Best 552 quotes in «dinner quotes» category

Man tries to swallow meaning whole as a dog would eat his dinner.

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.

Men do not greet one another like this ... except perhaps at rugby club dinners.

MESMERISM, n. Hypnotism before it wore good clothes, kept a carriage and asked Incredulity to dinner.

Me sitting down for dinner with Ingmar Bergman felt like a house painter sitting down with Picasso.

Misery loves company which is ironic because it rarely throws dinner parties.

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

Molly was committing dinner by that time, aided and abetted by Sanya, who seemed to take some kind of grim Russian delight in watching train wrecks in progress.

Mixed dinner parties of ladies and gentlemenare very rare, which is a great defect in the society; not only as depriving themof the most social and hospitable manner of meeting, but as leading to frequent dinner parties of gentlemen without ladies, which certainly does not conduce to refinement.

Moses, who said to the children of Israel, Wear your galoshes; I never did this trick before. Never got a dinner!

Moshe Dayan, who said to Sammy Davis, Jr., That's funny, to me you only look half Jewish. Never got a dinner!

Moses, who said to the Israelites, Stop calling me Charlton! Never got a dinner!

Moshe Dayan, who donated his eye to CBS. Never got a dinner!

Moses, who said when the Red Sea parted, What the hell was that? I was just going in for a dip! Never got a dinner!

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

My best experience as a writer was working with Michael Ondaatje. He let me dismantle his novel, reimagine it, and still had dinner with me and gave me good notes. But the best thing about writing has been the writer's life, the sense of being expressed, the ownership of the day, the entirely specious sense of freedom we have, however slave we are to some boss or other. I wouldn't trade it for any other life.

My behavior is nonetheless, deplorable. Unfortunately, I'm quite prone to such bouts of deplorability--take for instance, my fondness for reading books at the dinner table.

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

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.

My dinner spot is usually in front of the TV. I'll grill a steak and whip up a salad and watch 'Hoarders.' I love it because a) I'm kind of voyeuristic, and b) every time I see an episode, I go to the one room where all my unpacked boxes wound up, and I throw out a box of stuff.

My dream is to become a farmer. Just a Bohemian guy pulling up his own sweet potatoes for dinner.

My father was a guy who, because of the businesses he was in - the hotel business, the hospitality business - he didn't differentiate between the waiter serving you dinner, from the maitre d from the guy who owns a restaurant. Everybody was the same to him. He didn't look at who you were. He didn't look at your wallet.

My home life is very much about getting up in the morning and getting to the gym or getting on my bicycle and making sure that I get to cook dinner for my boyfriend.

My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food.

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

My husband jokes that I'll invite people over for dinner and he won't know who they are or where I met them. But in my work world, I've never really been tempted to tell too much of my story.

[My ideal of a good dinner] is to discuss good food, and, after this good food has been discussed, to discuss a good topic - with myself the chief conversationalist.

My wife and I both love cooking - I am an advanced male - so we argue about who gets to rustle up dinner.

My kids say if there's any family dinner that doesn't result in somebody crying, it's not a good dinner. They cry because it helps relieve them of a guilt or some onerous emotional burden. It's like a family tradition.

My mum still wonders when I'll get a real job. These are the questions we discuss at our family dinners.

My parents were the traditional Filipino parents who didnt talk about money around the dinner table.

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

Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry gets the best of the argument.

Never, ever ask a former clergyman to say the blessing over a holiday dinner. Not if you like your dinner warm, anyway.

[Never underestimate] the power of dinner.

Nothing against comedy clubs, they work. But when you're sitting with a tablecloth and a candle and an appetizer menu, three-drink minimum, it can feel more like a dinner theater than a live experience.

Never plan a picnic' Father said. 'Plan a dinner, yes, or a house, or a budget, or an appointment with the dentist, but never, never plan a picnic.

One of my favorite things being on movies is that when you're working, it's the best thing that's ever happened, and then in the downtime, you socialize and go to dinner.

O hour, of all hours, the most blesse'd upon earth, The bless'd hour of our dinners!

Nothing is known for sure, even the person who was there isn't entirely sure he or she had the same response as the other in that moment. One person might have fallen head over heels, the other might have been thinking about what to have for dinner and inadvertently making eye contact.

Now there is something about [Tuukka] you probably don’t know and that is he loves chicken wings more than any person I’ve ever met in my life. If he could eat them for breakfast, lunch and dinner he would.

Oh, my friends, be warned by me, That breakfast, dinner, lunch and tea, Are all human frame requires.

Oh, the pleasure of eating my dinner alone!

On a summer night it can be lovely to sit around outside with friends after dinner and, yes, read poetry to each other. Keats and Yeats will never let you down, but it's differently exciting to read the work of poets who are still walking around out there.

One favourite find of mine has to be a 1980s black dinner jacket that I wear as a dress.

One should never refuse an invitation to lunch or dinner, for one never knows what one may have to eat the next day.

One uncongenial guest can ruin a dinner more easily than a poor salad, and that is saying a great deal.

One unexpectedly striking moment, when Tom Amandes as Lincoln, recites the Gettysburg Address, not in booming, this-is-a-great-speech style, but casually, as if chatting over dinner. The approach elevates the words.

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

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