#dine

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

— Kevin Bacon

#before #cute #diner #done #footloose

No Roman ever was able to say, 'I dined last night with the Borgias'. ↗

— Max Beerbohm

#dined #ever #i #last #last night

Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, the steadiness of your resentment. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#feel #gentleness #manner #resentment #same

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#contradiction #courage #desire #die #form

Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#believe #clearly #clemency #forgive #great

I have dined with kings, I've been offered wings. And I've never been too impressed. ↗

— Bob Dylan

#dined #i #impressed #kings #never

At the evident risk of seeming ridiculous, I want to begin by saying that I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously. I hope this isn't too melodramatic or self-centred a way of saying that I attempt to write as if I did not care what reviewers said, what peers thought, or what prevailing opinions may be. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#death #independence #nadine-gordimer #writing #death

Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#die #freely #hands #him #his

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

— Barry Levinson

#been #chance #diner #direct #first

The only way to get vegetables at a diner late night is to order the omelette. A feta cheese and broccoli omelette. ↗

— Lisa Loeb

#cheese #diner #get #late #late night