#dinner

The shared meal is no small thing. It is a foundation of family life, the place where our children learn the art of conversation and acquire the habits of civilization: sharing, listening, taking turns, navigating differences, arguing without offending. What have been called the “cultural contradictions of capitalism”—its tendency to undermine the stabilizing social forms it depends on—are on vivid display today at the modern American dinner table, along with all the brightly colored packages that the food industry has managed to plant there. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#meals #art

It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties. ↗

— John Wanamaker

#business #dinner #dinner parties #like #merely

Oh, my friends, be warned by me, That breakfast, dinner, lunch and tea, Are all human frame requires. ↗

— Hilaire Belloc

#dinner #frame #friends #human #human frame

I feel more comfortable doing films with groups of guys. It's a lot easier for me. There's a difference with women: you can't take them to dinner every night and go crazy. ↗

— Tom Berenger

#crazy #difference #dinner #doing #easier

She said she was going out, and would get the dinner. That is the last I saw her, or said anything to her. ↗

— Lizzie Andrew Borden

#dinner #get #going #her #i

There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves. ↗

— Tom Wolfe

#appealing #beautiful #beautiful woman #cooking #dinner

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

— Columba Bush

#around #dinner #dinner table #discuss #home

When I doing dinner theater in high school, I was talking to a woman who had been in the business for a while and I said I want to act, that's all I want to do with my life and she said if you're serious then you need to hone every discipline you can. ↗

— Blair Underwood

#been #business #dinner #discipline #doing

When I hosted the dinner I served fast food hamburgers. It had nothing to do with black, white, purple, yellow, green race. it had nothing to do with Tiger or his family or his golf game. ↗

— Fuzzy Zoeller

#dinner #family #fast #fast food #food

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

— David Byrne

#day #dinner #eat #especially #favorite