You have to be generous if you want to spend your time making someone else dinner. Even if you’re charging, you’re still giving. – Mario Batali
Someone told me that they didn’t want to take a flu shot because they didn’t want to put a foreign substance in their body. What do they think they do at dinner every night? – Michael Specter
Every lesson I learned as a kid was at the dinner table. Being Greek, Sicilian and Ruthenian – we are an emotional bunch. It is where we laughed, cried and yelled – but most importantly, where we bonded and connected. – Michael Symon
I wish we could all have a telling room, a place where we go to tell our stories and listen to the stories of others; in our culture, the telling room might be around the dinner table or in the car on a long trip. – Michael Paterniti
Women always think that I’m Chandler, so if I don’t joke around for half an hour, they think that something’s wrong. Then I explain that I don’t have comedy writers scripting everything I’m saying at this particular dinner. – Matthew Perry
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
I think I would love to have dinner with Gandhi; Jesus Christ; Mother Theresa; Ingrid Newkirk, the president of PETA; and Madonna. – Jane Velez-Mitchell
I always have music. I love it to be very upbeat. When you’re having drinks, I like something like Cesaria Evora. During dinner, I like the much more traditional – old Frank Sinatra and things like that. – Ina Garten
I love roasting because you can give it love, get it in the oven and go and play with the kids or whatever you’ve got to do, and then hours later you’ve got a lovely dinner. – Jamie Oliver
My mother doesn’t cook; my grandmother didn’t cook. Her kids were raised by servants. They would joke about Sunday night dinner. It was the only night she would cook, and apparently it was just horrendous, like scrambled eggs and Campbell’s soup. – Katharine Weymouth
If you have an Ina Garten-level roasted-chicken recipe, it’s a game changer. I bring that to dinner parties and make a lot of friends. – Meghan Markle
She was built for crowds. She has never come any closer to life than the dinner table. – Janet Flanner
My grandparents were far more English in their manners than they were Chinese. For example, we spoke English at home, had afternoon tea every day, and my grandfather, who attended university in Scotland, would smoke his pipe after dinner. – Kevin Kwan
When I’m not dancing, I usually just like to keep it comfy. Even if I’m just going to dinner, I’ll wear jeans or something, but if I’m not dancing, I usually just have a comfy outfit on. – Maddie Ziegler
I like dressing up for dates and dissecting a dinner conversation with a new guy to determine if he might be The One. – J. Courtney Sullivan
My Portuguese uncle had a Portuguese version of a ukulele. The family would pull it out after dinner and play Portuguese folk songs on it. I couldn’t wait for him to finish so I could get my hands on it. I was seven or eight years old. And he used to have a Fender amp in his house and an electric guitar. I would spend hours making sounds. – Joe Perry
There is just no comparison between having a dinner date with a man and staying home playing canasta with the girls. – Marilyn Monroe
I had the idea for TaskRabbit one night when my husband and I were getting ready for dinner. – Leah Busque
Steve Zahn and I like to go to dinner, and we love to go to Chef Donald Link’s Herb Saint. – Kim Dickens
I have gotten to a point in my life where I don’t want to have dinner with someone I don’t like. – John Frankenheimer
Whether you’re on a diet, or you’re looking for a go-to one bowl dinner recipe, salads should be thought of as crowd-pleasers, not a dreaded component of a meal. – Marcus Samuelsson
I met a hustler at a dinner party. He had been invited because I was looking for an adviser to help me with the street scenes. So we put him on the film. – John Schlesinger
I adore summer entertaining. For a dinner party at the farm, I might prepare homemade fettuccine with porcini mushrooms, soft-shell crabs, spinach from the garden, and lemon tarts with fraises des bois for dessert. – Martha Stewart
When I was a boy we didn’t wake up with Vietnam and have Cyprus for lunch and the Congo for dinner. – Lyndon B. Johnson