Quotes 121 till 140 of 220.
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Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
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My body is like breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I don't think about it, I just have it.
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My father was an entrepreneur - a sign maker, and he had about 20 employees - and often he'd take me to business meetings, and I would listen to him talk with his workers and customers. We would also talk a lot about business over dinner.
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My God! The English language is a form of communication! Conversation isn't just crossfire where you shoot and get shot at! Where you've got to duck for your life and aim to kill! Words aren't only bombs and bullets — no, they're little gifts, containing meanings!
Portnoy's Complaint (1969) -
My kids are always in the kitchen with me - I bring them to the bakery and let them decorate cakes, and they also try to help me and my wife, Lisa, cook dinner at night.
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My mother accidentally gave me food poisoning. She fed me baby carrots for a snack before Christmas dinner - but they had expired in June! I threw up for the next 24 hours.
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My parents were the traditional Filipino parents who didn't talk about money around the dinner table.
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Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument.
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No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conversation. Even if the thing they are waiting for is only a taxi.
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No one is qualified to converse in public except those contented to do without such conversation.
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No one will ever shine in conversation, who thinks of saying fine things: to please, one must say many things indifferent, and many very bad.
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Nothing a man writes can please him as profoundly as something he does with his back, shoulders and hands. For writing is an artificial activity. It is a lonely and private substitute for conversation.
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Of all bad listeners, the worst and most terrible to encounter is the man who is so fond of listening that he wishes to hear, not only your conversation, but that of every other person in the room.
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On the broad spectrum of solitude, I lean toward the extreme end: I work alone, as well as live alone, so I can pass an entire day without uttering so much as a hello to another human being. Sometimes a day's conversation consists of only five words, uttered at the local Starbucks: 'Large coffee with milk, please.'
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One of the very best rules of conversation is to never, say anything which any of the company wish had been left unsaid.
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Only if we can restrain ourselves is conversation possible. Good talk rises upon much discipline.
The complete life (1943) -
Our companions please us less from the charms we find in their conversation than from those they find in ours.
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People crave trustworthy information about the world we live in. Some people want it because it is essential to the way they make a living. Some want it because they regard being well-informed as a condition of good citizenship. Some want it because they want something to exchange over dinner tables and water coolers.
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People invite me to dinner not because I cook, but because I like to clean up. I get immediate gratification from Windex. Yes, I do windows.
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