Dinner Quotes

• 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

• Ha. "Against my will I am sent to bid you come into dinner." There's a double meaning in that. -Benedick (Much Ado)

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Meaning
  • Dinner
  • Benedick

• I'm big on taking the lady out to dinner. We have some candlelight romance every now and then. And our whole family is within a 6-mile radius. It's disgustingly domestic. I'm big on Costco.

  

  Dave Grohl Nirvana
  • Family
  • Dinner
  • Romance

• My father was a guy who, because of the businesses he was in - the hotel business, the hospitality business - he didn't differentiate between the waiter serving you dinner, from the maitre d from the guy who owns a restaurant. Everybody was the same to him. He didn't look at who you were. He didn't look at your wallet.

  

  Steve Tisch
  • Father
  • Guy
  • Hotel

• To remember a successful salad is generally to remember a successful dinner; at all events, the perfect dinner necessarily includes the perfect salad.

  

  George Ellwanger
  • Remember
  • Necessarily
  • Generally

• Amelia Earhart, who said, Stop looking for me; see if you can find my luggage! Never got a dinner!

  

  Red Buttons
  • Stop
  • Find
  • Looking

• When a man drinks wine at dinner, he begins to be better pleased with himself.

  

  Plato
  • Man
  • Dinner
  • Drinks

• Alexander the Great, who said on his wedding night, It's only a nickname. Never got a dinner!

  

  Red Buttons
  • Wedding
  • Nickname
  • Alexander

• You know I'll kiss you for my supper. Yeah, you know I'll kiss you for my dinner, baby.

  

  Jimi Hendrix The Jimi Hendrix Experience
  • Kiss
  • Dinner
  • Supper

• 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

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

  

  Nubar Gulbenkian
  • Best
  • Dinner
  • Waiter

• And now we eat. The eponymous eating. Don't want butter, don't want salt. Dinner is thinner but it's not my fault.

  

  Brenda Shaughnessy
  • Dinner
  • Fault
  • Butter

• 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

• My life has been sadly lacking in snails. I can't clearly remember any first-hand encounters. The best thing I can come up with is second-hand, a passage in Jacques Pépin's autobiography (The Apprentice: My Life in the Kitchen) in which he describes prying snails from the terrace of his vacation home and cooking them up for dinner.

  

  Debra Hamel
  • Kitchen
  • Autobiography
  • Encounters

• We should return to the Greeks, play in the open air: the drama dies of stalls and boxes and evening dress, and people who come to digest their dinner.

  

  Eleonora Duse
  • People
  • Air
  • Drama

• Jack the Ripper's mother, who said to Jack, How come I never see you with the same girl twice? Never got a dinner!

  

  Red Buttons
  • Mother
  • Girl
  • Jack

• Sometimes it gets a little hectic on trips because we're skating all day long, and all you want to do is eat dinner and go to sleep. So sometimes it gets a little long for my liking, but the second I get home, it's straight to the shower to fix it all up, and we're good to go.

  

  Ryan Sheckler
  • Long
  • Home
  • Sleep

• 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

• Chicken, brown rice, and veggies is a great healthy dinner option. It's full of whole grains and protein, and will keep you full for a long time.

  

  Mia Hamm
  • Long
  • Healthy
  • Chickens

• My training was never to drink after dinner nor before I wrote nor while I was writing.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Writing
  • Training
  • Drink

• 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

• 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
  • Home
  • Girl
  • Eating

• If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Fun
  • Dinner
  • Jesus Christ

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