Famous Quotes & Sayings

We want people to not just sit at the dinner and not be able to participate. We want people to get up and have fun.

Alan King

One thing I've never said in my whole life is, 'Let's have dinner at a Japanese restaurant.'

Jennifer Grant

The process was remarkably cathartic. I'd sit and listen to my father's voice - having not heard some of these tapes for 30 years and hearing his voice laying me down for a nap, our giggles and cooking dinner - and I remembered all those wonderful days. Normal days.

Jane Addams

It is as easy for most of us to keep from stealing our dinners as it is to digest them, and there is quite as much voluntary morality involved in one process as the other.

Charles Lamb

Oh, the pleasure of eating my dinner alone!

We have a place at the dinner table for her.

Juvenal

The only gain from the friendship of the great is a fine dinner.

Laurie Colwin

There is nothing like roast chicken. It is helpful and agreeable, the perfect dish no matter what the circumstances. Elegant or homey, a dish for a dinner party or a family supper, it will not let you down.

Junior Seau

For dinner I want real sushi - not the Americanized kind. My parents are American Samoan so I don't go for any of those rolls. I'll have raw prawn or sea urchin or octopus. I love it.

Gerald R. Ford

Tell the truth, work hard, and come to dinner on time.

We're still going to go out there and play and we're going to work together. We're still going to go out on our regular nights and have dinner together as an offensive line and as a unit.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour.

Kazuo Ishiguro

Until then, I was knocking on doors. Afterward, my wife and I started to get a different kind of dinner invitation altogether.

Nate Corddry

There are a lot of funny people in my family. Absolutely. There were a lot of jokes growing up around the dinner table, for sure. We didn't grow up in a creative family.

Karl Rove

Sit down -- you'll get your dinner quicker,

Mary Stuart Masterson

Since I was a child, I've liked telling stories. Maybe because my father's a director, I grew up loving stories. I'm not good at spinning them at a dinner table because I do go on a bit, but I love writing them, and directing is just a way of editing the story.

Most people don't realize that they actually should wash their hands after they make dinner and also after they do the laundry.

Mr. Townsend? Is dinner this Thursday at 5:30 fine with you?

Amy Adams

Moving out to L.A. for me was a leap of faith. I was very secure in my dinner theater world; I loved it, and I was just like, 'I think there's something else out there for me and I just have to go for it.'

Mark Harmon

McNeil and I are very different people. McNeil is the guy you hope does your surgery, but not the kind of guy you wanna have dinner with.

Dom DeLuise

I was at dinner with Gene Wilder and imitated Ethel Barrymore for everyone

The only person I really like in the kitchen is Linda. I have a little galley kitchen, but I can put out a dinner party for forty. Now when I have a dinner party I plan it when she's around so she can help me. She does the same.

Earl Derr Biggers

Careless shepherd make excellent dinner for wolf.

We're just looking forward to getting home, but it's not going to be us not seeing each other or anything like that. We can't wait to get back into the garage, hammer out ideas for songs, go out for dinners together, work on the new album. You know, do sh-- like that.

We always get together every two weeks and have dinner or lunch at our house and it's not going to be good that we can't do that now. It's going to be hard and it's going to be tough.

Michael Drake

There are people who for years got together and had dinner parties who don't talk to each other anymore, ... All over how to handle our wastewater problem.

I am extremely proud of my team. Everybody could see that there is teamwork on and off the court. We hit together, fight together, have dinner together. I couldn't wish for a better spirit.

I'm an artist, but my father is an old rocket scientist, so we talked about physics a lot over the dinner table,

Needless to say the family conversations around the dinner table can be very interesting. Some members of the family have very strong feelings on issues and not necessarily in the same directions.

Get those dinner reservations now. Places are filling up quick. Girls should have any hair or make-up appointments set, and guys should have their tuxes rented. And remember to plan on having a good time.

Oscar Niemeyer

I enter my studio at 9 a.m. I have lunch here, I return right away to my work and I go out to dinner at 8 p.m. My daily tasks vary very much.

Steve Toltz

I can't sit through dinner with somebody I don't like.

If this goes through, we will meet with the aldermen biweekly and have dinner one night a week.