Best 552 quotes in «dinner quotes» category

Orson Welles, who said to Anita Bryant, Stop picketing me. What I said was I was a thespian. Never got a dinner!

[Our first dinner with Alison McGhee] was at Figlio's [in Minneapolis]. I know exactly what I had, because it was so good: their three-cheese ravioli. But I can't remember what I said to Alison that night that made her laugh so hard. But she got me right away and I got her right away.

Paris for lunch, dinner in St. Petersburg.

People are not interested in you. They are not interested in me. They are interested in themselves - morning, noon and after dinner.

People come to my shows and know that they're going to hear about what's going on in the world - what's happening at the moment. My material is as new as anything on the dinner table.

People invite me to dinner not because I can cook, but because I like to clean up. I get immediate gratification from windex. Yes, I do windows.

Playtime and toys are good for kids, or they wouldn't buy them. McDonald's can provide that experience. And having dinner with the family is good for kids.

Peter Minuet, who said to the Indians in modern-day Manhattan, Will you accept a check from a Puerto Rican bank? Never got a dinner!

Plenty of friendships are sustainable through dinners and lunches, but will not stand a week away. So be careful with whom you go on holiday.

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

Poor, darling fellow - he died of food. He was killed by the dinner table.

Practical gifts are another great way to be thoughtful, and they work for anything from birthdays to dinner-party gifts.

Pope John Paul II's press secretary, who said, See, if only the Pope were Italian, he woulda shot back! Never got a dinner!

Queen Elizabeth, who said, Not now, I'm on the throne. Never got a dinner!

Ray Charles, who said to Stevie Wonder, Maybe we're white. Never got a dinner!

Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt.

Sex is like having dinner: sometimes you joke about the dishes, sometimes you take the meal seriously.

Reagan promised everyone a seven-course dinner. Ours turned out to be a possum and a six-pack.

Rip Van Winkle, who said, Don't make the bed; I'm just going to the bathroom. Never got a dinner!

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.

Serena Williams [ispires me]. The first time I met her, she was like, "We should hang out and go to dinner," and I'm like, "Uh, yeah! If you insist.

Sex, that’s meaningless, I can understand that, but dinner; that’s heavy. That’s like an hour.

She's sent the crows out to blind the guests coming for dinner!" What?" She's BLINDING THE GUESTS COMING FOR DINNER!" Well, that's one way to avoid having to dust, I suppose.

Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour.

Show me the artist anywhere who's had an utterly stable mental life, and I'll buy you hot dinners for the rest of your life.

Simon Peter, who embarrassed the other disciples at the Last Supper by asking for seconds. Never got a dinner!

Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.

Sonny Von Bulow, who said to her husband Claus on their honeymoon, Stop needling me. Never got a dinner!

Stan Musial, who said, Why didn't they make me the first Polish pope? I was such a good Cardinal. Never got a dinner!

Strategy is buying a bottle of fine wine when you take a lady out for dinner. Tactics is getting her to drink it.

Sneaking up on it sometimes helps: I've found I can be very productive for an hour before dinner, because there obviously isn't enough time to really do anything, so I can tell myself I'm just screwing around.

Some only break their Fast, and so away: Others stay to Dinner, and depart full fed: The deepest Age but Sups, and goes to Bed: He's most in debt that lingers out the Day: Who dies betime, has less, and less to pay.

Some speak of the public as if it were someone with whom they have had dinner at the Leipzig Fair in the Hotel de Saxe. Who is this public? The public is not a thing, but rather an idea, a postulate, like the Church.

So munch on, crunch on, take your nuncheon, Breakfast, supper, dinner, luncheon!

Sophia Loren, whose new baby asked her, Is all that for me? Never got a dinner!

Speak of the appetite for drink; or of a bon-vivant's relish for dinner! What are these mere animal throes and ragings compared with those fantasies of taste, of those yearning of the imagination, of those insatiable appetites of intellect, which bewilder a student in a great bookseller's temptation-hall.

Tea, late dinners and the French Revolution. I cannot exactly see the connection of ideas.

Sweat it out then back home to my man to make dinner. #hausWife

Tea is an affront to lunch and an insult to dinner.

Sydney Poitier, who said to Lester Maddox, Guess who's not coming to dinner? Never got a dinner!

Thailand's seafood industry is the third largest in the world. And much of it is ending up on our dinner tables.

Thanksgiving began in 1621 when Native Americans sat down with a bunch of undocumented pilgrims. They had dinner and the pilgrims never left.

Thanksgiving is the day you don't know if you're invited for dinner or an intervention either way is going to be an ambush.

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

That feels natural to me, singing in a small group of people I just can't do. You'll never hear me sing at a dinner table or anything, but this feels kinda natural. I've done it many, many times. So, and also, the pressure's off me cos I'm not singing on my own. I'm just doing a few harmonies with my stuffed nose.

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

The dinner hour is a sacred, happy time when everyone should be together and relaxed.

The captain of the Titanic, who said to room service, Who sent for all this ice? Never got a dinner!

The cynic who twitted Aristippus by observing that the philosopher who could dine on herbs might despise the company of a king, was well replied to by Aristippus, when he remarked that the philosopher who could enjoy the company or a king might also despise a dinner of herbs.

The dinner party is a suburban form of entertainment. Its spread in our big cities represents an insidious Fifth Column suburbanization of the metropolis.