on Valentines Day, like making her dinner and keeping it simple. The more quality time, the better.

And even if she says no, and really means yes, then quite frankly she's playing games and isn't worth the price of dinner.

I think I mentioned to Bob [Geldof] I could make love for eight hours. What I didn't say was that this included four hours of begging and then dinner and a movie.

I'm the sort of person who takes a camera to dinner or a nightclub because I enjoy taking pictures of people. I tweet all my pictures, which is bad.

Planning a dinner party in a way that you're actually capable of getting it done without panicking is important. It's bad hospitality for the host to be freaked out.

There are times when wisdom cannot be found in the chambers of parliament or the halls of academia but at the unpretentious setting of the kitchen table.

I have never understood why a woman must have a man to take her into dinner.

I met Elton John at an Interview dinner, and we just sort of became friends. He's got such a wicked sense of humor.

I'm a farmer now, and it's fantastic. My goal is to be totally self-sufficient and grow everything that I eat. There's something about earning your dinner that's cool.

If I go into a restaurant there's a very good chance that I'm going to spend my time being the mayor. If I want to have a good time, I'm happier having dinner here.

I've never been to a dinner party where everyone at the dinner table didn't say something funny.

Dating is kind of hard. Like dinner or something like that. Like a forced awkward situation is very strange. Especially for me, for some reason.

I am not interested in politics at all. At home, around the dinner table, we never discuss politics.

I'm vey bad at marshaling arguments. I can't, at a dinner party, explain why I'm a socialist and why others should be socialists as well.

You know you've had too much to eat for Christmas dinner when you slump down onto a beanbag and realize... there is no beanbag.

I was brought up in a way that when you're at a dinner party, you don't grab a chip unless it's been offered to everyone else. It's the manners of being brought up by English parents.

[Michael Flynn has] seen at a dinner party famously sitting next to Vladimir Putin.

I grew up in a show biz family and, if you wanted to talk at the dinner table, you'd better be prepared to talk about film.

Ive not cooked Christmas dinner since 1982.

My dinner party,' Miles grated. 'It's just breaking up.' And sinking. All souls feared lost.

I'm a really good dinner party guest. I am always so appreciative, impressed that anyone has even managed to turn on the oven and cook for me.

I'd rather dig a ditch than go to a dinner party with people I don't know.

Things it is not polite to discuss at the dinner table: politics, religion, and the walking dead.

Whether it's a big dinner party or people just coming over to hang out, I just love to spend time with them.

My folks are economists and have taught economics and social science so I grew up with those kind of conversations around the dinner table.

Dinner with water is dinner for prisoners

I am lucky enough to live in Miami so dinner on the beach with people I love is one of my favorite ways to relax.

I had a paper round and every night I would put the dinner on before Mum came home from work. I was capable because I had to be.

Every night for dinner we had a big chunk of dirt.

One thing I've never said in my whole life is, 'Let's have dinner at a Japanese restaurant.'

When I get up in the morning, I have to decide what I'm going to have for dinner or I can't get through the day.

I always wear a dinner jacket. I never have this definition of what goes for the morning or the evening or what works for the weekend.