Dinners Quotes
109 quotes by 103 authors
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Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.
— Erma Bombeck
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If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners.
— Johnny Carson
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Who bothers to cook TV dinners? I suck them frozen.
— Woody Allen
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Society is composed of two great classes, those that have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.
— Nicolas Chamfort
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We as Aboriginal people still have to fight to prove that we are straight out plain human beings, the same as everyone else. You know,…
— Neville Bonner
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Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic jitters.
— M.F.K. Fisher
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He went out with a variety of women, slept with some of them, hated the whole meaningless process. Drinks, dinners, plays and concerts and gallery…
— Ken Grimwood
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He lay back for a little in his bed thinking about the smells of food . . . of the intoxicating breath of bakeries and…
— Evelyn Waugh
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So: this is where we are going to become parents. You walk into the building as a couple, and leave a few minutes later as…
— Scott Simon
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I have always thought that there is no more fruitful source of family discontent than a housewife's badly cooked dinners and untidy ways,
— Isabella Beeton
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What moved me, in the first instance, to attempt a work like this, was the discomfort and suffering which I had seen brought upon men…
— Isabella Beeton
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Tea, late dinners and the French Revolution. I cannot exactly see the connection of ideas.
— Thomas Love Peacock
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Spending time with math people is a lot of fun. As a result of the play, I've had semi-drunken dinners with mathematicians all over the…
— David Auburn
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He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
— Moliere
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Be careful what you say. It comes true. It comes true. I had to leave home in order to see the world logically, logic the…
— Maxine Hong Kingston
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There are still places to go, there are still dinners, there are still parties, and you can still get dressed up. That's part of having…
— Christian Siriano
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[Conservatives] go to church, they do lots of things for free for each other. They hold potluck dinners. ... They serve food to poor people.…
— Lawrence Lessig
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I don't do evening business dinners and I don't do weekends,
— Zhang Xi
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Men do not greet one another like this ... except perhaps at rugby club dinners.
— Alan Cooper
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We have happy days, remember good dinners.
— Charles Darwin
Who Wrote These Dinners Quotes
103 authors contributed a total of 109 Dinners Quotes, led by these top contributors: