Mixed dinner parties of ladies and gentlemenare very rare, which is a great defect in the society; not only as depriving themof… — Frances Trollope Copy Share Image
People will not be bored. They may listen politely at a dinner table to boasts and personalities, life history, etc. But in… — Claude C. Hopkins Copy Share Image
To save the theatre, the theatre must be destroyed, the actors and actresses must all die of the plague. They poison the… — Eleanora Duse Copy Share Image
Indeed, among the lesser auxiliaries to success in love, an absence, the declining of an invitation to dinner, an unintentional, unconscious harshness… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
My father once nearly came to blows with a female dinner guest about whether a particular patch of embroidery was fuchsia or… — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image
My wife often goes out with male friends for dinner and I go out with female friends. We have different holidays. We're… — Gino D'Acampo Copy Share Image
When I look at the Abnegation lifestyle as an outsider, I think it’s beautiful. When I watch my family move in harmony;… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
[On the socialites in New York in the Nineties who devoted themselves to politics, charities, and other volunteer work:] I never knew… — Margaret Case Harriman Copy Share Image
I'm not really that private of a person. I live in a small town and I'm very neighborly. I go out to… — John Corbett Copy Share Image
The worst is, a friend will invite me over, and she'll say, 'Hey, you've been working so hard. I'll make you dinner.… — Jonathan Scott Copy Share Image
There's nothing I like better than going to my apartment, closing the door, cooking my little dinner for one and just tuning… — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
Throughout my reading life, I've enjoyed many memorable meals-if only fictionally. The oysters at dinner near the beginning of Anna Karenina, the… — Alexander Chee Copy Share Image
“And then one of my kids interrupts my reverie: “Mom, what’s for dinner?” I promptly fall into a heap, saying, “I just… — Kat Lee Copy Share Image
I would make up [Theodor] Seuss-like books at night when I was cleaning up from the dinner, you know, putting these little… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
“He halves fresh Brussels sprouts and tosses them in a pan of butter and garlic, squeezes the juice of a lemon over… — Christa Parrish Copy Share Image
- Just that. Your family must be very different from mine. - I’d say so. - I laughed. - For one, no… — Kiera Cass Copy Share Image
If anything, 'Friday Night Dinner' is quite mean. All these pranks that we play on each other, there's a lot of hitting… — Simon Bird Copy Share Image
“I invited this old buddy of mine over for dinner. He’s president of the United States of America, and he’s bringing about… — Shelly Laurenston Copy Share Image
In terms of the first Christmas when I met everybody, I went over to Nick's grandfather's house where they were having the… — Megan Mullally Copy Share Image
I don't think anybody in my family meant there to be any pressure for me to write. But our parents were incredibly… — Hallie Ephron Copy Share Image
For years, I worked seven-day weeks, through birthdays and most public holidays, Christmases and New Year’s Eves included. I worked mornings and… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Copy Share Image
Americans are curious about the texture of everyday life in the Middle East because they rarely get to see it. I wanted… — Annia Ciezadlo Copy Share Image
I would not have been able to accomplish a lot of what I did professionally had I not learned to fly myself… — Arnold Palmer Copy Share Image
If I'm a racist, why is one of the top civil rights activists of the 1960s asking me to be a centerpiece… — Andrew Breitbart Copy Share Image
My life at home gives me absolute joy. There are some days when, as soon as you've finished cooking breakfast and cleaning… — Julia Roberts Copy Share Image
Have you known what it is to give your meal to another and to go without yourself? It gives a happiness that… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
“I praise God for you, sir: your reasons at dinner have been sharp and sententious; pleasant without scurrility, witty without affection, audacious… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The frustration of our [The Daily] show is- very much outside any parameters of the media or the government. We don't have… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
A lot of my struggles with nutrition date back to my swimming days. I was a super-skinny young girl who would go… — Summer Sanders Copy Share Image
Alcohol is certainly one of the most abused drugs since ever and ever, since Dionysus. They say have a glass of wine… — Laura Huxley Copy Share Image
I first got into acting when I was 14, coming back from a junior high school basketball game. My mom picked me… — Skylar Astin Copy Share Image
By the same token, frozen dinners, a microwave oven, a dishwasher, and an illegal immigrant hired to clean the house and take… — Robert Wuthnow Copy Share Image
One time at the University of Colorado, at a faculty dinner, this professor said to me, 'Well, my goodness, a boy from… — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
The more you look into pigs the more you realize quite how everywhere they are. People come in contact with parts of… — Herbert Copy Share Image
Something I didn't even know was on my bucket list has been achieved. I have cooked Thanksgiving dinner with Martha Stewart. I… — Jesse Tyler Ferguson Copy Share Image
Who asks who out on the date? Who's supposed to pay for dinner? Who chooses where you go? Both partners should be… — Whitney Wolfe Herd Copy Share Image
This is what is meant by "sacrifice", literally, the "making sacred" of an animal consumed for dinner. Yet sacrfice, because it dwells… — Margaret Visser Copy Share Image
Italy is hard to beat. It's a family-friendly experience, they like to see kids in restaurants, and at dinner you see all… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
“Call it 'supper'. When you start calling it 'dinner' you raise people's expectations. They'll think there's going to be salad and cloth… — Kristen Panzer Copy Share Image
An actress without talent, forty years old, ate a partridge for dinner, and I felt sorry for the partridge, for it occurred… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image