Dinner Quotes - Page 32

• Yesterday, the Supreme Court spent over an hour listening to arguments on whether Obamacare is unconstitutional. Yeah, listening to arguments about Obamacare for an hour, or as most people call that, 'Thanksgiving Dinner.'

  Jimmy Fallon

  Obamacare, Yesterday, People

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• Ive not cooked Christmas dinner since 1982.

  Lesley Nicol

  Christmas Dinner

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• We lost 14 straight. Then we had a game rained out and it felt so good we had a victory dinner.

  Lefty Gomez

  Yankees, Games, Victory

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• I confess I was surprised to find that so many men spent their whole day, ay, their whole lives almost, a-fishing. It is remarkable what a serious business men make of getting their dinners, and how universally shiftlessness and a groveling taste take refuge in a merely ant-like industry. Better go without your dinner, I thought, than be thus everlastingly fishing for it like a cormorant. Of course, viewed from the shore, our pursuits in the country appear not a whit less frivolous.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Country, Men, Lakes

  Henry David Thoreau (2008). “Cape Cod: Illustrated Edition of the American Classic”, p.165, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I do not want Michael Angelo for breakfast-but for luncheon-for dinner- for tea-for supper-for between meals.

  Mark Twain

  Art, Philosophy, History

  'The Innocents Abroad' (1869) ch. 27.

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• Julie, Mia and I just met for a couple days, doing some work but really under the guise of having fun. We do events like the Women's Sports Foundation Dinner, where we get to not only do a good thing for the community but we get to hang out with one another again.

  Brandi Chastain

  Sports, Couple, Fun

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• I have written things that Republicans and Democrats and all kinds of figures have either hated or felt very uncomfortable about. Because in doing these long projects and books, you get close to the bone. And they're not calling me up and asking me for dinner.

  Bob Woodward

  Book, Long, Asking

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• I was at a dinner party with a group of people, and we were talking about fake names. You know, how its difficult to come up with a really great fake name. Its a very specific type of gift. You don't want to go too far into the silly, and you don't want to go too far into the banal. I always thought one of the funniest names ever was Gern Blanston, which came from a Steve Martin routine on one of his early records.

  Paul Rudd

  Funny, Silly, Party

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• The kids accepted my drinking as a part of life. Not a particularly pernicious part. I didn't beat up on them. Basically I don't think I was so different from a lot of dads who have three or four martinis when they get in from work, wine with dinner and so on.

  Stephen King

  Dad, Drinking, Kids

  "Part two of the full Stephen King interview". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. September 14, 2000.

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• Your fans can't just pop in whenever they want. I'm not gonna allow someone to just drop over my house whenever they want like, "Hey what's up? I bought your album so what's for dinner?"

  Immortal Technique

  House, Fans, Albums

  "The Transcendence Of Hip Hop - An Interview With Immortal Technique". Interview with Chris Grosso, theindiespiritualist.com. February 20, 2014.

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• Two of the central ingredients to our family are food and faith, so sitting down together and thanking God for the food He's provided means everything to us. Prayer is a natural part of our lives - not only around the dinner table but all day long.

  Phil Robertson

  Prayer, Mean, Two

  Interview with Emily Whitten, world.wng.org. December 19, 2013.

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• Although I love all the great foods of the world, my death row meal would have to be cooked for me by my mother and grandmother (they live together and this happens on most Sundays). More than satisfy our hunger, these dinners nurture the soul.

  Joe Bastianich

  Mother, Sunday, Soul

  "Culinary Kings-Turned TV Judges Cook Up Verdicts on Gordon Ramsay-Hosted MasterChef". The Daily Beast Interview, www.thedailybeast.com. July 27, 2010.

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• I try to be as courteous as possible and sometimes try to tell my fans that as much as I appreciate their support, there are times where I need to be able to have an uninterrupted dinner or not have to take a bunch of pictures or just be able to do some of the normal things.

  Aaron Rodgers

  Appreciate, Support, Trying

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• Play with your kids. Limit their TV time. Get outdoors and chase them around. Wrestle with them. Walk the dog. Go bike riding. The reality is that your kids are not stupid, and they know when they are overweight Start walking the dog after dinner instead of watching TV. You don't want them going on the Web to find ways to lose weight. That's when you'll find them eating tissue paper because they read that a supermodel did it.

  Jillian Michaels

  Dog, Stupid, Kids

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• If the soup had been as warm as the wine;
  if the wine had been as old as the turkey;
  and if the turkey had had a breast like the maid,
  it would have been a swell dinner.

  Duncan Hines

  Food, Wine, Turkeys

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• Very many people spend money in ways quite different from those that their natural tastes would enjoin, merely because the respect of their neighbors depends upon their possession of a good car and their ability to give good dinners. As a matter of fact, any man who can obviously afford a car but genuinely prefers travels or a good library will in the end be much more respected than if he behaved exactly like everyone else.

  Bertrand Russell

  Men, People, Giving

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• This rose became a bandanna, which became a house, which became infused with all passion, which became a hideaway, which became yes I would like to have dinner, which became hands, which became lands, shores, beaches, natives on the stones, staring and wild beasts in the trees, chasing the hats of lost hunters, and all this deserves a tone.

  Kenneth Koch

  Beach, Passion, Hands

  Kenneth Koch (1982). “Days and nights”, Random House (NY)

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• I like doing something romantic with a girl on Valentines Day, like making her dinner and keeping it simple. The more quality time, the better.

  Spencer Boldman

  Valentines Day, Girl, Simple

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• My father was a guy who, because of the businesses he was in - the hotel business, the hospitality business - he didn't differentiate between the waiter serving you dinner, from the maitre d from the guy who owns a restaurant. Everybody was the same to him. He didn't look at who you were. He didn't look at your wallet.

  Steve Tisch

  Father, Guy, Looks

  "Super Bowl Q&A with … Steve Tisch". Interview with Steve Serby, nypost.com. February 5, 2012.

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• I've given parties that have made Indian rajahs green with envy. I've had prima donnas break $10,000 engagements to come to my smallest dinners. When you were still playing button back in Ohio, I entertained on a cruising trip that was so much fun that I had to sink my yacht to make my guests go home.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Fun, Party, Home

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009). “The Crack-Up”, p.171, New Directions Publishing

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• 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

  Principles, Debt, Conviction

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6597, Delphi Classics

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• The cynic who twitted Aristippus by observing that the philosopher who could dine on herbs might despise the company of a king, was well replied to by Aristippus, when he remarked that the philosopher who could enjoy the company or a king might also despise a dinner of herbs.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Kings, Might, Herbs

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.134

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• We do not want to think. We do not want to hear. We do not care about anything. Only give us a good dinner and plenty of money, and let us outshine our neighbors. There is the Nineteenth Century Gospel.

  Ouida

  Thinking, Giving, Want

  Ouida (1890*). “Othmar. Friendship. And other stories”

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• Glory and fame mean twelve thousand francs' worth of paid articles in the newspapers and five thousand crowns' worth of dinners.

  Honore de Balzac

  Mean, Twelve, Crowns

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• If a man prepares dinner for you and the salad contains three or more types of lettuce, he is serious.

  Rita Rudner

  Funny, Humor, Men

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