Top 1200 Fine Dining Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

My childhood was really nice. My parents never forced me to do anything; it was always, "If you want to do that, fine." When I told my father I was going to be an actor, he said, "Fine, but study welding just in case."

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

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

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

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

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

For too long the world has failed to recognise that the Olympic Games and the Olympic Movement are about fine athletics and fine art.

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

In the antiseptic world we try to purge ourselves of difficult things. Don't dwell on it, switch off the light and go home. But this is home. I have to be a home to myself. I am the place I come back to and I can't keep hiding difficult things in trunks. Soon the house will be full of trunks and I perched on top of them with the phone saying, "Yes, I'm fine, of course, I'm fine, everything's fine." The trunks shudder.

If I'm characterized as a character actor, that's fine with me. Whatever they want to call me is fine.

Criticism is fine and conversation is fine, but the person who's criticizing should know what they're saying and whom they're criticizing.

We're teaching our kids that attributes as vague and relatively meaningless as a toothy smile or a fine head of hair make a fine statement about a person.

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.

There are some days when I can do my thing and be in the world and walk around, and it's fine. And then there are other days where it's totally not fine, and I want to crawl into a hole and die. And it's the most invasive and worst.

A fine woman shews her charms to most advantage when she seems most to conceal them. The finest bosom in nature is not so fine as what imagination forms.

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

I spend more time in the kitchen than I have in the dining room, for obvious reasons, however, I just want to sit and indulge.

I went to school for fine art. I'm a decent housepainter, but I'm a really good fine art painter.

If you pretend everything's fine long enough, everything eventually becomes fine.

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

The fact that I'm obviously well enough to be playing - in fine fettle and fine singing voice, yet I am not playing with The Libertines - is a sore point.

I don't think the Beatles were that good. I think they're fine, you know. Ringo's got the best backbeat I've ever heard... Paul is a fine bass player... but he's a bit overpowering at times.

Obama is a very fine writer with an excellent command of language. His memoir 'Dreams From My Father' is a fine book, but it will not rank as one of the great autobiographies.

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

We've always been divided by some of these big political issues. It's fine. As long as we treat each other with respect and remember that ultimately, we're all Americans, we'll be fine.

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

No, I'm fine,' said Harry, wondering why he kept telling people this, and wondering whether he had ever been less fine.

'Too big to fail' is fine for restaurant chains. If Denny's fails, it's fine for this economy. You can always go down to the TGIFs. But that's not the same for large-scale investment companies.

If people want to keep their kid on their insurance at 26, fine. We've got to make sure no American gets turned back for pre-existing conditions, that's fine.

It's almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.

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

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

Dining with one's friends and beloved family is certainly one of life's primal and most innocent delights, one that is both soul-satisfying and eternal.

In the Members' Dining Room, the Conservatives eat at one end, the Labour Party at the other, while the Liberals wait at table.

Next to clothes being fine, they should be well made, and worn easily; for a man is only the less genteel for a fine coat, if, in wearing it, he shows a regard for it, and is not as easy in it as if it was a plain one.

I do what I believe in. I do good work, and the people who appreciate it, fine, and those who don't, fine, that's good.

I am fine if I am on a red carpet - I know what to do. You stop and smile and pose for a picture and that's fine.

If people like what I do, fine. If they don't, fine.

Should l go on playing bridge and dining, going in the same old monotonous circle? It's easy that way, but it's a sort of suicide, too.

I actually built my own dining table back home in Australia. It's a secret hobby of mine that I weirdly find transfixing.

A tipping point is invisible, as we just saw in Greece. In most situations, everything appears fine until it's not fine, until, for example, no one shows up at a Treasury auction.

Everybody tells me, 'You're going to be fine.' Well, I know I'm going to be fine.

Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.

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

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

I want to make as much money as I possibly can so that when my day comes, my mother and sister is fine. My close friends are fine. They don't have to worry about anything ever again.

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

If someone wants to shout at me and tell me I'm bowling badly, that's fine. I may not agree but it's fine. It's part of the experience of being a touring cricketer.

No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.

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

I don't even use italics or boldface; that's clutter, not clarity. Fancy fonts are fine for blogs, just as calligraphy is fine for diaries. But when you're writing for anyone other than yourself, you want to get as universal as possible.

The quality of food is in inverse proportion to a dining room's altitude, especially atop bank and hotel buildings (airplanes are an extreme example).

My goal is to make fine art, and fine art comes from the soul. If you have virtuosity and facility, you can take and create something of significance.

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.

I was on my bike, cycling to Stanford, and it struck me that a week had gone by without my having a phone. And everything was just fine. Better than fine, actually. I felt more relaxed, carefree, happier.

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

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

I showed my chin was fine when I fought Tim Sylvia in the Philippines, when our fight was a no contest. He landed a good straight right hand at the end of the first round and I was fine. I survived and knocked him out.

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.

I want to tell everyone, 'You're perfectly fine right now.' No one told me that.. I hope people can think, 'I'm great the way I am. I'm doing fine. Even if I can't reach the criteria of success measured and necessitated by society, even if I'm weeded out, I'm beautiful the way I am. I'm pretty, I'm perfectly fine without having to think about other people's opinions and stereotypes.'