Dinner Quotes - Page 14

• I'm not a functional person because I don't go on lunch dates with friends. I hear about people having dinner parties but I never do that. I'm not really human.

  Fiona Apple

  Party, Lunch, People

  Interview with Matt Diehl, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 4, 2012.

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• My training was never to drink after dinner nor before I wrote nor while I was writing.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Training, Drink

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition”, p.143, Simon and Schuster

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• Dress simply. If you wear a dinner jacket, don't wear anything else on it ... like lunch or dinner.

  George Burns

  Lunch, Advice, Dresses

  George Burns, Hal Goldman (1992). “Wisdom of the 90s”, Perigee Books

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• [Fatherhood] is everything.... The hardest job in the world, the most rewarding job in the world.... We put in long days. And to go home and have dinner with your kids, and have to discipline one of them who's out of line, and still have the energy for that is.... I can't explain the fulfillment of that, but it is everything.

  Brad Pitt

  Jobs, Dad, Kids

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• He went out with a variety of women, slept with some of them, hated the whole meaningless process. Drinks, dinners, plays and concerts and gallery openings ... He grew to despise the rigid formality of dating, missed the easy familiarity of simply being with someone, sharing friendly silences and unforced laughter.

  Ken Grimwood

  Laughter, Play, Dating

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• Oh brother, pray; in spite of Satan, pray; spend hours in prayer; rather neglect friends than not pray; rather fast, and lose breakfast, dinner, tea, and supper - and sleep too - than not pray. And we must not talk about prayer, we must pray in right earnest. The Lord is near. He comes softly while the virgins slumber.

  Andrew Bonar

  Christian, Brother, Prayer

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• I have got so low that I have asked to be hospitalized and for deep narcosis (sleep). I cannot stand being awake. The pain is too much... Something has happened to me, this vital spark has stopped burning - I go to a dinner table now and I don't say a word, just sit there like a dodo. Normally I am the centre of attention, keeps the conversation going, - so that is depressing in itself. It's like another person taking over, very strange. The most important thing I say is 'good evening' and then I go quiet.

  Spike Milligan

  Depression, Depressing, Pain

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

  Plato

  Wine, Men, Drink

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• Hurry it up! I want to be in hell in time for dinner.

  Edward H. Rulloff

  Bad Ass, Want, Hell

  Edward H. Rulloff's last words before he was hanged, May 18, 1871.

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• Religion is like going out to dinner with friends. Everyone may order something different, but everyone can still sit at the same table.

  Dalai Lama

  Religious, Order, Dinner With Friends

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• I love to eat. That's why I got so fat; I love to eat. If I don't walk away from a meal hurting, I didn't do it right. If I don't walk away from Thanksgiving dinner feeling like I've been turkey-f**ked in a gingerbread prison, I didn't do it right.

  Greg Behrendt

  Hurt, Funny Thanksgiving, Turkeys

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• Helvetica is the jeans, and Univers the dinner jacket. Helvetica is here to stay.

  Adrian Frutiger

  Jeans, Design, Letters

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• Whatcha gonna do to this?
  You may be older than me, but you're new to this.
  Cause I been out there, queen of MC's,
  When your man was walkin' round in mocknecks and Lee's.
  While you were over here perpetratin' a fraud,
  I was overseas on the charts with Boy George.
  You're the beginner, Shante's the winner,
  Havin' other competition for dinner.
  Sit you on the table with a plate and cup,
  Say grace...and then eat your ass up.

  Roxanne Shante

  Queens, Rap, Boys

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• I had a cigarette for breakfast, just for beginners,
  Cried for my lunch, and sleep for dinner.

  G. Dep

  Rap, Sleep, Lunch

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• So I took an interest in politics, but I don't know whether I enjoyed it! It was a wife's duty to be interested in whatever interested her husband, whether it was politics, books, or a particular dish for dinner.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Husband, Book, Wife

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• May your stuffing be tasty May your turkey plump, May your potatoes and gravy Have nary a lump. May your yams be delicious And your pies take the prize, And may your Thanksgiving dinner Stay off your thighs!

  Grandpa Jones

  Thanksgiving, Yams, Turkeys

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

  Herman Herst, Jr.

  Speech, Way, Public Speaking

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• If one swallows a cup of chocolate only three hours after a copious lunch, everything will be perfectly digested and there will still be room for dinner.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Coffee, Lunch, Chocolate

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• If you read the biographies of people who have written good books, you often see the point where they suddenly come into themselves, and those weeks in the spring of 1997 were when I came into myself as a writer. They feel like some of the best weeks of writing I’ll ever have. The discovery that I could write better about something as trivial as an ordinary family dinner than I could about the exploding prison population of the United States, and the corporatization of American life, and all the other things I’d been trying to do, was a real revelation.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Spring, Real, Book

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• I happen to have a talent for allocating capital. But my ability to use that talent is completely dependent on the society I was born into. If I'd been born into a tribe of hunters, this talent of mine would be pretty worthless. I can't run very fast. I'm not particularly strong. I'd probably end up as some wild animal's dinner.

  Warren Buffett

  Running, Strong, Animal

  "The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream". Book by Barack Obama. Chapter 5, 2006.

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• Thanksgiving dinner's sad and thankless. Christmas dinner's dark and blue. When you stop and try to see it From the turkey's point of view.

  Shel Silverstein

  Dark, Blue, Views

  Shel Silverstein, “Point Of View”

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• 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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