Dinner Table Quotes

Dinner Table Quote of the day

Art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage.

Humanism is the philosophy that you should be a good guest at the dinner table of life.

If you put Buddha, Jesus Christ, Socrates, Shakespeare, Arjuna, Krishna at a dinner table together, I can't see them having an argument.

Compassion is the foundation of everything positive, everything good. If you carry the power of compassion to the marketplace and the dinner table, you can make your life really count.

I think no matter what the occasion may be, you can never go wrong by showing up at the dinner table with a hot plate of fried chicken.

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.

Luxury lives in the finer details. It's a cloth napkin at a dinner table. It's a mint on your pillow before bed.

I never want to be that guy at a dinner table saying, 'I wish I could have dessert.' I actually went through a stage when I would order dessert first.

The oldest form of theater is the dinner table.

Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry gets the best of the argument.

The dinner table is a lively debate, and everybody weighs in in a different way. I like that, though.

Poor, darling fellow - he died of food. He was killed by the dinner table.

The oldest form of theater is the dinner table. It's got five or six people, new show every night, same players. Good ensemble; the people have worked together a lot.

Comedy has always been important in my family. If you got in a good joke at the dinner table, it meant more than almost anything else.

The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation.

I think if we all acted the way we felt, four out of eight people at a dinner table would be sitting there sobbing.

My parents discussed singing every night over the dinner table; I had a tremendous music education.

There is a list of things Im not allowed to discuss at the dinner table! I am extraordinarily passionate about the Black Death, which is not something most people are into.

I have a conscience, man, and I've worked really hard to keep it where you would feel like you were talking to the same man at one of my shows or sitting down at my dinner table.

My parents were the traditional Filipino parents who didnt talk about money around the dinner table.

I love to cook, and I love to have all my family around the dinner table.

I grew up with a lot of dinner table conversations about health care and ways in which the system was inadequate for the needs of many of the patients they took care of.

I could stand on my head and flick the bean right there at the dinner table and my mom would be all, "Honey, Christmas is family time, we should be together" and make me finish in front of everyone.

The hardest exercise for most of us fat people is that one where we push our chairback from the dinner table.

At the dinner table, if you can't think of anything to say, sit quietly. Don't throw rolls, or chew on your napkin.

There are times when wisdom cannot be found in the chambers of parliament or the halls of academia but at the unpretentious setting of the kitchen table.

I read like an animal. I read under the covers, I read lying in the grass, I read at the dinner table. While other people were talking to me, I read.

Oh, Zoe Kazan - I'd move back to Brooklyn for her. She makes me happy with my life. Knowing her, being at her dinner table, going on a walk with her is the best of all possible worlds.

I'm sitting at the dinner table, wearing my future mother-in-law's underwear. It's like some twisted dream that you wake up and thinkL Crikey Moses! Thank God that didn't really happen!

My material is as new as anything on the dinner table. What difference does it make if I'm 70 or if I'm 20? The audience knows they aren't getting any old stories from me.

People come to my shows and know that they're going to hear about what's going on in the world - what's happening at the moment. My material is as new as anything on the dinner table.

The family was an art ... and the dinner table was the place it found expression.

My parents never condescended to me. As a child, I always sat at the head of our dinner table. I was always given a lot of responsibility.

My father was a news guy, you know, he was in radio news. And so that was sort of in my DNA. It was something we talked about at the dinner table when I was a kid.

I'm terrified of walking into a room full of people. Sitting down at a dinner table with 15 strangers brings me out in a sweat.

The dinner table is a rite of civilization and we need to participate in that to keep our families together, to keep our communities together.

My folks are economists and have taught economics and social science so I grew up with those kind of conversations around the dinner table.

Things it is not polite to discuss at the dinner table: politics, religion, and the walking dead.

I grew up in a show biz family and, if you wanted to talk at the dinner table, you'd better be prepared to talk about film.

I am not interested in politics at all. At home, around the dinner table, we never discuss politics.