Dinner Quotes - Page 11

• Oh, the pleasure of eating my dinner alone!

  Charles Lamb

  Dining Alone, Eating, Pleasure

  Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd (1855). “The Works of Charles Lamb: With a Sketch of His Life and Final Memorials”, p.185

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• Our kids didn't do this to themselves. They don't decide the sugar content in soda or the advertising content of a television show. Kids don't choose what's served to them for lunch at school, and shouldn't be deciding what's served to them for dinner at home. And they don't decide whether there's time in the day or room in the budget to learn about healthy eating or to spend time playing outside.

  Michelle Obama

  Home, School, Kids

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• Automobiles are free of egotism, passion, prejudice and stupid ideas about where to have dinner. They are, literally, selfless. A world designed for automobiles instead of people would have wider streets, larger dining rooms, fewer stairs to climb and no smelly, dangerous subway stations.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Stupid, Passion, Ideas

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer”, p.117, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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

  Mark Twain

  Lunch, Tea, Insult

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• My dad was a labourer and my mum had exactly the same job as Noel Gallagher's mum - she was a dinner lady at our local school. Everyone comes over from Ireland and they get the same jobs.

  Danny Boyle

  Jobs, Dad, School

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• I have many memories of waking up to eat breakfast that my mother carefully prepared for us and her saying, what do y'all want for lunch, and as we're eating lunch, what do y'all want for dinner? It's always about the next meal

  Lisa Loeb

  Mother, Memories, Lunch

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• Basically, I'm just a guitar player that figured out I wasn't ever gonna be able to buy dinner with my guitar playing so I got into songwriting, which is a little more profitable business.

  J.J. Cale

  Player, Guitar, Littles

  "JJ Cale, songwriter behind Cocaine and After Midnight, dies aged 74" by Matt Williams, www.theguardian.com. July 27, 2013.

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• A photographer went to a socialite party in New York. As he entered the front door, the host said 'I love your pictures - they're wonderful; you must have a fantastic camera.' He said nothing until dinner was finished, then: 'That was a wonderful dinner; you must have a terrific stove.

  Sam Haskins

  Photography, New York, Party

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• He lay back for a little in his bed thinking about the smells of food . . . of the intoxicating breath of bakeries and dullness of buns. . . . He planned dinners, of enchanting aromatic foods . . . endless dinners, in which one could alternate flavour with flavour from sunset to dawn without satiety, while one breathed great draughts of the bouquet of old brandy.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Sunset, Thinking, Smell

  EVELYN WAUGH (1958). “VILE BODIES & BLACK MISCHIEF”

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• I just think that the people who say: 'That's not true' when someone tells a story at dinner are the people who didn't get any laughs when they told their story.

  David Sedaris

  Thinking, People, Laughing

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• I created 'Dinner: Impossible' with a guy named Bryan O'Reilly and I shot the pilot as a 30 minute show and we sold it.

  Robert Irvine

  Guy, Pilots, Impossible

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• Every meal should end with something sweet. Maybe it's jelly on toast at breakfast, or a small piece of chocolate at dinner - but it always helps my brain bring a close to the meal.

  Robert Irvine

  Sweet, Chocolate, Brain

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• Sex, that’s meaningless, I can understand that, but dinner; that’s heavy. That’s like an hour.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Sex, Hours, Heavy

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• Compassion is the foundation of everything positive, everything good. If you carry the power of compassion to the marketplace and the dinner table, you can make your life really count.

  Rue McClanahan

  Compassion, Foundation, Tables

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Everybody else goes out and plays a show as if it's their album, which is boring. I'd rather sit at home and listen to the album, because I hate to be in a smoke-filled, loud room - that's not enjoyable for me at all...I always look up to guys who can sit and do dinner music...they're singing in tune and playing somebody else's music, and I don't think I could do that...it's the shittiest job in the world.

  Dweezil Zappa

  Jobs, Hate, Home

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• When I was 4 my mother got divorced and we were very close to each other. I always wanted to be with her. She took me everywhere. When she went for dinner with friends or when they had meetings at the tennis club, I was always there.

  Martina Hingis

  Mother, Dinner With Friends, Tennis

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• So: this is where we are going to become parents. You walk into the building as a couple, and leave a few minutes later as a family. You walk in recollecting long romantic dinners, nights at the theater, and care-free vacations. You leave worrying about where to get diapers, milk, and Cheerios.

  Scott Simon

  Couple, Vacation, Night

  Scott Simon (2010). “Baby, We Were Meant for Each Other: In Praise of Adoption”, p.9, Random House

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• I think my favorite place to eat dinner is the movie theater. Dirty dogs, a big thing of nachos and a Cherry Coke - and I'm good.

  Chris Kirkpatrick

  Dog, Dirty, Thinking

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

  Lily Donaldson

  Black, Dresses, Favourite

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• It had always been a notion of mine that sanity is like a clearing in the jungle where the humans agree to meet from time to time and behave in certain fixed ways that even a baboon could master, like Englishmen dressing for dinner in the tropics.

  Wilfrid

  Way, Sanity, Baboons

  "In Love with Daylight". Book by Wilfrid Sheed, 1995.

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• 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.

  Ruth Reichl

  Sassy, Eggs, Littles

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

  Laurie Colwin

  People, Guilt, Bread

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• Dinner alone is one of life's pleasures. Certainly cooking for oneself reveals man at his weirdest. People lie when you ask them what they eat when they are alone. A salad, they tell you. But when you persist, they confess to peanut butter and bacon sandwiches deep fried and eaten with hot sauce, or spaghetti with butter and grape jam.

  Laurie Colwin

  Lying, Men, People

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• God will provide the food, but he will not cook the dinner.

  Thomas Troward

  Gods Will, Cooks, God Will Provide

  Thomas Troward (2013). “The Wisdom of Thomas Troward”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• Me? What am I? Nothing. The legs on which dinner comes to the table, the arms by which cocktails enter the living room, the hands that drive cars. I am the eyes that see nothing, the ears that don't hear. I'm invisible too. They look and don't see me. When they move, I have to guess their direction and get myself out of the way.

  Shirley Ann Grau

  Moving, Eye, Hands

  Shirley Ann Grau (2012). “The Condor Passes”, p.7, Open Road Media

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