#dinner

I was often very, incredibly naughty, and if I didn't come home at tea time I used to be sent to bed without any dinner. But people used to bring me things: I was better fed in bed. ↗

— Diane Cilento

#bed #better #bring #come #dinner

...a good dinner is of great importance to good talk. One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#love

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

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

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

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