“Spending more time with friends and family costs nothing. Nor does walking, cooking, meditating, making love, reading or eating dinner at the table instead of in front of the television. Simply resisting the urge to hurry is free.” DoeReadingFrontsTelevisionWalkingCostEatingTablesCookingDinnerSpendingUrgesMore TimeMaking LoveFamily And FriendsResistingMeditatingLove Of ReadingTimes With FriendsEating Dinner Book:In praise of slow: how a worldwide movement is challenging the cult of speed Source: In praise of slow: how a worldwide movement is challenging the cult of speed
“I love to watch those old movies on late-night television, particularly when a couple get up from a champagne dinner in a posh restaurant and the hero hands the waiter $3. But the best part is when he says, "Keep the change."” HandsNightWatchesModernTelevisionCoupleHeroLateDinnerGet UpRestaurantsModern LifeChampagneWaiterLate NightOld MoviePosh Author:Robert Orben
“The thing I love about television is that people watch you in their pajamas, and when they're eating dinner. You're part of the family.” PeopleWatchesTelevisionEatingDinnerThings I LovePajamasEating Dinner Author:Barbara Feldon
“I sit at home and read books. I watch movies. I watch television. I go and play golf. I don't go to nightclubs. I don't go out to dinner that often. I'm not a big party guy.” BookPlayHomeBigsGuyPartyWatchesTelevisionGolfDinnerNightclubsWatch Movie Author:Samuel L. Jackson
“We really didn't have the option of being couch potatoes when I was growing up. There were only three television channels and the only kid's programming was on Saturday morning. We always played outside until we could hear Mom calling us (not by cell phone but with her hands cupped around her mouth) that it was dinner time.” HandsKidsThreeMorningGrowing UpGrowingTelevisionMomCallingMouthsPhonesDinnerCellsProgrammingSaturdayPotatoesCouchesCell PhoneSaturday MorningDinner Time Author:Jeff Foxworthy
“One of the biggest challenges in the past for me in working on the networks was that audiences have grown accustomed to television being something that keeps you company-background music, something that you have on while you're flipping through a magazine, cooking dinner, talking on the phone, putting the kids to bed.” KidsPastChallengesCompanyTalkingAudienceTelevisionBedCookingPhonesDinnerBackgroundsMagazinesAccustomedBackground MusicTalking On The PhoneCooking Dinner Author:Aaron Sorkin
“I think that there's some brainwashing going on with this idea that we don't have time to cook anymore. We have made cooking seem much more complicated than it is, and part of that comes from watching cooking shows on television-we've turned cooking into a spectator sport. ...My wife and I both work, and we can get a very nice dinner on the table in a half hour. It would not take any less time for us to drive to a fast-food outlet and order, sit down, and bus our table.” ThinkingMadeIdeasShowsSeemsOrderSportsHoursHalfNiceWifeTelevisionDown AndTablesCookingComplicatedDinnerMy WifeCooksBusSpectatorsOutletsVery NiceFast FoodHalf HoursBrainwashingCooking Shows Author:Michael Pollan
“The family dinner table is the cornerstone of civilization and those who 'graze' from refrigerators or in front of the television sets are doomed to remain in a state of savagery.” StatesFrontsTelevisionCivilizationTablesDinnerDoomedCornerstonesRefrigeratorsDinner TableSavageryFamily Dinner Author:Judith Martin