William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes

Eating without conversation is only stoking.

The less food, the more time to talk, the more to talk about.

The sharing of food is the basis of social life.

Sitting down and sharing a meal together combines two of my favorite loves: eating great food and talking about great food.

I want to safeguard the value of lunch. For me, it is sacred. My family and I always have lunch and dinner together. And we always sit down. Food does not taste the same if you are standing up!

The only meal I have is dinner.

We're social beings, and food is one of the things we can use three times a day to connect with family or with friends.

So munch on, crunch on, take your nuncheon, Breakfast, supper, dinner, luncheon!

Have you eaten?' I asked Diesel. When?' Recently.' No.

Hunger makes dinners, pastime suppers.

At the dinner table, if you can't think of anything to say, sit quietly. Don't throw rolls, or chew on your napkin.

A good thing to do when one is sitting, eating, and resting is to have a conversation.

The thing that makes my generation The Greatest is our ability to hang out. We're spectacular at it. If you take somebody from my generation and sit them on a couch and bring them food and plumbing, they'll sit there and talk to you about anything you want until the day you die.

If you watch a group of schoolchildren eating lunch together, you cannot help but notice how it is a comically Lilliputian version of the adult thing - the cocked eyebrows of conversation, the reaching for condiments, the shovelling of food into tiny mouths.

Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat.

Food, like sex, is one of the principal kinds of human activity that engage people when they wonder about how to account for different kinds of human behaviour.

I love food.

I enjoy talking to fans.

I want to let all men and women know: Try going to a party or a dinner where you're completely fine with silences, and you don't fill them just to fill them. It's exhilarating and terrifying.

I like being with people. I like talking to them. I like everything about my life, so it's fun.

I love a good dinner and getting to know someone.

I enjoy eating so much. I eat for happiness, fuel, and nourishment.

There are games where I go a whole game without saying a word. There are games where I'm talking the whole game. It really depends on the mood and vibe that I'm in that day.

I've spent a great deal of my life one way or another talking about food or eating food.

When you sit down to eat at a table, you are ready to take in nourishment - we all need to eat to live. Even in primal tribes, people ate together. It's the opening for friendship.