Top 277 Dining Quotes & Sayings

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

Dining and marriage restrictions stunt Hindu society.

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

The pike does not ask the frog's permission before dining.

What kind of dining set defines me as a person?

I love the intensity of the fine-dining kitchen, but loathe the fine-dining experience.

Men think monogamy is something you make dining tables out of.

Dining with a married couple can be uncomfortable.

I developed the habit of writing novels behind a closed door, or at my uncle's, on the dining table.

Get to know the Chef and you will start to enjoy dining out even more.

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

Shared dining fortifies us.

Too many people just eat to consume calories. Try dining for a change.

I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.

In Paris we have bistros, then we have fine dining. In London, you have a very contemporary scene with mixed influences.

Fine dining is an occasional treat for most people.

There are houses where they don't any longer have dining tables. They will sit in front of the telly and eat.

It was incredible to have J Dilla in your dining room making beats - it was one of the greatest experiences I've had.

Dining is the privilege of civilization. . . . The nation which knows how to dine has learnt the leading lesson of progress.

Dining is and always was a great artistic opportunity.

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

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

Schizophrenia beats dining alone.

A dining room table with children's eager hungry faces around it, ceases to be a mere dining room table, and becomes an altar.

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.

When I'm dining out privately, I tend to avoid fine-dining venues; I like things to feel casual.

Bringing out service staff on to the dining floor does change the atmosphere.

Dining rooms are really all about the table and the chairs.

I like being the people's champion when it comes to dining.

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

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

I'm a man more dined against than dining.

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

Dining should be something that isn't always taken extremely seriously.

You can keep the dining room clean by eating in the kitchen.

When I was growing up, my father never got his profession to the house. We didn't discuss films on the dining table.

Be able to set a table so that you feel like you're dining, not just sitting and eating.

I was really impressed with the dining scenes and how amazing the culinary scene is in Nashville.

I want to make sure the fine-dining restaurant has a clientele who is local as much as tourists and foodies.

When I go to a fine dining restaurant, I'm excited and I do expect to find proposals to wake my senses.

I have a Damien Hirst spot painting which I love. It has pride of place over my dining-room table.

At consignment shops, I can collect things reasonably, and it's joyful. My dining room table was $75, and I'm so proud. It's beautiful.

There is a big dining table at In Sung hyung's house. That's our hangout spot, and we drink teas and chat.

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.

I think there's something to be said for going to certain fine dining restaurants and knowing that after a certain time, it would be inappropriate to take young children. And, unrealistic for them and unfair to the child and to the others that are dining.

I think fine dining is dying out everywhere... but I think there will be - and there has to always be - room for at least a small number of really fine, old-school fine-dining restaurants.

Ballplayers who are first to the dining room are usually last in batting averages.

Museums are like sports stadiums, hotels and hospitals: they are in the category of captive-audience dining.

My wife doesn't cook, so we eat out every night. It's not fine dining or anything - we're not fancy people.

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

For years I have really wanted to create my own special dining experience that people never forget.

Eating local is a relatively new concept in American dining; for the Italians, it's a way of life.

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

Caviar is to dining what a sable coat is to a girl in evening dress.

I'm a California girl, right? I grew up with that farm-to-table dining before it was sweeping the nation.

. . . 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.

Dining should be a delightful and a beautiful experience.

In proceeding to the dining-room, the gentleman gives one arm to the lady he escorts--it is unusual to offer both.

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

I have this feeling that if I could sort out what's on my dining room table, everything would fall into place.