„I’m not going to sit at your table and watch you eat, with nothing on my plate, and call myself a diner. Sitting at the table doesn’t make you a diner, unless you eat some of what’s on that plate.“

— Malcolm X
„To sit back hoping that someday, someway, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last - but eat you he will.“
— Ronald Reagan
„There's a safety in thinking in a diner. You can have your coffee or your milkshake, and you can go off into strange dark areas, and always come back to the safety of the diner.“
— David Lynch
„Never sit a table when you can stand at the bar.“
— Ernest Hemingway
„Fame is a fickle food Upon a shifting plate,Whose table once a Guest, but notThe second time, is set.Whose crumbs the crows inspect,And with ironic cawFlap past it to the Farmer’s corn;Men eat of it and die.“
— Emily Dickinson
„Wherever Macdonald sits, there is the head of the table.“
— Ralph Waldo Emerson