Quotes about Dinner conversation

To be honest dinner conversations was the worst bit about being a child and listening to the boring people around me. Votes: 5

I like dressing up for dates and dissecting a dinner conversation with a new guy to determine if he might be The One. Votes: 5

The government of the world I live in was not framed, like that of Britain, in after-dinner conversations over the wine. Votes: 4

My parents were extraordinarily focused on education. It was the topic of every dinner conversation, is are you number one, are you getting all As, if not, why not. You need to do better. So my entire orientation and focus growing up was around doing your best and making sure that you were going to get the best education possible. Votes: 4

The things a man believes most profoundly are rarely on the surface of his mind or tongue. Newly acquired notions, decisions based on expediency, the fashionable ideas of the moment are right on top of the pile, ready to be displayed in bright after dinner conversation. But the ideas that make up a man's philosophy of life are somewhere way down below. Votes: 4

Dinner 'conversation' at the Cohens' meant my sister, mom, and I relaying in brutal detail the day's events in a state of amplified hysteria, while my father listened to his own smooth jazz station in his head. Votes: 3

Some of the most important conversations I've ever had occurred at my family's dinner table. Votes: 1

At Harvard, I got to meet and have dinner with Jamaica Kincaid. Just to have conversations with professors was absolutely amazing. Votes: 1

My folks are economists and have taught economics and social science so I grew up with those kind of conversations around the dinner table. Votes: 1

I spend a good portion of my dinner-party conversation defending America because no matter what the political agenda, it's still a fantastic, amazing place. Votes: 1

To address our current food system problems, I propose a series of local, regional, national and global conversations - starting around the dinner table - to rethink the food we produce, buy and eat. Votes: 1

If you go out to dinner with someone, you find out what they prefer in food. We ought to be able to have a conversation to find out what people prefer when it comes to sex. Votes: 1

In high school, during marathon phone conversations, cheap pizza dinners and long suburban car rides, I began to fall for boys because of who they actually were, or at least who I thought they might become. Votes: 1

I find my characters and stories in many varied places; sometimes they pop out of newspaper articles, obscure historical texts, lively dinner party conversations and some even crawl out of the dusty remote recesses of my imagination. Votes: 1

There's times when you're having dinner with a good friend and you're in the middle of a conversation and somebody comes up and cuts you off. Can you sign this? Can I take a picture with you? I'm adjusting to all the attention. Votes: 1

I like something simple and traditional, like dinner and a movie. The best way to get to know someone is to have a conversation over dinner. And steak houses have a nice atmosphere - the lights are dim, and they usually have a band playing. Votes: 1

People love having a home. People love going to their house and sleeping in their bedroom and having a conversation around the dinner table. You don't particularly think of that conversation as a private conversation; you just think of it as something that happened in your home. Votes: 1

My interactions with Sorkin were agonisingly weird. He is by far the weirdest person I have ever met. I had dinner with him and a few hours before I got an e-mail from his assistant saying, 'Sean, this does not need to be a long conversation. Aaron is only going to use it to win your trust.' Votes: 1

My family was in two businesses - they were in the textile business, and they were in the candy business. The conversations around the dinner table were all about the factory floor and how many machines were running and what was happening in the business. I grew up very engaged in manufacturing and as part of a family business. Votes: 1

Eating by myself in my own apartment, single and alone again for the first time in many years, I should have felt, but did not feel, sad. Because I had taken the trouble to make myself a real dinner, I felt nurtured and cared for, if only by myself. Eating alone was freeing, too; I didn't have to make conversation. Votes: 1

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 because that was what was valued the most. Votes: 1

It turns out there's only 10 minutes of productive conversation in any family dinner. The rest is taken up with 'take your elbows off the table' and 'pass the ketchup.' And what researchers have found is you can take that 10 minutes and put it in any time of the day and get the benefit. So, if you can't have family dinner, have family breakfast! Votes: 1

A great dinner must include not only yummy food, but good conversation. Votes: 0

A baby changes your dinner party conversation from politics to poops [very pleasant thanks for that mental image Maurice!] Votes: 0

Author describes one monarch's impressive table but conveys a contemporary's observation, "the weightiest thing at dinner was the conversation". Votes: 0

English tradition debars from dinner-table conversation almost all topics that might interest the conversers and insists upon strict adherence to banalities. Votes: 0

That which chiefly causes the failure of a dinner-party, is the running short--not of meat, nor yet of drink, but of conversation. Votes: 0

Challenging is good, like good conversation, yes? Who wants to have dinner with the same old easy listening music sounding friends all the time? Votes: 0

I love a small dinner party - let's say six people, max, were everybody's having the same conversation. That's my favorite thing in the world. Votes: 0

He is clearly bookish. I did not follow a single word of their conversation at dinner last night, not one jot of it. He must be bookish. Votes: 0

Society was nothing but a long, dull dinner party conversation in which one was forced to speak to one's partner on both the left and the right. Votes: 0