Dinner Quotes - Page 40

• ... the agent provocateur of a good dinner.

  Marie-Antoine Careme

  Food, Cooking, Agents

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• EAT, v.i. To perform successively (and successfully) the functions of mastication, humectation, and deglutition. 'I was in the drawing-room, enjoying my dinner,' said Brillat-Savarin, beginning an anecdote. 'What!' interrupted Rochebriant; 'eating dinner in a drawing-room?' 'I must beg you to observe, monsieur,' explained the great gastronome, 'that I did not say I was eating my dinner, but enjoying it. I had dined an hour before.'

  Ambrose Bierce

  Food, Drawing, Cooking

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2387, Delphi Classics

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• If pale beans bubble for you in a red earthenware pot, you can often decline the dinners of sumptuous hosts.

  Martial

  Food, Cooking, Red

  Martial (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Martial (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

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• By the same token, frozen dinners, a microwave oven, a dishwasher, and an illegal immigrant hired to clean the house and take one's cat to the vet would have seemed like the epitome of materialism in another time, but now provide the only means available for two-career couples to work hard enough at their jobs to earn the salaries they need to pay for those labor-saving amenities.

  Robert Wuthnow

  Jobs, Couple, Hard Work

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• I cook and I really believe in the family dinner, I think that's a nice time to bring the family together.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Nice, Believe, Thinking

  Source: www.stylist.co.uk

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• Do you have to discipline yourself to have breakfast, lunch or dinner? Of course not; and so discipline - the usual concept of it - doesn't apply here. I had to discipline myself to learn English, but never to train.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Lunch, Discipline, Usual

  Source: daggy.name

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• If I'm out to dinner with a group of friends, and somebody offers to pay for the check, I immediately reach for my wallet. Inside is a note that says, "Say thanks!"

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Groups

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• I've never stayed at a bed and breakfast. If I did, I figure you would start to get hungry! "Is that all you got around here? Well, maybe you can direct me to a chair lunch dinner."

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Lunch

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• I was just in London - there is a 6 hour time difference. I'm still confused. When I go to dinner, I feel sexy. When I go to bed, I feel hungry.

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Sexy, Confused

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• Doctor says to a man, "You're pregnant!" The man says, "How does a man get pregnant?" The doctor says, "The usual way - a little wine, a little dinner...."

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Wine, Humor

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• I have my Master's Degree but I learned more at my dinner table than any class I ever took. My dad would come home from the sweat factory and put the money on the table and say Mea, here is some money for insurance and food and we always had that little extra for Friday night pizza at Barcelona's.

  Dick Vitale

  Friday, Dad, Home

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• We really didn't have the option of being couch potatoes when I was growing up. There were only three television channels and the only kid's programming was on Saturday morning. We always played outside until we could hear Mom calling us (not by cell phone but with her hands cupped around her mouth) that it was dinner time.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Mom, Morning, Growing Up

  "Jeff Foxworthy. A comedian gets serious about reading". BookPage interview, bookpage.com. October 2010.

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• If men or women don't feel [the way I do], then don't live your life that way. Whatever works for your relationship. It's not just sex. I feel like that about dinner, about taking care of who you're with.

  Chris Brown

  Sex, Men, Live Your Life

  Source: www.refinery29.com

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• I went out to dinner with a Marine last weekend. He looked across the table and he goes, "I could kill you in seven seconds." I go, "I'll just have toast, then."

  Margaret Smith

  Funny, Humor, Marine

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• When my children were very young and I was working I had someone cooking for me. I don't have a cook now, I haven't had one for a number of years and I do it myself. But when they were all little it was hard to pay attention to everyone's homework at the end of the day and make dinner.

  Meryl Streep

  Children, Years, Numbers

  Source: the-talks.com

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• Dogs are intelligent beings; they are not human beings. The life of a dog - there's no equivalency with the life of a person, and if you are putting a dog in the line of danger to save human life, and they can do the job reasonably well, I mean, seriously, what about dignity and self-respect? I feel like going out to dinner, I think I will have my cocker spaniel host the show tonight.

  Tucker Carlson

  Dog, Jobs, Mean

  "The Situation" with Tucker Carlson, www.nbcnews.com. December 7, 2005.

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• My girlfriend and I went to a dinner party the other night and we ended up playing charades. There was another couple there that was deaf. They were so good.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Funny, Girlfriend, Couple

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• I don't do social events, I don't do award ceremonies, I don't do charity dinners. I live my life off-radar.

  Marco Pierre White

  Awards, Events, Charity

  "Interrogation: Marco Pierre White". www.mirror.co.uk. February 3, 2012.

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• I can't imagine anything worse than trying to impress a girl with dinner. To be honest, I'm always impressing myself, not other people.

  Marco Pierre White

  Girl, People, Trying

  "Interrogation: Marco Pierre White". www.mirror.co.uk. February 3, 2012.

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• I look to nature because I think the animals are smarter than we are. Animals mate; humans date. There's no dating in the animal kingdom. No dinner, no movie - just a quick sniff, 'Alright, let's go.'

  Adam Ferrara

  Funny, Humor, Animal

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• Barrels are very difficult to find. But when you have them, give them lots of equity. Promote them, take them to dinner every week, because they are virtually irreplaceable because they are also very culturally specific. So a barrel at one company may not be a barrel at another company. One of the ways, the definition of a barrel is, they can take an idea from conception and take it all the way to shipping and bring people with them.

  Keith Rabois

  Ideas, People, Giving

  "Lecture 2: Ideas, Products, Teams and Execution Part II". "How to Start a Startup" lecture, Stanford, genius.com. September 25, 2014.

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• Characters simply come and find me. They sit down, I offer them a coffee. They tell me their story and then they almost always leave. When a character, after drinking some coffee and briefly telling her story, wants dinner and then a place to sleep and then breakfast and so on, for me the time has come to write the novel.

  Dacia Maraini

  Drinking, Coffee, Writing

  Source: wordswithoutborders.org

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• Most Americans are skipping meals and when they do eat, they're starving and they're eating an excess of sugar and calories. Really it's about eating breakfast, snack, lunch, snack, and dinner, and trying to feed yourself.

  Jackie Warner

  Snacks, Lunch, Trying

  Interview with Chris Yandek, www.cyinterview.com. May 25, 2008.

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• A classic, navy blue blazer is my staple. It's a look that can take you from office meetings to dinner out with friends or family.

  Tommy Hilfiger

  Blue, Office, Navy

  "Hilfiger vs Nadal". Vanity Fair interview, www.vanityfair.com. September 22, 2015.

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• When I'm sittin' down to dinner with the family, stuff [another Yogiism] just pops out. And they'll say, 'Dad, you just said another one.' And I don't even know what the heck I said.

  Yogi Berra

  Dad, Stuff, Said

  Source: uk.complex.com

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