Dinner Quotes

• When people say, 'Hey, wanna come to our house for dinner?' I say, 'Yeah, what should I bring?' They say, 'How about the dessert?' I just don't skimp on the dessert. I make it the yummy way it should be made, and then I just don't eat the whole pan.

  

  Summer Sanders
  • People
  • House
  • Desert

• I like the ritual of putting on my makeup, putting on my costume, doing my warm-ups. I eat the same dinner every night before I go on stage. I like having something that I can count on, something that feels stabilizing for me.

  

  Sarah Paulson
  • Night
  • Feels
  • Makeup

• My interactions with Sorkin were agonisingly weird. He is by far the weirdest person I have ever met. I had dinner with him and a few hours before I got an e-mail from his assistant saying, 'Sean, this does not need to be a long conversation. Aaron is only going to use it to win your trust.'

  

  Sean Parker
  • Long
  • Winning
  • Conversation

• We had a farewell dinner for some of my senior staff, and generally everybody likes to talk about how cool I was.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Cool
  • Senior
  • Farewell

• Spending so much time on the road, I get to fart all the time. Then when it's, like, Thanksgiving dinner and I'm sitting with my grandmother, I can't fart for, like, two hours.

  

  Tom DeLonge Blink-182
  • Time
  • Thanksgiving
  • Spend

• At the state dinner for Chinese President Hu Jintao, Hu opened a fortune cookie that said, 'You will lend us another trillion dollars.'

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • President
  • Chinese
  • Hu Jintao

• He looked haggard and careworn, like a Borgia who has suddenly remembered that he has forgotten to shove cyanide in the consommé, and the dinner-gong due any moment.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Forgotten
  • Dinner
  • Cyanide

• The kitchen was the kind of brushed steel monstrosity that looks more like it's designed to weaponise viruses than cook dinner.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Dinner
  • Viruses
  • Monstrosity

• I don't always prepare such rich meals. Sometimes I'll just serve a simple quiche, salad and dessert for dinner. During the week I try to eat lightly.

  

  Paul Lynde
  • Simple
  • Rich
  • Meals

• Goliath's mother, who said to Goliath, Stop running around with David! You're always coming home stoned! Never got a dinner!

  

  Red Buttons
  • Mother
  • David
  • Stoned

• One should never refuse an invitation to lunch or dinner, for one never knows what one may have to eat the next day.

  

  Edouard de Pomiane
  • Dinner
  • Refuse
  • Invitation

• You can yell on a playground, but not during dinner.

  

  Cynthia Lord
  • Playground
  • Yell
  • Not During

• Bernard Leach knew Ben Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth, Terry Frost, Peter Lanyon, Johnny Wells. I can think of a number of people that we met there just because we were living with Bernard. Some of them became our friends, particularly the younger artists, but we were privileged to at least meet and talk with the older artists also. And they would come to dinner, and we would simply be included in the conversation, which was quite fascinating.

  

  Warren MacKenzie
  • People
  • Conversation
  • Barbara

• It's getting so people no longer count the silverware when I come to dinner.

  

  Wilson Mizner
  • People
  • Dinner

• As soon as any one is near me, his personality disturbs my self-complacency and restricts my freedom. In twenty-four hours I begin to hate the best of men: one because he's too long over his dinner; another because he has a cold and keeps on blowing his nose. I become hostile to people the moment they come close to me. But it has always happened that the more I detest men individually the more ardent becomes my love for humanity.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Freedom
  • Hate
  • Humanity

• Having dinner with somebody you've looked up to your whole life is quite a memorable thing. Like, 'Wow. I'm having dinner with someone who is a huge inspiration to me.' That's intense.

  

  Alexandra Daddario
  • Life
  • Inspiration
  • Dinner

• It's one thing to reject the idea that it's a man's job to bring home all the bacon; it's another the 500th time your wife reaches for the check at dinner.

  

  Will Allison
  • Job
  • Reaches
  • Reject

• Dates are fun, but being a serial dater isn't my thing; I'd rather care about someone and be able to wear sweatpants out to dinner. That's the end goal.

  

  Gerard Horan
  • Goal
  • Someone
  • Cares

• We smoked the way other American families would have wine with dinner. For us, it was our sacrament. It was something that made a great life sweeter in every possible way.

  

  Ann Druyan
  • Life
  • Great
  • American

• What's interesting about Twitter is the unmediatedness of it, the directness of it. I'm on a train somewhere in New York and I send out a tweet. Somebody sitting at dinner in Bombay checks their phone and they see it.

  

  Teju Cole
  • Interesting
  • Train
  • Checks

• The best number for a dinner party is two; myself and a damn good head waiter.

  

  Nubar Gulbenkian
  • Best
  • Dinner
  • Waiter

• What is more refreshing than salads when your appetite seems to have deserted you, or even after a capacious dinner — the nice, fresh, green, and crisp salad, full of life and health, which seems to invigorate the, palate and dispose the masticating powers to a much longer duration.

  

  Alexis Soyer
  • Dinner
  • Refreshing
  • Salads

• There's nothing I like better than going to my apartment, closing the door, cooking my little dinner for one and just tuning out. My apartment really is my haven. It's a nest where I go to heal.

  

  Tim Gunn
  • Dinner
  • Apartment
  • Nest

• Saint Christopher, who said, Where can I get a Frank Sinatra medal? Never got a dinner!

  

  Red Buttons
  • Dinner
  • Frank Sinatra
  • Christopher

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