Dinner Quotes - Page 9

• You have to be generous if you want to spend your time making someone else dinner. Even if you're charging, you're still giving.

  Mario Batali

  Giving, Want, Charging

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• Careful as they may be, developers of Eiffel libraries will always run into cases in which, after releasing a library class, they suddenly experience what in French is called esprit de l'escalier or wit of the staircase: a great thought which unfortunately is an afterthought, like a clever reply that would have stunned all the other dinner guests - if only you had thought of it before walking down the stairs after the party is over.

  Bertrand Meyer

  Running, Clever, Party

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• We're taught that domestic life is not a "serious" political topic, like war and peace, but the fact is that we spend most of our lives doing everyday things: at the dinner table, in the kitchen, washing dishes, grocery-shopping, commuting. These things make up the fabric of our lives.

  Annia Ciezadlo

  War, Shopping, Everyday Things

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I am a marathon worker and marathon mother. I'll spend three or four days completely swallowed up by work. And if I make it home in time to say good night, I may have one good hour with the girls, maybe a brief family dinner or a family walk with the dog, and then it is back on the computer to prepare for tomorrow's shows.

  Mika Brzezinski

  Girl, Good Night, Goodnight

  "Work-Life Balance? Puh-leaase!" by Mika Brzezinski, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• I do not think anything serious should be done after dinner, as nothing should be before breakfast.

  George Saintsbury

  Food, Thinking, Cooking

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• There are a lot of people who must have the table laid in the usual fashion or they will not enjoy the dinner.

  Christopher Morley

  Fashion, People, Tables

  CHRISTOPHER MORLEY (1923). “INWARD HO!”

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• People invite me to dinner not because I can cook, but because I like to clean up. I get immediate gratification from windex. Yes, I do windows.

  Carol Burnett

  Women, People, Window

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• A free-loader is a confirmed guest. He is the man who is always willing to come to dinner.

  Damon Runyon

  Men, Guests, He Man

  Damon Runyon (1946). “Short Takes: Readers' Choice of the Best Columns of America's Favorite Newspaperman, Damon Runyon”

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• Some of the most famous people in history never got a dinner!

  Red Buttons

  People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I could stand on my head and flick the bean right there at the dinner table and my mom would be all, "Honey, Christmas is family time, we should be together" and make me finish in front of everyone.

  Christopher Moore

  Mom, Together, Would Be

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• Who lives in true poverty - The janitor who is grateful for the chocolate chip pancakes his 6 year old helped his wife prepare for dinner, or The CEO who is ungrateful for the type of wine served with his 5-star meal?

  Julia Rose

  Gratitude, Stars, Grateful

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• Great as the planning were for the dinner, the lot was so contrived that not a soul in the house be supposed to be kept from the break of day ceremony of Blessing in the church.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Blessing, House, Soul

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• Religion is like going out to dinner with friends. Everyone may order something different, but everyone can still sit at the same table.

  Dalai Lama

  Religious, Order, Dinner With Friends

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• In life, as in restaurants, we swallow a lot of indigestible stuff just because it comes with the dinner.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Life, Stuff, Restaurants

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• Throughout my reading life, I've enjoyed many memorable meals-if only fictionally. The oysters at dinner near the beginning of Anna Karenina, the dinner Nana throws for her overflowing guests in Zola's Nana, the walk through Les Halles for breakfast in Baldwin's Giovanni's Room, and nearly every meal in Monique Truong's The Book of Salt.

  Alexander Chee

  Book, Reading, Memorable

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• A lunch date is more fun than a dinner date; you're not tired. It's a secret that not a lot of other parents told me about.

  Jessica Capshaw

  Fun, Tired, Lunch

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• It's promising and seductive, that huge Italian family, sitting around the dinner table, surrounded by olive trees. But it's not my family and I am not their family, and no amount of birthing sons, and cooking dinner and raking leaves or planting the gardens or paying for the plane tickets is going to change that. If I don't come back in eleven months, I will not be missed, and no one will write me or call me to acknowledge my absence. Which is not an accusation, just a small truth about clan and bloodline.

  Gabrielle Hamilton

  Writing, Son, Garden

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• I have got so low that I have asked to be hospitalized and for deep narcosis (sleep). I cannot stand being awake. The pain is too much... Something has happened to me, this vital spark has stopped burning - I go to a dinner table now and I don't say a word, just sit there like a dodo. Normally I am the centre of attention, keeps the conversation going, - so that is depressing in itself. It's like another person taking over, very strange. The most important thing I say is 'good evening' and then I go quiet.

  Spike Milligan

  Depression, Depressing, Pain

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• I love to eat. That's why I got so fat; I love to eat. If I don't walk away from a meal hurting, I didn't do it right. If I don't walk away from Thanksgiving dinner feeling like I've been turkey-f**ked in a gingerbread prison, I didn't do it right.

  Greg Behrendt

  Hurt, Funny Thanksgiving, Turkeys

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• Whatcha gonna do to this?
  You may be older than me, but you're new to this.
  Cause I been out there, queen of MC's,
  When your man was walkin' round in mocknecks and Lee's.
  While you were over here perpetratin' a fraud,
  I was overseas on the charts with Boy George.
  You're the beginner, Shante's the winner,
  Havin' other competition for dinner.
  Sit you on the table with a plate and cup,
  Say grace...and then eat your ass up.

  Roxanne Shante

  Queens, Rap, Boys

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• Helvetica is the jeans, and Univers the dinner jacket. Helvetica is here to stay.

  Adrian Frutiger

  Jeans, Design, Letters

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• Oh brother, pray; in spite of Satan, pray; spend hours in prayer; rather neglect friends than not pray; rather fast, and lose breakfast, dinner, tea, and supper - and sleep too - than not pray. And we must not talk about prayer, we must pray in right earnest. The Lord is near. He comes softly while the virgins slumber.

  Andrew Bonar

  Christian, Brother, Prayer

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• He went out with a variety of women, slept with some of them, hated the whole meaningless process. Drinks, dinners, plays and concerts and gallery openings ... He grew to despise the rigid formality of dating, missed the easy familiarity of simply being with someone, sharing friendly silences and unforced laughter.

  Ken Grimwood

  Laughter, Play, Dating

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• When a man drinks wine at dinner, he begins to be better pleased with himself.

  Plato

  Wine, Men, Drink

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• Hurry it up! I want to be in hell in time for dinner.

  Edward H. Rulloff

  Bad Ass, Want, Hell

  Edward H. Rulloff's last words before he was hanged, May 18, 1871.

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