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

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

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

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

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

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

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 depth of experience fine wine can bring to a dinner, particularly a bottle that has been through the past 100 years, makes you take stock of your own life.

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

The charm of television entertainment is its ability to bridge the chasm between dinner and bedtime without mental distraction.

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 even is only the parable of a dinner, commonly.

The dinner table is a lively debate, and everybody weighs in in a different way. I like that, though.

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

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

The easiest way to stay awake during an after-dinner speech is to deliver it.

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

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

The end of a novel, like the end of a children's dinner-party, must be made up of sweetmeats and sugar-plums.

The family dinner table is the cornerstone of civilization and those who 'graze' from refrigerators or in front of the television sets are doomed to remain in a state of savagery.

The evenings grew longer; kitchen windows stayed open after dinner and peepers could be heard in the marsh. Isabelle, stepping out to sweep her porch steps, felt absolutely certain that some wonderful change was arriving in her life. The strength of this belief was puzzling; what she was feeling, she decided, was really the presence of God.

The first thing you should do with an actor is not sign a contract with him. Take him to dinner. And take him for a walk afterwards.

The formal Washington dinner party has all the spontaneity of a Japanese imperial funeral.

The guardian and arbiter of superlative eating, with every meal an unforgettable experience in pleasure, starting with the soup, which he said, 'must be the agent provocateur of a good dinner.'

The galaxy is full of creatures that are nothing like us at all. We can try to understand them, and we should. But even if we accept that they’re doing what comes naturally, one is not beholden to comply when the sarlacc asks for dinner.

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 hardest novel to write was Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant.

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 Hunchback of Notre-Dame, who said to his tailor Irving, Forget the slacks - please work on the blazer! Never got a dinner!

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!

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

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.

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

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

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

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

The truth is seldom welcome, especially at dinner.