Dinner Quotes - Page 39

• It's not like I'm starved for company - I have a few very good lady friends - but there's only a certain amount of times a woman wants to see you and never go out for dinner.

  Jack Nicholson

  Want, Certain, Very Good

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

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• Dinner is to a day what dessert is to dinner.

  Michael Dorris

  Dessert, Eating

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• When New Yorkers tell one about the dangers of their city, the muggings, the dinner parties to which no one turns up for fear of being attacked on the way, the traffic snarl-ups, the bland indifference of the city cops, they are unmistakably bragging.

  Jonathan Raban

  New York, Party, Cities

  Jonathan Raban (2017). “Soft City: Picador Classic”, p.17, Pan Macmillan

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• That so-called feminine ardor for clothes shopping had been flagging for some time. Between 1980 and 1986, at the same time that women were buying more houses, cars, restaurant dinners, and health care services, they were buying fewer pieces of clothing-from dresses to underwear.

  Susan Faludi

  Shopping, Clothes, Car

  Susan Faludi (1991). “Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women”

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• Most people who seek attention and regard by announcing that they're writing a novel are actually so devoid of narrative talent that they can't hold the attention of a dinner table for thirty seconds, even with a dirty joke.

  Paul Fussell

  Dirty, Writing, People

  Paul Fussell (1991). “Bad Or, the Dumbing of America”, Pocket Books

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• Think of a dinner party as a club of revolutionaries, a technocratic elite whose social interactions that night are a dry run for some future takeover of the state.

  Phillip Lopate

  Running, Party, Night

  Phillip Lopate (2004). “Getting Personal: Selected Writings”, p.146, Basic Books

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• The dinner party is a suburban form of entertainment. Its spread in our big cities represents an insidious Fifth Column suburbanization of the metropolis.

  Phillip Lopate

  Party, Cities, Entertainment

  Phillip Lopate (2004). “Getting Personal: Selected Writings”, p.148, Basic Books

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• Funny, isn't it? The airlines go to all that trouble to keep you from taking a gun on board, then they just hand you a dinner roll you could kill a musk ox with.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humorous, Food

  Dave Barry (1994). “The World According to Dave Barry”, Outlet

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• Dinner was meat - not hunks of meat, as in Australia, but pathetic scraps of meat, as in Britain - which the girls upstairs transformed into edible dishes by heating it in secret ways and adding bits of stuff to it.

  Clive James

  Funny, Girl, Humorous

  Clive James (2013). “The Complete Unreliable Memoirs”, p.286, Pan Macmillan

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• When you are invited to a dinner, you are either a guest or you are part of a menu

  Guy Verhofstadt

  Inspirational, Guests, Menus

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• Almost all human affairs are tedious. Everything is too long. Visits, dinners, concerts, plays, speeches, pleadings, essays, sermons, are too long. Pleasure and business labor equally under this defect, or, as I should rather say, this fatal super-abundance.

  Arthur Helps

  Time, Play, Long

  Sir Arthur Helps (1852). “Companions of My Solitude”, p.239

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• I like being married. I like taking care of people, having someone to make dinner for.

  Ellen Barkin

  People, Care, Married

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• Once, as an experiment, I travelled around the world with a single suit. Before I left, I went to a tailor in Savile Row and asked him to make me a suit that I could wear in any climate and which I could use as a tuxedo, a dinner jacket, a lounge suit and a blazer.

  George Hamilton

  Climate, Tuxedos, Use

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

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• My wife and I both love cooking - I am an advanced male - so we argue about who gets to rustle up dinner.

  Stephen Bayley

  Wife, Cooking, Males

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• You could be a rebel, a profound thinker, and a rock and roll maniac and still eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and drink a nice cup of tea with your friends.

  Pamela Des Barres

  Nice, Rocks, Rock And Roll

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• Eclecticism is the degree zero of contemporary general culture: one listens to reggae, watches a western, eats McDonald's food for lunch and local cuisine for dinner, wears Paris perfume in Tokyo and 'retro' clothing in Hong Kong; knowledge is a matter of TV games. It is easy to find a public for eclectic works.

  Jean-Francois Lyotard

  Zero, Clothes, Mcdonalds

  "An A-Z of cultural terms". www.theguardian.com. October 17, 2000.

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• The image is where you have dinner at night, who you're seeing. It's what car you drive and how you dress. People in the industry sell that, and it creates a dream. There's nothing else.

  Elle Macpherson

  Dream, Night, People

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• Sitting down for dinner not only helps you learn, but also teaches you how to listen - which I feel is the most important skill to have. I remember as a kid going around the table listening to everyone's day. It was hard to have the manners not to interrupt back then.

  Michael Symon

  Kids, Skills, Listening

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• I think people recognize me if I am going out to dinner or if I am staying in a hotel. They are not quite sure at first because I have grown up a lot.

  Emma Bunton

  Thinking, People, Going Out

  "Interview: Emma Bunton". www.askmen.com.

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• I don't know how other people perceive the lives of actors, but my life is fairly ordinary. I go to work, I come home, I put my kids to bed. If I'm home in time for dinner, I have dinner, and then it's bedtime.

  Steve Carell

  Home, Kids, People

  Interview with Carole Cadwalladr, www.theguardian.com. August 21, 2010.

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• I have to go out for lunch and dinner because I can't cook. I need a woman to come and save me from my cooking.

  Carrot Top

  Lunch, Cooking, Needs

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• There's nothing I like more than picking fresh vegetables then putting them in the dinner you make that night.

  Patrick Duffy

  Night, Vegetables

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• I'm an avid cook. Brazilian, some Italian, a little French. And I often throw dinner parties.

  Morena Baccarin

  Party, Italian, Avid

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

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• My favorite thing is to have a big dinner with friends and talk about life.

  Carla Gugino

  Dinner With Friends, Favorites Things, My Favorite

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Sometimes it would be nice to just have some red wine with dinner, but it's not worth the risk. I have a great life, a great situation. Why would I want to risk self-destructive behaviour?

  Kristin Davis

  Nice, Wine, Self

  "Charlotte's web" by Barbara Ellen, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2002.

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