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“We should return to the Greeks, play in the open air: the drama dies of stalls and boxes and evening dress, and people who come to digest their dinner.”

People Should Play Dies Air Return Drama Theater Dresses Boxes Dinner Theatre Evening Greek

Author:Eleanora Duse

“If I could have dinner with anyone who lived in history, it would depend on the restaurant.”

Ifs History Depends Dinner Restaurants If I Could

Author:Rodney Dangerfield

“It's not like I'm starved for company - I have a few very good lady friends - but there's only a certain amount of times a woman wants to see you and never go out for dinner.”

Want Certain Company Amount Very Good Dinner Women Want Want To See You

Author:Jack Nicholson

“To my great surprise and pleasure, I have had dinner with most of the people living with whom I would like to have dinner.”

People Pleasure Surprise Dinner

Author:Holly Near

“The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation.”

Sleep Bed Tables Dinner Formal Confrontation Dinner Table

Author:Angela Carter

“Dinner is to a day what dessert is to dinner.”

Eating Dinner Dessert

Author:Michael Dorris

“When New Yorkers tell one about the dangers of their city, the muggings, the dinner parties to which no one turns up for fear of being attacked on the way, the traffic snarl-ups, the bland indifference of the city cops, they are unmistakably bragging.”

Way Turns Party Cities Danger New York Dinner Indifference Cop Traffic New Yorkers Bragging Dinner Party Bland

Book:Soft City: Picador Classic

Source: Soft City: Picador Classic

“That so-called feminine ardor for clothes shopping had been flagging for some time. Between 1980 and 1986, at the same time that women were buying more houses, cars, restaurant dinners, and health care services, they were buying fewer pieces of clothing-from dresses to underwear.”

Care House Pieces Car Clothes Dresses Dinner Health Care Restaurants Buying Feminine Shopping Clothings Fewer Underwear Ardor Clothes Shopping

Book:Backlash: the undeclared war against American women

Source: Backlash: the undeclared war against American women

“Most people who seek attention and regard by announcing that they're writing a novel are actually so devoid of narrative talent that they can't hold the attention of a dinner table for thirty seconds, even with a dirty joke.”

People Writing Attention Novel Talent Jokes Regard Tables Dinner Narrative Dirty Thirty Seconds Dinner Table Announcing Dirty Jokes

Book:Bad Or, the Dumbing of America

Source: Bad Or, the Dumbing of America

“Think of a dinner party as a club of revolutionaries, a technocratic elite whose social interactions that night are a dry run for some future takeover of the state.”

Thinking States Running Night Social Party Clubs Dinner Revolutionary Dry Elites Interaction Dinner Party Social Interaction Takeovers

Book:Getting Personal: Selected Writings

Source: Getting Personal: Selected Writings

“The dinner party is a suburban form of entertainment. Its spread in our big cities represents an insidious Fifth Column suburbanization of the metropolis.”

Bigs Form Party Cities Entertainment Spread Dinner Fifth Columns Insidious Dinner Party Big Cities Metropolis Suburbanization

Book:Getting Personal: Selected Writings

Source: Getting Personal: Selected Writings

“My dinner spot is usually in front of the TV. I'll grill a steak and whip up a salad and watch 'Hoarders.' I love it because a) I'm kind of voyeuristic, and b) every time I see an episode, I go to the one room where all my unpacked boxes wound up, and I throw out a box of stuff.”

Kind Stuff Rooms Watches Fronts Tvs Boxes Dinner Wounds Spots Episodes Whips Salad Steak

Author:Nathan Fillion

“Funny, isn't it? The airlines go to all that trouble to keep you from taking a gun on board, then they just hand you a dinner roll you could kill a musk ox with.”

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Book:The World According to Dave Barry

Source: The World According to Dave Barry

“Dinner was meat - not hunks of meat, as in Australia, but pathetic scraps of meat, as in Britain - which the girls upstairs transformed into edible dishes by heating it in secret ways and adding bits of stuff to it.”

Way Funny Girl Stuff Bits Secret Humorous England Dinner Meat Britain Australia Transformed Dishes Pathetic Scrap Upstairs Heating Hunk

Book:The Complete Unreliable Memoirs

Source: The Complete Unreliable Memoirs

“When you are invited to a dinner, you are either a guest or you are part of a menu”

Inspirational Dinner Guests Invited Menus

Author:Guy Verhofstadt

“Almost all human affairs are tedious. Everything is too long. Visits, dinners, concerts, plays, speeches, pleadings, essays, sermons, are too long. Pleasure and business labor equally under this defect, or, as I should rather say, this fatal super-abundance.”

Should Humans Long Play Time Pleasure Speech Labor Affair Dinner Abundance Concerts Defects Essays Sermons Tedious Pleading

Book:Companions of My Solitude

Source: Companions of My Solitude

“I like being married. I like taking care of people, having someone to make dinner for.”

People Care Married Dinner Being Married

Author:Ellen Barkin

“Once, as an experiment, I travelled around the world with a single suit. Before I left, I went to a tailor in Savile Row and asked him to make me a suit that I could wear in any climate and which I could use as a tuxedo, a dinner jacket, a lounge suit and a blazer.”

World Use Left Climate Dinner Experiments Suits Around The World Jackets Tailors Blazers Tuxedos

Author:George Hamilton

“My wife and I both love cooking - I am an advanced male - so we argue about who gets to rustle up dinner.”

Wife Cooking Males Dinner My Wife Arguing Cooking Love Cooking And Love

Author:Stephen Bayley

“You could be a rebel, a profound thinker, and a rock and roll maniac and still eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and drink a nice cup of tea with your friends.”

Stills Nice Rocks Drink Profound Dinner Cups Tea Breakfast Thinker Lunch Rebel Rock And Roll Cups Of Tea Maniacs

Author:Pamela Des Barres

“Eclecticism is the degree zero of contemporary general culture: one listens to reggae, watches a western, eats McDonald's food for lunch and local cuisine for dinner, wears Paris perfume in Tokyo and 'retro' clothing in Hong Kong; knowledge is a matter of TV games. It is easy to find a public for eclectic works.”

Matter Culture Games Easy Watches Tvs Degrees Clothes Western Dinner Locals Contemporary Paris Zero Lunch Perfume Mcdonalds Cuisine Hong Kong Reggae Eclectic Tokyo Retro

Author:Jean-Francois Lyotard

“The image is where you have dinner at night, who you're seeing. It's what car you drive and how you dress. People in the industry sell that, and it creates a dream. There's nothing else.”

People Dream Night Seeing Car Industry Dresses Sells Dinner

Author:Elle Macpherson

“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.”

Stills I Can Guy Sitting Excuse Dinner Breathe Nervous Bathroom Because I Can

Author:Shannen Doherty

“The first thing you should do with an actor is not sign a contract with him. Take him to dinner. And take him for a walk afterwards.”

Should Firsts Actors Walks Dinner Contracts

Author:Elia Kazan

“Sitting down for dinner not only helps you learn, but also teaches you how to listen - which I feel is the most important skill to have. I remember as a kid going around the table listening to everyone's day. It was hard to have the manners not to interrupt back then.”

Feels Important Hard Helping Kids Remember Teach Listening Skills Sitting Tables Dinner Manners Sitting Down

Author:Michael Symon

“I think people recognize me if I am going out to dinner or if I am staying in a hotel. They are not quite sure at first because I have grown up a lot.”

People Ifs Thinking Firsts Dinner Hotel Staying Going Out

Author:Emma Bunton

“I don't know how other people perceive the lives of actors, but my life is fairly ordinary. I go to work, I come home, I put my kids to bed. If I'm home in time for dinner, I have dinner, and then it's bedtime.”

People Ifs Knows Home Kids Life Is Actors Know How Bed Ordinary Dinner Perceive Coming Home Bedtime

Author:Steve Carell

“I have to go out for lunch and dinner because I can't cook. I need a woman to come and save me from my cooking.”

Needs I Can Cooking Dinner Cooks Lunch Because I Can Save Me

Author:Carrot Top

“There's nothing I like more than picking fresh vegetables then putting them in the dinner you make that night.”

Night Dinner Vegetables

Author:Patrick Duffy

“I'm an avid cook. Brazilian, some Italian, a little French. And I often throw dinner parties.”

Littles Party Dinner Cooks Italian Dinner Party Avid

Author:Morena Baccarin

“I'd rather go to the White House Correspondents' dinner than any awards show.”

Shows House White Dinner White House Awards Award Shows

Author:Scarlett Johansson

“My favorite thing is to have a big dinner with friends and talk about life.”

Bigs My Favorite Dinner Favorites Things Dinner With Friends

Author:Carla Gugino

“Sometimes it would be nice to just have some red wine with dinner, but it's not worth the risk. I have a great life, a great situation. Why would I want to risk self-destructive behaviour?”

Want Self Sometimes Would Be Situation Nice Risk Red Wine Dinner Destructive Behaviour Being Nice Self Destructive Red Wine

Author:Kristin Davis

“You know when you tell a self-deprecating story at a dinner party, everyone's laughing along with you? But then when someone else repeats that same story at another dinner party you feel they're all laughing at you?”

Knows Feels Self Stories Party Laughing Dinner Repeats Dinner Party Self Deprecating Self Deprecating Humor

Author:Toby Young

“When I was younger I used to get my best writing done at night, but now it has to be during the day. I usually finish work at half past seven, then go back to the house to open a bottle of wine, have dinner, and then read or watch television.”

Writing Done Past Used Night House Half Watches Television Wine Seven Dinner Bottles Bottles Of Wine

Author:Antony Beevor

“Dinner, basketball game, four guys - classic.”

Guy Games Four Basketball Dinner Classic Basketball Game

Author:Billy Bush

“You now have six-year campaigns for the Senate - you never stop running. It's not uncommon for a member of the Senate to have a fundraising breakfast, a fundraising lunch and a fundraising dinner, and then when the Senate breaks for the week to go home, more fundraisers. And that's driven by the cost of campaigning.”

Years Home Running Break Week Cost Members Six Dinner Driven Campaigns Breakfast Lunch Senate Uncommon Fundraising Campaigning Fundraiser

Author:Evan Bayh

“I am different - if you can find another like me, then I will buy you dinner!”

Ifs Different Dinner Like Me

Author:Mario Balotelli

“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.”

Thinking Knows Way Ends Nice Share Sweet Dinner Holiday Cake Plates Pie Cookies Dessert Really Nice

Author:Bobby Flay

“But as a kid, I loved 'Monty Python.' My Dad was a devout watcher. We used to watch it when we ate dinner!”

Kids Used Watches Dad My Dad Dinner Watchers Python Monty

Author:Wes Bentley

“Not many shows bring fans and artists together, and 'Rock Dinner' is one of the few shows that does it. Every opportunity I get to get closer to one of my fans - and get to know them and talk to them - I'm always going to take that opportunity with arms wide open and make it a priority.”

Knows Doe Shows Together Artist Opportunity Fans Rocks Arms Dinner Wide Priorities Arms Wide Open

Author:Jencarlos Canela

“People always ask me, 'Why did your wife take that extra job?' What they don't know is that four out of five days a week she's going to be home having dinner with us by five o'clock.”

People Knows Home Jobs Asks Five Four Wife Week Dinner Clock Ask Me Extras

Author:Mark Consuelos

“We have dinner every single night, Monday through Friday, with our children. We sit down around 6 or 6:30 and it's a family dinner - it's time to check in, just to be around each other.”

Children Night Our Children Dinner Checks Monday Friday Family Dinner

Author:Mark Consuelos

“I make sure I make a painting - that's my job. And I cook the Sunday dinner.”

Jobs Painting Dinner Cooks Sunday Sunday Dinner

Author:Billy Childish

“In my family, we let our boys have a say in what veggie side they want for dinner that night. We list off a handful of options and get them excited about helping to plan the dinner menu. They're much more inclined to finish their plates when they've helped decide what goes on them.”

Want Helping Night Sides Boys Plans Goes On My Family Excited Dinner Lists Plates Handful Menus

Author:Cat Cora

“It's one thing to reject the idea that it's a man's job to bring home all the bacon; it's another the 500th time your wife reaches for the check at dinner.”

Men Ideas Home Jobs Wife One Thing Dinner Checks Rejects

Author:Will Allison

“My mom cooked pot roast with noodles and frozen vegetables. Or she'd make spaghetti or hot dogs, or heat up TV dinners. Before I started modeling at age 19, I was 5'8" and weighed 165 pounds.”

Age Dog Tvs Mom Hot My Mom Dinner Heat Pounds Pot Vegetables Frozen Modeling Spaghetti Hot Dog Noodles

Author:Carol Alt

“I went along doing the one-salad-a-night routine for a year. And I remember feeling so tired and depressed and irritable. I had no personal life. I was always flying someplace - weekends, holidays, vacations. Dinners at night were no fun because I couldn't eat.”

Years Feelings Remember Night Fun Tired Dinner Flying Holiday Routine Weekend Vacation Personal Life Salad

Author:Carol Alt

“My parents discussed singing every night over the dinner table; I had a tremendous music education.”

Night Parent Singing Tables Dinner Every Night Dinner Table Music Education

Author:Renee Fleming

“I go light on breakfast. Sometimes it's a yogurt, but a lot of times it's leftovers from one of my wife's dinners.”

Sometimes Light Wife Dinner My Wife Breakfast Yogurt Leftovers

Author:Ice Cube

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