Dining Hall Quotes

#1. In all the practice centers in the tradition of Plum Village whenever the phone rings or the clock chimes in the dining hall, people stop everything they are doing and breathe consciously, releasing all thinking and any tension.

Nhat Hanh

#2. friends to the dining hall as guests and pay for their food. I suspect that for some of these kids, that was the main meal they

Bobbi Dempsey

#3. Walking with Daisy from the dining hall, Matthew murmured, "Will I have to scale the outside wall tonight, or are you going to leave your door unlocked?"
"The door," Daisy replied succinctly.
"Thank God.

Lisa Kleypas

#4. It's unnecessarily grandiose to use an Open Sesame on the doors, but I do it anyway because I know everyone will be in the dining hall, and I may as well make an entrance.

Rainbow Rowell

#5. returned to sow the valley. In the communal dining hall, they sing joyfully. They dance through the night, into the light of dawn.

Ari Shavit

#6. 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.

Daley Thompson

#7. Frustrated by the superficiality of dining-hall conversation,

Susan Cain

#8. Yet while Owllwin was arrogant, he was also humble enough to admit when he had made a mistake. Perhaps it was his sheer clumsiness that kept him so humble: the first time he spoke to Cricket was in the great dining hall, and he brought down six tables five minutes after.

Ash Gray

#9. As we stand to leave, I look across the dining hall and through the glass at Lilly. She is smiling at me and the smile hurts.

James Frey

#10. The dining hall in our section of campus was like something out of an Ayn Rand novel: big, utilitarian, and impersonal.

Kirstie Collins Brote

#11. Oh, man," Jason said. "Wait till I tell Piper. Hey, since I'm all alone in my cabin too, you and I can share a table in the dining hall. We can team up for capture the flag and sing-along contests and - " "Are you trying to scare me away?

Rick Riordan

#12. All around the dining hall, you can feel the rejuvenating effect that a good meal can bring on. The way it can make people kinder, funnier, more optimistic, and remind them it's not a mistake to go on living. It's better than any medicine.

Suzanne Collins

#13. Just this year, as I was sitting in dining hall at UO, a white student at the next table complained about the "invasion" of Asians on campus. Only outsiders invade.

Alex Tizon

#14. All through that winter and into the spring, when our Tuesday and Thursday-night dinner shifts were done, Matt and I would sit at the long table near the salad bar and plan his end-of-the-year party, our voices echoing importantly in the cavernous wood-panelled dining hall.

Tom Perrotta

#15. He smells safe, too, like sunlit walks in the orchard and silent breakfasts
in the dining hall. And in the moments before I drift off to sleep, I almost forget about our war-torn city and all the conflict that will
come to find us soon, if we don't find it first.

Veronica Roth

#16. So it was scary, but that's how it goes. To my great delight, I discovered that it did all belong.

Michael Chabon

#17. I was very happy sitting alone at a dining room table, writing a script.

Conrad Hall

#18. It's easy to lock your heart with hatred. But only when it's free will you be able to move forward without pain anchoring you to a past that's holding you back.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#19. He, "how many beds do you think this hall alone would hold?" "Monseigneur's dining-room?" exclaimed

Victor Hugo

#20. Borders...exist by our own choosing. Whether you accept their jurisdiction is entirely up to you

Oliver Broudy

#21. We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by those which have occurred to others.

Blaise Pascal

#22. In every [other] pursuit men without natural aptitude succeed by obstinate study of technique, but who is not a poet by nature can never become one by art.

Giambattista Vico