Dine In Quotes

• One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

  Virginia Woolf

  Love, Food, Sleep

  1929 A Room of One's Own, ch.1.

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• The figure is still the only thing I have faith in in terms of how much emotion it's charged with and how much subject matter is there.

  Jim Dine

  Have Faith, Matter, Emotion

  Jim Dine, Constance Glenn, California State University, Long Beach. Art Museum and Galleries (1979). “Jim Dine figure drawings, 1975-1979: published on the occasion of an exhibition organized by the Art Museum and Galleries, California State University, Long Beach, October 15-November 11, 1979”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• I've never had an easy relationship with critics. I hold a lot of homicide in my heart. If this was another time, I'd be packing a piece.

  Jim Dine

  Heart, Pieces, Easy

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• My attitude towards drawing is not necessarily about drawing. It's about making the best kind of image I can make, it's about talking as clearly as I can.

  Jim Dine

  Attitude, Drawing, Talking

  Constance W. Glenn, Jim Dine, Christopher Sweet (1985). “Jim Dine: drawings”, Harry N Abrams Incorporated

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• I do not think that obsession is funny or that not being able to stop one's intensity is funny.

  Jim Dine

  Thinking, Able, Obsession

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• My life is really a history of observing forms and taking in imagery. I don't mean in a photographic way, I mean in a way of feeling them structurally.

  Jim Dine

  Mean, Feelings, Way

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• Western art is built on the biographical passion of one artist for another.

  Jim Dine

  Art, Passion, Western

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• We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink.

  Epicurus

  Thanksgiving, Food, Beer

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• For me, drawing is everything, because it informs everything. It even informs my poetry. It's the way I begin everything.

  Jim Dine

  Drawing, Way

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• I have come to terms with a lot of things, because, when all's said and done, there's really very little one can do about a lot of things. You just accept them. The point is you just have to keep on working and you just have to keep on living.

  Jim Dine

  Done, Littles, Accepting

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• I lived through the garbage. I might as well dine on the caviar.

  Beverly Sills

  Caviar, Might, Garbage

  "Caviar for Beverly Sills" by Susan Heller Anderson and Maurice Carroll, www.nytimes.com. October 15, 1984.

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• Thank you for inviting me to your house, but I prefer to dine in the Greek restaurant at Wabash Avenue and 12th Street where I will be limited to finding dead flies in my soup.

  Maxwell Bodenheim

  House, Greek, Soup

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• It is rarely [Americans] dine in society, except in taverns and boarding-houses. Then they eat with the greatest possible rapidity, and in total silence.

  Frances Trollope

  Silence, House, Taverns

  Frances Trollope (2014). “Domestic Manners of the Americans”, p.37, Oxford University Press

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• Though one can dine in New York, one could not dwell there.

  Oscar Wilde

  New York, Cities At Night, Bostonians

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.1023, GENERAL PRESS

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• Lyon is full of temperamental gourmets, eternally engaged in a never-ending search for that imaginary, perfect, unknown little back-street bistro, where one can dine in the style of Louis XIV for the price of a pack of peanuts.

  Roy Andries De Groot

  Food, Perfect, Cooking

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• My mother was not the cook in the family. My dad was. I'd watch him behind the grill, and I said, 'If I ever make it and have enough money, I'm going to make sure I dine in the best restaurants.'

  Jesse McCartney

  Mother, Dad, Watches

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• But one day we shall be rich, and the next poor. One day we shall dine in a palace and the next we'll sit in a forest and toast mushrooms on a hatpin.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Mushrooms, One Day, Next

  Katherine Mansfield (2016). “KATHERINE MANSFIELD Premium Collection: 160+ Short Stories & Poems (Literature Classics Series): The Complete Short Stories and Poetry of Katherine Mansfield: Bliss, The Garden Party, The Dove’s Nest, Something Childish, In a German Pension, The Aloe, Poems at the Villa Pauline, Child Verses...”, p.527, e-artnow

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• The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

  Oscar Wilde

  New York, Philadelphia, America

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.1023, GENERAL PRESS

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• Books are the perfect Time Machine. By the simple act of opening a book you can, in an instant, be travelling up a jungle river without once being bitten by mosquitoes, or you can almost die of thirst in the desert while holding a cold drink in your hand, or dine in the finest restaurants and never have to worry about paying the bill, or ride the wild country of our western frontier and never worry about losing your scalp to a raiding party.

  Louis L'Amour

  Country, Time, Party

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• Instead of the Negro leaders having the black man begging for a chance to - to dine in white restaurants, the Negro leader should be showing the black man how to do something to strengthen his own economy.

  Malcolm X

  Men, White, Leader

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