Quotes about diner (16 Quotes)


    When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere.


    Just hard work on our part. We know that our customers come here to have a good time and from restaurant, diner to kitchen we want to make sure that you leave here happy.

    It's appropriate it happened at a diner, since the Bloomberg campaign has some egg on its face. It's no surprise that a mayor who refuses to debate and pays his campaign volunteers more than starting salaries for cops would also feel the need to stack his events with volunteers instead of voters.

    By the time he (the suspect) got to the diner, this place was just swarming with cops and they were out of their vehicles. Some had handguns, some had shotguns aiming at him.


    The homeless ... This morning I was having breakfast at a place called Lori's Diner (in San Francisco) and some mad woman was pounding on the window, yelling at us. And there are millions of men panhandling me. It's actually quite astounding.

    I'm not telling you, 'Never eat a hamburger.' Just eat the good ones with real beef, you know, like the ones from that mom-and-pop diner down the street, ... And it's so good that when you take a bite out of that burger, you just know somewhere in the world a vegan is crying.

    Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner, unless you eat some of what's on that plate. Being here in America doesn't make you an American. Being born here in America doesn't make you an American.

    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.



    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.



    In 2002, I was in a diner in southern Illinois that didn't allow black people to eat in the restaurant. I was there while a black customer came in, ordered from the counter and left with the food. I checked it out and it is known that the diner is segregated.

    It's not a health food. It's not something anybody needs to eat. These animals are pulled out of the environment, transported, denied sustenance, kept frustrated with their claws locked, and boiled alive. These animals are put through felony-level cruelty, just to give some diner a moment of gastronomic pleasure.



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