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  • A white truffle, which elsewhere might sell for hundreds of dollars, seemed easier to come by than something fresh and green. What could be got from the woods was free and amounted to a diurnal dining diary that everyone kept in their heads. May was wild asparagus, arugula, and artichokes. June was wild lettuce and stinging nettles. July was cherries and wild strawberries. August was forest berries. September was porcini.

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

    Class   Play   People  
    Margaret Halsey (1938). “With Malice Toward Some”
  • The Sabbath is a weekly cathedral raised up in my dining room, in my family, in my heart.

    Heart   Religion   Rooms  
  • Am dining at Goldini's Restaurant, Gloucester Road, Kensington. Please come at once and join me there. Bring with you a jemmy, a dark lantern, a chisel, and a revolver. S. H." It was a nice equipment for a respectable citizen to carry through the dim, fog-draped streets.

    Nice   Dark   Fog  
    Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes”, p.967, Race Point Publishing
  • If there is one pleasure on earth which surpasses all others, it is leaving a play before the end. I might perhaps except the joy of taking tickets for a play, dining well, sitting on after dinner, and finally not going at all. That, of course, is very heaven.

    Play   Joy   Heaven  
    Angela Thirkell (2012). “High Rising: A Virago Modern Classic”, p.106, Hachette UK
  • 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.

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

    Lewis Carroll (2015). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Other Tales”, p.971, Race Point Pub
  • I think people are more savvy about cooking, food and dining. I notice they are looking for more value for their money - not in larger portions but more in terms of healthier, fresh, farm-to-table dishes with a nice presentation.

    Nice   Thinking   People  
    "Chef Cat Cora Dishes on Healthy Cooking". "Good Morning America" with Diane Henderiks, abcnews.go.com. April 23, 2012.
  • The food in the House of Commons is fairly good. The cafe in Portcullis House is really very high quality, and you also have a choice of eating in the more traditional restaurants, the Churchill Room or the Members' Dining Room. I don't often eat in them, though, as I'm usually on the run.

    Running   Choices   House  
    "What's in your basket, Vince Cable?" by Rebecca Seal and Dr John Briffa, www.theguardian.com. December 5, 2009.
  • The house was immaculate, as always, not a stray hair anywhere, not a flake of dandruff or a crumpled towel. Even the roses on the dining-room table held their breath. A kind of airless cleanliness that always made me want to sneeze.

    Hair   Rose   House  
    Sandra Cisneros (2007). “Vintage Cisneros”, p.52, Vintage
  • 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.

    College   Pay   Dorms  
  • The tourist may complain of other tourists; but he would be lost without them. He may find them in his way, taking up the best seats in the motors, and the best tables in the hotel dining-rooms; but he grows amazingly intimate with them during the voyage, and not infrequently marries one of them when it is over.

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

    Dining   Tables   Austen  
    "AN Wilson: 'Everyone writes in Tolstoy's shadow'". Interview with William Skidelsky, www.theguardian.com. April 21, 2012.
  • It's hard to lose weight when you're dining on the company's money.

    Dining   Weight   Company  
  • 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.

    Dog   Dining   Meals  
  • 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).

  • 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.

    Home   Technology   Space  
    Source: www.pbs.org
  • There was a man sitting in the dining room of the Titanic, he said: "I know I asked for ice, but this is ridiculous."

    Funny   Humor   Men  
  • 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.

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

    Sex   Home   Two  
    Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.773, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • I'm at an age where I think more about food than I do about sex. Last week I put a mirror over my dining room table.

  • As a teenager I had never been able to accept the fact of having to go to the back of a bus or sit in the segregated section of a train. The first time I had been seated behind a curtain in a dining car, I felt as if the curtain had been dropped on my selfhood.

    Teenager   Car   Dining  
    Jim Haskins, James Haskins, Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1992). “I have a dream: the life and words of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Millbrook Pr
  • Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

    Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.31, St. Martin's Press
  • ...so now, Mrs. Ramsay thought, she could return to that dream land, that unreal but fascinating place, the Manning's drawing-room at Marlow twenty years ago; where one moved about without haste or anxiety, for there was no future to worry about. She knew what had happened to them, what to her. It was like reading a good book again, for she knew the end of that story, since it had happened twenty years ago, and life, which shot down even from this dining-room table in cascades, heaven knows where, was sealed up there, and lay, like a lake, placidly between its banks.

    Dream   Reading   Book  
    Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.315, Wordsworth Editions
  • 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.

  • While There may be power in forgiveness, there is even more power in lobbing a Molotov cocktail through someone's dining room window.

    Jim Norton (2008). “I Hate Your Guts”, p.158, Simon and Schuster
  • When you are dining with a demon, you got to have a long spoon.

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

    Dog   Animal   Pet  
    FaceBook post by Fran Lebowitz from Apr 17, 2010
  • There was scarcely a woman alive, it seemed, who could resist the urge to haul men down onto beds, car seats, kitchen floors, dining-room tables, park grass, parlor sofas, or packing crates, entwine warm thighs around them, and pant in ecstasy.

    Sex   Men   Car  
    Russell Baker (1983). “Growing Up”, Plume
  • What I've found is that a lot of soldiers are surprisingly apolitical. Their reality is, "Today I'm going to leave the gate for twelve hours, and I'm going to make it back to the dining facility by sundown with the arms and legs of me and my buddies intact."

    Source: www.guernicamag.com
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