Dinner quotes
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"Alber Elbaz is just a genius. He'll be in a dinner jacket and he doesn't care what time of day it is: I love that about him. He just marches to the beat of his own drum."
"English tradition debars from dinner-table conversation almost all topics that might interest the conversers and insists upon strict adherence to banalities."
"When they told me I needed a mastectomy, I thought of the thousands of luncheons and dinners I had attended where they slapped a name tag on my left bosom. I always smiled and said, 'Now, what shall we name the other one?' That would no longer be a problem."
"We have happy days, remember good dinners."
"Ha. "Against my will I am sent to bid you come into dinner." There's a double meaning in that. -Benedick (Much Ado)"
"[My ideal of a good dinner] is to discuss good food, and, after this good food has been discussed, to discuss a good topic - with myself the chief conversationalist."
"Me sitting down for dinner with Ingmar Bergman felt like a house painter sitting down with Picasso."
"This was a good dinner enough, to be sure, but it was not a dinner to ask a man to."
"In Hollywood, as I've often said, if you don't sing or dance, you end up as an after-dinner speaker."
"Don't tell us about dreams – dream dinners aren't any good and we can't share them."
"If food did not exist it would be well-nigh impossible to get certain types off the phone, as one would be unable to say, 'Look, I've got to run but let's have dinner sometime soon.'"
"When you let the wolves guard the hen house, there's bound to be a few chicken dinners."
"When the time comes that a man has had his dinner, then the true man comes to the surface"
"I grew up in Kentucky, but I did not grow up like that. I had heat, and I didn't have to shoot my dinner or anything."
"I wouldn't say I was organised at all. I just have to prioritise. Is it more important for them to be organised, or to have their dinner, do you know what I mean?"
"Whether I'm on for a day or whether I'm on for a year, at the end of the day, I sing for my dinner."
"I'm not supposed to have chocolate before dinner."
"I'm very consistent about spending time with family. And when you have dinner with your daughters - they'll keep you in your place and they'll teach you something about perspective."
"We are plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures. Nasty disturbing uncomfortable things! Make you late for dinner!"
"Writers get exactly the right amount of fame: just enough to get a good table in a restaurant but not enough so that people are constantly interrupting you while you're eating dinner."
