Dinner Quotes

• The state dinner is almost a formula, but you try to make it interesting. You try not to overload it with too many political types. You try to get a cross section.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Political
  • Interesting
  • Try

• If you do see me in a restaurant, please, just let me eat my dinner.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Ifs
  • Please
  • Restaurants

• One year, I was a patron of a new opera. It was, to put it kindly, unpleasant to the ear. The friends I went with hated it. Keeping quiet about my contribution, I was outed when one of them, reading the program at the restaurant during dinner, saw my name.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Friends
  • Reading
  • Dinner

• A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Writing
  • Party
  • Picture

• I really enjoy making dinner for my kids and my husband - chopping ginger and marinating the tofu.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Kids
  • Husband
  • Enjoy

• Actually, I don't even like parties. I would much prefer a room with four friends who sit around and have dinner. I detest nightclubs. And I don't like places where the noise is so loud you can't talk to people.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Friends
  • Dinner

• Dinner for me is usually some version of chicken or fish - I love salmon - with grilled vegetables and salad.

  

  Parker Young
  • Some
  • Version
  • Usually

• I make a dog-friendly version of almost everything that we make for dinner.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Dog
  • Everything
  • Almost

• Never let 'em see you sweat. Guests feel guilty if they think you've worked too hard to make dinner for them - which of course you have!

  

  Ina Garten
  • Think
  • Never
  • Guilty

• I never have time to have a dinner. I have to eat while I'm memorizing lines. The only way to maintain energy is to eat all day long. I must eat all day long.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Time
  • Long
  • Energy

• New Hampshire polling data are unreliable because, when you call the Granite State's registered Republicans and independents in the middle of dinner and ask them who they're going to vote for, they have a mouth full of mashed potatoes and you can't understand what they say.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Understand
  • New
  • Dinner

• Sentinel meeting tonight,” Ria told her. “At Lucas's place.” “Time?” ... “Seven. Sascha's doing dinner.” “God save us all.” Sascha had decided she liked cooking. Unfortunately, cooking didn't like her back.

  

  Nalini Singh
  • She
  • Cooking
  • Tonight

• My stylist chose the white gloves and I think she did a spectacular job....I couldn't believe the stir my gloves were making at the dinner.

  

  Maria Bartiromo
  • Believe
  • She
  • Job

• The success of the dinner depends as much upon the company as the cook. Discordant elements - people invited alphabetically, or to pay off debts - are fatal.

  

  Ward McAllister
  • People
  • Success
  • Company

• I love Korean food, and it's kind of like home to me. The area that I grew up in outside Chicago, Glenview, is heavily Korean. A lot of my friends growing up were Korean and when I would eat dinner at their houses, their parents wouldn't tell me the names of the dishes because I would butcher the language.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Friends
  • Parents
  • Food

• It's frightening to think about more sanctions. When I've met North Koreans in China, they've said to me, 'You have no idea how difficult our lives are. We live like dogs.' They wake up in the morning wondering what they're going to eat for dinner.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • Up
  • Live
  • Morning

• Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Child
  • Dinner
  • Your Child

• If one swallows a cup of chocolate only three hours after a copious lunch, everything will be perfectly digested and there will still be room for dinner.

  

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
  • Hours
  • Chocolate
  • Cups

• I have great relationships with all my exes, and everyone in my life, because I honor the time and the love and the energy of those relationships. I'm happy to say that I can have everybody over for dinner.

  

  Kevin Drew Broken Social Scene
  • Energy
  • Honor
  • Exes

• It is a very poor consolation to be told that the man who has given one a bad dinner, or poor wine, is irreproachable in private life. Even the cardinal virtues cannot atone for half-cold entrees.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Bad
  • Cold

• I like to hike and play with my dogs and spend time with my family. We go out to family dinners a lot.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Time
  • Family
  • Play

• The Kennedys were very organized. Dinner was always served at 7:15, and if you were a minute late, it really wasn't worth it. In my family, you never knew when dinner was going to be. It could be at 7, or it could be at 10.

  

  Ethel Kennedy
  • Dinner
  • My Family
  • Organized

• 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
  • Time
  • Guy
  • Trouble

• Burning dinner is not incompetence but war.

  

  Marge Piercy
  • War
  • Dinner
  • Incompetence

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