Highland werewolves had a
Highland werewolves had a reputation for doing atrocious and highly unwarranted *things*, like wearing smoking jackets to the dinner table. Gail Carriger
Dinner Table
It’s promising and seductive,
It’s promising and seductive, that huge Italian family, sitting around the dinner table, surrounded by olive trees. But it’s not my family and I am not their family, and no amount of birthing sons, and cooking dinner and raking leaves or planting the gardens or paying for the plane tickets is going to change that. … Read more
My brother Julio and
My brother Julio and I worked to improve the quality of wines from California and to put fine wine on American dinner tables at a price people could afford. Ernest Gallo
I think I kind
I think I kind of came out of the womb singing. I think I was, like, born at the hospital, and, you know, popped out, and was singing. … I’m not sure really how it happened. I can’t remember a time when I wasn’t singing, or banging a beat on the dinner table… Emmy Rossum
I guess what really
I guess what really forms you as a person is what you do within your family to receive love or attention. In my family, what you had to do to receive attention was to have good conversation at the dinner table or for me to do well at school, and those were really my focuses … Read more
Feminism is not here
Feminism is not here to dictate to you. It’s not prescriptive, it’s not dogmatic. All we are here to do is give you a choice. If you want to run for President, you can. If you don’t, that’s wonderful, too. I’m lucky I was raised to believe that my opinion at the dinner table was … Read more
English tradition debars from
English tradition debars from dinner-table conversation almost all topics that might interest the conversers and insists upon strict adherence to banalities. Elspeth Huxley
[On the British Museum:]
[On the British Museum:] It was manifestly impossible to read all the books in that huge, gloomy structure, but I made a good try and accumulated a fund of useless information guaranteed to cast a pall over any dinner table. Elsa Maxwell
The sluices of the
The sluices of the grog-shop are fed from the wine-glasses in the parlor, and there is a lineal descent from the gentleman who hiccoughs at his elegant dinner-table to the sot who makes a bed of the gutter. Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Ask your child what
Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he’s buying. Fran Lebowitz