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.
In proceeding to the dining-room, the gentleman gives one arm to the lady he escorts--it is unusual to offer both.
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.
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.
I love my kitchen. For Manhattan, I have a rather decent-size kitchen, and it has an opening that gives out to the dining room, which has a window with a view of the city and in the distance the Statue of Liberty.
I really love eating, so I love reading about food, and I religiously read the dining section in newspapers.
Evil is an act, not an appetite. How many haven't wanted to slash the throat of some boor across the dining room table? Present company excepted of course. Everyone has the appetite. If you give in to it, it, that act is evil. The appetite is normal.
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.
It is always allowable to ask for artichoke jelly with your boiled venison; however there are houses where this is not supplied.
The roses, the lovely notes, the dining and dancing are all welcome and splendid. But when the Godiva is gone, the gift of real love is having someone who'll go the distance with you. Someone who, when the wedding day limo breaks down, is willing to share a seat on the bus.
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.
I painted one dining room red and I must say, the conversation became very heated in that room.
I hate sets. I've always hated sets. I think that if you have a dining room set, break it up!
In the dining room, next to my collection of colorful papier-mache Mardi Gras float art, hang draperies made of the New Orleans toile fabric that I designed pre-Katrina for Hazelnut.
While There may be power in forgiveness, there is even more power in lobbing a Molotov cocktail through someone's dining room window.
I'm a man more dined against than dining.
Ballplayers who are first to the dining room are usually last in batting averages.
People buy very badly made furniture and fabric. Instead, buy a beautiful dining table, well-made upholstery. It's almost like dressing for success.
I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
The pike does not ask the frog's permission before dining.