Restaurants Quotes - Page 28

• Most animals show themselves sparingly. The grizzly bear is six to eight hundred pounds of smugness. It has no need to hide. If it were a person, it would laugh loudly in quiet restaurants, boastfully wear the wrong clothes for special occasions, and probably play hockey.

  Craig Childs

  Hockey, Animal, Eight

  Craig Childs (1997). “Crossing Paths: Uncommon Encounters with Animals in the Wild”, Sasquatch Books

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• It is difficult to get organic food at most restaurants, so when possible, eat at home. When not, do your best.

  Suzanne Somers

  Home, Difficult, Organic Food

  Suzanne Somers (2013). “I'm Too Young for This!: The Natural Hormone Solution to Enjoy Perimenopause”, p.95, Harmony

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• Chalkboards being used inside the restaurant seem to be a good sign that the proprietors are proud of their food, and that's kind of nice, actually - it's a nice personal touch.

  Fred Armisen

  Nice, Proud, Kind

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Sure, I like my short hair. It also quadrupled my rate. I did get sick of seeing it on everybody, though - every stewardess, every salesclerk, and in every restaurant.

  Linda Evangelista

  Hair, Sick, Stewardess

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• When I moved to New York to act I was no good at working restaurants - hosting, waiting, bussing, dishwashing - I wasnt good at any aspect. But I did have a guitar. So I would sing Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard, but you would only hear the chorus because the train comes by every 30 seconds.

  Michael Weatherly

  New York, Guitar, Waiting

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• I am obsessed with Chinese restaurants. Like many Americans, I first discovered them in my childhood.

  Jennifer Lee

  Childhood, Chinese, Firsts

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• Chinese restaurants have long been a weekly or monthly ritual for many Americans.

  Jennifer Lee

  Long, Chinese, Ritual

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• I once absent-mindedly ordered Three Mile Island dressing in a restaurant and, with great presence of mind, they brought Thousand Island Dressing and a bottle of chili sauce.

  Terry Pratchett

  Presence Of Mind, Islands, Bottles

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• Restaurants stress the protein. People read menu items left to right, with the protein first. I read descriptions right to left.

  Barton Seaver

  Stress, People, Firsts

  "Blue Ridge's Barton Seaver: Chef of the Year" by John Mariani, www.esquire.com. October 12, 2009.

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• Why are fish unsustainable? Because they're popular. What makes restaurants work? Popular dishes that people come back for.

  Barton Seaver

  People, Dishes, Fishes

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• I love to watch those old movies on late-night television, particularly when a couple get up from a champagne dinner in a posh restaurant and the hero hands the waiter $3. But the best part is when he says, "Keep the change."

  Robert Orben

  Couple, Hero, Night

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• The main problem in marriage is that, for a man, sex is a hunger-like eating. If the man is hungry and can't get to a fancy French restaurant, he'll go to a hot dog stand. For a woman, what's important is love and romance.

  Joan Fontaine

  Dog, Sex, Men

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I like sitting at outdoor restaurants; it would be nice to go someplace on the street and not worry about somebody taking my picture while I'm about to take a bite of something.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Nice, Worry, Would Be

  "Ellen DeGeneres: Nice Girls Finish First". Interview with David Hochman, www.goodhousekeeping.com. September 10, 2011.

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• In Philadelphia, there's no delineation, they address me as Rocky, for real. They'll say things like: "Rocky, do you like this coat?" Or: "Rock, say hi to my sister." Or: "Yo Rock, I know a great restaurant." There's no Sylvester. Even the Mayor goes: "It's good to have Rocky here today."

  Sylvester Stallone

  Real, Rocks, Philadelphia

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• On New York's Palm restaurant: Their steaks are often good, but the
  lobsters-with claws the size of Arnold Schwarzenegger's forearms-are as glazed and tough as most of the customers.

  Malcolm Forbes

  New York, Lobster, Size

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• One [New York] eatery is a remodeled diner that looks like what Busby Berkeley would have done if only he hadn't had the money.

  Fran Lebowitz

  New York, Looks, Done

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.126, Vintage

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• Do not approach with anything even resembling assurance a restaurant that moves.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Moving, Assurance, Approach

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.287, Vintage

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• It has long been acknowledged that the single best restaurant in the world is Arthur Bryant's Barbecue at Eighteenth and Booklyn in Kansas city.

  Calvin Trillin

  Cities, Kansas City, Long

  Calvin Trillin (1974). “American fried; adventures of a happy eater”

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• Comes the time when it's later
  and onto your table the headwaiter
  puts the bill

  Robert Creeley

  Tables, Bills

  Robert Creeley, Benjamin Friedlander (2008). “Selected Poems, 1945-2005”, p.65, Univ of California Press

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• It is rarely [Americans] dine in society, except in taverns and boarding-houses. Then they eat with the greatest possible rapidity, and in total silence.

  Frances Trollope

  Dine In, Silence, House

  Frances Trollope (2014). “Domestic Manners of the Americans”, p.37, Oxford University Press

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• I make napkins talk in restaurants, socks talk on car journeys. There is an awful lot of puppetry going on in the house.

  Nina Conti

  Journey, Car, House

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• I was vegetarian, trying to eat from fast-food restaurants without meat. I didn't know how to eat properly and I was starving. I was adrenalized to the eyeballs from performing. I was afraid that I was sick with AIDS. We were playing five shows a week. I even went through a period of abstinence where I didn't drink and stopped having sex. Which is crazy. Maybe I'm answering too many questions at once here, but this is where my mind was at the age of 25.

  Michael Stipe

  Sex, Crazy, Sick

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When people want me to sign an autograph in a restaurant, and I'm eating. I don't even have to say no, I just kind of stop and look at them ... "Oh, okay. I'll ... I'll come back."

  Samuel L. Jackson

  People, Looks, Want

  "Samuel L. Jackson is a big nerd, and other revelations from 'The Man'". Interview with Larry Carroll, www.mtv.com. September 08, 2005.

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• In Ethiopia, where I was born, all the cooks are women. When I grew up in Sweden, my mom and my grandmother did predominantly all the cooking. Then I changed to restaurant kitchens, where all of a sudden there were just more men than women, and I always thought that was weird.

  Marcus Samuelsson

  Mom, Food, Grandmother

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• Undecidability is a useful category even in dealing with restaurant menus.

  Mason Cooley

  Menus, Categories

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