Dining Quotes - Page 7

• All I needed was a steady table and a typewriter...a marble-topped bedroom washstand table made a good place; the dining-room table between meals was also suitable.

  Agatha Christie

  Writing, Typewriters, Meals

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• Los científicos como yo sólo utilizamos nuestros dones para mostrar lo que ya existe, y parecemos pequeños comparados con los artistas que crean obras de belleza a partir de sí mismos. Si viniera un hada buena y me devolviera la juventud, preguntándome qué dones preferiría tener, los de hacer visible una cosa que existe pero que ningún hombre ha visto jamás, o el genio necesario para crear, en un estilo arquitectónico nunca antes imaginado, el gran Ayuntamiento en el que cenamos esta noche, podría sentirme tentado a elegir lo segundo.

  Max Perutz

  Ciencia, Artista, Hombres

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• Estaba de pie en el comedor, sin pensar en nada en particular, cuando me pusieron un cablegrama en la mano. Decía: "Susy ha sido liberada hoy pacíficamente". Es uno de los misterios de nuestra naturaleza que un hombre, totalmente desprevenido, pueda recibir un trueno como ése y vivir.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Thinking, Hands

  Mark Twain (2010). “Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review”, p.26, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• Recuerdo en particular que una noche, después de que cenaran en Netherfield, dijiste: "¡Es una belleza!... no dudaría en llamar ingeniosa a su madre". Pero luego ella parecio mejorar para ti, y creo que alguna vez la consideraste bastante bonita." "Si -respondio Darcy, que no podia contenerse mas-, pero eso fue solo cuando la vi por primera vez, pues hace muchos meses que no la considero una de las mujeres mas hermosas que conozco.

  Jane Austen

  Madre, Creer, Noche

  Jane Austen (2015). "Annotated Pride and Prejudice with English Grammar Exercises: by Jane Austen (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)", p.329, Powell Publications, LLC.

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• Evil is an act, not an appetite. How many haven't wanted to slash the throat of some boor across the dining room table? Present company excepted of course. Everyone has the appetite. If you give in to it, it, that act is evil. The appetite is normal.

  Gregory Maguire

  Evil, Giving, Normal

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• Se interrumpió al ver los libros. Pilas y pilas de ellos junto al sofá, otra pila en la mesa de café, un mar de ellos en su mesa de comedor. Por Dios, Dane, necesitas tratamiento.

  Nora Roberts

  Jesús, Café, Libro

  Nora Roberts (2003). “Key Of Knowledge”, p.81, Penguin

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• Properly speaking, of course, there is no such thing as a return to nature, because there is no such thing as a departure from it. The phrase reminds one of the slightly intoxicated gentleman who gets up in his own dining room and declares firmly that he must be getting home.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Home, Gentleman, Phrases

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• I took my coffee into the dining room and settled down with the morning paper. A woman in New York had had twins in a taxi. A woman in Ohio had just had her seventeenth child. A twelve-year-old girl in Mexico had given birth to a thirteen-pound boy. The lead article on the woman's page was about how to adjust the older child to the new baby. I finally found an account of an axe murder on page seventeen, and held my coffee cup up to my face to see if the steam might revive me.

  Shirley Jackson

  Girl, Baby, Morning

  Shirley Jackson (1966). “The Magic of Shirley Jackson”, p.697, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• Miró más allá de ella, al otro extremo de la mesa, donde Regina se sentaría como su esposa. Si estuviera aquí. Si él no la hubiera echado. "No estoy seguro de saber cómo amar, Louisa." Ella le cogió la mano. "No seas tonta. Amar es fácil. Lo difícil es encontrar a alguien que te corresponda.

  Sabrina Jeffries

  Silly, Love You, Past

  Sabrina Jeffries (2005). "To Pleasure a Prince", p.318, Simon and Schuster

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• I still have a fondness for books. Many a time I will be antiquing, and I'll say, 'What's that old-timey curio over there? What is that, a candlestick telephone, one of those old pull-chain toilets? Oh no, it's a book. I used to help make those things! I will buy it and use it to decorate my chain of casual family-dining restaurants.

  John Hodgman

  Book, Use, Toilets

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• Dining out is a vice, a dissipation of spirit punished by remorse. We eat, drink, and talk a little too much, abuse all our friends, belch out our literary preferences and are egged on by accomplices in the audience to acts of mental exhibitionism. Such evenings cannot fail to diminish those who take part in them. They end on Monkey Hill.

  Cyril Connolly

  Food, Cooking, Abuse

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• America’s drug problem is not going to be solved in courtrooms or legislative hearing rooms by judges and politicians. It will be solved in living rooms and dining rooms and across kitchen tables – by parents and families.

  Joseph A. Califano, Jr.

  America, Judging, Parent

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• Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind; Though fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat To persuade Tommy Townshend to lend him a vote. Who too deep for his hearers still went on refining, And thought of convincing while they thought of dining: Though equal to all things, for all things unfit; Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Nice, Party, Learning

  'Retaliation' (1774) l. 29 (on Edmund Burke)

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• I am a firm believer in eating a full plant-based, whole food diet that can expand your life length and make you an all-around happier person. It is tricky dining out, but I just stick to what I know - veggies, fruit and salad - then when I get home I'll have something else.

  Ariana Grande

  Home, Salad, Fruit

  "Ariana Grande: 'I love animals more than I love most people, not kidding'". Interview with Lyndsey Gilmour, www.mirror.co.uk. December 5, 2014.

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• It's no wonder Bob Geldof knows so much about famine - he's been dining out on I Don't Like Mondays for 30 years.

  Russell Brand

  Monday, Years, Bob

  "Russell Brand: profile" by James Sturcke, www.theguardian.com. October 29, 2008.

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• Credit card companies pay college students generously to stand outside dining halls, dorms, and academic buildings and encourage their fellow students to apply for credit cards.

  Louise Slaughter

  College, Pay, Dorms

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• I'm a secret interior decorator. There's a mural on my dining room wall of the railroad tracks at 30th Street Station in Philadelphia. I love having my hometown with me out here in California.

  Jill Scott

  Wall, California, Philadelphia

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• Slaves were taught to be fine chefs, but they endangered their lives if they made a mistake or served an ill-prepared dish. Rather than being reprimanded, they were often hauled into the dining room and flogged in the presence of the guests.

  Jeff Smith

  Mistake, Food, Guests

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• Ruego al Cielo que conceda la mejor de las Bendiciones a esta Casa y a todos los que la habiten en adelante. Que sólo hombres honestos y sabios gobiernen bajo este techo.

  John Adams

  Sabio, Honestidad, Bendición

  John Adams (1841). "Cartas de John Adams: Dirigidas a su esposa", p.267

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• The poodle [Rufus] ate in the dining room with the rest of the [Churchill] family. A cloth was laid for him on the Persian carpet beside the head of the household, and no one else ate until the butler had served Rufus's meal.

  Winston Churchill

  Dog, Meals, Poodles

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• There are many nations that have perfected a particular room. You know, you have the French drawing-room, the Austrian ball room, the German dining room, and I think the library is a room the English get right.

  Julian Fellowes

  Thinking, Drawing, Library

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• Que los libros sean tu mesa,/Y estarás lleno de delicias. / Que sean tu colchón,/Y dormirás noches tranquilas.

  Efrén el Sirio

  Inspiración, Libro, Lectura

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• There is something about a martini, Ere the dining and dancing begin, And to tell you the truth, It is not the vermouth- I think that perhaps it's the gin.

  Ogden Nash

  Truth, Thinking, Dancing

  Ogden Nash (1941). "The Face is Familiar: The Selected Verse of Ogden Nash", Garden City, N. Y : Garden City publishing Company, Incorporated

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• You might be a redneck if...Your only condiment on the dining room table is the economy size bottle of ketchup.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Redneck, Bottles, Tables

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• La economía, tal y como suele enseñarse hoy en día, nos retrata como homo economicus: alguien que no vota en las elecciones presidenciales, no devuelve las carteras perdidas y no deja propina cuando cena fuera de la ciudad. Julie Nelson nos recuerda que la mayoría de la gente no es así. Ayuda a señalar el camino hacia una forma más rica y descriptiva de pensar sobre la vida económica.

  Robert H. Frank

  Thinking, People, Presidential

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