Dinner Quotes
1426 quotes by 1096 authors
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Helvetica is the jeans, and Univers the dinner jacket. Helvetica is here to stay.
— Adrian Frutiger
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I think I kind of came out of the womb singing. I think I was, like, born at the hospital, and, you know, popped out,…
— Emmy Rossum
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Something I didn't even know was on my bucket list has been achieved. I have cooked Thanksgiving dinner with Martha Stewart. I vow to follow…
— Jesse Tyler Ferguson
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So I took an interest in politics, but I don't know whether I enjoyed it! It was a wife's duty to be interested in whatever…
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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You know that just before that first Thanksgiving dinner there was one wise, old Native American woman saying, Don't feed them. If you feed them,…
— Unknown Author
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We all love animals. Why do we call some 'pets' and others 'dinner?'
— K D Lang
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May your stuffing be tasty May your turkey plump, May your potatoes and gravy Have nary a lump. May your yams be delicious And your…
— Grandpa Jones
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But, lady, as women, what wisdom may be ours if not the philosophies of the kitchen? Lupercio Leonardo spoke well when he said: 'how well…
— Juana Inés de la Cruz
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The easiest way to stay awake during an after-dinner speech is to deliver it.
— Unknown Author
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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…
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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It is not wise for a man who can get seasick in a rowboat on a mill-pond to attack a Japanese dinner just after a…
— Unknown Author
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If you read the biographies of people who have written good books, you often see the point where they suddenly come into themselves, and those…
— Jonathan Franzen
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Take me as an example. I happen to have a talent for allocating capital. But my ability to use that talent is completely dependent on…
— Warren Buffett
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Thanksgiving dinner's sad and thankless. Christmas dinner's dark and blue. When you stop and try to see it From the turkey's point of view.
— Shel Silverstein
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The dinner table is the center for the teaching and practicing not just of table manners but of conversation, consideration, tolerance, family feeling, and just…
— Judith Martin
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The English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner.
— Margaret Halsey
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Oh, the pleasure of eating my dinner alone!
— Charles Lamb
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Our kids didn't do this to themselves. They don't decide the sugar content in soda or the advertising content of a television show. Kids don't…
— Michelle Obama
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Writing is a miracle. You can travel anywhere in the world, to any time and any place — and still be home in time to…
— Mary Pope Osborne
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Automobiles are free of egotism, passion, prejudice and stupid ideas about where to have dinner. They are, literally, selfless. A world designed for automobiles instead…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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