Dinner Quotes
Art, I suppose, is only for beginners, who have made up in their minds to be content with symbols rather than with what they signify, with the elegantly composed recipe in lieu of actual dinner.
Then from the Mint walks forth the man of rhyme, Happy to catch me, just at dinner-time.
The dinner table is a rite of civilization and we need to participate in that to keep our families together, to keep our communities together.
It is quite proper to meet a young man at a cocktail party and go on to dinner with him. If he is attractive, you can consider yourself not only correct, but lucky.
Unless your kid is Pele Jr., they're not going to be able to feed themselves from soccer. If your kid knows how to play soccer, but not make dinner, you have done them a disservice.
MESMERISM, n. Hypnotism before it wore good clothes, kept a carriage and asked Incredulity to dinner.
When your kids are their hungriest, put out raw vegetables and dip - simple. It takes two seconds. We did it before dinner at 5 o'clock. Then when dinnertime comes, they've already eaten vegetables.
This season has been full of rewards. The dinners and banquets just keep on coming. It's great. We want to carry it on as long as we can.
I can't give parties. It's so hard. When I want to call somebody up for dinner they think I'm using them or something. I just can't stand it.
I take my kids to school and if I go to work they visit me on set, I come home. I have dinner with my family. I have breakfast with my family. I have a very solid, a very warm home. I'm fortunate.
Being anti-war in Hollywood was an act of bravery on the order of the keynote speaker at a PLO dinner making jokes about Ariel Sharon.
Society was nothing but a long, dull dinner party conversation in which one was forced to speak to one's partner on both the left and the right.
I eat strategically. If I know I'm having a big Chinese banquet tomorrow, I'm not eating a big dinner tonight, and I'm not having breakfast.
At the end of a dinner at my house, my kitchen sink is filled with dishes and there's nothing pretty about the garbage.
Dinner at the Huntercombes' possessed only two dramatic features - the wine was a farce and the food a tragedy.
A man's own dinner is to himself so important that he cannot bring himself to believe that it is a matter utterly indifferent to anyone else.
I try not to become friends with musicians, but life happens and dinner happens and going out happens - it becomes interwoven in L.A.
We had a farewell dinner for some of my senior staff, and generally everybody likes to talk about how cool I was.
The state dinner is almost a formula, but you try to make it interesting. You try not to overload it with too many political types. You try to get a cross section.
I'm terrified of walking into a room full of people. Sitting down at a dinner table with 15 strangers brings me out in a sweat.
I enjoy hanging out with friends, going on hikes and playing tennis. I also enjoy Bible study and making dinners. I have a pretty mellow life away from the water.
Any other woman who has to go to work and pick up the kids and make dinner - that's way harder than what I have to do.
My father was a news guy, you know, he was in radio news. And so that was sort of in my DNA. It was something we talked about at the dinner table when I was a kid.
Money maketh man a tory, don't fire that assumption at me, I like toast as much as anyone but not for breakfast, dinner and tea
Some people play the piano, some do Sudoku, some watch television, some people go out to dinner parties. I write books.
I'm the type of guy that feels pressure when I have to order dinner. I'm just that type of guy but that's my fuel. I work well with pressure.
I'm not invited to the Vanity Fair dinner where they watch the Oscars - or even the Oscars themselves - so I sit at home and watch it with a bunch of close friends.
I have to go out for lunch and dinner because I can't cook. I need a woman to come and save me from my cooking.
I was a waitress. I was pretty good at it. I liked to solve those puzzles-you know, when to put the dinner order in, that sort of thing.
"Why, what I may think after dinner," returns Mr. Jobling, "is one thing, my dear Guppy, and what I may think before dinner is another thing."
There is but one pleasure in life equal to that of being called on to make an after-dinner speech, and that is not being called on to make one.
Precious to me - it is the Dinner Bell. Oh blessed Bell! Thou bringest beef and beer.
My dinners have never interfered with my business. They have been my recreation. . . A public banquet, if eaten with thought and care, is no more of a strain than a dinner at home.
I can only cook brown rice and vegetables, so I don't get too many people coming over for dinner parties or anything.
In fact, I've only been to a couple of other people's dinner parties. But I must admit, I really enjoyed the few I've been to, but I'm not really on that circuit.
Cheese, in any form, is my guilty pleasure. I would rather have a cheese platter for dinner than any meal. There's nothing better!
Chapter 8, Dinner With the Vampire: Is there something wrong with your food?" No, I'm just not very hungry." You're going to break my heart, aren't you?
My parents never condescended to me. As a child, I always sat at the head of our dinner table. I was always given a lot of responsibility.
It's as though some poor devil were to set out for a large dinner party with the knowledge that the following morning he would be hearing exactly what each of the other guests thought of him.
A free-loader is a confirmed guest. He is the man who is always willing to come to dinner.
Lately it has become more and more difficult to attend dinner parties without the evening ending in gunfire or tapioca.
My dad was a labourer and my mum had exactly the same job as Noel Gallagher's mum - she was a dinner lady at our local school. Everyone comes over from Ireland and they get the same jobs.
I just think that the people who say: 'That's not true' when someone tells a story at dinner are the people who didn't get any laughs when they told their story.
Live events and lectures in front of large audiences. It is the best. I like it more than eating dinner.