Best 552 quotes in «dinner quotes» category

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

The truth is seldom welcome, especially at dinner.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

We don't have to talk about faith and family at dinner-we just show it.

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!

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.

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.

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 eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner to the soundtrack of our own impending death.

We had a delicious dinner of too much.

We had dinner at Figlio's, which has turned into a restaurant called Il Gato. I'm 99% positive I had Joe's Eggs. I know every time I went there, and I loved it, I ordered Joe's Eggs. Kate [DiCamillo] probably had a pizza, because she loves pizza.

We had a farewell dinner for some of my senior staff, and generally everybody likes to talk about how cool I was.

We have happy days, remember good dinners.

We lost 14 straight. Then we had a game rained out and it felt so good we had a victory dinner.

well with me now is Geoffrey Robinson. He was once voted 'After-dinner Speaker of the Year', so if you've had your tea, you're in for a treat

We pray to be conventional. But the wary Heaven takes care you shall not be, if there is anything good in you. Dante was very badcompany, and was never invited to dinner.

What does a Californian make for dinner? Reservations.

We smoked the way other American families would have wine with dinner. For us, it was our sacrament. It was something that made a great life sweeter in every possible way.

What moved me, in the first instance, to attempt a work like this, was the discomfort and suffering which I had seen brought upon men and women by household mismanagement. I have always thought that there is no more fruitful source of family discontent than a housewife's badly-cooked dinners and untidy ways.

What is more refreshing than salads when your appetite seems to have deserted you, or even after a capacious dinner - the nice, fresh, green, and crisp salad, full of life and health, which seems to invigorate the palate and dispose the masticating powers to a much lorger duration.

When I was a nurse my favourite assignment was the anorexic ward. I sometimes ate as many as seventeen dinners

When a man drinks wine at dinner, he begins to be better pleased with himself.

Whenever I travel to the South, the first thing I do is visit the best barbecue place between the airport and my hotel. An hour or two later I visit the best barbecue place between my hotel and dinner.

When I cook him dinner and I burn it black, he better say hmmm, I like it like that.

What's the most humiliating thing? When you take someone to dinner or you cook somebody dinner and they get food poisoning. I mean, how bad do you feel?

When I get up in the morning, I have to decide what I'm going to have for dinner or I can't get through the day.

When in Boston, I shall be able to take you out to dinner, if not to bed. I should greatly prefer the latter, but I must accept my lot.

When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.