Dinner Quotes - Page 9

Most successful American politicians look well-fed on endorsements, campaign contributions and chicken dinners.

This was a good dinner enough, to be sure, but it was not a dinner to ask a man to.

In Hollywood, as I've often said, if you don't sing or dance, you end up as an after-dinner speaker.

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

Peter Minuet, who said to the Indians in modern-day Manhattan, Will you accept a check from a Puerto Rican bank? Never got a dinner!

Julius Caesar's wife, who said to Julius, We are not naming our son Sid! Never got a dinner!

J. Paul Getty, who still hasn't been buried - they keep finding oil! Never got a dinner!

Helen of Troy, a hooker from Upstate New York. Never got a dinner!

Gandhi, who went to Wendy's and asked, "Where's the belief?" Never got a dinner!

The Mayor of Hong Kong, who said Can't work today. Have American flu. Never got a dinner!

Lee Iacocca, who said to Dolly Parton, Why do you need an airbag? Never got a dinner!

Dean Martin's great-great-uncle, Ebenezer Martin, who said to Eli Whitney, I see the cotton, but where's the gin? Never got a dinner!

John Wilkes Booth, who said, Sorry, I thought he was a critic. Never got a dinner!

Some of the most famous people in history never got a dinner!

I mean, I can cook, but I'd get very nervous having my food being judged by dinner guests.

Alber Elbaz is just a genius. He'll be in a dinner jacket and he doesn't care what time of day it is: I love that about him. He just marches to the beat of his own drum.

We always had lutefisk for Christmas dinner, after which Dad read from the Norwegian Bible.

He looked haggard and careworn, like a Borgia who has suddenly remembered that he has forgotten to shove cyanide in the consommé, and the dinner-gong due any moment.

All men love peace in their armchairs after dinner; but they disbelieve the other nations's professions, rightly measuring its sincerity by their own.

I enter my studio at 9 a.m. I have lunch here, I return right away to my work and I go out to dinner at 8 p.m. My daily tasks vary very much.

Criticized for using formal mathematical manipulations, without understanding how they worked: Should I refuse a good dinner simply because I do not understand the process of digestion?

Dinner's in one hour. If you're not back, sitting at the table, I'll beat you all unconscious with a spatula.

I belong to quite a lot of learned societies. We collect firearms and discuss them at dinners and clubs and things.

I seem to you cruel and too much addicted to gluttony, when I beat my cook for sending up a bad dinner. If that appears to you too trifling a cause, say for what cause you would have a cook flogged.

But I don't sit down at dinner and have clever ideas.