Solitary Diner Quotes

#1. He had always thought of solitary diners as sad. But now that he was the solitary diner, he felt rather superior. On account of the book, mostly. Learning something while everyone else was wasting time. Like working at night.

Mark Haddon

#2. My goal and mission is to be very strong in avoiding back steps. I leave judgments, evaluations and analysis to the media, then to the observers.

Enrico Letta

#3. The dusk smelled like dead leaves and far off fires

V.E Schwab

#4. I'm still doing what I've always wanted to do, and how big it gets or how much money I make for it or how popular I am in the public's eye is really not that important, even though it's hard to let that go.

Andy Kindler

#5. Artists don't like the business side. None of us were born understanding money. We all had to learn how to do it. So it's just something creative people need to get familiar with ... not really so scary.

Adam Leipzig

#6. I had a great conversation with Tom Waits, of all people.

Oscar Isaac

#7. Time can tick when there is no clock.

Anne Rice

#8. Would it not be well if the people of God had always tell-tale faces, evincing the blessings and gladness of salvation so clearly that unconverted people might have to call conversion "becoming joyful" instead of "becoming serious"?

Hudson Taylor

#9. If you want to predict the future create it.

Peter Drucker

#10. I have always been thankful that so many of our country's greatest leaders and statesmen were able to be on this earth at the same time and place to draft the Constitution.

Bob Latta

#11. I am tired and drunk and still hungry. He is full of steak and Coca-Cola and, presumably, energy: enough energy to cross the road and walk up the steps inside the tower of the cathedral, which I have never entered.

Joanna Walsh

#12. To make a photograph is already the first artificial act.

Gerhard Richter

#13. In other words, history teaches us to avoid the brand of naive empiricism that consists of learning from casual historical facts.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#14. Banks have a strong self-preservation instinct and are quick to adapt to new regulations.

Herve Falciani