#dinner

The number of guests at dinner should not be less than the number of the Graces nor exceed that of the Muses, i.e., it should begin with three and stop at nine. ↗

— Marcus Terentius Varro

#dinner #exceed #graces #guests #i

Washington is the only city in the world where you can go to a black-tie dinner and there at the foot of the table is a television set up to catch a press conference. ↗

— Hugh Newell Jacobsen

#city #conference #dinner #foot #go

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

— Vanessa Kerry

#different #different way #dinner #dinner table #everybody

The music I do is food... that will be your dinner. ↗

— Ziggy Marley

#food #i #i do #music #will

If kids six and under eat free, then I’m an infant. Or at least infantile. Bring on the steaks.
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— Jarod Kintz

#cheap #cheater #children #dinner #discount

That´s the problem with planning a late night supper after the opera, not only does the hero or the heroine die singing, but you end up famished after the last notes of the finale. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#funny #humor #humorous #humour #life

If it was my business, I wouldn't talk about it. It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbroker's do that, and then merely at dinner parties. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#business #dinner-party #humor #business

The host took care to produce one or another of these whenever the current subjects seemed about used up, so that the conversation gathered new life and at the same time steered clear of political arguments, which are hindersome to both ingestion and digestion. ↗

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

#dinner #food #politics #food

Occasionally, she wondered if all couples struggled so much to understand one another, spoke so little at dinner together, spent so much time camped out in front of the TV. Did all women sometimes feel distanced from their man while they were making love? ↗

— Galt Niederhoffer

#couples #dinner #distanced #making-love #man

Any director, if you really ask them, will tell you that the toughest thing to do is like a dinner table or a dialogue scene, because you need to keep that electricity maintained throughout the course of the film. ↗

— Gary Ross

#ask #because #course #dialogue #dinner