Dining Quotes - Page 6

• It is always allowable to ask for artichoke jelly with your boiled venison; however there are houses where this is not supplied.

  Lewis Carroll

  House, Jelly, Manners

  Lewis Carroll (1996). “The Complete Illustrated Lewis Carroll”, p.1114, Wordsworth Editions

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• One summer evening in the year 1848, three Cardinals and a missionary were dining together in the gardens of a villa in the Sabine hills, overlooking Rome.

  Willa Cather

  Summer, Book, Garden

  Willa Cather (2011). “Death Comes for the Archbishop”, p.3, Vintage

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• Personal sympathy has helped me on very much. My husband from first to last has watched every picture with delight, and it is my daily habit to run to him with every glass upon which a fresh glory is newly stamped, and to listen to his enthusiastic applause. This habit of running into the dining-room with my wet pictures has stained such an immense quantity of table linen with nitrate of silver, indelible stains, that I should have been banished from any less indulgent household.

  Julia Margaret Cameron

  Running, Husband, Glasses

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• I'm a man more dined against than dining.

  Maurice Bowra

  Food, Men

  In John Betjeman 'Summoned by Bells' (1960) ch. 9.

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• A dining club which I was involved in at Oxford University invited Sir Isaiah Berlin to dinner, who I believe was probably the greatest liberal philosopher in the 20th century. I sat beside him and we spoke about liberal philosophy and the events of the 20th century all night over dinner - it was unforgettable!

  George Brandis

  Philosophy, Believe, Night

  Source: thebriefonline.atavist.com

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• If you wish to be good "Pantagruelists" (which is to say, live in peace, joy, health, and always dining well), never put too much faith in people who look out through a hole.

  Francois Rabelais

  Faith, People, Joy

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• I don't think fine dining is dying, but I think those rare occasions when you really want the fanciness are diminishing... I think a lot of people are going to find simpler, more casual ways to enjoy an experience.

  Mario Batali

  Thinking, People, Dying

  Interview with Liz Biro, www.indystar.com. November 21, 2015.

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• Dining and marriage restrictions stunt Hindu society.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Hinduism, Restriction

  Mahatma Gandhi (1973). “Collected Works”

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• The quality of food is in inverse proportion to a dining room's altitude, especially atop bank and hotel buildings (airplanes are an extreme example).

  Bryan Q. Miller

  Airplane, Quality, Rooms

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• When I started to work in Paris in fine dining, the passion really kicked in, and I knew that I would not, for the rest of my life, do anything else.

  Eric Ripert

  Passion, Paris, Fine

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• Know your job and don't fake it. It looks easy, but the ones that make it look easy know what the hell they're doing. They may tell you around the dining room table that you're funny and you should be an actor, but until you challenge yourself by getting on a stage or in front of a camera, that's when your knowledge of the craft separates you from the pretenders.

  Dustin Diamond

  Jobs, Fake, Challenges

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• What I've found is that a lot of soldiers are surprisingly apolitical. Their reality is, "Today I'm going to leave the gate for twelve hours, and I'm going to make it back to the dining facility by sundown with the arms and legs of me and my buddies intact."

  Henry Rollins

  Reality, Soldier, Twelve

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• At lunchtime the place is jumping, while at night the dining rooms could have been rented out for chess tournaments.

  Bryan Q. Miller

  Night, Jumping, Lunch

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• The dining room is a building; the bathroom is a building. If we scatter this single-program architecture inside of a domestic environment, we can link an interior urbanism in a way similar to a village or a township of tiny houses.

  Jimenez Lai

  House, Way, Rooms

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.

  A. N. Wilson

  Tables, Austen, Jane

  "AN Wilson: 'Everyone writes in Tolstoy's shadow'". Interview with William Skidelsky, www.theguardian.com. April 21, 2012.

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• Television in the '80s was very limited. There was no Food Network. When I opened Spago, I had the kitchen in the dining hall. It was probably the first restaurant to do so. The dining scene became more casual. All these cooking shows have transformed our profession one-hundred percent.

  Wolfgang Puck

  Cooking, Kitchen, Television

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Think beyond the vase! If you have a vase of flowers on a dining table for a quick dinner party, think about scattering flower petals, leaves, or even fruit along the tabletop.

  Clinton Smith

  Party, Flower, Thinking

  Source: www.popsugar.com

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• I'd like to record somewhere really different. Rent a really big house and get a mobile in and set up in the dining room. Maybe New England; it'd be nice in September or October.

  Robert Smith

  Nice, House, Different

  "The Cure's Robert Smith: 'I don't worry about my epitaph' - a classic interview from the vaults". Interview with Susan Compo, www.theguardian.com. August 21, 2012.

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• Your car, comfort though it be, this little den and dining room on wheels, is a prison that deadens your senses, and to feel wholly alive you must go for a walk.

  Garrison Keillor

  Car, Comfort, Alive

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• The first trip I remember taking was on the train from Virginia up to New York City, watching the summertime countryside rolling past the window. They used white linen tablecloths in the dining car in those days, and real silver. I love trains to this day. Maybe that was the beginning of my fixation with leisurely modes of travel.

  Billy Campbell

  New York, Real, Past

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

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• I think people are more savvy about cooking, food and dining. I notice they are looking for more value for their money - not in larger portions but more in terms of healthier, fresh, farm-to-table dishes with a nice presentation.

  Cat Cora

  Nice, Thinking, People

  "Chef Cat Cora Dishes on Healthy Cooking". "Good Morning America" with Diane Henderiks, abcnews.go.com. April 23, 2012.

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• The conversation, like many others I had with people on trains, derived an easy candour from the shared journey, the comfort of the dining car, and the certain knowledge that neither of us would see each other again.

  Paul Theroux

  Journey, People, Car

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• Ping-pong was invented on the dining tables of England in the 19th century, and it was called Wiff-waff! And there, I think, you have the difference between us and the rest of the world. Other nations, the French, looked at a dining table and saw an opportunity to have dinner; we looked at it an saw an opportunity to play Wiff-waff.

  Boris Johnson

  Opportunity, Thinking, Play

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• Thanksgiving is a magical time of year when families across the country join together to raise America's obesity statistics. Personally, I love Thanksgiving traditions: watching football, making pumpkin pie, and saying the magic phrase that sends your aunt storming out of the dining room to sit in her car.

  Stephen Colbert

  Football, Country, Aunt

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• I think you will agree the sign of a civilised society is a regular dining schedule.

  Philippa Ballantine

  Thinking, Schedules, Agree

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