Diners Quotes - Page 2

• I'm not going to sit at your table and watch you eat, with nothing on my plate, and call myself a diner. Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner.

  Malcolm X

  African American, Watches, Sitting

  "The Ballot or The Bullet (Cleveland Version)". Malcolm X's speech at Cory Methodist Church in Cleveland, Ohio (April 3, 1964) as quoted in "Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements" edited by George Breitman (pp. 23-44), 1965.

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• A decade or so ago, all over the world, cinemas underwent one of those prince-into-frog mutations, and became, instead popcorn-restaurants, which offered the option of visual diversions for diners.

  Kevin Myers

  Hollywood, Mutation, Popcorn

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• [Adrienne Shelly] explain exactly what she was looking for. This was her movie [Waitress].She also wrote the songs that I sing in it. She wrote everything. She chose the colour of our outfits; she designed the set of the diner. She was very, very involved at every level.

  Keri Russell

  Song, Levels, Waitress

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Used to be, conservatives revered the Average American, that Norman Rockwell oil painting of diner food, humble faith, honest toil, and Capraesque virtue.

  James Wolcott

  Humble, Oil Painting, Average

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• If you owe too much on American Express,
  and your Diner's Club notes are too hard,
  take a loan on your Visa,
  and pay it off with your MasterCard!

  Nipsey Russell

  Credit, Clubs, Pay

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• Close interaction with farmers and scientists can expose the chef to new flavours that can be used to delight diners.

  Rene Redzepi

  Delight, Chef, Scientist

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My first movie was 'Diner.' My second movie was 'Tender Mercies.' I did really good work.

  Ellen Barkin

  Firsts, Mercy, Good Work

  "Actress-producer Ellen Barkin". "The Tavis Smiley Show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. November 14, 2011.

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• I love the donors and we thank them, but it has to be that the guys in the barber shop, the lady at the diner, the folks who are worried about whether that plant is going to close, they've got to be our focus. They've got to be a laser-beam focus on everything we do, and everything we do should animate and empower them at the grassroots level for working people across this country. That's how we come back.

  Keith Ellison

  Country, People, Guy

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• When I was playing, my wife and kids would go on the road with me, and we would go to different lunch spots that we saw on "Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives."

  Prince Fielder

  Kids, Lunch, Wife

  Source: sports-ak.espn.go.com

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• Is it crazy to say that I dont often eat breakfast? But every time I go to a diner, I have to have a breakfast-type item, even if its 11:30 at night. I love my morning eats!

  Magda Apanowicz

  Morning, Crazy, Night

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• You asked me if I believed in magic, and I said yes, and that's how. You just step out, start pulling your life out of the air. You make friends, you find work you really like doing, you find places. You find diners and Laundromats. You find beaches. You find a junk car and drive it for a month, then lave it beside the road. You find someone to fall in love with you. You make it all up as you go. Or, you know, maybe it makes you up.

  Brad Barkley

  Beach, Falling In Love, Love You

  Brad Barkley, Heather Hepler (2007). “Dream Factory”, p.66, Penguin

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• I am back in LA now. And I keep thinking back to my time in New York after the bombings.... I was crying so much I could not see, and the other diners joined in, and I thought, What do you do with such atheistic evil?

  Ben Stein

  New York, Thinking, Evil

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• After almost exactly three hours, we rolled into a small hole of a town that had one traffic light and a resturant simply marked DINER. There hadn't been any traffic on the road for over an hour, though, which was really the most important thing. We hadn't been followed. Sydney drove us to a building with a sign that read MOTEL. Apparently this town liked to stick to the basics when it came to names. I wouldn't be surprised if it was actually just called TOWN.

  Richelle Mead

  Light, Names, Important

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Last Sacrifice: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.48, Penguin

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• What I like best in Baltimore is the people, the neighborhoods and what goes on in the neighborhoods. Each has its own stories, own diners and own quirks. It's about community. I also like everything Old Bay.

  Barbara Mikulski

  People, Community, Goes On

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• She glanced at the other diners, all of them going into their act, and thought is this what it all boils down to? Romantic love, is this all it is, a talent show?

  David Nicholls

  Romantic Love, Love Is, Talent

  David Nicholls (2009). “One Day”, p.130, Hachette UK

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• We do children an enormous disservice when we assume that they cannot appreciate anything beyond drive through fare and nutritionally marginal, kid-targeted convenience foods. Our children are capable of consuming something that grew in a garden or on a tree and never saw a deep fryer. They are capable of making it through diner at a sit-down restaurant with tablecloths and no climbing equipment. Children deserve quality nourishment.

  Victoria Moran

  Children, Kids, Garden

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• The first eight years of my life, we lived in an abandoned diner - we were basically squatters.

  Cristela Alonzo

  Eight, Years, Firsts

  "Rio Grande Valley Girl". Interview with Jeff Salamon, www.texasmonthly.com. October 2014.

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• I try to pick music for a diner that doesnt involve a lot of lyrics, so you're not paying attention to that. As long as it doesnt dominate the party, it should be more atmosphere music. When I'm by myself, I never play music.

  Amy Sedaris

  Party, Play, Long

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Animals are murdered to produce meat; vegetables are torn up, peeled, and chopped; most of what we eat is treated with fire; and chewing is designed remorselessly to finish what killing and cooking began. People naturally prefer that none of this should happen to them. Behind every rule of table etiquette lurks the determination of each person present to be a diner, not a dish.

  Margaret Visser

  Determination, Animal, Fire

  Margaret Visser (2015). “The Rituals of Dinner: The Origins, Evolution, Eccentricities, and Meaning of Table Manners”, p.17, Open Road Media

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• You'll see a consistent, like the tea, the tea bags you saw there-you'll see a consistent-did you see the cafeteria? I mean the diner?

  Antoine Fuqua

  Mean, Tea, Bags

  "Director Antoine Fuqua Talks THE EQUALIZER, Westerns, the Hard R Rating, Changes from the 80s Series, and More on Set". Group interview, collider.com. August 25, 2014.

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• Often whole days pass without my speaking to anyone, except to ask for diner or coffee. And it has been like that form the beginning.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Coffee, Form, Whole

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• Kids are without a doubt the most suspicious diners in the world. They will eat mud (raw or baked) rocks, paste, crayons, ball-point pens, moving goldfish, cigarette butts, and cat food. Try to coax a little beef stew into their mouths and they look at you like a puppy when you stand over him with the Sunday paper rolled up.

  Erma Bombeck

  Moving, Cat, Kids

  Erma Bombeck (2013). “The Erma Bombeck Collection: If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?, Motherhood, and The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank”, p.292, Open Road Media

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• One [New York] eatery is a remodeled diner that looks like what Busby Berkeley would have done if only he hadn't had the money.

  Fran Lebowitz

  New York, Looks, Done

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.126, Vintage

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• If you look closely at some scenes in Diner, my eyes look like Dracula's.

  Mickey Rourke

  Eye, Looks, Scene

  Interview with Christopher Walken, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 16, 2009.

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• As you leave these gates and re-enter society, one thing is certain: Everyone out there is going to hate you. Never tell anyone in a roadside diner that you went to Harvard. In most situations the correct response to where did you go to school is, "School? Why, I never had much in the way of book learnin' and such." Then, get in your BMW and get the hell out of there.

  Conan O'Brien

  Graduation, Hate, Book

  Conan O'Brien's commencement speech to the Class of Harvard University, www.youtube.com. 2000.

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