Dinner Table Quotes - Page 5

• I've never been to a dinner party where everyone at the dinner table didn't say something funny.

  Lorrie Moore

  Party, Tables, Dinner

  "Moore's better blues". www.cnn.com.

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• Teenagers talk about the idea of having each other's 'full attention.' They grew up in a culture of distraction. They remember their parents were on cell phones when they were pushed on swings as toddlers. Now, their parents text at the dinner table and don't look up from their BlackBerry when they come for end-of-school day pickup.

  Sherry Turkle

  Teenager, School, Phones

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• My material is as new as anything on the dinner table. What difference does it make if I'm 70 or if I'm 20? The audience knows they aren't getting any old stories from me.

  Jackie Mason

  Differences, Doe, Stories

  "Everything Bold Is New Again: An Interview with Jackie Mason". Interview with Bernard Chapin, spectator.org. April 18, 2007.

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

  Seth Gordon

  Tables, Dinner, Taught

  Interview with Evan Narcisse, www.ifc.com. September 30, 2010.

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• At the dinner table when I was very little, I would hear people bickering... To escape the bickering, I started modelling the soft bread with my fingers. With the dough of the French bread %u2013 sometimes it was still warm %u2013 I would make little figures. And I would line them up on the table and this was really my first sculpture.

  Louise Bourgeois

  People, Sculpture, Lines

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• I grew up in a show biz family and, if you wanted to talk at the dinner table, you'd better be prepared to talk about film.

  John Orloff

  Tables, Dinner, Film

  Source: collider.com

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• Since I have an aversion to movies in which people say grace at the dinner table (not to the practice but to how movies use it to establish the moral strength of a household), the opening night montage of Sunday-night supper in one home after another in Waxahachie, Texas in 1935 - a whole community saying grace made me expect the worst.

  Pauline Kael

  Home, Sunday, Night

  "Mirrors". Review of "Places in the Heart" on October 15, 1984. "State of the Art". Book by Pauline Kael, p. 246, 1985.

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• Two of the central ingredients to our family are food and faith, so sitting down together and thanking God for the food He's provided means everything to us. Prayer is a natural part of our lives - not only around the dinner table but all day long.

  Phil Robertson

  Prayer, Mean, Two

  Interview with Emily Whitten, world.wng.org. December 19, 2013.

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• [On the British Museum:] It was manifestly impossible to read all the books in that huge, gloomy structure, but I made a good try and accumulated a fund of useless information guaranteed to cast a pall over any dinner table.

  Elsa Maxwell

  Book, Museums, Trying

  Elsa Maxwell (1955). “I married the world”

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• English tradition debars from dinner-table conversation almost all topics that might interest the conversers and insists upon strict adherence to banalities.

  Elspeth Huxley

  Tables, Dinner, Might

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• My characters live inside my head for a long time before I actually start a book. They become so real to me, I talk about them at the dinner table as if they are real. Some people consider this weird. But my family understands.

  Judy Blume

  Real, Book, Character

  FaceBook post by Judy Blume from Jan 31, 2012

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• I was always with a single mom, and we never had schedules or anything. We were just Bohemian, us against the world, which was kind of great, but it certainly didn't breed security. I've gotten hyper-sensitive to schedules and bath time and eating at the dinner table. We don't just 'Bohemian' go out at nine o'clock and go get Chinese food.

  Brooke Shields

  Mom, Chinese, Dinner

  "Brooke Shields on Beauty, Marriage, And Self-Esteem". Interview with Amy Spencer, www.health.com. September 01, 2001.

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• Home is the wallpaper above the bed, the family dinner table, the church bells in the morning, the bruised shins of the playground, the small fears that come with dusk, the streets and squares and monuments and shops that constitute one's first universe.

  Henry Anatole Grunwald

  Morning, Fear, Home

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• At the dinner table, if you can't think of anything to say, sit quietly. Don't throw rolls, or chew on your napkin.

  Mason Cooley

  Thinking, Tables, Dinner

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• My neighbors tell me of their adventures with famous gentlemen and ladies, what notabilities they met at the dinner-table; but I am no more interested in such things than in the contents of the Daily Times. The interest and the conversation are about costume and manners chiefly; but a goose is a goose still, dress it as you will.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Adventure, Gossip, Gentleman

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.333, Penguin

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• Any director, if you really ask them, will tell you that the toughest thing to do is like a dinner table or a dialogue scene because you need to keep that electricity maintained throughout the course of the film.

  Gary Ross

  Directors, Needs, Tables

  Source: collider.com

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• I have my Master's Degree but I learned more at my dinner table than any class I ever took. My dad would come home from the sweat factory and put the money on the table and say Mea, here is some money for insurance and food and we always had that little extra for Friday night pizza at Barcelona's.

  Dick Vitale

  Friday, Dad, Home

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• You think like a boxer and behave like a boxer, and you try to live your life that way, being in the gym all the time and being careful to push the plate away at the dinner table. You don't need dessert. When you're out having fun, you ask for agua instead of vodka. It's very important.

  Holt McCallany

  Fun, Thinking, Live Your Life

  Source: collider.com

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• MY TOUGHEST MATCH; is not on the mat. It's at the dinner table and it's at fast food restaurants. It's hearing about the party I can Never go to. It's realizing being a Great Wrestler isn't a sport, It's a LIFE.

  Stephen Neal

  Sports, Party, Tables

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• I believe that one of the most damning things about our culture is the adage to never talk religion and politics. Because we don't model this discourse at the dinner table and at Thanksgiving, we don't know how to do it well and we're not teaching our children about the world and about how to discuss it.

  Julianna Baggott

  Children, Believe, Teaching

  Interview with Roxane Gay, therumpus.net. May 11, 2012.

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• Art is consumed in so many different ways. You could say people don't stop to appreciate art. On the other hand, people can consume art more quickly. Twitter, videos posted online - how do you utilize that? How do you identify yourself as an individual when you're sitting at this massive dinner table of the world with everyone on, from Kansas to Dubai?

  Ben Sollee

  Art, Dubai, Hands

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• 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.

  George Michael

  People, Singing, Tables

  Source: www.gminfopage.com

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