Dinner famous quotes
04-17-2025
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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 -
Helvetica is the jeans, and Univers the dinner jacket. Helvetica is here to stay.
-- Adrian Frutiger -
Every night for dinner we had a big chunk of dirt.
-- Al Yankovic -
Men do not greet one another like this ... except perhaps at rugby club dinners.
-- Alan Cooper -
One thing I've never said in my whole life is, 'Let's have dinner at a Japanese restaurant.'
-- Alan King -
Then from the Mint walks forth the man of rhyme, Happy to catch me, just at dinner-time.
-- Alexander Pope -
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 -
It used to be the custom for the bachelor dinner to take place the night before the wedding. Now, however, the bridesmaids' and ushers' dinner is usually on that night, for a groom realizes that he and his attendants need some time in which to recover sufficiently to be able to distinguish the altar from the organ and walk up the aisle with no mishaps.
-- Alice-Leone Moats -
I saw some musicals at dinner theaters where I grew up. But I didn't go to a big theater to see one until probably after I graduated from high school when I took myself to see 'Tommy' when it was on tour. I absolutely loved it.
-- Amy Adams -
I can only have dinner with my girlfriends once a month instead of once a week.
-- Andrea Jung -
We smoked the way other American families would have wine with dinner. For us, it was our sacrament. It was something that made a great life sweeter in every possible way,
-- Ann Druyan -
The hardest novel to write was Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant.
-- Anne Tyler -
My best experience as a writer was working with Michael Ondaatje. He let me dismantle his novel, reimagine it, and still had dinner with me and gave me good notes. But the best thing about writing has been the writer's life, the sense of being expressed, the ownership of the day, the entirely specious sense of freedom we have, however slave we are to some boss or other. I wouldn't trade it for any other life.
-- Anthony -
Americans are just beginning to regard food the way the French always have. Dinner is not what you do in the evening before something else. Dinner is the evening.
-- Art Buchwald -
Zac Efron would make us feel guilty for eating big dinners. He'd say, 'Do you really want to eat those carbs?' It was like, 'Thanks a lot!'
-- Ashley Tisdale -
I'm very consistent about spending time with family. And when you have dinner with your daughters - they'll keep you in your place and they'll teach you something about perspective.
-- Barack Obama -
I enjoy hanging out with friends, going on hikes and playing tennis. I also enjoy Bible study and making dinners. I have a pretty mellow life away from the water.
-- Bethany Hamilton -
If you go out to dinner with someone, you find out what they prefer in food. We ought to be able to have a conversation to find out what people prefer when it comes to sex.
-- Betty Dodson -
Men are hung up on breasts. They're looking at the titty dinner. It's pathetic.
-- Betty Dodson -
O hour, of all hours, the most blesse'd upon earth, The bless'd hour of our dinners!
-- Bill Vaughan -
I make sure I make a painting - that's my job. And I cook the Sunday dinner.
-- Billy Childish -
My parents were the traditional Filipino parents who didnt talk about money around the dinner table.
-- Bo Sanchez -
I go to eat dinner with my folks when I'm home. I think that's the trick.
-- Brad Paisley -
Everybody has heard that family dinner is great for kids. But unfortunately, it doesn't work in many of our lives.
-- Bruce Feiler -
My brother never had me to dinner in his life.
-- Burt Lancaster -
My favorite thing is to have a big dinner with friends and talk about life.
-- Carla Gugino -
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 -
I was a waitress. I was pretty good at it. I liked to solve those puzzles-you know, when to put the dinner order in, that sort of thing.
-- Catherine Keener -
We have happy days, remember good dinners.
-- Charles Darwin -
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 -
Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour.
-- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand -
Precious to me—it is the Dinner Bell. Oh blessed Bell! Thou bringest beef and beer...
-- Charles Stuart Calverley -
I'm not supposed to have chocolate before dinner.
-- Charlotte Lewis -
My dinners have never interfered with my business. They have been my recreation. . . A public banquet, if eaten with thought and care, is no more of a strain than a dinner at home.
-- Chauncey Depew -
Having a little pee in your pants had to be better than being dinner for some redneck.
-- Christopher Paul Curtis -
Don't hit the person across from you with bits of toast, And don't, when dinner is nearly through, say 'Who's the host' It isn't done.
-- Cole Porter -
I am not interested in politics at all. At home, around the dinner table, we never discuss politics.
-- Columba Bush -
We eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner to the soundtrack of our own impending death.
-- Courtney Summers -
Cold steel was not meant to be an after-dinner dessert!
-- Dan Meyer -
Choose wisely, then eat in moderation. When I know I'm going to Mom's for dinner, I throw an extra 20 minutes on the cardio machine so I can be ready to eat.
-- Danny Pino -
The daily activity that contributes most to happiness is having dinner with friends. The daily activity that detracts most from happiness is commuting. Eat more. Commute less.
-- David Brooks -
My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food.
-- David Byrne -
I'm vey bad at marshaling arguments. I can't, at a dinner party, explain why I'm a socialist and why others should be socialists as well.
-- David Hare -
Whether I'm on for a day or whether I'm on for a year, at the end of the day, I sing for my dinner.
-- David Lee Roth -
I don't believe in paying for sex. Which is why I'll never again pay for a woman's dinner.
-- David Wain -
Twitter is a much more dangerous cauldron of groupthink than happy hours or dinners. On Twitter the reward comes from agreeing or loudly disagreeing with the joke, or the "smart take." In person you hash things out.
-- David Weigel -
If wishes were filet mignon, we'd always eat well at dinner
-- Dean Koontz -
I was at dinner with Gene Wilder and imitated Ethel Barrymore for everyone
-- Dom DeLuise -
I go from a full working day to making sure I am home for dinner with my kids. I couldn't do that in a 10cm mini skirt but I am not going to resort to sweatpants and an old t-shirt.
-- Donatella Versace -
Destroying a tropical rainforest for profit is like burning all the paintings of the Louvre to cook dinner.
-- E. O. Wilson -
Careless shepherd make excellent dinner for wolf.
-- Earl Derr Biggers -
well with me now is Geoffrey Robinson. He was once voted 'After-dinner Speaker of the Year', so if you've had your tea, you're in for a treat
-- Eddie Mair -
One should never refuse an invitation to lunch or dinner, for one never knows what one may have to eat the next day.
-- Edouard de Pomiane -
Hurry it up! I want to be in hell in time for dinner.
-- Edward H. Rulloff -
What?" She drew herself up, stern as a cat presented with the wrong food for dinner.
-- Eileen Wilks -
The first thing you should do with an actor is not sign a contract with him. Take him to dinner. And take him for a walk afterwards.
-- Elia Kazan -
I lived in London for a time in the '90s and I love it here. You know, I just go and see shows and have great dinners and walk around.
-- Elizabeth Peyton -
I like being married. I like taking care of people, having someone to make dinner for.
-- Ellen Barkin -
Serve the dinner backward, do anything - but for goodness sake, do something weird.
-- Elsa Maxwell -
English tradition debars from dinner-table conversation almost all topics that might interest the conversers and insists upon strict adherence to banalities.
-- Elspeth Huxley -
I'm opening the doors, I'm buying dinner. Yeah, I'm romantic.
-- Evan Rachel Wood -
I would not vote for the mayor. It's not just because he didn't invite me to dinner, but because on my way into town from the airport there were such enormous potholes.
-- Fidel Castro -
Civilised adults do not take apple juice with dinner.
-- Fran Lebowitz -
A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.
-- Francis Bacon -
Highland werewolves had a reputation for doing atrocious and highly unwarranted *things*, like wearing smoking jackets to the dinner table.
-- Gail Carriger -
He is clearly bookish. I did not follow a single word of their conversation at dinner last night, not one jot of it. He must be bookish.
-- Gail Carriger -
You need a good fantasy to boost arousal enough to climax... thinking about what you should make for dinner tomorrow during sex is not going to do it.
-- Gail Saltz -
When the waitress puts the dinner on the table, the old men look at the dinner. The young men look at the waitress.
-- Gelett Burgess -
If you could make a pudding wi' thinking o' the batter, it 'ud be easy getting dinner.
-- George Eliot -
... in no part of the world is genteel visiting founded on esteem, in the absence of suitable furniture and complete dinner-service.
-- George Eliot -
I am open to conviction on all points except dinner and debts. I hold that the one must be eaten and the other paid.
-- George Eliot -
Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable.
-- George Washington Carver -
When I invite a woman to dinner, I expect her to look at my face. That's the price she has to pay.
-- Groucho Marx -
When you are invited to a dinner, you are either a guest or you are part of a menu
-- Guy Verhofstadt -
I'm quite old-fashioned. I like going out to dinner. You have the chance to talk to somebody and get to know them better.
-- Harry Styles -
In the end, like so many beautiful promises in our lives, that dinner date never came to be.
-- Haruki Murakami -
The best movies have one sentence that they're exploring, a thesis, something that people can argue about over dinner afterward.
-- Helen Hunt -
Going through life without love is like going through a good dinner without an appetite -- everything seems so flat and tasteless.
-- Helen Rowland -
If you wish to grow thinner, diminish your dinner
-- Henry Sambrooke Leigh -
A jazz musician is not a jazz musician when he or she is eating dinner or when he or she is with his parents or spouse or neighbors. He's above all a human being . . . the true artform is being a human being.
-- Herbie Hancock -
The easiest way to stay awake during an after-dinner speech is to deliver it.
-- Herman Herst, Jr. -
If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
-- Herman Melville -
To my great surprise and pleasure, I have had dinner with most of the people living with whom I would like to have dinner.
-- Holly Near -
I don't have dinner parties - I eat my dinner in bed.
-- Hugh Hefner -
If you put Buddha, Jesus Christ, Socrates, Shakespeare, Arjuna, Krishna at a dinner table together, I can't see them having an argument.
-- Hugh Jackman -
I was brought up in a way that when you're at a dinner party, you don't grab a chip unless it's been offered to everyone else. It's the manners of being brought up by English parents.
-- Hugh Jackman -
I hate menus, I hate choosing food. I just want to be brought. Bring me dinner!
-- Hugh Laurie -
If you think about a Thanksgiving dinner, it's really like making a large chicken.
-- Ina Garten -
I always have music. I love it to be very upbeat. When you're having drinks, I like something like Cesaria Evora. During dinner, I like the much more traditional - old Frank Sinatra and things like that.
-- Ina Garten -
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 -
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 -
I don't sit down and have meals too often, unless I go out for dinner.
-- Isaiah Mustafa -
Comedy has always been important in my family. If you got in a good joke at the dinner table, it meant more than almost anything else.
-- Isla Fisher -
I like dressing up for dates and dissecting a dinner conversation with a new guy to determine if he might be The One.
-- J. Courtney Sullivan -
I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it's very difficult to find anyone.' I should think so — in these parts! We are plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures. Nasty disturbing uncomfortable things! Make you late for dinner!
-- J. R. R. Tolkien -
Don't tell us about dreams – dream dinners aren't any good and we can't share them.
-- J. R. R. Tolkien -
I'm sometimes afraid I'll cross a line and it'll be difficult to come back, say, to dinner.
-- Jamaica Kincaid -
I am not into fashion. I just like being able to buy my mates dinner.
-- James Blunt
