Dinner Party Quotes - Page 2

• The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.

  H. L. Mencken

  Book, Reading, Animal

  Notebooks (1956) "Minority Report"

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• If people would only look to the cookie, all our problems would be solved.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  People, Would Be, Looks

  "Seinfeld". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 1989 - 1998.

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• I'm a really good dinner party guest. I am always so appreciative, impressed that anyone has even managed to turn on the oven and cook for me.

  Lucy Punch

  Party, Guests, Dinner

  "Q & A With Lucy Punch: Woody Allen's New Film, Eating Geographically and Why Offal Is Off-Limits". Interview with Margy Rochlin, www.laweekly.com. September 20, 2010.

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• I've never been to a dinner party where everyone at the dinner table didn't say something funny.

  Lorrie Moore

  Party, Tables, Dinner

  "Moore's better blues". www.cnn.com.

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• Think beyond the vase! If you have a vase of flowers on a dining table for a quick dinner party, think about scattering flower petals, leaves, or even fruit along the tabletop.

  Clinton Smith

  Party, Flower, Thinking

  Source: www.popsugar.com

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• You can imagine the kind of dinner parties I had to go to at a young age... pretty dull.

  Prince Harry

  Party, Age, Dull

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Funny you mention my dinner parties when I have just suggested that inviting close friends over to share a meal with candlelight and wine at your table could be a form of religious experience for some people. To me its a form of sacrament.

  Sally Quinn

  Funny, Religious, Party

  "Sally Quinn on Author Karen Armstrong". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. March 29, 2006.

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• I don't have dinner parties - I eat my dinner in bed.

  Hugh Hefner

  Party, Bed, Dinner

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. November 20, 2009.

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• I am not someone who likes cocktail parties or large dinner parties, but I have to attend them often. I much prefer very small dinners with close friends.

  Tom Ford

  Party, Cocktails, Dinner

  "My List: Tom Ford in 24 Hours". www.harpersbazaar.com. February 8, 2012.

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• I still have the shirt I wore my first time on Johnny Carson's show. Only now I use it as a tablecloth at dinner parties. It was very blousy.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Party, Use, Dinner

  "Seriously...I'm Kidding". Book by Ellen DeGeneres, 2011.

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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 20-minute walk I take is better than the 3-mile run I never start. Having people over for take-out is better than never having people to an elegant dinner party.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Running, Party, People

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• [On the socialites in New York in the Nineties who devoted themselves to politics, charities, and other volunteer work:] I never knew but one woman who devoted her life exclusively to the social game. She ended her days arranging dinner parties with paper dolls, a breakdown pitiful to watch.

  Margaret Case Harriman

  New York, Party, Games

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• In every civilization, life grows easier. Men grow lazier in consequence. We have a picture of what happened to the individual Greek. (I cannot look at history, or at any human action, except as I look at the individual.) The Greeks had good food, good witty talk, pleasant dinner parties; and they were content. When the individual man had reached that condition in Athens, when the thought not of giving to the state but of what the state could give to him, Athens' freedom was doomed.

  Edith Hamilton

  Witty, Party, Men

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• In terms of 'Solaris,' I didn't really think about the religious aspect an awful lot. There's one scene at a dinner party, and it's discussed, but it wasn't an overwhelming theme for me.

  Natascha McElhone

  Religious, Party, Thinking

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• Food became, for dinner parties in the sixties, what abstract expressionism had been in the fifties.

  Nora Ephron

  Party, Dinner, Abstract

  Nora Ephron (2011). “Wallflower at the Orgy”, p.7, Bantam

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• I like being around people who are good conversationalists. When there's a give and take, and you are heightening an idea, exploring it together, that is my favorite thing in the world. I love a small dinner party - let's say six people, max, where everybody's having the same conversation. That's my favorite thing in the world.

  Baron Vaughn

  Party, Ideas, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Planning a dinner party in a way that you're actually capable of getting it done without panicking is important. It's bad hospitality for the host to be freaked out.

  Ted Allen

  Party, Important, Done

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• New York is like a big dinner party. You have to be very careful about what you say and do because you never know whose feet are touching under the table.

  Susanna Moore

  New York, Party, Feet

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• Often you see a famous actor who says they produced something, when all they did was claim to have an idea at a dinner party and make three phone calls.

  Ethan Hawke

  Party

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We all have firm favourites we bring out at a dinner parties, but it's nice to try something a bit more edgy, or more time-consuming.

  Tom Aikens

  Nice, Party, Trying

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• A collection is like a dinner party. It is made up of the people you invite, but also the people you don't.

  Pierre Berge

  Party, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It makes it really hard to just go to a dinner party because, in my work life, I'm surrounded by the funniest people, ever. I'm really spoiled. I laugh a lot, in my day.

  Jenna Fischer

  Party, People, Laughing

  "Jenna Fischer Exclusive Interview HALL PASS; Updates on THE OFFICE and THE GIANT MECHANICAL MAN". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 22, 2011.

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• I often feel I'm a disappointment to people because they expect me to be the guy in the books. When I sit next to someone at a dinner party I can see they expect me to be quick and witty, and I'm not at all.

  Bill Bryson

  Witty, Disappointment, Party

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• A guest at a dinner party observed the strange expression on James Thurber's face. 'Don't be concerned,' said Thurber's wife. 'He's writing.'

  Sophy Burnham

  Party, Writing, Expression

  Sophy Burnham (2011). “For Writers Only: Inspiring Thoughts on the Exquisite Pain and Heady Joy of the Writing Life from Its Great Practitioners”, p.23, Penguin

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