Restaurants Quotes - Page 20

• In a Pyongyang restaurant, don't ever ask for a doggie bag.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Bags, Asks

  Christopher Hitchens (2004). “Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays”, p.375, Nation Books

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• The young man shivered. He rolled the stock themes of fantasy over in his mind: cars and stockbrokers and commuters, housewives and police, agony columns and commercials for soap, income tax and cheap restaurants, magazines and credit cards and streetlights and computers... 'It is escapism, true,' he said, aloud. 'But is not the highest impulse in mankind the urge toward freedom, the drive to escape?

  Neil Gaiman

  Men, Agony, Car

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• Yeah!" shouted Jonah, twirling the much larger Hamilton around the restaurant in a victory dance. The other diners watched in amazement. This wild display was hardly the public image of the too-cool-for-school Jonah Wizard. "What's the matter?" Hamilton challenged. "Haven't you ever seen a happy rapper before?

  Gordon Korman

  School, Rapper, Victory

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• 'So,' he said as we turned onto the main road, the muffler rattling, 'I've been thinking.' 'Yeah?' He nodded. 'You really need to go out with me.' I blinked. 'I'm sorry?' 'You know. You, me. A restaurant or movie. Together.' He glanced over, shifting gears. 'Maybe it's a new concept for you? If so, I'll be happy to walk you through it.' 'You want to take me to a movie?' I asked. 'Well, not really,' he said. 'What I really want is for you to be my girlfriend. But I though saying that might scare you off.'

  Sarah Dessen

  Girlfriend, Sorry, Thinking

  "What Happened To Goodbye". Book by Sarah Dessen, 2011.

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• I do not understand why, when I ask for grilled lobster in a restaurant, I'm never served a cooked telephone.

  Salvador Dali

  Lobster, Telephones, Surrealism

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• When I arrived in Beirut from Europe, I felt the oppressive, damp heat, saw the unkempt palm trees and smelt the Arabic coffee, the fruit stalls and the over-spiced meat. It was the beginning of the Orient. And when I flew back to Beirut from Iran, I could pick up the British papers, ask for a gin and tonic at any bar, choose a French, Italian, or German restaurant for dinner. It was the beginning of the West. All things to all people, the Lebanese rarely questioned their own identity.

  Robert Fisk

  Coffee, Italian, Iran

  Robert Fisk (2001). “Pity the Nation: Lebanon at War”, p.163, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets, / The muttering retreats / Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels / And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells: / Streets that follow like a tedious argument / Of insidious intent / To lead you to an overwhelming question.../ Oh, do not ask, 'What is it?' / Let us go and make our visit"' 'I'm in love with you,' he said quietly.

  John Green

  Love You, Night, Oysters

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.90, Penguin

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• Everyone watched, wondering if this could be the same lunatic who'd nearly berthed his ornithopter in the restaurant. I swallowed, for it seemed he was headed straight for my table. He pulled off his helmet and a mass of dark auburn hair spilled out. Off came the goggles, and I was looking at the beaming face of Kate de Vries.

  Kenneth Oppel

  Dark, Hair, Goggles

  Kenneth Oppel (2009). “Skybreaker”, p.47, Harper Collins

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• Once I saw Paris Hilton leaving a restaurant in Hollywood and the paparazzi cameras were all over her. It looked so unpleasant. It wasn't because she didn't look sensational - she was that perfect combination of fashionable and slutty - it was because the paparazzi guys were shouting these insanely rude and intrusive questions at her. Like, asking her who she was sleeping with and stuff. I was kind of interested in the answer, so I was glad they asked, but it was still gross.

  Mindy Kaling

  Sleep, Paris, Perfect

  Mindy Kaling (2011). “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)(Enhanced Edition)”, p.59, Crown/Archetype

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• For a long time, she held a special place in my heart. I kept this special place just for her, like a "Reserved" sign on a quiet corner table in a restaurant. Despite the fact that I was sure I'd never see her again.

  Haruki Murakami

  Romantic, True Love, Heart

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Oct 10, 2016

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• You tried to slide his original curse back onto him?” Al said in wonder. “At the restaurant? And I stopped you? Sweet mother pus bucket!” he exclaimed, and I swear, dust sifted from the ceiling. “Rachel, we have to work on this communication thing.

  Kim Harrison

  Mother, Sweet, Communication

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• Don't you worry about that, Mr. Adamsson. Why don't you head back to Reykjavik and spend some of that extortionate fee you charged me for a couple of hours' usage of your frankly third-rate restaurant and perhaps find a friendless tree stump to listen to your woes?

  Eoin Colfer

  Couple, Worry, Tree

  "Artemis Fowl The Atlantis Complex". Book by July 20, 2010, July 20, 2010.

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• Numbers written on restaurant bills within the confines of restaurants do not follow the same mathematical laws as numbers written on any other pieces of paper in any other parts of the Universe. This single fact took the scientific world by storm.

  Douglas Adams

  Food, Science, Law

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Radio Scripts Volume 2: The Tertiary, Quandary and Quintessential Phases”, p.45, Pan Macmillan

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• She avoids deep thought like an empty restaurant, not out of stupidity, but a canny resolve to be happy.

  Alex Shakar

  Stupidity, Deep Thought, Empty

  Alex Shakar (2011). “Luminarium”, p.165, Soho Press

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• When you meet a man in the doorway of a Mexican restaurant who later kisses you while explaining that this kiss doesn’t “mean anything” because, much as he likes you, he is not interested in having a relationship with you or anyone right now, just laugh and kiss him back. Your daughter will have his sense of humor. Your son will have his eyes.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Daughter, Mean, Eye

  Cheryl Strayed (2013). “Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who’s Been There”, p.248, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• They do it in Thai restaurants in London. You ask for a drink, and it comes in a glass with loads of seaweed and pebbles in it like a scene from Finding Nemo.

  Karl Pilkington

  Glasses, London, Pebbles

  Karl Pilkington (2010). “An Idiot Abroad: The Travel Diaries of Karl Pilkington”, p.104, Canongate Books

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• I’m conflicted. On one hand, I want to stay in and catch up on The Vampire Diaries, but there’s this really awesome restaurant I’ve been wanting to try out.

  Jessica Sorensen

  Hands, Vampire, Trying

  Jessica Sorensen (2013). “The Coincidence of Callie and Kayden”, p.19, Hachette UK

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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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• It might sound naive to suggest that whether you order a chicken patty or a veggie burger is a profoundly important decision. Then again, it certainly would have sounded fantastic if in the 1950's you were told that where you sat in a restaurant or on a bus could begin to uproot racism.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Order, Racism, Decision

  "Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, 2009.

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• What is love?” “I don’t know.” “Love is the name given to the bond Kemal feels with Füsun whenever they travel along highways or sidewalks; visit houses, gardens, or rooms; or whenever he watches her sitting in tea gardens and restaurants, and at dinner tables.” “Hmmm … that’s a lovely answer,~ But isn’t love what you feel when you can’t see me?” “Under those circumstances, it becomes a terrible obsession, an illness.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Love Is, Garden, Names

  Orhan Pamuk (2011). “The Museum of Innocence”, p.592, Faber & Faber

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• Do they always flirt with biblical quotes?" Asil asked Tad. In long-suffering tones, Tad said, "They can flirt with the periodic table or a restaurant menu. We've learned to live with it. Get a room you guys."

  Patricia Briggs

  Biblical, Flirting, Long

  "Frost Burned". Book by Patricia Briggs, January 28, 2014.

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• Dr. Bashiri, if I ever want to put a curse in someone, I say, 'May God give you a restaurant.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Giving, Want, Drs

  Khaled Hosseini (2013). “And the Mountains Echoed”, p.162, A&C Black

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• In a restaurant, tangoing couples circled past, and the look in Hale's eyes was especially mischievous when he told her, "Oh, I see. You brought me here so you can have your way with me on the dance floor.

  Ally Carter

  Couple, Eye, Past

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• Restaurants are minefields for the socially inept

  Graeme Simsion

  Minefields

  Graeme Simsion (2014). “The Rosie Project: A Novel”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• Celebrity has its uses. I can always get a seat in any restaurant.

  Julia Child

  Food, Use, Seats

  "Julia Child: What I've Learned". Interview with Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. June 2001.

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