If I were invited to a dinner party with my characters, I wouldn't show up.
I don't plan on selling out. I mean, it's nice to get a dinner reservation ahead of other people, but when it comes down to it, the most important thing to me is the actual work.
Growing up in my family meant ambushes on your birthday, crossbows for Christmas, and games of dodge ball where the balls were occasionally rigged to explode. It also meant learning how to work your way out of a wide variety of death traps. Failure to get loose on your own could lead to missing dinner, or worse, being forced to admit that you missed dinner because your baby sister had tied you to the couch. Again.
I don't believe in paying for sex. Which is why I'll never again pay for a woman's dinner.
Today we no longer live in a way that is constrained by simple working or leisure environments - we travel, we work on laptops in coffee shops, we go out to dinner straight from work.
It's getting so people no longer count the silverware when I come to dinner.
I am not into fashion. I just like being able to buy my mates dinner.
To remember a successful salad is generally to remember a successful dinner; at all events, the perfect dinner necessarily includes the perfect salad.
Me sitting down for dinner with Ingmar Bergman felt like a house painter sitting down with Picasso.
I have gotten to a point in my life where I don't want to have dinner with someone I don't like.
Worst thing about Al Smith dinner : it was another reminder of how far we are from the amity between opposing sides that is needed for effective governance.
Whether I'm on for a day or whether I'm on for a year, at the end of the day, I sing for my dinner.
Dean Martin's great-great-uncle, Ebenezer Martin, who said to Eli Whitney, I see the cotton, but where's the gin? Never got a dinner!
Dinner with water is dinner for prisoners
Man tries to swallow meaning whole as a dog would eat his dinner.
Think beyond the vase! If you have a vase of flowers on a dining table for a quick dinner party, think about scattering flower petals, leaves, or even fruit along the tabletop.
We do not want to think. We do not want to hear. We do not care about anything. Only give us a good dinner and plenty of money, and let us outshine our neighbors. There is the Nineteenth Century Gospel.
Julius Caesar's wife, who said to Julius, We are not naming our son Sid! Never got a dinner!
Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you.
The same intelligence is required to marshal an army in battle and to order a good dinner. The first must be as formidable as possible, the second as pleasant as possible, to the participants.