Dinner At Eight Quotes

#1. I get too hungry for dinner at eight. I like the theater, but never come late. I never bother with people I hate. That's why the lady is a tramp.

Lorenz Hart

#2. Gazing at the typewriter in moments of desperation I console myself with three thoughts. Alcohol at six, dinner at eight, and to be immortal you've got to be dead.

Gyles Brandreth

#3. A poor creature who has said or done nothing worth a serious man taking the trouble of remembering.

Thomas Carlyle

#4. In the future, the number of languages being spoken will not matter. You could host a dinner party with eight different languages, and the voice your ear will always be whispering the one language you want to hear.

Alec J. Ross

#5. After so many books and so many years of writing, I have a good idea of my strengths and weaknesses. I love the process of writing and, if I allowed myself, I would write far too much every day. One weakness which I've struggled to overcome is my tendency to having my characters ruminate for pages.

Walter Dean Myers

#6. You see an absolutely brilliant film later, as an adult, and you walk out thinking about what to have for dinner. Whereas something like Jaws winds up having a huge effect on me. If only my parents had been taking me to Kurosawa films when I was eight, but no.

Ann Patchett

#7. Drawing and masturbation were the first sacred experiences I remember.

Carolee Schneemann

#8. As a person of color, you're in a PhD level racism class, every day. Every day, I'm in a deep racism seminar. And I'm not saying that white people aren't taking that class, but they don't show up that often and they're auditing it.

W. Kamau Bell

#9. breakfast at eight and dinner is at

Nicholas Sparks

#10. A cocktail party is what you call it when you invite everyone you know to come over to your house at six p.m., put cigarettes out on your rug, and leave at eight to go somewhere more interesting for dinner without inviting you.

P. J. O'Rourke

#11. It's a simple idea: We all do better when we work together and invest in our future.

Elizabeth Warren

#12. I think I mentioned to Bob [Geldof] I could make love for eight hours. What I didn't say was that this included four hours of begging and then dinner and a movie.

Sting

#13. It is He who manifests as both matter and consciousness. There is no place where God is not. In every atom, in every living being He alone is present.

Rama Swami

#14. The lover as baby is a less troubling idea than the baby as lover.

Mason Cooley

#15. I grew up poor. My mother raised a family of four on between $9,000 and $15,000 a year.

Robert Reich

#16. It wasn't that I couldn't write. I wrote every day. I actually worked really hard at writing. At my desk by 7 A.M., would work a full eight and more. Scribbled at the dinner table, in bed, on the toilet, on the No. 6 train, at Shea Stadium. I did everything I could. But none of it worked.

Junot Diaz

#17. I think if we all acted the way we felt, four out of eight people at a dinner table would be sitting there sobbing.

Jim Carrey

#18. Now I'm going out to dinner with my parents."
"Your parents?"
"Yeah. They really do exist."
"It's eight-thirty."
"Yeah, well if you're rich and pretentious you're supposed to eat late. It's one of the rules."
"Doesn't that become tiresome?"
"Inordinately.

Todd Young