Any Quote by Janet Flanner Download Open image “She was built for crowds. She has never come any closer to life than the dinner table.” — Janet Flanner ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Any Built Closer Come Crowds Dinner Dinner table Life Never She Table Than
There are a lot of people who must have the table laid in the usual fashion or they will not enjoy the dinner. — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
“As I completed dinner preparation, Rosie set the table—not the conventional dining table in the living room, but a makeshift table on the balcony,… — Graeme Simsion Copy Share Image
Natalie Spenser was giving a dinner. She was not an easy hostess. — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
She had lived her early years as though she were waiting for something she might, but never did, become. — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
It was a very emotional dinner. Everyone shared personal stories about her and gave her words of encouragement and inspiration. Everyone tried to remain… — Lil' Kim Copy Share Image
She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table. — Henry James Copy Share Image
Never far from a dining table, the characters in Heather A. Slomski's limpid and elegant debut collection are not given to melodramatics. Civility reigns,… — Jaimy Gordon Copy Share Image
“It was difficult to define her beyond saying that she seemed to exist only as a hostess, not so much from any exaggerated instinct… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
The family was an art ... and the dinner table was the place it found expression. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
She would walk through the kitchen at any hour, whenever she was hungry, and put her fork in the pots and eat a little… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Even now, she wished she could write a note, push it across the table, and go away to her room. But she was no… — Garth Nix Copy Share Image
“She felt about a love set as a painter does about his masterpiece; each ace serve was a form of brushwork to her, and… — Janet Flanner Copy Share Image
I'm fond of anything that comes from the sea, and that includes sailors. — Janet Flanner Copy Share Image
She died with a knife in her hand in her kitchen, where she had cooked for fifty years, and the death was solemnly listed… — Janet Flanner Copy Share Image
“History looks queer when you're standing close to it, watching where it is coming from and how it's being made.” — Janet Flanner Copy Share Image
In the history of art there are periods when bread seems so beautiful that it nearly gets into museums. — Janet Flanner Copy Share Image
Proust has been dead since 1922, yet the annual appearance of his posthumous works has left him, to the reader, alive. Now there is… — Janet Flanner Copy Share Image
[Charles de Gaulle] has been abysmally careless, like a man running a bus over mountains, who forgot to equip it with good brakes. — Janet Flanner Copy Share Image
I act as a sponge. I soak it up and squeeze it out in ink every two weeks. — Janet Flanner Copy Share Image
The stench of human wreckage in which the Nazi regime finally sank down to defeat has been the most shocking fact of modern times. — Janet Flanner Copy Share Image
Never have nights been more beautiful than these nights of anxiety. In the sky have been shining in trinity the moon, Venus and Mars.… — Janet Flanner Copy Share Image
I keep going over a sentence. I nag it, gnaw it, pat and flatter it. — Janet Flanner Copy Share Image
Amongst the financial Twitterati, the term 'muppets' has come to describe any client used and abused by some financial predator. I've adopted the term… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
At the very beginning, I was a page at Letterman, and I freelanced for any place that would let me write any word. I… — Ben Schwartz Copy Share Image
If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
A lot of people have been saying 'The 100' reminds them of 'Lord Of The Flies,' 'Lost' and 'Battlestar Galactica,' and all of those… — Marie Avgeropoulos Copy Share Image
I have never been in, nor have I had any strong particular desire to be in, what is termed a costume drama, but I… — Martin Freeman Copy Share Image
We were so poor as kids. I didn't even see a bathtub, running water, hot water, commode - we didn't have any of that.… — Phil Robertson Copy Share Image
Hard work and a good education will take you further than any government program. — Aaron Schock Copy Share Image
Anyone who's read my 'Terror in the Skies' series knows that I have not been writing with an eye toward approval from any government… — Annie Jacobsen Copy Share Image
The system in Germany is different, as you sign up with a company for two or three years, and you work exclusively with them;… — Tom Wlaschiha Copy Share Image
I'm writing about real things. Real people. Real characters. You have to believe what I write about is true or you wouldn't pay any… — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
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