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Quotes About Dinner

Alice's dinner consisted of one-half cup medium-grain white rice (120 calories), four spears of asparagus (20 calories), and a pat of butter (40 calories). Bones watched as she used her index finger to smear the butter on an asparagus spear. Then she sucked her middle finger, pretending to remove the excess butter. The buttered finger scratched an ankle, and the calories disappeared into her leg warmer. "Tricky," he said under his breath. She smiled. "Just good technique.
~ Sherry Shahan
Often it is children who tell their parents to put away the cell phone at dinner.
~ Sherry Turkle
I dont have a huge breakfast, and I sometimes forget to have lunch, so I focus on dinner. I love Thai and Japanese food.
~ Saffron Aldridge
Yeah, the whole family knows. It's no big deal. One night at dinner I said, 'Mom, you know the forbidden love that Spock has for Kirk? Well, me too.' It was easier for her to understand that way.
~ Holly Black
Literally, I just love food and I like going to dinner with big groups of people so you can try everything.
~ Sasha Grey
My wife and I both love cooking - I am an advanced male - so we argue about who gets to rustle up dinner.
~ Stephen Bayley
I love to cook, and I love to have all my family around the dinner table.
~ Julia Roberts
Chrysander set a plate piled high with food in front of her then settled into a seat across from her. She piddled with her fork and toyed with the food, pushing it around the plate as she avoided his gaze. He sighed, and she looked up to see him staring at her. His expression was somber, as though he was enduring the worst sort of hell. She nearly laughed at the absurdity. To her horror, she felt the prick of tears, and his face swam in her vision.
~ Maya Banks
Sometimes between lunch and dinner, when there's a lull, Jill and Shaniqua and I will sit around and fantasize about what we'd do if a REAL celebrity walked into the place, like Chad Michael Murray (although we've gone off him a bit since his divorce) or Jared Padalecki, or even Prince William (you never know. He could have gotten his yacht lost, or whatever.)
~ Meg Cabot
Dinner? You want to eat with me?' 'That's right, a Jew and queer, eh? The SS would love that, wouldn't they? Perhaps we can plot an assassination attempt.
~ Ben Elton
I'm not shy. I'm quiet. With my close friends. I talk a lot. But if I'm at a big dinner, I'm not gonna walk in and go introduce myself to everybody.
~ Riley Keough
When I would see my friends with their kids, I was envious that you can use children to get out of just about anything. If you don't feel like going to a dinner party, you could say, 'My kid's sick. I can't make it.' Who's gonna argue with you?
~ Kevin Nealon
There's times when you're having dinner with a good friend and you're in the middle of a conversation and somebody comes up and cuts you off. Can you sign this? Can I take a picture with you? I'm adjusting to all the attention.
~ Verne Troyer
And call me a pig, but isn't it brilliantly refreshing how early the Dutch eat dinner? When they're still laying out the cutlery in achingly hip Barcelona, they're hanging the Closed sign on the restaurant doors of old Amsterdam.
~ Julie Burchill
I don't sign autographs when I'm out for a meal or out with my kids. I think that's rude and disrespectful. I would never ask anyone for an autograph while they were eating dinner; that's what I was taught by my parents.
~ Tim Howard
In the kitchen I just do all the normal stuff - roast dinners - Christmas dinner is probably my signature dish. Nothing baked, though. I just do boring family stuff.
~ Rob Beckett
dinner, and by the time they had finished their
~ Stuart Woods
What if we were the instigators of his doubt, what if he was beginning to realize that everything he had known thus far was a lie, and that we were the ones who held the key to truth? We agreed that we would never sit with him again, not even if he asked. "A dinner with us might get him killed," Katie said. I wanted to dismiss the comment as the melodrama of a twenty-three-year-old, but I knew it wasn't that. In North Korea, such a consequence was entirely possible.
~ Suki Kim
Your father... doesn't work late for you to pinch his dinner.
~ Susan Cooper
Want to get Chinese? I though you cooked. Like I know how. That's my girl.
~ Susan Mallery
Swedish-ish Meatballs 1 can of condensed cream of mushroom soup 2 cups of beef broth 1 envelope onion soup mix 2 14-oz bags of frozen meatballs
~ Susan Mallery
Dating? Who says we're dating? This feels like a date, he said simply. Dinner, dancing, a nightcap at my place. He took out two slender, stemmed glasses. To me, that spells date. We skipped over the asking out and primping and getting nervous beforehand. Yeah, who needs that?
~ Susan Wiggs
We sat in silence for minutes more before Guy said abruptly, "We're wasting our time. Did you want to grab dinner?" He started the Miata's engine. Stakeout Rule #1. Bring your own car or rent your own car. Do not rely on other people and their dwindling patience for your ride.
~ Josh Lanyon
Dos pasos hacia delante revelan el rostro de Sandra, sonriente. Una cara que inspira la misma confianza que la cena de una rata. —Inspector —saluda ella. —Loca del coño —saluda él. —Sería bueno que se guardara el arma. —Tú primero, tesoro.
~ Juan Gómez-Jurado