Best 552 quotes in «dinner quotes» category

The limitation in our ability to perceive broad distinctions in scope can be applied to our moral and temporal responses.... We agonize over a dinner menu, or have engine trouble on the way to work; and for seconds or minutes our cosmos shrinks to a miniscule volume of being, an epic of cheese sauces or tragedy of fanbelts.

The madness of love can always be suspended--to cook dinner or catch a plane, for instance.

The main question to a novel is -- did it amuse? were you surprised at dinner coming so soon? did you mistake eleven for ten? were you too late to dress? and did you sit up beyond the usual hour? If a novel produces these effects, it is good; if it does not -- story, language, love, scandal itself cannot save it. It is only meant to please; and it must do that or it does nothing.

The man of petty ambition if invited to dinner will be eager to be set next his host.

The Mayor of Hong Kong, who said Can't work today. Have American flu. Never got a dinner!

The most intense thing I’ve ever done was bring a girl to Passover dinner.

The only downside to playing the violin is that you never know when you're going to be asked to play. I could be out to dinner or having a drink at a bar, and someone could just give me a violin, and I've got to be ready to play.

Then from the Mint walks forth the man of rhyme, Happy to catch me, just at dinner-time.

The old days were slower. People buttered their bread without guilt and sat down to dinner en famille.

The oldest form of theater is the dinner table.

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

The only gain from the friendship of the great is a fine dinner.

The Puerto Rican doctor, who wrote all his prescriptions with spray paint. Never got a dinner!

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

There are three things being a celebrity is good for: raising money for charity, dinner reservations and tee times.

The quarter of an hour before dinner is the worst that suitors can choose.

There are so many family dinners you can do. I eventually had to go to them and say, 'Look, I don't do spatula work. I don't do scenes with oven mitts. If you're looking for that, you've got the wrong guy. I'm not doing scenes about casseroles. It's not happening.

There's nothing I like more than picking fresh vegetables then putting them in the dinner you make that night.

There is nothing more sickening than talking about poverty over a fancy dinner.

The truly free man is he who can decline a dinner invitation without giving an excuse.

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

The thing is I'm very interested in bad taste, as anyone who's ever seen me perform or had dinner with me would know.

The truth is seldom welcome, especially at dinner.

There's times when you're having dinner with a good friend and you're in the middle of a conversation and somebody comes up and cuts you off. Can you sign this? Can I take a picture with you? I'm adjusting to all the attention.

The rule for hospitality and Irish "help," is, to have the same dinner every day throughout the year. At last, Mrs. O'Shaughnessylearns to cook it to a nicety, the host learns to carve it, and the guests are well served.

The single most useful ingredient on the planet. In a pinch you can scramble them and call it dinner. But it only takes five eggs, a little milk and a handful of cheese to make a fat, sassy cheese soufflé.

The way we measure productivity is flawed. People checking their BlackBerry over dinner is not the measure of productivity.

They decided the mummy would be unwrapped, for the titillation of the ladies, just after dinner.

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.

they're the sort of people one invites to lunch or tea, but never to dinner.

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

Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now.

This was a good dinner enough, to be sure, but it was not a dinner to ask a man to.

Thom is one of those wonderful people to cook for because he absolutely loves it, just loves it. He loves to eat and drink and he'd be a great guest at any dinner party.

Vladimir Putin was saying very good things about me, but I don't have a relationship with him. I didn't meet him. I haven't spent time with him. I didn't have dinner with him. I didn't go hiking with him.

Travel has been stepped up to such a speed that one can have dinner in New York and indigestion in Madrid.

Thou hast nor youth nor age But as it were an after dinner sleep Dreaming of both.

Today, most women are surrounded by ingenious gadgets. They don't grow the peas or raise the chicken that they serve for dinner; instead they hunt and gather in the grocery store. They go through catalogs or department stores to buy clothes instead of shearing sheep, carding wool, and weaving cloth for skirts and coats and blankets.

Today we no longer live in a way that is constrained by simple working or leisure environments - we travel, we work on laptops in coffee shops, we go out to dinner straight from work.

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

To the unmusical hearer a note on the gong means dinner, this perhaps often is menacing enough.

Truth that peeps Over the glass's edge when dinner's done.

Twitter is a much more dangerous cauldron of group-think than happy hours or dinners. On Twitter, the reward comes from agreeing or loudly disagreeing with the joke, or the "smart take." In person you hash things out.

Two women at a resort discussed dinner: "The food here is lousy," the first noted. "You're right! And such small portions!!" the second added

Uncle Remus, who said to Uncle Ben, You're a credit to your rice. Never got a dinner!

Venus de Milo's mother, who once said to Venus, You never call me. Can't you pick up a phone? Never got a dinner!

Vincent Van Gogh, who said to the hat salesman, I like it, but it keeps sliding over my ear. Never got a dinner!

We all love animals. Why do we call some 'pets' and others 'dinner?'

We always had lutefisk for Christmas dinner, after which Dad read from the Norwegian Bible.

We all need to start making some changes to how our families eat. Now, everyone loves a good Sunday dinner. Me included. And there's nothing wrong with that. The problem is when we eat Sunday dinner Monday through Saturday.