I had dinner with my father last night, and made a classic…

I loved my parents... but that can never change the fact that my father's violence ruined my childhood.

— Pat Conroy

My grandmother used to cook for eight every day - sitting down lunches and dinner, the way you do it in Italy, you sit…

— Carrie Ann Inaba

“Their costumes are surprisingly clever—one of them is wearing a black silk nightgown with a picture of Freud’s face taped to the front. A…

— Becky Albertalli

“She unwrapped the lamb chops from their white butcher paper and peeled a few potatoes and opened a can of peas. Her father came…

— Alice McDermott

“If this constant sliding and hiding of meaning were true of conscious life, then we would of course never be able to speak coherently…

— Terry Eagleton

“In our desire to be real we start thinking that authenticity is another word for spontaneity, as if everything we say at the spur…

— Mark Galli

A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.

— Bob Hope

Every night at dinner, my father would say something about the greatness of the United States - and tell us to make sure the…

— Raja Krishnamoorthi

My mom cooked for us, and on the weekend, we always had Sunday dinner. My father liked to bake.

— Cara Buono

I concentrate on what people say the couple next to me pass the salt and pour it on my wounds it looks like you…

— Quicksand

I had lunch with a chess champion the other day. I knew he was a chess champion because it took him 20 minutes to…

— Eric Sykes

“I'm so busy listening to the heart that I don't even hear when somebody asks me to pass the salt.”

— Frederik Pohl

I have this theory about words. There's a thousand ways to say 'Pass the salt'. It could mean, you know, 'Can I have some…

— Christopher Walken

“Southern Californians freak out when it rains, yet when there's an earthquake they're like 'pass the salt.”

— Gregor Collins

I went to a restaurant with my friend, and he said, "Pass the salt." I said, "Screw you! Sit closer to the salt."

— Mitch Hedberg