Dine Quotes

Bulgaria is the first state that has been awarded for its excellent fight against iodine deficiency by UNICEF.

I like to do projects in which you can see statistical results. I am very happy for all these small children, who have been the biggest group of victims of iodine deficiency.

Never be a food snob. Learn from everyone you meet - the fish guy at your market, the lady at the local diner, farmers, cheese makers. Ask questions, try everything and eat up!

The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Love moderately; long love doth so; too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.

But if you're gonna dine with them cannibals Sooner or later, darling, you're gonna get eaten . . .

Western art is built on the biographical passion of one artist for another.

Though one can dine in New York, one could not dwell there.

Great food needed more than chefs; it needed gourmet diners.

The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.

The point is that you can't be too greedy.

For me, drawing is everything, because it informs everything. It even informs my poetry. It's the way I begin everything.

I actually find it harder to act in the scenes where there's not much happening, say having a milkshake in the diner. That is far harder to do than straight scenes where there's a drama going on and you have something to do

Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.

Cesium, iodine from the Chernobyl reactor accident went around the world many times and everyone on the Earth has a piece of Chernobyl in their bodies, but it's very tiny - too small to cause much damage.

First of all, just to get Diner made would have been an achievement in that I got a chance to direct.

If he is thin, I will probably dine poorly. If he is both thin and sad, the only hope is in flight.

In a restaurant one is both observed and unobserved. Joy and sorrow can be displayed and observed "unwittingly," the writer scowling naively and the diners wondering, What the hell is he doing?

Readiness to answer all questions is the infallible sign of stupidity.

Readiness for opportunity makes for success. Opportunity often comes by accident; readiness never does.

Before Footloose, the things I'd done weren't cute. In Diner I was an alcoholic.

I've never had an easy relationship with critics. I hold a lot of homicide in my heart. If this was another time, I'd be packing a piece.

My attitude towards drawing is not necessarily about drawing. It's about making the best kind of image I can make, it's about talking as clearly as I can.

If you inhale a millionth of a gram of plutonium, the surrounding cells receive a very, very high dose. Most die within that area, because it's an alpha emitter. The cells on the periphery remain viable. They mutate, and the regulatory genes are damaged. Years later, that person develops cancer. Now, that's true for radioactive iodine, that goes to the thyroid; cesium-137, that goes to the brain and muscles; strontium-90 goes to bone, causing bone cancer and leukemia.

If you owe too much on American Express, and your Diner's Club notes are too hard, take a loan on your Visa, and pay it off with your MasterCard!