Diners Quotations

Also, there are seats in the diner that always fall off the table. If you have a scene where you're packing up at the end of the day and putting them on the table, they just slide off.

The first eight years of my life, we lived in an abandoned diner - we were basically squatters.

I always like to find those little mom-and-pop sandwich places, or diners. Those are my favorite kind of places.

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!

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

Close interaction with farmers and scientists can expose the chef to new flavours that can be used to delight diners.

In America uniformed cops eat in coffee shops, diners and restaurants and I always feel safer having them around.

My first movie was 'Diner.' My second movie was 'Tender Mercies.' I did really good work.

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

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

If I ever own a restaurant, I will never allow the waiters to ask if the diners like their dishes. Particularly when they're talking.

She glanced at the other diners, all of them going into their act, and thought is this what it all boils down to? Romantic love, is this all it is, a talent show?

When do you learn that the world, like any diner worth its salt, is open twenty-four hours a day?

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?

If you look closely at some scenes in Diner, my eyes look like Dracula's.

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

One [New York] eatery is a remodeled diner that looks like what Busby Berkeley would have done if only he hadn't had the money.

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!

Ye diners out from whom we guard our spoons.

You're told that you're in your head too much, a phrase that's often deployed against the quiet and cerebral. Or maybe there's another word for such people: thinkers.

Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner, unless you eat some of what's on that plate.

I'm not going to sit at your table and watch you eat, with nothing on my plate, and call myself a diner. Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner.

I don't want anything. I don't want a job. I don't want to be respectable. I don't want prizes. I turned down the National Institute of Arts and Letters when I was elected to it in 1976 on the grounds that I already belonged to the Diners Club.

Often whole days pass without my speaking to anyone, except to ask for diner or coffee. And it has been like that form the beginning.