#dinner table

Before I'd written movies, I never could do big set-piece scenes with a lot of different speakers - when you've got twelve people around a dinner table talking at cross purposes. I had always been impressed by other people's ability to do that. ↗

— Joan Didion

#always #around #been #before #big

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

— Diana Vreeland

#died #dinner #dinner table #fellow #food

All great change in America begins at the dinner table. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#america #begins #dinner #dinner table #great

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

— Seth Gordon

#conversations #dinner #dinner table #economics #economists

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

— Renee Fleming

#dinner table #discussed #education #every #every night

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. ↗

— Jackie Mason

#anything #audience #difference #dinner #dinner table

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

— Angela Carter

#confrontation #dinner #dinner table #formal #governed

Learning can take place in the backyard if there is a human being there who cares about the child. Before learning computers, children should learn to read first. They should sit around the dinner table and hear what their parents have to say and think. ↗

— Dixie Carter

#around #backyard #before #being #being there

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

— Voltaire

#argue #argument #best #dinner #dinner table

Every lesson I learned as a kid was at the dinner table. Being Greek, Sicilian and Ruthenian - we are an emotional bunch. It is where we laughed, cried and yelled - but most importantly, where we bonded and connected. ↗

— Michael Symon

#bonded #bunch #connected #cried #dinner