Famous Quotes & Sayings

Laurie Colwin

There is nothing like roast chicken. It is helpful and agreeable, the perfect dish no matter what the circumstances. Elegant or homey, a dish for a dinner party or a family supper, it will not let you down.

Jennifer Grant

The process was remarkably cathartic. I'd sit and listen to my father's voice - having not heard some of these tapes for 30 years and hearing his voice laying me down for a nap, our giggles and cooking dinner - and I remembered all those wonderful days. Normal days.

Jane Addams

It is as easy for most of us to keep from stealing our dinners as it is to digest them, and there is quite as much voluntary morality involved in one process as the other.

We've had one of these dinners on the 50-yard-line at Texas Stadium, and invited some players to stop by. We did it (the 50-yard-line stadium dinner) because we thought it was fun.

Every state dinner was a huge challenge. This was the moment where you had to shine.

Greg Biffle

We're going out for steak dinners and we're finishing in the top five and we're third in points and everything's great.

Fewer family dinners means nobody is trading stories anymore.

Red Buttons

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, who said to his tailor Irving, Forget the slacks - please work on the blazer! Never got a dinner!

Red Buttons

Sydney Poitier, who said to Lester Maddox, Guess who's not coming to dinner? Never got a dinner!

Michael Drake

There are people who for years got together and had dinner parties who don't talk to each other anymore, ... All over how to handle our wastewater problem.

No, not for seniors. We usually have our dinners early.

I guess I made friends with people who were not too much the party type. But I was never the type of person who would like to party too much. I never felt the urge to do that, I much prefer going downtown for a dinner or a movie. So it didn't matter whether I was younger.

If they don't win money, they still might win a nice dinner for on the way home.

If this goes through, we will meet with the aldermen biweekly and have dinner one night a week.

Karl Rove

Sit down -- you'll get your dinner quicker,

Mary Stuart Masterson

Since I was a child, I've liked telling stories. Maybe because my father's a director, I grew up loving stories. I'm not good at spinning them at a dinner table because I do go on a bit, but I love writing them, and directing is just a way of editing the story.

Steve Toltz

I can't sit through dinner with somebody I don't like.

Jim Hightower

Reagan promised everyone a seven-course dinner. Ours turned out to be a possum and a six-pack.

Erma Bombeck

I would have invited friends over to dinner even if the carpet was stained, or the sofa faded.

George Eliot

... in no part of the world is genteel visiting founded on esteem, in the absence of suitable furniture and complete dinner-service.

Willie Randolph

He's one of those people you wish you could go have dinner with.

Most people don't realize that they actually should wash their hands after they make dinner and also after they do the laundry.

Mr. Townsend? Is dinner this Thursday at 5:30 fine with you?

Amy Adams

Moving out to L.A. for me was a leap of faith. I was very secure in my dinner theater world; I loved it, and I was just like, 'I think there's something else out there for me and I just have to go for it.'

Mark Harmon

McNeil and I are very different people. McNeil is the guy you hope does your surgery, but not the kind of guy you wanna have dinner with.

Lykke Li

My favorite thing in the world is to have just a big dinner with friends and just sit and talk about their life and their difficulties and all of that.

Deborah Moggach

My perfect day is to work incredibly well in the morning and write something wonderful, then take the dog for a walk and go for a swim in the ladies' ponds on Hampstead Heath or work in my allotment. Then I get tarted up in the evening and go out in London to dinner or the cinema.

Kurt Busch

I'm still the down-to-earth guy who'd rather go have dinner with my grandma and her meatloaf than go out and do things with some friends.

Bill Vaughan

O hour, of all hours, the most blesse'd upon earth, The bless'd hour of our dinners!

I would love a big teddy bear, a card, some chocolates. What I would really love is a day with that person, you know, like to go to dinner or make dinner and watch movies with each other and cuddle.

Jason Ritter

I was in L.A. having dinner with a guy I'd known in high school,

I think maybe people are skiing and going out to dinner and not shopping.

Lindsey Graham

We don't do Lincoln Day Dinners in South Carolina. It's nothing personal, but it takes a while to get over things.