Dining Quotes - Page 5

• The things [Pope Francis] has done in a short period of time: the fact that he does not live in a huge papal mansion and just dropped by in the dining room where ordinary people have meals. You think of his background, where he didn't use limousines in South America, that he used public transport.

  Desmond Tutu

  Thinking, America, People

  Source: sojo.net

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• Every time I open a new restaurant, I wake up in the middle of the night moaning about bread and water. I dream I am in the middle of the dining room, and I am panicked.

  Joe Bastianich

  Dream, Night, Water

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• At Babbo, each dish grew out of a conversation, trying to put something forth that was new and different. It was a combination of culinary adventurism and the dining-room experience with respect for the classic but with an eye toward innovation. And it was about eating locally, whether produce or fish or meat.

  Joe Bastianich

  Eye, Innovation, Trying

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• That's the trouble with the world we live in. It's full of people just doing their job and ignoring what's really going on. Care about the rainforest until they get a couple of kids and enough money for a gas guzzling car, or some hardwood dining furniture. Watch all those wildlife programmes and coo over the furry animals, but still eat meat and poultry that was raised in conditions of unbelievable cruelty.

  Robert Muchamore

  Jobs, Couple, Kids

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• Then Drew shuffles into the dining hall. I drop my toast, and my mouth drifts open. Calling him “bruised” would be an understatement. His face is swollen and purple. He has a split lip and a cut running through his eyebrow. He keeps his eyes down on the way to his table, not even lifting them to look at me. I glance across the room at Four. He wears the satisfied smile I wish I had on.

  Veronica Roth

  Running, Eye, Cutting

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• The more Lord Maccon considered it, the more he grew to like the idea. Certainly his imagination was full of pictures of what he and Alexia might do together once he got her home in a properly wedded state, but now those lusty images were mixing with others: waking up next to her, seeing her across the dining table, discussing science and politics, having her advice on points of pack controversy and BUR difficulties. No doubt she would be useful in verbal frays and social machinations, as long as she was on his side.

  Gail Carriger

  Home, Ideas, Long

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• I hate sets. I've always hated sets. I think that if you have a dining room set, break it up!

  Nate Berkus

  Hate, Thinking, Rooms

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• Architects feel empowered to give opinions about politics and sociology and philosophy without knowing much about it. Kind of in the same way that they think they can design furniture or fashion or utensils for dining.

  Rafael Vinoly

  Fashion, Philosophy, Thinking

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• There's something I call 'Moving Day,' which I've done for the last 20 years. Look at everything in your home, then think about how you could combine things in a different way. Maybe you break up your night tables and use one in the family room; maybe the dining room sideboard becomes a console table for your television, with storage underneath.

  Nate Berkus

  Moving, Home, Thinking

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• The menu should be part of the entertainment, part of the dining experience. It's kind of like reading the 'Playbill' when you go to the theater. It should be an alluring and interactive document. Does it have burn marks on it from the candle? If you ever get a greasy menu with food stains on it, it's time to run like hell.

  Joe Bastianich

  Running, Reading, Doe

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• Foreign diplomats could have modeled their conduct on the way the Negro postmen, Pullman porters, and dining car waiters of Roxbury [Massachusetts] acted, striding around as if they were wearing top hats and cutaways.

  Malcolm X

  Car, Massachusetts, Way

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• The house is in turmoil with records on every space. In the kitchen and in the dining room is covered with records. I don't have a big enough house to accommodate everything.

  Marian McPartland

  Space, House, Kitchen

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• There was scarcely a woman alive, it seemed, who could resist the urge to haul men down onto beds, car seats, kitchen floors, dining-room tables, park grass, parlor sofas, or packing crates, entwine warm thighs around them, and pant in ecstasy.

  Russell Baker

  Sex, Men, Car

  Russell Baker (1983). “Growing Up”, Plume

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• The food in the House of Commons is fairly good. The cafe in Portcullis House is really very high quality, and you also have a choice of eating in the more traditional restaurants, the Churchill Room or the Members' Dining Room. I don't often eat in them, though, as I'm usually on the run.

  Vince Cable

  Running, Choices, House

  "What's in your basket, Vince Cable?" by Rebecca Seal and Dr John Briffa, www.theguardian.com. December 5, 2009.

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• I have a Damien Hirst spot painting which I love. It has pride of place over my dining-room table.

  Cat Deeley

  Pride, Tables, Rooms

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• I love my kitchen. For Manhattan, I have a rather decent-size kitchen, and it has an opening that gives out to the dining room, which has a window with a view of the city and in the distance the Statue of Liberty.

  Mireille Guiliano

  Distance, Views, Cities

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• I find myself wanting to make music at the dining room table or in the bedroom - I'm kind of a mobile writer, so I sort of move around the house. But the attic is definitely where I can make the most noise. While everyone on the lower floors screams 'Earthquake!' But no! It's just my bass!

  Meshell Ndegeocello

  Moving, Earthquakes, House

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• Listening to Britons dining out is like watching people play first-class tennis with imaginary balls.

  Margaret Halsey

  Class, Play, People

  Margaret Halsey (1938). “With Malice Toward Some”

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• I was completely surrounded by religion from a young time. I was taught by my father. I engaged in discussions with him and many of these scholars who visited and came around the dining table, the lunch table, and attended many lectures with my dad. And so I learned the apprentice way.

  Feisal Abdul Rauf

  Dad, Father, Lunch

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• The house was immaculate, as always, not a stray hair anywhere, not a flake of dandruff or a crumpled towel. Even the roses on the dining-room table held their breath. A kind of airless cleanliness that always made me want to sneeze.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Hair, Rose, House

  Sandra Cisneros (2007). “Vintage Cisneros”, p.52, Vintage

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• One thing I can't afford to get sucked up in is the trend formation of restaurants here. I've invested heavily. We have a ten-year lease. More importantly, the style, the feel and the décor of the dining room is vibrant.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Years, Style, Trends

  Source: www.crushable.com

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• Today there are very few chefs at that high level who are behind their stoves. You don't feel their presence within the room. Where's the romance? Where's the show? Where's the theater? The modern day restaurant - it's like dining in a chapel. It's boring.

  Marco Pierre White

  Romance, Levels, Today

  Source: tart.org

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• When I left the dining room after sitting next to Mr. Gladstone, I thought he was the cleverest man in England. But after sitting next to Mr. Disraeli, I thought I was the cleverest woman in England.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Men, Sitting, Rooms

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• You know, I hate to borrow Apple's tag, but think different. Really. From the very beginning. I didn't know what the fast-food rules were. I got my training at the Culinary Institute Of America, and then I opened up a fast food place according to fine dining rules.

  Steve Ells

  Hate, Thinking, Apples

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• Ballplayers who are first to the dining room are usually last in batting averages.

  Jimmy Cannon

  Average, Lasts, Rooms

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