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Quotes About Dinner

What I didn't figure was that I'd be eating dinner with the Stepsister from the Black Lagoon.
~ Ann M. Martin
and on Fridays, we have snake fries for dinner. You have to go out and catch your own snake. Then you fry it up and —
~ Ann M. Martin
I need not tell you that Mr. Greville and Mr. Fenwick attended us to our first baiting; and had a genteel dinner ready provided for us: The gentlemen will tell you this, and all particulars. They both renewed their menaces of following me to London, if I stay'd above one month.
~ Samuel Richardson
meal congealing in white pasteboard containers. The
~ Sandra Brown
Afrodisíacos en la sopa. Oscar recordó vagamente una cena con velas y vino preparada por Natalia. Después del postre había sentido una comezón en el área púbica seguida de una leve indigestión. Y eso había sido todo.
~ Santiago Roncagliolo
The doorbell rang during dinner. Alan got up to answer, saying, If it's the missionaries I might let them in. I'm too tired to put up a fight.
~ Sara Zarr
And I listened to them talking in the hallway, my mother explaining the best way to serve the tuna salad, on lettuce, while Rina made listening noises and popped her gum. And Rogerson's phone rang, on and on. No answer.
~ Sarah Dessen
If we fail in our negotiation," Greene told Lafayette en route to d'Estaing's ship, "we shall at least get a good dinner." Washington should have chosen Greene, not Sullivan, to steer this mission. Besides his cool head and personal interest in helping his home state, Greene understood that whatever their shortcomings, the French could always be counted on to roast the hell out of a chicken. Greene
~ Sarah Vowell
Most men's awareness doesn't extend past their dinner plates.
~ Scott Westerfeld
Shall we go have a nice dinner in London? And,well, you can't, but I feel like getting a little foxed while we're at it.
~ Johanna Lindsey
Roll up the tortilla and place it seam-side down in the baking dish. Repeat with the remaining tortillas, snuggling them close together in the pan. P
~ John A. McDougall
The best and most interesting food in America was inseparable from the landscapes that produced it. It was all right there, in country diners and small-town grocers' shops; in roadside dinner houses and bakeries. All you needed to do was look.
~ John Birdsall
If you really want to annoy someone, you can make little inverted commas by holding up two fingers of each hand and twitching them gently, as though you're tickling an invisible elf under the armpits. For example, when your mother calls you for dinner, and dinner turns out to be boiled fish and broccoli, you can say to her, "Well, I'll just eat my 'dinner', then," and do the little fingers sign. She'll love it. Seriously. I can hear her laughing already.
~ John Connolly
I read somewhere that the New Orleans citizenry bought fewer copies of the New York Times than any other city in the United States, although they made up for it by buying more formal wear than anywhere else. If you're going out to formal dinners every evening, you don't get much time to read the New York Times.
~ John Connolly
You don't invite two guys to the same rich snooty dinner party charity thingy. Haven't you ever seen a movie in your life? Now one of us has to kill the other one.
~ John David Anderson
I try not to become friends with musicians, but life happens and dinner happens and going out happens - it becomes interwoven in L.A.
~ Ariel Rechtshaid
Mike wished Mr. Burden had chosen another time to be murdered. He was beginning to see that the hour of dressing for dinner might have been expressly designed for persons who need a quiet spell for the commission of crime.
~ Eilís Dillon
Era così: se eravamo insieme, non c'era critica che ci toccasse davvero, anzi diventavamo superbi, nient'altro aveva senso se non le nostre opinioni. Correvamo a cena, al cibo buono, al vino, al sesso. Volevamo soltanto afferrarci e stringerci.
~ Elena Ferrante
For dinner she made a soup called "boy-catching soup" and a cake called "mother-in-law cake." These two dishes seemed to sum up a whole worldview of entrapment and placation.
~ Elif Batuman
ended up having dinner with the Nagys. Everything was covered in sour cream.
~ Elif Batuman
She certainly carried that arrogance with her at dinner, and again when she dropped off the transparencies. He was surprised to hear that she'd crumbled so publicly, but then again, those kinds of people were often more fragile than they seemed. Harder, but more brittle.
~ Antoine Wilson
After dinner, rest after dinner walk a mile.
~ Arabic proverb
But as a kid, I loved 'Monty Python.' My Dad was a devout watcher. We used to watch it when we ate dinner!
~ Wes Bentley
The only difference between working on a huge-budget film and a lesser-budget film, is the quality of lunch and dinner.
~ Ving Rhames