Dinner Quotes

I think I'm telling the truth. I sat by Ray Perkins at the Hall of Fame dinner in New York, and at that time he didn't know he was our coach and I didn't either.

Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.

That clergyman soon becomes an object of contempt who being often asked out to dinner never refuses to go.

I would rather read poetry than eat my dinner any day. It has been so all my life.

In those days, between the ages of 12 and 18 you meant nothing. You were the extra place at the side table if someone came to dinner. You were of no interest to anyone.

The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation.

Egyptian President Sadat had a belly dancer entertain President Nixon at a state dinner. Mr. Nixon was really impressed. He hadn't seen contortions like that since Rose Mary Woods.

I had very few friends. We always ate dinner with our parents. We didn't want to go out. American adolescence was a lot wilder than I would have felt comfortable with.

The slogan of progress is changing from the full dinner pail to the full garage.

That which chiefly causes the failure of a dinner-party, is the running short--not of meat, nor yet of drink, but of conversation.

We had a delicious dinner of too much.

Fear will always knock on your door. Just don't invite it in for dinner. And for heaven's sake, don't offer it a bed for the night.

Fame is not the worst thing. I went to dinner the other night, and the girls in the restaurant ignored me. It was so annoying.

You can imagine the kind of dinner parties I had to go to at a young age... pretty dull.

The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.

The oldest form of theater is the dinner table. It's got five or six people, new show every night, same players. Good ensemble; the people have worked together a lot.

Comedy has always been important in my family. If you got in a good joke at the dinner table, it meant more than almost anything else.

I had a feeling once about mathematics - that I saw it all... but it was after dinner and I let it go.

To my great surprise and pleasure, I have had dinner with most of the people living with whom I would like to have dinner.

I'll just be sitting down having dinner with girlfriends or something and people come up and ruin the dinner.

It's like everyone I have dinner with, I'm having an affair with. Who was it I met the other day? Minnie Driver! She seems charming, but that's the only time I've met her.

Wolves eat cats for dinner. By God, I wanna be a wolf. ~Kane Tyler~

It's getting so people no longer count the silverware when I come to dinner.

At dinner time he would sit in a corner, concentrating; and suddenly they would say, 'Time to feed the cat,' as if it were their idea.

I go to eat dinner with my folks when I'm home. I think that's the trick.

No matter how much strong black coffee we drink, almost any after- dinner speech will counteract it.

A White House dinner is the American family assembled, from labor leaders to billionaires, actors, architects, academicians and athletes.

I get too hungry for dinner at eight. I like the theater, but never come late. I never bother with people I hate. That's why the lady is a tramp.

The process of writing a book is like the process of preparing a dinner. Serving dishes, choosing ingredients and so on.

With four-appetizer, four-entree menus, it's like, give me a break. That's not a restaurant, that's a dinner party.

The dying process begins the minute we are born, but it accelerates during dinner parties.

The theater is the only branch of art much cared for by people of wealth; like canasta, it does away with the brother of talk after dinner.

I say 'Mom, how come you don't change into an evening gown for dinner?' She says 'I do, it's called a bath robe. [...]

No one would have been invited to dinner so often as Jesus was unless he were interesting and had a sense of humor.

Well had Solomon said,'Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.

A collection is like a dinner party. It is made up of the people you invite, but also the people you don't.

At dinner parties I sit below the salt now. There are a lot of interesting people there.

If one swallows a cup of chocolate only three hours after a copious lunch, everything will be perfectly digested and there will still be room for dinner.

We sat together as a family for dinner at night. And my mother had a job. My dad had a job. But there was always a meal on the table at 6:00, you know.

I get bombed for breakfast in the morning, I get bombed for dinner.

A man who was fond of wine was offered some grapes at dessert after dinner. "Much obliged," said he, pushing the plate aside, "I am not accustomed to take my wine in pills."

The only difference between working on a huge-budget film and a lesser-budget film, is the quality of lunch and dinner.

My mom had four kids, one with special needs. She had a full-time job, and she still came home and made dinner for us every night, from scratch. It was amazing.

The English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner.

A warmed-up dinner was never worth much.

Funny, isn't it? The airlines go to all that trouble to keep you from taking a gun on board, then they just hand you a dinner roll you could kill a musk ox with.

Alexander Graham Bell's wife, who said to Alex on their wedding night, Your three minutes are up. Never got a dinner!

Civilised adults do not take apple juice with dinner.

When you think about President Obama, he gives the president of China a five-star dinner at the White House. When somebody rips me off I don't give them five star dinners.

I don't like to cook. I can make a TV dinner taste like radio.