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Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.

Except for cases that clearly involve a homicidal maniac, the police like to believe murders are com...

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People are content to wait a long time for salvation, but expect dinner to turn up within the hour.

At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.

You want to go out to dinner sometime?Sorry, no. I'm married, not hungry, infected with seven unknow...

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Dinner was made for eating, not for talking.

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, b...

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A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.

My body is like breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I don't think about it, I just have it.

I think I'm telling the truth. I sat by Ray Perkins at the Hall of Fame dinner in New York, and at t...

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One consequential change is that people used to get most of their calories at breakfast and midday, ...

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Bill BrysonAt Home: A Short History of Private Life

Ah! good Sir! no Whores before Dinner, I beseech

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Colley CibberThe Plays of Colley Cibber

In the Lamborghini I have to avoid certain roads because of pot holes, and there's nowhere to put my...

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My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food.

You don't realize how hard it is to live on your own. But there's no mom to do your laundry, and mak...

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I don't go to premieres. I don't go to parties. I don't covet the Oscar. I don't want any of that. I...

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At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom.

When my mother had to get dinner for 8 she'd just make enough for 16 and only serve half.

However, for all his affection and loyalty towards the animal, the dog would soon be leaving him - t...

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He methodically basted the dark skin of the Alsatian, which he had stuffed with garlic and herbs."On...

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Sitting on the porch alone, listening to them fixing supper, he felt again the indignation he had fe...

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I can't tell you how scary it can be walking onto a movie and suddenly joining this family, it's lik...

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

I'm really critical of my posture, it makes a big difference. And I try to suck my belly in. Everyon...

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Badger hates Society, and invitations, and dinner, and all that sort of thing.

With Jackson there was quiet solitude. Just to sit and look at the landscape. An inner quietness. Af...

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When I take my kids out for dinner or lunch, people smile at us.

When I take my kids out for dinner or lunch, people smile at us.

When I take my kids out for dinner or lunch, people smile at us.

When I take my kids out for dinner or lunch, people smile at us.

There is nothing that makes me happier than sitting around the dinner table and talking until the ca...

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I did not wait to hear the end of my father's story, for I had been with him myself after mass when ...

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I used to start at about 10 at night and work until early morning. My preferred way to work is to st...

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In terms of the first Christmas when I met everybody, I went over to Nick's grandfather's house wher...

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I met Elton John at an Interview dinner, and we just sort of became friends. He's got such a wicked ...

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When we were in the design studio I always was pretending like I was in a closet asking my friend be...

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Well let's face it, who on earth besides antique dealers and gay couples actually still give dinner ...

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My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.

Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiv...

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

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

On rare occasions, Dad used to reminisce about when he met Eisenhower and how Churchill would pop in...

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Hey, my spaghetti’s moving!” cried Mr. Twit, poking around in it with his fork.“It’s a new kind,” Mr...

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There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets ...

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We sleep in separate rooms, we have dinner apart, we take separate vacations - we're doing everythin...

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All great change in America begins at the dinner table.