Restaurants Quotes - Page 24

• Restaurants are a wonderful escape for me. And are for a lot of people.

  Gay Talese

  People, Wonderful

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.themorningnews.org. July 6, 2006.

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• I don't care how much money he (Frank Viola) makes. He can have my locker, I'll take him to all the best restaurants and show him New York. He can even have my wife, but he can't have my number, no way.

  Dwight Gooden

  New York, Numbers, Wife

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• I went to the Paradise Restaurant on 49th Street and Broadway which was where they were playing, and I sat in.

  Ray Conniff

  Broadway, Paradise, Sat

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• There is a lot of food culture that goes on in the home and in the community in non-traditional ways. Food is a lot more than restaurants.

  Eddie Huang

  Home, Food Culture, Community

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• We lunched and dined in crowded restaurants. We were always alone.

  Muriel Box

  Always Alone, Crowded

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• And by the same token, I appreciate math, because I can't do math. If I have to read a map or figure out the tip on a restaurant bill, I might start to tear up a little bit.

  Thomas F. Wilson

  Math, Appreciate, Tears

  Interview with Chris Neumer, www.stumpedmagazine.com.

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• Fortunately, many people also enjoy a stand-alone as a sample of something new, like trying the special at a favourite restaurant one night instead of going for the usual.

  Sarah Zettel

  Night, People, Trying

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• Beware the old man in young guy's clothes. If he's over 35 and comes to pick you up looking as though he's headed for a skateboarding competition while you are dressed to go to a nice restaurant, this is not a good sign.

  Merrill Markoe

  Nice, Men, Clothes

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• I was raised by my grandparents, and they always made sure that I had a pencil and some paper, whether we were in the car or at a restaurant. While they were enjoying a nice meal, I would be sitting there drawing funny pictures of the waitress.

  Jarrett J. Krosoczka

  Nice, Drawing, Grandparent

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• I kind of think of engineering like the chefs at a restaurant. Nobody's going to deny chefs are integrally important, but there's also so many other people who contribute to a great meal.

  Ben Silbermann

  Thinking, Engineering, People

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• And, of course, millions of us cross the border to work in US homes and gardens and factories and carpentry shops and restaurants, and if you go to a restaurant pretty much anywhere in the United States, the chances are that the dishes will be washed by a Mexican.

  Alma Guillermoprieto

  Home, Garden, Mexican

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• My parents demonstrated against the Vietnam war, they were into the civil rights movement, the feminist movement, they started the first vegetarian restaurant in Pittsburgh.

  Justin Sane

  War, Rights, Parent

  "Anti-Flag to incite May Day masses" by Mark Brown, www.theguardian.com. April 28, 2006.

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• I went into a restaurant one night and ordered lobster, and the waiter brought me one with a claw missing. I called him over and told him about it. He told me that in the back there's a tank they keep the lobsters in and while they're in there, they fight and sometimes one loses a claw. I told him 'then bring me a winner.'

  Al McGuire

  Fighting, Night, Missing

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• My subject matter was a genuine sort of experience that came out of my life, particularly the American world in which I was privileged to be . . . . I would really think of the bakery counters, of the way the counter was lit, where the pies were placed, but I wanted just a piece of the experience. From when I worked in restaurants . . . [it was] always poetic to me.

  Wayne Thiebaud

  Thinking, Pie, World

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• I don't think restaurants should refuse to serve minority people. They are quite tasty when prepared correctly.

  Zach Braff

  Thinking, People, Minorities

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• We have a game we play when we’re waiting for tables in restaurants, where you have to write the five things that describe yourself on a piece of paper. When I was [in my twenties], I would have put: ambitious, Wellesley graduate, daughter, Democrat, single. Ten years later not one of those five things turned up on my list. I was: journalist, feminist, New Yorker, divorced, funny. Today not one of those five things turns up in my list: writer, director, mother, sister, happy.

  Nora Ephron

  Daughter, Mother, Being Yourself

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• Why can't teachers end up owning schools, the way waiters can open their own restaurants?

  Peter Brimelow

  Teacher, School, Way

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• A generation ago, three-quarters of the money used to buy food in the United States was spent to prepare meals at home. Today about half of the money used to buy food is spent at restaurants--mainly at fast food restaurants.

  Eric Schlosser

  Home, United States, Meals

  Eric Schlosser (2001). “Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal”, p.4, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Never eat at a place called 'Moms', but if the only other place in town has a sign that says 'Eats', go back to Moms.

  W. C. Fields

  Mom, Towns, Ifs

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• The finest landscape in the world is improved by a good inn in the foreground.

  Samuel Johnson

  World, Landscape, Finest

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• I eat at this German-Chinese restaurant and the food is delicious. The only problem is that an hour later you're hungry for power.

  Dick Cavett

  Food, Cooking, Chinese

  "Okay, So He's Not Johnny Carson - but Cavett's on Broadway and Back for More Talk on TV" by Martha Smilgis, people.com. October 17, 1977.

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• I met a keen observer who gave me a tip: 'If you run across a restaurant where you often see priests eating with priests, or sporting girls with sporting girls, you may be confident that it is good. Those are two classes of people who like to eat well and get their money's worth.'

  A. J. Liebling

  Girl, Running, Class

  A. J. Liebling (2016). “Between Meals: An Appetite for Paris”, p.59, North Point Press

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• Never trust the food in a restaurant on top of the tallest building in town that spends a lot of time folding napkins.

  Andy Rooney

  Food, Cooking, Towns

  Andy Rooney (2009). “Andy Rooney: 60 Years of Wisdom and Wit”, p.263, PublicAffairs

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• Anybody who doesn't think that the best hamburger place in teh world is in his home town is a sissy.

  Calvin Trillin

  Home, Thinking, World

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• Avoid restaurants with names that are improbable descriptions, such as the Purple Goose, the Blue Kangaroo or the Quilted Orangutan.

  Calvin Trillin

  Blue, Names, Purple

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