Dinner Quotes - Page 28

• 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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• You can imagine the kind of dinner parties I had to go to at a young age... pretty dull.

  Prince Harry

  Party, Age, Dull

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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• 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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• When life is hard and the day has been long, the ideal dinner is not four perfect courses, each in a lovely pool of sauce whose ambrosial flavors are like nothing ever before tasted, but rather something comforting and savory, easy on the digestion - something that makes one feel, if even for only a minute, that one is safe.

  Laurie Colwin

  Long, Perfect, Life Is Hard

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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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• We want Old Town Square to be a focal point for fun in Bandera, a place where locals can hold their special events and meetings, or just visit us for a relaxing dinner with friends on the patio. Likewise, tourists can use Old Town Square as a home base during their visit to Bandera. They can stay overnight and dine with us, but also explore all that Bandera has to offer. This was the place to come to. We want to make it that kind of place again.

  Jerry Reed

  Fun, Home, Dinner With Friends

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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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• To remember a successful salad is generally to remember a successful dinner; at all events, the perfect dinner necessarily includes the perfect salad.

  George Ellwanger

  Successful, Perfect, Events

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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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• My father would often work all night and sleep during the day, so for us, dinner might be pancakes, and breakfast might be beef stroganoff.

  Ahmet Zappa

  Father, Sleep, Night

  "Interview: Ahmet Zappa" by Sharon Krum, www.theguardian.com. July 28, 2006.

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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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• What I admire most in men - To sit opposite a mirror at dinner and not look in it

  Richard Harding Davis

  Men, Mirrors, Opposites

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• I've been turning it over in after-dinner speeches, but it looks awkward-it's not what people are used to-it wants a good deal of Latin to make it go down.

  George Eliot

  Latin, People, Awkward

  George Eliot (1871). “Felix Holt, the Radical”, p.51

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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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