Dinner Quotes - Page 36

• 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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• It is quite proper to meet a young man at a cocktail party and go on to dinner with him. If he is attractive, you can consider yourself not only correct, but lucky.

  Alice-Leone Moats

  Party, Men, Dating

  Alice-Leone Moats (1933). “No Nice Girl Swears”, New York : A. A. Knopf

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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 Moats

  Night, Needs, Bridesmaids

  Alice-Leone Moats (1933). “No Nice Girl Swears”, New York : A. A. Knopf

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• with a country of rare picturesqueness for a background, a people of rare beauty for actors, everybody more or less permeated with the artistic instinct and everybody more or less writing poetry - California has a pageant for breakfast, a fiesta for luncheon and a carnival for dinner. They are always electing queens. In fact any girl in California who hasn't been a queen of something before she's twenty-one is a poor prune.

  Inez Haynes Irwin

  Girl, Country, Queens

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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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• Well, dinner would have been splendid... if the wine had been as cold as the soup, the beef as rare as the service, the brandy as old as the fish, and the maid as willing as the Duchess.

  Winston Churchill

  Wine, Beef, Maids

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• Travel has been stepped up to such a speed that one can have dinner in New York and indigestion in Madrid.

  Sheila Ostrander

  Travel, New York, Madrid

  Sheila Ostrander (1968). “Etiquette, Etc: A Concise Guide with a Fresh Look”

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• The lurking tragedy: The chances are that an accident will some day happen to you at a friend's dinner table ... As long as water and coffee and jelly exist, a certain percentage of each will necessarily be overturned upon a like number of snowy white tablecloths. Usually the tragedy is really no one's fault.

  Mary Elizabeth Clark

  Coffee, White, Numbers

  Mary Elizabeth Clark, Margery Closey Quigley (1939). “Etiquette Every Child Should Know”

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• My husband jokes that I'll invite people over for dinner and he won't know who they are or where I met them. But in my work world, I've never really been tempted to tell too much of my story.

  Carrie-Anne Moss

  Husband, People, Too Much

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My grandmother was a typical farm-family mother. She would regularly prepare dinner for thirty people, and that meant something was always cooking in the kitchen. All of my grandmother's recipes went back to her grandmother.

  Willard Scott

  Mother, People, Cooking

  Willard Scott (2005). “If I Knew it Was Going to Be This Much Fun, I Would Have Become a Grandparent First”, Hyperion

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• At home I used to spend calm, pleasant nights with my family. My mother knit scarves for the neighborhood kids. My father helped Caleb with his homework. There was a fire in the fireplace and peace in my heart, as I was doing exactly what I was supposed to be doing, and everything was quiet. I have never been carried around by a large boy, or laughed until my stomach hurt at the dinner table, or listened to the clamor of a hundred people all talking at once. Peace is restrained; this is free.

  Veronica Roth

  Mother, Hurt, Father

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• If you start eating with your mouth open - I can't stand it! I was out to dinner with a girl, and she started chomping on her food. You could see everything she was eating. I was like, 'So when do you want to go home?'

  Ryan Guzman

  Girl, Home, Mouths

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If wishes were filet mignon, we'd always eat well at dinner

  Dean Koontz

  Wish, Wells, Filet Mignon

  Dean Koontz (2008). “Watchers”, p.139, Penguin

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• There is nothing more sickening than talking about poverty over a fancy dinner.

  Shane Claiborne

  Talking, Fancy, Poverty

  Shane Claiborne (2010). “The Irresistible Revolution: Living As an Ordinary Radical”, p.115, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I consider a good dinner party at our house to be where people drink and eat more than they're meant to.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Party, People, House

  "The Eat, Pray, Love author and GQ alum talks about a new cookbook". Interview with Michael Hainey, www.gq.com. May 24, 2012.

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• Eat good dinners and drink good wine; read good novels if you have the leisure and see good plays; fall in love, if there is no reason why you should not fall in love; but do not pore over influenza statistics.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Falling In Love, Wine, Play

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• Otherwise I got out of bed on two strong legs. It might have been otherwise. I ate cereal, sweet milk, ripe, flawless peach. It might have been otherwise. I took the dog uphill to the birch wood. All morning I did the work I love. At noon I lay down with my mate. It might have been otherwise. We ate dinner together at a table with silver candlesticks. It might have been otherwise. I slept in a bed in a room with paintings on the walls, and planned another day just like this day. But one day, I know, it will be otherwise.

  Jane Kenyon

  Dog, Sweet, Strong

  Jane Kenyon (1996). “Otherwise: new and selected poems”, Graywolf Pr

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• I'm not invited to the Vanity Fair dinner where they watch the Oscars - or even the Oscars themselves - so I sit at home and watch it with a bunch of close friends.

  Brett Ratner

  Home, Vanity, Watches

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• One time we were having dinner and some guy came by and took a potato off of Frank Sinatra's plate. And Frank said, “Hey pal, are you hungry?” The guy says, “yeah.” Frank said, “Sit down.” And he gave him his dinner. I thought for sure there was gonna be trouble from the guys surrounding Frank, but Frank says, “Jeez, relax, the man's hungry.”

  Joey Bishop

  Men, Guy, Relax

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• It had that comfortably sprung, lived-in look that library books with a lively circulation always get; bent page corners, a dab of mustard on page 331, a whiff of some reader's spilled after-dinner whiskey on page 468. Only library books speak with such wordless eloquence of the power good stories hold over us, how good stories abide, unchanged and mutely wise, while we poor humans grow older and slower.

  Stephen King

  Wise, Book, Library

  Stephen King (2000). “Salem's Lot”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• My mother doesn't cook; my grandmother didn't cook. Her kids were raised by servants. They would joke about Sunday night dinner. It was the only night she would cook, and apparently it was just horrendous, like scrambled eggs and Campbell's soup.

  Katharine Weymouth

  Mother, Kids, Sunday

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• 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

  Dressing Up, Guy, Might

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• I eat healthy and don't go by a diet chart. The breakfast is usually heavy, complemented with short frequent meals. My dinner is high on proteins and low on carbohydrates.

  Vijender Singh

  Healthy, Meals, Breakfast

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• There is a list of things Im not allowed to discuss at the dinner table! I am extraordinarily passionate about the Black Death, which is not something most people are into.

  Mira Grant

  People, Black, Passionate

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• I love to watch those old movies on late-night television, particularly when a couple get up from a champagne dinner in a posh restaurant and the hero hands the waiter $3. But the best part is when he says, "Keep the change."

  Robert Orben

  Couple, Hero, Night

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