Dinner Quotes - Page 29

• 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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• It is a common sentence that Knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of Ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down. Knowledge, through patient and frugal centuries, enlarges discovery and makes record of it; Ignorance, wanting its day's dinner, lights a fire with the record, and gives a flavour to its one roast with the burnt souls of many generations.

  George Eliot

  Ignorance, Discovery, Fire

  George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda”, p.257, George Eliot

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• We have over a hundred political detainees, men against whom we are unable to prove anything in a court of law. Nearly 50 of them are men who gave us a great deal of anxiety during the years of Confrontation because they were Malay extremists. Your life and this dinner would not be what it is if my colleagues and I had decided to play it according to the rules of the game.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Men, Games, Play

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• The coaches hate each other, the players hate each other... There's no calling each other after the game and inviting each other out to dinner. But the feeling's mutual: They don't like us, and we don't like them. There's no need to hide it, they know it, and we know it. It's going to be one of those black and blue games.

  Hines Ward

  Hate, Player, Blue

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• Why should I refuse a good dinner simply because I don't understand the digestive processes involved?

  Oliver Heaviside

  Process, Should, Mathematical

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• Money maketh man a tory, don't fire that assumption at me, I like toast as much as anyone but not for breakfast, dinner and tea

  Billy Bragg

  Men, Fire, Tea

  Song: I Don't Need This Pressure Ron

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• Composing a concert is like composing a menu.... If you start with light pieces and play a 45-minute sonata after the interlude, it's like starting dinner with hors d'oeuvres and dessert and finishing with a Châteaubriand and vegetables.

  Arthur Rubinstein

  Light, Vegetables, Play

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• A dinner! How horrible! I am to be made the pretext for killing all those wretched animals and birds, and fish! Thank you for nothing. Now if it were to be a fast instead of a feast; say a solemn three days' abstention from corpses in my honour, I could at least pretend to believe that it was disinterested. Blood sacrifices are not in my line

  George Bernard Shaw

  Believe, Sacrifice, Animal

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• The best reply to an atheist is to give him a good dinner and ask him if he believes there is a cook.

  Louis Nizer

  Atheist, Believe, Giving

  Louis Nizer (1963). “Between you and me”

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• I think if we all acted the way we felt, four out of eight people at a dinner table would be sitting there sobbing.

  Jim Carrey

  Thinking, Eight, People

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• The truly free man is he who can decline a dinner invitation without giving an excuse.

  Jules Renard

  Men, Giving, Excuse

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• The thing thats caught me off guard is going to dinner and people asking me for autographs or to take a picture. People coming to my house asking for autographs - thats something I really havent grasped the whole entirety of yet.

  Johnny Manziel

  People, House, Asking

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• Tea, late dinners and the French Revolution. I cannot exactly see the connection of ideas.

  Thomas Love Peacock

  Ideas, Tea, Connections

  Thomas Love Peacock (2009). “Nightmare Abbey: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.64, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Sir, Respect Your Dinner: idolize it, enjoy it properly. You will be many hours in the week, many weeks in the year, and many years in your life happier if you do.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Life, Years, Week

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1889). “The Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray: With Illustrations by the Author, and with Introductory Notes Setting Forth the History of the Several Works in Twenty-two Volumes”

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• A high-school girl, seated next to a famous astronomer at a dinner party, struck up a conversation with him by asking: "What do you do for a living?" "I study astronomy," he replied. "Really? said the teenager, wide-eyed. "I finished astronomy last year."

  James Keller

  Life, Girl, Teenager

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• There is but one pleasure in life equal to that of being called on to make an after-dinner speech, and that is not being called on to make one.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Inspirational, Life, Speech

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