Dinner Quotes

Dinner is often a stew of beans or legumes, which are awesome for dieting; they give you that meaty satisfaction and both are excellent with whole grain rice or bread.

I think cookies are sort of the unsung sweet, you know? They're incredibly popular. But everybody thinks of cakes and pies and fancier desserts before they think cookies. A plate of cookies is a great way to end dinner and really nice to share at the holidays.

When I take my kids out for dinner or lunch, people smile at us.

If Shakespeare was around today I would ask him out to dinner. The only thing I don't like about him is the way he did his hair.

The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.

Instead of going out to dinner, buy good food. Cooking at home shows such affection. In a bad economy, it's more important to make yourself feel good.

The music I do is food... that will be your dinner.

Burning dinner is not incompetence but war.

Strategy is buying a bottle of fine wine when you take a lady out for dinner. Tactics is getting her to drink it.

Dinner was made for eating, not for talking.

I have never been so calculating as to sing some Barry White song to get a girl. But I do think it's very romantic to cook dinner and sit around the piano at night and sing together.

Every President that went to China, I would meet them and have dinner and talk about the past and the future. That was in the '70s.

Whereas Jeremy is just the opposite: always moving because he's never really thinking of anything and the kind of guy you'd worry inviting to a dinner party because he says what he thinks. He can be insulting at times but doesn't mean to be.

Some of the most important conversations I've ever had occurred at my family's dinner table.

Find me a man who's interesting enough to have dinner with and I'll be happy.

The best number for a dinner party is two; myself and a dam' good head waiter.

Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.

I still get nervous on dates. I'll be sitting at dinner with a guy and I have to excuse myself and go to the bathroom because I can't breathe.

When I usually go to my studio to work, I start with something that is going to take two minutes just to put some idea down and the next thing I know, ten hours have gone by and my family is screaming at me because they want me to come up to have dinner with them.

I met a hustler at a dinner party. He had been invited because I was looking for an adviser to help me with the street scenes. So we put him on the film.

There's nothing that can replicate the smoky flavor of char, so when I've got the hankering for it, I tell my wife that I'm taking care of dinner. I have three different types of barbecues - a coal, gas and smoker - so I can experiment a lot.

I'm the kind of girl who thinks about what she's gonna cook for dinner when she's finishing her lunch.

When I doing dinner theater in high school, I was talking to a woman who had been in the business for a while and I said I want to act, that's all I want to do with my life and she said if you're serious then you need to hone every discipline you can.

We sleep in separate rooms, we have dinner apart, we take separate vacations - we're doing everything we can to keep our marriage together.

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

But I don't sit down at dinner and have clever ideas.

We were very rich culturally. One Sunday each month, we would do this thing called Chamber Pots at somebody's house. A classical music group would come over and we'd have dinner. There were thirty people - parents and kids - and we'd sit on the floor and listen to this beautiful music.

You have to be generous if you want to spend your time making someone else dinner. Even if you're charging, you're still giving.

The slogan of progress is changing from the full dinner pail to the full garage.

You see an absolutely brilliant film later, as an adult, and you walk out thinking about what to have for dinner. Whereas something like Jaws winds up having a huge effect on me. If only my parents had been taking me to Kurosawa films when I was eight, but no.