Dinner Quotes - Page 15

• 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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• Writing is a miracle. You can travel anywhere in the world, to any time and any place — and still be home in time to have dinner.

  Mary Pope Osborne

  Time, Travel, Home

  Twitter post from Jan 28, 2018

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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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• 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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• When I'm in the process of making a movie I'm not thinking about the finished result, and whether people have to see it once or more than once, and what the reaction to it will be. I just make it, and then I live with the consequences, some of which may not be as pleasant as I'd like! I know one thing, however. Many viewers may come out of the theater not satisfied, but they won't be able to forget the movie. I know they'll be talking about it during their next dinner. I want them to be a little restless about my movies, and keep trying to find something in them.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Thinking, Talking, People

  "With Borrowed Eyes: An Interview with Abbas Kiarostami". Interview with David Sterritt, www.filmcomment.com. July/August 2000.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• To be honest dinner conversations was the worst bit about being a child and listening to the boring people around me.

  Prince Harry

  Funny, Children, People

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

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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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• Every year the hunters shot cows and horses and family pets and each other. And unbelievably, they sometimes shot themselves, perhaps in a psychotic episode where they mistook themselves for dinner

  Louise Penny

  Horse, Years, Pet

  Louise Penny (2008). “Still Life: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel”, p.2, Macmillan

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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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• Well, sometimes if I go out to dinner with my family, people will come up to me and put their hand across my plate for me to shake, sometimes when I have a bite of food in my mouth. I find this a bit disturbing

  Abdul Qadeer Khan

  Hands, People, Mouths

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• I have always thought that there is no more fruitful source of family discontent than a housewife's badly cooked dinners and untidy ways.

  Isabella Beeton

  Way, Source, Housewife

  1861 The Book of Household Management, preface.

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• 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.

  Isabella Beeton

  Men, Suffering, Way

  1861 The Book of Household Management, preface.

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• I get up around 6:30. I work from about 8:00 to 1:00, take a break for lunch, work again until about 5:00, and then go for a long walk and have dinner. Then, if my wife and I have no previous plans, we decide what to do for the evening.

  Chaim Potok

  Break Up, Long Walks, Lunch

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