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• I painted one dining room red and I must say, the conversation became very heated in that room.

  Amanda Pays

  Red Lipstick, Rooms, Conversation

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• Should l go on playing bridge and dining, going in the same old monotonous circle? It's easy that way, but it's a sort of suicide, too.

  Antoinette Perry

  Suicide, Bridges, Circles

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• Walt's idea was that - as soon as the people who were dining got through their main course. They were supposed to all be seated, served at the same time, when they got into the dessert.

  John Hench

  Ideas, People, Dessert

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• The dining room in my old house was truly magnificent, but by far the worst room for conversation. I'd get up from the table, a very long table, and somebody would always say, Paul, I never got to talk to you.

  Paul Lynde

  Long, House, Tables

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• Playwrights are like men who have been dining for a month in an Indian restaurant. After eating curry night after night, they deny the existence of asparagus.

  Peter Ustinov

  Food, Night, Men

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• Roast Beef, Medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy. Seated at Life's Dining Table, with the menu of Morals before you, your eye wanders a bit over the entrees, the hors d'oeuvres, and the things a la though you know that Roast Beef, Medium, is safe and sane, and sure.

  Edna Ferber

  Philosophy, Food, Eye

  Edna Ferber (2015). “Roast Beef, Medium: The Business Adventures of Emma McChesney”, p.2, Booklassic

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• When you are dining with a demon, you got to have a long spoon.

  Navjot Singh Sidhu

  Long, Spoons, Demon

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• ...so now, Mrs. Ramsay thought, she could return to that dream land, that unreal but fascinating place, the Manning's drawing-room at Marlow twenty years ago; where one moved about without haste or anxiety, for there was no future to worry about. She knew what had happened to them, what to her. It was like reading a good book again, for she knew the end of that story, since it had happened twenty years ago, and life, which shot down even from this dining-room table in cascades, heaven knows where, was sealed up there, and lay, like a lake, placidly between its banks.

  Virginia Woolf

  Dream, Reading, Book

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.315, Wordsworth Editions

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• Parents who want a fresh point of view on their furniture are advised to drop down on all fours and accompany the nine or ten month old on his rounds. It is probably many years since you last studied the underside of a dining room chair. The ten month old will study this marvel with as much concentration and reverence as a tourist in the Cathedral of Chartres.

  Selma Fraiberg

  Views, Years, Parent

  Selma H. Fraiberg (2015). “The Magic Years: Understanding and Handling the Problems of Early Childhood”, p.53, Simon and Schuster

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• I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage, with my books, my family, and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post which any human power can give.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Family, Book, Food

  Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence”, p.64, Algora Publishing

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• Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.

  Harriet Van Horne

  Love, Food, Memorable

  1956 Vogue, Oct.

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• I don't believe in dining on an empty stomach.

  W. C. Fields

  Believe, Empty, Stomach

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• Schizophrenia beats dining alone.

  Oscar Levant

  Funny, Humor, Dining Alone

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

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• We may live without poetry, music and art; We may live without conscience, and live without heart; We may live without friends; we may live without books; But civilized man cannot live without cooks. . . . He may live without books,-what is knowledge but grieving? He may live without hope,-what is hope but deceiving? He may live without love,-what is passion but pining? But where is the man that can live without dining?

  Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

  Art, Book, Passion

  'Lucile' (1860) pt. 1, canto 2, sect. 24

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• It's hard to lose weight when you're dining on the company's money.

  Alan Kotok

  Weight, Company, Hard

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• There was a man sitting in the dining room of the Titanic, he said: "I know I asked for ice, but this is ridiculous."

  Frank Carson

  Funny, Humor, Men

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• . . . gastronomical perfection can be reached in these combinations: one person dining alone, usually upon a couch or a hill side; two people, of no matter what sex or age, dining in a good restaurant; six people . . . dining in a good home.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Sex, Home, Two

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.773, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.

  Barbara Johnson

  Food, Weight Loss, Dessert First

  Barbara Johnson (2000). “Leaking Laffs Between Pampers and Depends”, p.67, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I'm at an age where I think more about food than I do about sex. Last week I put a mirror over my dining room table.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Inspirational, Sex, Thinking

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• What kind of dining set defines me as a person?

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Kind, Persons

  Read Mercer Schuchardt, Chuck Palahniuk (2008). “You do not talk about Fight Club: I am Jack's completely unauthorized essay collection”, Benbella Books

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• It has always pleased me to read while eating if I have no companion; it gives me the society I lack. I devour alternately a page and a mouthful; it is as though my book were dining with me.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Food, Book, Giving

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• I spend more time in the kitchen than I have in the dining room, for obvious reasons, however, I just want to sit and indulge.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Kitchen, Want, Rooms

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• The Sabbath is a weekly cathedral raised up in my dining room, in my family, in my heart.

  Anita Diament

  Heart, Religion, Rooms

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• I was very happy sitting alone at a dining room table, writing a script.

  Conrad Hall

  Writing, Sitting, Tables

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• I always knew I was going to be successful in some way with films. I don't know why. I had no particular talent, but I always knew I was going to be sitting in a dining room with Lucille Ball and at a cocktail party with Bette Davis.

  Robert Osborne

  Party, Successful, Balls

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