Top 1200 Dining Out Quotes & Sayings

Dining should be a delightful and a beautiful experience.

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.

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

Schizophrenia beats dining alone.

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.

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.

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

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

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

It's often hard for us to imagine going without some of our luxuries like travel, dining out, or Internet, much less our basic necessities like food and water. But try for a minute to imagine how life would be with such deprivations.

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

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

What kind of dining set defines me as a person?

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

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

I think in France, for example, we can say whatever we want about the French, but going out and dining is more about the intellectual moment to share with the people you dine with than trying to figure out what the chef did with that little piece of salmon or lobster and all that.

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

I'm a man more dined against than dining.

If you're using technology in a way that opens out conversation in your family, with your friends, with people you care about, I'm for that. But if you're using technology to silence the conversations with the people around you, then you have to create sacred spaces in your home, the kitchen, the dining room, the car.

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

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.

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

Even in fine-dining restaurants, you have people that say 'I want to be out in half hour', 'I want to be out in 45 minutes.' It happens.

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.

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

. . . 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.

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

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.

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.

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

I'd like to see a return to old-school values, classic service and the old-world glamour of what dining - going out - is supposed to be.

I love my kitchen. For Manhattan, I have a rather decent-size kitchen, and it has an opening that gives out to the dining room, which has a window with a view of the city and in the distance the Statue of Liberty.

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

Understand tipping culture. Whereas Americans tip 15-20% when dining out, most European countries don't tip, as a service charge is typically included in the bill. Make sure you're not over-tipping by doing research before traveling.

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.

I simply adore getting dressed up for a special occasion. I feel incredible stepping out in luxurious fabrics and a bit of bling. That's also how I feel about special-occasion dining rooms. Because these aren't everyday spaces, they contain all sorts of drama for that once-in-a-while 'wow' event.

Dining is and always was a great artistic opportunity.

Fine dining is an occasional treat for most people.

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

Dining and marriage restrictions stunt Hindu society.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Dining with a married couple can be uncomfortable.

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

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

Listening to Britons dining out is like watching people play first-class tennis with imaginary balls.

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.

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

Shared dining fortifies us.

At Babbo, each dish grew out of a conversation, trying to put something forth that was new and different. It was a combination of culinary adventurism and the dining-room experience with respect for the classic but with an eye toward innovation. And it was about eating locally, whether produce or fish or meat.

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

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

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

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

My husband and I have a deal, which has worked out well: He cooks one Sunday, I cook the next. The kids set the table, and we eat in the dining room together, just as I used to do as a kid.

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