Quotes and Sayings About Dinner
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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 SmithSource : An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations vol. 1, bk. 1, ch. 2 (1776)
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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 -
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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 -
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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 MoatsSource : Alice-Leone Moats (1933). “No Nice Girl Swears”, New York : A. A. Knopf
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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 AdamsSource : Source: collider.com
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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 -
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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.
-- AnthonySource : Interview with Robert J. Elisberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 1999.
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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 -
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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 -
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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 -
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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 -
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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