Greasy Spoon Quotes

#1. The first time I was in London, I went to an English greasy spoon to get some breakfast and realised that all the waiters were speaking Italian. That's when it hit me what an international city this is.

Monica Bellucci

#2. What's sad about not eating is the experience, whether at a family reunion or at midnight by yourself in a greasy spoon under the L tracks. The loss of dining, not the loss of food.

Roger Ebert

#3. I do quite like sightseeing. I like churches, museums, galleries and all that stuff. I love the smell of a church in Italy or the smell of an old greasy spoon somewhere. I like markets and little funny shops in the backstreets of Florence.

Ashley Jensen

#4. I have glaucoma, so use eye drops both morning and night.

Malcolm Boyd

#5. The arts stop society going rotten and mad.

Vanessa Redgrave

#6. I would rather be fooled than not believe.

Mark Nepo

#7. One corner of his full mouth tipped up as he watched me watch him. Then the slightest arching of his left brow, and my knees almost gave beneath me. I had never seen anything so beautiful in all my life.

Darynda Jones

#8. My mother made it seem perfectly normal for thousands of people to be cheering me, as if there was nothing special going on. I thought all children must live as I did.

Shirley Temple

#9. Life always brings you what you need.

Louise Hay

#10. What shocked me, and what I wasn't prepared for, was just how brutal and how unethical some people can be in the NFL. I mean, there were some great people, but there were some real snakes, too. I was like, 'Holy cow!' But it made me a better person, and it got me ready for other things.

Terry Crews

#11. A commission is an invitation to fall in love.

Twyla Tharp

#12. Most biologists, (says Vogel, 1981) seem to have heard of the boundary layer, but they have a fuzzy notion that it is a discrete region, rather than the discrete notion that it is a fuzzy region.

Bill Mollison

#13. Announcin' your plans is a good way to hear god laugh.

Al Swearengen

#14. Over the years I have found that many of the richest people in the world began their lives with the habit of tithing.

Robert Kiyosaki