Diners Quotes

• A restaurant is a fantasy-a kind of living fantasy in which diners are the most important members of the cast.

  Warner LeRoy

  Food, Cooking, Important

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• Sitting at the table doesn’t make you a diner, unless you eat some of what’s on that plate. Being here in America doesn’t make you an American. Being born here in America doesn’t make you an American.

  Malcolm X

  America, History, Sitting

  "The Ballot or the Bullet". Malcolm X's Speech at Cory Methodist Church, Cleveland, Ohio, teachingamericanhistory.org. April 3, 1964.

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• A poet could write volumes about diners, because they're so beautiful. They're brightly lit, with chrome and booths and Naugahyde and great waitresses. Now, it might not be so great in the health department, but I think diner food is really worth experiencing periodically.

  David Lynch

  Beautiful, Writing, Thinking

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• There's a safety in thinking in a diner. You can have your coffee or your milkshake, and you can go off into strange dark areas, and always come back to the safety of the diner.

  David Lynch

  Coffee, Dark, Thinking

  David Lynch (2007). “Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity: 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.39, Penguin

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• First of all, just to get Diner made would have been an achievement in that I got a chance to direct.

  Barry Levinson

  Achievement, Firsts, Chance

  Interview with Adrian Wootton at the BFI, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2000.

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• Because when I looked at you across that table at the diner, no one else existed. And whether or not anything happens between you and me, it took meeting you to show me what I was missing.

  J.R. Ward

  Missing, Tables, Between You And Me

  J.R. Ward (2009). “Covet: A Novel of the Fallen Angels”, p.240, Penguin

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• In New York I pretty much live in diners - I order French Fries, Diet Coke floats and lots of coffee.

  Lana Del Rey

  New York, Coffee, Order

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Ye diners out from whom we guard our spoons.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Spoons, Eating

  "Political Georgics" by Thomas B. Macaulay, June 29, 1831.

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• When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere.

  Calvin Trillin

  Wise, Kitchen, Preparation

  Calvin Trillin (1984). “Third Helpings”, Viking Press

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• In a restaurant one is both observed and unobserved. Joy and sorrow can be displayed and observed "unwittingly," the writer scowling naively and the diners wondering, What the hell is he doing?

  David Mamet

  Joy, Sorrow, Wonder

  David Mamet (1986). “Writing in restaurants”, Viking Adult

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• It's not always possible to sit down and eat at home in this day and age of fast-paced living, but if you are going to eat out, do so as a family and support all the great local places in your areas. I'll still eat at the same diner I did as a kid with my parents.

  Michael Symon

  Home, Kids, Support

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• Before Footloose, the things I'd done weren't cute. In Diner I was an alcoholic.

  Kevin Bacon

  Cute, Done, Footloose

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• When do you learn that the world, like any diner worth its salt, is open twenty-four hours a day?

  Daniel Handler

  Twenties, World, Four

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• Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner, unless you eat some of what's on that plate.

  Malcolm X

  What It Means To Be An American, Sitting, Tables

  "Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements". Book by Malcolm X edited by George Breitman, 1965.

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• Also, there are seats in the diner that always fall off the table. If you have a scene where you're packing up at the end of the day and putting them on the table, they just slide off.

  Dannii Minogue

  Fall, The End Of The Day, Tables

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• Never be a food snob. Learn from everyone you meet - the fish guy at your market, the lady at the local diner, farmers, cheese makers. Ask questions, try everything and eat up!

  Rachael Ray

  Guy, Trying, Cheese

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• I always like to find those little mom-and-pop sandwich places, or diners. Those are my favorite kind of places.

  Billy Gardell

  Mom, Sandwiches, Littles

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• Great food needed more than chefs; it needed gourmet diners.

  Nicole Mones

  Gourmet, Chef, Great Food

  Jenna Blum, Maggie O'Farrell, Molly Gloss, Nicole Mones, Elizabeth Benedict (2010). “The Best Contemporary Women's Fiction: Six Novels”, p.724, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I actually find it harder to act in the scenes where there's not much happening, say having a milkshake in the diner. That is far harder to do than straight scenes where there's a drama going on and you have something to do

  Chris Hemsworth

  Drama, Scene, Milkshakes

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• You're told that you're in your head too much, a phrase that's often deployed against the quiet and cerebral. Or maybe there's another word for such people: thinkers.

  Susan Cain

  People, Phrases, Too Much

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.7, Broadway Books

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• The culture industry perpetually cheats its consumers of what it perpetually promises. The promissory note which, with its plots and staging, it draws on pleasure is endlessly prolonged; the promise, which is actually all the spectacle consists of, is illusory: all it actually confirms is that the real point will never be reached, that the diner must be satisfied with the menu.

  Theodor Adorno

  Real, Promise, Plot

  Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer (1997). “Dialectic of Enlightenment”, p.139, Verso

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• The objective.. is to achieve a comfort level between the cook/artist/performer and the customer/viewer/diner. And if we can achieve that, and the customers are happy and the cooks are happy, then we have a great experience.

  Mario Batali

  Artist, Cooking, Comfort

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• Now that you're an adult, you might still feel a pang of guilt when you decline a dinner invitation in favor of a good book. Or maybe you like to eat alone in restaurants and could do without the pitying looks from fellow diners. Or you're told that you're "in your head too much", a phrase that's often deployed against the quiet and cerebral. Or maybe there's another word for such people: thinkers.

  Susan Cain

  Book, People, Guilt

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.7, Broadway Books

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• There's a lot of great things to see here in the United States. Those times spent together with maps and old cups from the diner you went to, those are really important as a family.

  Mark Consuelos

  Important, Together, United States

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• In the middle of nowhere, along a quiet stretch of road, the diner dreamt of the hungry dead. And of two men.

  A. Lee Martinez

  Men, Two, Creepy

  A. Lee Martinez (2006). “Gil's All Fright Diner”, p.7, Macmillan

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