Dinner Quotes - Page 9

• You have to be generous if you want to spend your time making someone else dinner. Even if you're charging, you're still giving.

  Mario Batali

  Giving, Want, Charging

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• Careful as they may be, developers of Eiffel libraries will always run into cases in which, after releasing a library class, they suddenly experience what in French is called esprit de l'escalier or wit of the staircase: a great thought which unfortunately is an afterthought, like a clever reply that would have stunned all the other dinner guests - if only you had thought of it before walking down the stairs after the party is over.

  Bertrand Meyer

  Running, Clever, Party

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• We're taught that domestic life is not a "serious" political topic, like war and peace, but the fact is that we spend most of our lives doing everyday things: at the dinner table, in the kitchen, washing dishes, grocery-shopping, commuting. These things make up the fabric of our lives.

  Annia Ciezadlo

  War, Shopping, Everyday Things

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I am a marathon worker and marathon mother. I'll spend three or four days completely swallowed up by work. And if I make it home in time to say good night, I may have one good hour with the girls, maybe a brief family dinner or a family walk with the dog, and then it is back on the computer to prepare for tomorrow's shows.

  Mika Brzezinski

  Girl, Good Night, Goodnight

  "Work-Life Balance? Puh-leaase!" by Mika Brzezinski, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• I do not think anything serious should be done after dinner, as nothing should be before breakfast.

  George Saintsbury

  Food, Thinking, Cooking

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• There are a lot of people who must have the table laid in the usual fashion or they will not enjoy the dinner.

  Christopher Morley

  Fashion, People, Tables

  CHRISTOPHER MORLEY (1923). “INWARD HO!”

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• I could stand on my head and flick the bean right there at the dinner table and my mom would be all, "Honey, Christmas is family time, we should be together" and make me finish in front of everyone.

  Christopher Moore

  Mom, Together, Would Be

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• 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

  Women, People, Window

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• Who lives in true poverty - The janitor who is grateful for the chocolate chip pancakes his 6 year old helped his wife prepare for dinner, or The CEO who is ungrateful for the type of wine served with his 5-star meal?

  Julia Rose

  Gratitude, Stars, Grateful

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• A free-loader is a confirmed guest. He is the man who is always willing to come to dinner.

  Damon Runyon

  Men, Guests, He Man

  Damon Runyon (1946). “Short Takes: Readers' Choice of the Best Columns of America's Favorite Newspaperman, Damon Runyon”

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• Great as the planning were for the dinner, the lot was so contrived that not a soul in the house be supposed to be kept from the break of day ceremony of Blessing in the church.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Blessing, House, Soul

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• Some of the most famous people in history never got a dinner!

  Red Buttons

  People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I walked down my snow covered street. Out of habit I turned and checked for my footsteps. When I arrived at my building I looked for my name on the buzzers. And because I know that sometimes I see things that aren't there, after dinner I called Information to ask if I was listed.(25)

  Nicole Krauss

  Names, Snow, Buzzers

  Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.25, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Well let's face it, who on earth besides antique dealers and gay couples actually still give dinner parties?

  Nigel Slater

  Couple, Party, Gay

  "In This Month's OFM". www.theguardian.com. November 13, 2005.

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• I'm here to tell you, though, ladies that the term "gold digger" is one of the traps we men set to keep you off our money trail; we created that term for you so that we can have all our money and still get everything we want from you without you asking for or expecting this very basic, instincual responsibility that men all over the world are obligated to assume and embrace. ... KNOW THIS: It is your right to expect that a man will pay for your dinner, your movie ticket, your club entry fee, or whatever else he has to pay for in exhange for your time.

  Steve Harvey

  Responsibility, Men, Gold

  Steve Harvey (2014). “Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man, Expanded Edition: What Men Really Think About Love, Relationships, Intimacy, and Commitment”, p.17, Harper Collins

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• Sam Vimes could parallel process. Most husbands can. They learn to follow their own line of thought while at the same time listening to what their wives say. And the listening is important, because at any time they could be challenged and must be ready to quote the last sentence in full. A vital additional skill is being able to scan the dialogue for telltale phrases such as "and they can deliver it tomorrow" or "so I've invited them for dinner?" or "they can do it in blue, really quite cheaply.

  Terry Pratchett

  Husband, Blue, Skills

  "The Fifth Elephant". Book by ‎Terry Pratchett, 1999.

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• Having a little pee in your pants had to be better than being dinner for some redneck.

  Christopher Paul Curtis

  Redneck, Littles, Pants

  Christopher Paul Curtis (2013). “The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963”, p.147, Yearling

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• All of us are taking the night off," Wrath said abruptly. "We need some regroup time." Rhage snorted from across the table. "You're not going to make us play Monopoly again, are you?" Yup." A collective groan rose up from the Brotherhood, one that Wrath ignored. "Right after dinner.

  J.R. Ward

  Night, Wrath, Play

  J.R. Ward (2007). “Lover Unbound: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.464, Penguin

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• I'm not going to wear a red dress," she said. "It would look stunning, My Lady," she called. She spoke to the bubbles gathered on the surface of the water. "If there's anyone I wish to stun at dinner, I'll hit him in the face.

  Kristin Cashore

  Water, Wish, Dresses

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• In my lame pescetarian defense, it's very hard to be a girl and say you won't eat something. Refuse one plate of bacon-wrapped pork rinds and you're anorexic. Accept them and you're on the Atkins. Excuse yourself to go to the bathroom and you're bulimic. Best to keep perfectly still and bring an IV of fluids with you to dinner.

  Sloane Crosley

  Girl, Pork, Defense

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• Best friends are always together, always whispering and laughing and running, always at each other's house, having dinner, sleeping over. They are practically adopted by each other's parents. You can't pry them apart.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Running, Sleep, Laughing

  Jerry Spinelli (2002). “Loser”

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• These are hard times. The world hurts. We live in fear and forget to walk with hope. But hope has not forgotten you. So ask it to dinner. It's probably hungry and would appreciate the invitation.

  Libba Bray

  Hurt, Hard Times, Appreciate

  Libba Bray (2009). “Going Bovine”, p.428, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• He is clearly bookish. I did not follow a single word of their conversation at dinner last night, not one jot of it. He must be bookish.

  Gail Carriger

  Night, Lasts, Conversation

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• Glen had a disability more disfiguring than a burn and more terrifying than cancer. Glen had been born on the day after Christmas. "My parents just combine my birthday with Christmas, that's all," he explained. But we knew this was a lie. Glen's parents just wrapped a couple of his Christmas presents in birthday-themed wrapping paper, stuck some candles in a supermarket cake, and had a dinner of Christmas leftovers.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Christmas, Couple, Cancer

  Augusten Burroughs (2011). “You Better Not Cry: True Stories for Christmas”, p.35, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• If you were lucky, very lucky indeed, there were one or two people in your life who you could tell the unvarnished truth too, shell and egg. And that these people held the essence of you inside them. The rest would be conversations that ended when night fell, or the dinner part ended.

  Julia Gregson

  Night, Essence, Eggs

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