Dinner Table Quotes

97 quotes by 93 authors

My material is as new as anything on the dinner table. What difference does it make if I'm 70 or if I'm 20? The audience… — Jackie Mason
My folks are economists and have taught economics and social science so I grew up with those kind of conversations around the dinner table. — Seth Gordon
At the dinner table when I was very little, I would hear people bickering... To escape the bickering, I started modelling the soft bread with… — Louise Bourgeois
The oldest form of theater is the dinner table. It's got five or six people, new show every night, same players. Good ensemble; the people… — Michael J. Fox
I'm terrified of walking into a room full of people. Sitting down at a dinner table with 15 strangers brings me out in a sweat. — Bear Grylls
My parents never condescended to me. As a child, I always sat at the head of our dinner table. I was always given a lot… — Claire Danes
It wasn't that I couldn't write. I wrote every day. I actually worked really hard at writing. At my desk by 7 A.M., would work… — Junot Diaz
Before I'd written movies, I never could do big set-piece scenes with a lot of different speakers - when you've got twelve people around a… — Joan Didion
Some of the most important conversations I've ever had occurred at my family's dinner table. — Bob Ehrlich
My parents discussed singing every night over the dinner table; I had a tremendous music education. — Renee Fleming
I've never done anything so political before. I've spent years shouting my mouth off about serious issues over dinner tables but never really had the… — George Michael
Of course, it does depend on the people, but sometimes I'm invited places to kind of brighten up a dinner table like a musician who'll… — Marilyn Monroe
All great change in America begins at the dinner table. — Ronald Reagan
Every lesson I learned as a kid was at the dinner table. Being Greek, Sicilian and Ruthenian - we are an emotional bunch. It is… — Michael Symon
Poor, darling fellow - he died of food. He was killed by the dinner table. — Diana Vreeland
I guess what really forms you as a person is what you do within your family to receive love or attention. In my family, what… — Emma Watson
The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world. — Oscar Wilde
...I just gave up trying to be a Christian... Let's face it, I ain't got the knack for holiness. Besides, I didn't have the slightest… — Katherine Paterson
What's agitating about solitude is the inner voice telling you that you should be mated to somebody, that solitude is a mistake. The inner voice… — Charles Baxter
My behavior is nonetheless, deplorable. Unfortunately, I'm quite prone to such bouts of deplorability--take for instance, my fondness for reading books at the dinner table. — Brandon Sanderson

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