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“I have the mentality of a winner. I first went to the Olympic Games when I was 17, three weeks after my O-levels, and I remember sitting in a dining-hall filled with the world's best athletes.”

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Author:Daley Thompson

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

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Author:Conrad Hall

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

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Author:Candice Olson

“Architects feel empowered to give opinions about politics and sociology and philosophy without knowing much about it. Kind of in the same way that they think they can design furniture or fashion or utensils for dining.”

Thinking Way Giving Feels Kind Philosophy Opinion Knowing Fashion Design Architect Sociology Furniture Empowered Dining Utensils

Author:Rafael Vinoly

“You know, I hate to borrow Apple's tag, but think different. Really. From the very beginning. I didn't know what the fast-food rules were. I got my training at the Culinary Institute Of America, and then I opened up a fast food place according to fine dining rules.”

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Author:Steve Ells

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

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Book:Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Other Tales

Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Other Tales

“It is always allowable to ask for artichoke jelly with your boiled venison; however there are houses where this is not supplied.”

Asks House Manners Dining Jelly Artichokes Venison

Book:The Complete Illustrated Lewis Carroll

Source: The Complete Illustrated Lewis Carroll

“As a general rule, do not kick the shins of the opposite gentleman under the table, if personally unaquainted with him; your pleasantry is liable to be misunderstood--a circumstance at all times unpleasant.”

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Book:The Complete Illustrated Lewis Carroll

Source: The Complete Illustrated Lewis Carroll

“I'm a man more dined against than dining.”

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Author:Maurice Bowra

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

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Book:The Bachelor Home Companion: A Practical Guide to Keeping House Like a Pig

Source: The Bachelor Home Companion: A Practical Guide to Keeping House Like a Pig

“One summer evening in the year 1848, three Cardinals and a missionary were dining together in the gardens of a villa in the Sabine hills, overlooking Rome.”

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Book:Death Comes for the Archbishop

Source: Death Comes for the Archbishop

“When I left the dining room after sitting next to Mr. Gladstone, I thought he was the cleverest man in England. But after sitting next to Mr. Disraeli, I thought I was the cleverest woman in England.”

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Author:Benjamin Disraeli

“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.”

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Book:Vintage Cisneros

Source: Vintage Cisneros

“Parents who want a fresh point of view on their furniture are advised to drop down on all fours and accompany the nine or ten month old on his rounds. It is probably many years since you last studied the underside of a dining room chair. The ten month old will study this marvel with as much concentration and reverence as a tourist in the Cathedral of Chartres.”

Source: The Magic Years: Understanding and Handling the Problems of Early Childhood

“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.”

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Author:Francois Rabelais

“In our fast-forward culture, we have lost the art of eating well. Food is often little more than fuel to pour down the hatch while doing other stuff - surfing the Web, driving, walking along the street. Dining al desko is now the norm in many workplaces. All of this speed takes a toll. Obesity, eating disorders and poor nutrition are rife.”

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Author:Carl Honore

“Dining and marriage restrictions stunt Hindu society.”

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Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

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

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Author:Frank Carson

“I pray Heaven to bestow the best of Blessings on this House and on all that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and wise Men ever rule under this roof.”

Source: Letters of John Adams: Addressed to His Wife

“Slaves were taught to be fine chefs, but they endangered their lives if they made a mistake or served an ill-prepared dish. Rather than being reprimanded, they were often hauled into the dining room and flogged in the presence of the guests.”

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Author:Jeff Smith

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

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Author:Marilyn vos Savant

“I don't think fine dining is dying, but I think those rare occasions when you really want the fanciness are diminishing... I think a lot of people are going to find simpler, more casual ways to enjoy an experience.”

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Author:Mario Batali

“Your car, comfort though it be, this little den and dining room on wheels, is a prison that deadens your senses, and to feel wholly alive you must go for a walk.”

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Author:Garrison Keillor

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

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Author:Jimmy Cannon

“Personal sympathy has helped me on very much. My husband from first to last has watched every picture with delight, and it is my daily habit to run to him with every glass upon which a fresh glory is newly stamped, and to listen to his enthusiastic applause. This habit of running into the dining-room with my wet pictures has stained such an immense quantity of table linen with nitrate of silver, indelible stains, that I should have been banished from any less indulgent household.”

“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.”

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Author:Judy Woodruff

“There's something I call 'Moving Day,' which I've done for the last 20 years. Look at everything in your home, then think about how you could combine things in a different way. Maybe you break up your night tables and use one in the family room; maybe the dining room sideboard becomes a console table for your television, with storage underneath.”

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Author:Nate Berkus

“I hate sets. I've always hated sets. I think that if you have a dining room set, break it up!”

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Author:Nate Berkus

“The menu should be part of the entertainment, part of the dining experience. It's kind of like reading the 'Playbill' when you go to the theater. It should be an alluring and interactive document. Does it have burn marks on it from the candle? If you ever get a greasy menu with food stains on it, it's time to run like hell.”

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Author:Joe Bastianich

“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.”

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Author:Joe Bastianich

“Every time I open a new restaurant, I wake up in the middle of the night moaning about bread and water. I dream I am in the middle of the dining room, and I am panicked.”

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Author:Joe Bastianich

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

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Author:Gyles Brandreth

“I'm in the countryside outside of Paris, in a beautiful old manor house. The studio is in the basement, but we decided to set everything up in the old parlor and dining-room area so we can look at each other and (at) the sunshine coming through the stained-glass windows. It's pretty idyllic, and I think it's spoiling me. I'll have to go back to regular life after this.”

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Author:Feist

“Know your job and don't fake it. It looks easy, but the ones that make it look easy know what the hell they're doing. They may tell you around the dining room table that you're funny and you should be an actor, but until you challenge yourself by getting on a stage or in front of a camera, that's when your knowledge of the craft separates you from the pretenders.”

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Author:Dustin Diamond

“Think beyond the vase! If you have a vase of flowers on a dining table for a quick dinner party, think about scattering flower petals, leaves, or even fruit along the tabletop.”

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Author:Clinton Smith

“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.”

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Author:Boris Johnson

“The dining room is a building; the bathroom is a building. If we scatter this single-program architecture inside of a domestic environment, we can link an interior urbanism in a way similar to a village or a township of tiny houses.”

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Author:Jimenez Lai

“At home we have always regarded the dining table as the prime seat of learning. We planned it so it was impossible to see or hear a TV from the table, and it has paid dividends in the volume of ideas that have been shared over the evening meal.”

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Book:Making Money Made Simple

Source: Making Money Made Simple

“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).”

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Author:Bryan Q. Miller

“When I started to work in Paris in fine dining, the passion really kicked in, and I knew that I would not, for the rest of my life, do anything else.”

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Author:Eric Ripert

“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.”

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Author:Wolfgang Puck

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

Has Beens Night Rooms Chess Lunch Jumping Could Have Been Tournaments Dining Dining Rooms Lunchtime

Author:Bryan Q. Miller

“We are coming to realise that foreign operations in today's world call for a total diplomacy ... Ambassadors can no longer be content with wining and dining, reporting, analysing and cautiously predicting.”

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Author:Chester Bowles

“People buy very badly made furniture and fabric. Instead, buy a beautiful dining table, well-made upholstery. It's almost like dressing for success.”

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Author:Michael S. Smith

“A dining club which I was involved in at Oxford University invited Sir Isaiah Berlin to dinner, who I believe was probably the greatest liberal philosopher in the 20th century. I sat beside him and we spoke about liberal philosophy and the events of the 20th century all night over dinner - it was unforgettable!”

“One thing I can't afford to get sucked up in is the trend formation of restaurants here. I've invested heavily. We have a ten-year lease. More importantly, the style, the feel and the décor of the dining room is vibrant.”

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Author:Gordon Ramsay

“Today there are very few chefs at that high level who are behind their stoves. You don't feel their presence within the room. Where's the romance? Where's the show? Where's the theater? The modern day restaurant - it's like dining in a chapel. It's boring.”

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Author:Marco Pierre White

“The things [Pope Francis] has done in a short period of time: the fact that he does not live in a huge papal mansion and just dropped by in the dining room where ordinary people have meals. You think of his background, where he didn't use limousines in South America, that he used public transport.”

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Author:Desmond Tutu

“Food is an important part of a balanced diet.”

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

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Author:Fran Lebowitz

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