Quotes About Dining

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.

The best food is in Chicago. There are great restaurants everywhere, from fancy places to burger joints.

Instead of going out to dinner, buy good food. Cooking at home shows such affection. In a bad economy, it's more important to make yourself feel good.

I never see any home cooking - all I get is fancy stuff.

I came home, the car was in the dining room. "How did you get the car in here?" "Easy, I took a left at the kitchen."

The movie theater is never going away. If that was a case why are there still restaurants? People still have kitchens in their home!

Yeah," I said, "but you're an artist. You don't believe in decency and honesty and gratitude. Where shall we eat?

I was in the Far East and I went into a restaurant and I ordered octopus and the waiter said: "It takes four hours." I asked why and he said: "It keeps turning off the gas."

To be clever in the afternoon argues that one is dining nowhere in the evening.

A Cannibal is a person who walks into a restaurant and orders a waiter.

The service at this airport restaurant is so bad I'm starting to panic that I'm a ghost.

The grown-ups, or maybe I should say the parents, ate in the dining room.

Hi! I'm Ethan, I shop at Ikea. I bought a $300 dining suite and it took me three days to assemble!

Greta coined the phrase, "You are who you eat with.

He sat astonished in front of the menu, as if he had never seen one before. There were pages of dead things – cows, shrimps, pigs, oysters, lambs – stretched out like a casualty list, accompanied by a brief description of how they had been treated since they died – skewered, grilled, smoked, and boiled. Christ, if they thought he was going to eat these things they must be mad.

Béarnaise? With lamb?' said Anne. 'Of course. The dish which left the poor Duc de Guermantes so famished that he had no time to chat with the dying Swann's dubious daughter before hurrying off to dinner.

Fra Cristoforo crossed the village, ascended a winding path, and came to a small clearing in front of the palace. The door was closed, a sign that the master was dining and did not wish to be disturbed.

With messy food, or foods with a lot of sauce, you do 'The Hunch.' I learned it in Philly, watching the dudes in suits eat cheesesteaks. You keep your elbows above your hands because if you don't, the grease runs down your sleeve to your elbow.

Kids today and for the last 20 years have held the fork and knife in unbelievable ways. They hold the fork with a fist and the knife like a saw and they shovel it in. It doesn't matter to them which way they hold their knife and fork. They eat every which way. I'm amazed they get food into their mouths at all.

My favourite restaurants serve long lists of pizza and pasta creations that I fantasise over almost daily.

My husband and I go to Il Fico every Friday, and I get the whole-wheat pizza. I won't eat pizza anywhere else!

I usually try to eat in my restaurants before I fly, as I'd rather sleep on the plane and just order a salad with cheese, maybe some ice cream.

Know how to behave at a buffet. Take a clean plate for a second helping.

I learned that things taste better on pretty plates.