Quotes About Dinner

Arriving home on a weeknight is guaranteed to be the least relaxing part of my day. The door opens, and two Tasmanian devil-children fly at me, showing me art projects and asking for snacks. My bag has barely hit the floor before I'm off doing 20 things at once, none of which is preparing dinner.

But I do love to cook. When I have a dinner party I like to invite loads of people, then I would just do like a salad buffet, with some snacks and cold meat and lots of different salads.

When Marvin and I are on a date night, we keep our phones in our bags. If you're out for dinner, enjoy it! I find it bizarre that you would pay for an expensive meal to just Snapchat through all of it.

I sleep nine hours every night, I have a little nap after lunch, and, if I'm going out for dinner, I sneak in an extra one before I head out.

A tradition I have on Christmas morning - my son has always been the one that cooks the breakfast and I am always the one in the evening attempting to cook the beautiful Christmas dinner. And during the day we just have a nice snore, a nice relax and watch a movie.

It was either a ritual sacrifice, or more nuts and berries for dinner.

Is there any more feudal, soul eradiating experience than standing before the little window on a microwave oven watching the carousel slowly revolve your frozen block of dinner? Time spent this way might be easier than cooking but it is not enjoyable & surely not ennobling. It is to feel spiritually unemployed, useless to self & humanity.

I love a small dinner party - let's say six people, max, were everybody's having the same conversation. That's my favorite thing in the world.

Opening her eyes again, and seeing her husband's face across the table, she leaned forward to give it a pat on the cheek, and sat down to supper, declaring it to be the best face in the world.

Oh dear Sunday, I am so happy that I want your entire wisdom at my dinner table.

As it turned out, he was wrong about that. The last guest didn't show up until we were eating our dessert. That was when the ghost sat down in the empty chair-directly across from me.

Simons, as restrained as Bradlee could be hard-charging and obstreperous, liked to tell of watching Bradlee grind his cigarrettes out in a demitasse cup during a formal dinner party. Bradlee was one of the few persons who could pull that kind of thing off and leave the hostess saying how charming he was. -- Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward

No thanks, I've already eaten.

People are content to wait a long time for salvation, but expect dinner to turn up within the hour.

It was long after midnight and the stars looked damp and chilly; the air was full of the busy silence of the night, which is created by hundreds of small furry things treading very carefully in the hope of finding dinner while avoiding being the main course.

His mouth said: Would you like to have dinner tonight? For just the skin of a second, Miss Dearheart was surprised, but not half as surprised as Moist. Then her natural cynicism reinflated. I like to have dinner every night. With you? No. I have things to do. Thank you for asking. No problem, said Moist, slightly relieved.

Freedom may be mankind's natural state, but so is sitting in a tree eating your dinner while it is still wriggling.

You starve Dad a few days, he'll know how to cook, too. No, he wouldn't. He'd just waste away at the dining table, waiting for dinner to float in all by itself.

Family values meant keeping your head down and your voice soft. It meant having dinner on the table by six and your paycheck in his hand every other Friday. It meant keeping secrets that at any time might explode in your face.

Christmas is all about exchanging gifts and I always make an effort to make my Christmas dinner a jolly affair.

Evening dinner dates can cloud your judgment.

Julie, Mia and I just met for a couple days, doing some work but really under the guise of having fun. We do events like the Women's Sports Foundation Dinner, where we get to not only do a good thing for the community but we get to hang out with one another again.

I have very non-eccentric hobbies. I like to read, to have dinner with friends, and junk out on TV like everybody else.

My dream dinner party guests would be Ethel Kennedy, Truman Capote and Hunter S. Thompson.