Quotes of: Dinner-table Keyword

Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.

Walter Bagehot

There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.

Winston Churchill

My husband jokes that I'll invite people over for dinner and he won't know who they are or where I met them. But in my work world, I've never really been tempted to tell too much of my story.

Carrie-Anne Moss

By 1949, there was no more work for me out there, and I went to New York in 1950 and just did whatever I could. Mainly television. Some Broadway. A lot of dinner theater work, which is not a very satisfactory medium.

Don Ameche

One day, the people who work in my kitchen stir-fried chopped Napa cabbage to serve with some meat or fish for their own dinner. I got to thinking: 'What if the cabbage was the most important thing on the plate?'

Nobu Matsuhisa

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.

Oscar Niemeyer

Women always think that I'm Chandler, so if I don't joke around for half an hour, they think that something's wrong. Then I explain that I don't have comedy writers scripting everything I'm saying at this particular dinner.

Matthew Perry

It hadn't ever been on the table. Commitment had never been an option. There was never any love.

Caffè Latte

I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table.

Rodney Dangerfield

This was going to be worse than the time I table danced in the diner in high school!

Restless Spirits

On my 14th birthday, my grandfather and my grandmother gave me the best birthday present ever: a drafting table that I have worked on ever since.

Jarrett J. Krosoczka

Most people went to dance shows, but it was basically a table and a DJ playing and not really a spectacular thing. I brought the whole production with the effects - the best sound, the best lighting to blow the fans away.

Tiesto

I lost my hair mixing a substance called white gunpowder on the kitchen table.

Mark Oliphant

...better a live bird in the jungle of the body than two stuffed birds on the library table.

Nathanael West

It seems to me that anyone whose library consists of a Kindle lying on a table is some sort of bloodless nerd.

Penelope Lively

I think the Tea Party has brought important issues to the table.

Roy Blunt

When you're unemployed for six months or a year, it is hard to qualify for a lease, so even the option of relocating to find a job is often off the table.

Janet Yellen

Corned beef and cabbage - that's our favorite holiday meal when all the O' Haras gather around the table.

Kelli O'Hara

I don't go out to clubs. You'll never see me on a table at a bar, jumping up and down.

Lea Michele

You know, I'm not terribly fast at my times tables, because that's not what I think mathematics is about.

Marcus du Sautoy

I'm very superstitious... I never shout at magpies, walk under ladders or put my shoes on the table.

Norman Cook