Dinner Quotes - Page 5

• I only eat one meal a day. Lunch, not dinner.

  Robert Goulet

  Lunch, Meals

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• The dinner-hour is the summer of the day: full of sunshine, I grant; but not like the mellow autumn of supper.

  Herman Melville

  Summer, Sunshine, Autumn

  Herman Melville (1855). “Mardi: And a Voyage Thither”, p.329

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• Who bothers to cook TV dinners? I suck them frozen.

  Woody Allen

  Frozen, Tvs, Bother

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• If I didn't swim my best, I'd think about it at school, at dinner, with my friends. It would drive me crazy.

  Michael Phelps

  Crazy, School, Thinking

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• Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now.

  Ted Shackelford

  Years, Theatre, Thirty

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• It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.

  Adam Smith

  Business, Invisible Hand, Government

  An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations vol. 1, bk. 1, ch. 2 (1776)

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• The summer of 2002 at the Wilson birthday party I met Van Dyke again and I made plans to have dinner with him.

  Matthew Sweet

  Birthday, Summer, Party

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• We always had lutefisk for Christmas dinner, after which Dad read from the Norwegian Bible.

  Peter Agre

  Christmas, Dad, Norwegians

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• At dinner parties I sit below the salt now. There are a lot of interesting people there.

  Donald T. Regan

  Party, People, Interesting

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• Men are hung up on breasts. They're looking at the titty dinner. It's pathetic.

  Betty Dodson

  Men, Breasts, Hung

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• In those days, between the ages of 12 and 18 you meant nothing. You were the extra place at the side table if someone came to dinner. You were of no interest to anyone.

  Alexis Korner

  Age, Tables, Sides

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• Every President that went to China, I would meet them and have dinner and talk about the past and the future. That was in the '70s.

  Jet Li

  Past, President, China

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• I had very few friends. We always ate dinner with our parents. We didn't want to go out. American adolescence was a lot wilder than I would have felt comfortable with.

  Maya Lin

  Pregnancy, Parent, Want

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• Hispanic gives us all one ultimate paternal cultural progenitor: Spain. The diverse cultures already on the American shores when the Europeans arrived, as well as those introduced because of the African slave trade, are completely obliterated by the term. Hispanic is nothing more than a concession made by the U. S. legislature when they saw they couldn't get rid of us. If we won't go away, why not at least Europeanize us, make us presentable guests at the dinner table, take away our feathers and rattles and civilize us once and for all.

  Ana Castillo

  Giving, Diversity, Going Away

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• Careless shepherd make excellent dinner for wolf.

  Earl Derr Biggers

  Shepherds, Excellent, Brilliant Ideas

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• The best number for a dinner party is two; myself and a damn good head waiter.

  Nubar Gulbenkian

  Party, Food, Two

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• I remember when I was in college, I used to watch Julia Child's cooking show during dinner and joke with my roommates about becoming a TV chef.

  Martin Yan

  Children, College, Cooking

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• I feel like I'm witnessing the
  systematic destruction of a
  people's ability to survive....
  Sometimes I sit down to dinner
  with people and I realize there
  is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill
  the people I'm having dinner with

  Rachel Corrie

  Military, People, Trying

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• Sometimes, when my wife and I were going out to dinner, I would take my laptop with me and work in the car, so as to take advantage of the half hour going and coming.

  Thomas Friedman

  Wife, Car, Laptops

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• I'm a 7 o'clock act. My people want to go to a show, a dinner and then go home and go to bed.

  Louie Anderson

  Home, People, Bed

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• Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.

  James Bovard

  Humor, Two, Democracies Have

  James Bovard (2016). “Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty”, p.333, St. Martin's Griffin

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• The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Political, World

  1893 Lord Illingworth. A Woman of No Importance, act 3.

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• Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.

  Erma Bombeck

  Thanksgiving, Sports, Football

  "On Being Blonde: Wit and Wisdom from the World's Most Infamous Blondes". Book by Paula Munier, p. 67, September 1, 2004.

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• The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation.

  Angela Carter

  Sleep, Bed, Tables

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• I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land.

  Jon Stewart

  Funny, Thanksgiving, Holiday

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