Restaurants Quotes - Page 6

• I'll never understand why people go to movie theaters to have conversations. Going to the movies to talk is like going to a restaurant to cook. The idea is that you have paid your money to have someone do something better than you can do it yourself.

  Rita Rudner

  Ideas, People, Theater

  Rita Rudner (1993). “Naked Beneath My Clothes: Tales of a Revealing Nature”, Penguin Group USA

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• During years of working for a living, I have experienced much of the legal and social discrimination reserved for women in this country, I have been refused service in public restaurants, ordered out of public gathering places and turned away from apartment rentals. All for the clearly stated, sole reason that I am a woman.

  Gloria Steinem

  Country, Years, Gathering

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• Many a restaurant seems to employ more copy writers than cooks.

  Peg Bracken

  Cooks, Copies, Seems

  Peg Bracken (1969). “I Didn't Come Here to Argue”

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• People say when you're in love, you don't need etiquette. Well, you need it then more than anything. Or they say, "At home I can just be myself." What they mean is they can be their worst selves... They always mean they will save all their anxiety about how to behave for somebody like the head waiter of a restaurant, someone they'll never see again.

  Judith Martin

  Love You, Home, Mean

  "Polite Company". Interview with Hara Estroff Marano, www.psychologytoday.com. March 1, 1998.

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• The etiquette of intimacy is very different from the etiquette of formality, but manners are not just something to show off to the outside world. If you offend the head waiter, you can always go to another restaurant. If you offend the person you live with, it's very cumbersome to switch to a different family.

  Judith Martin

  Family, Different, World

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• I don't think there is a 'gay lifestyle.' I think that's superficial crap, all that talk about gay culture. A couple of restaurants on Castro Street and a couple of magazines do not constitute culture. Michelangelo is culture. Virginia Woolf is culture. So let's don't confuse our terms. Wearing earrings is not culture.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Couple, Gay, Thinking

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• A tablecloth restaurant is still one of the great rewards of civilization.

  Harry Golden

  Civilization, Rewards, Great Reward

  Harry Golden (1967). “The Best of Harry Golden”, Cleveland : World Publishing Company

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• Eating reveals the characteristic grossness of the human race and also the in-built failure of its satisfactions. We arrive eager, we stuff ourselves and we go away depressed and disappointed and probably feeling a bit queasy into the bargain. It's an image of the déçu in human existence. A greedy start and a stupefied finish. Waiters, who are constantly observing this cycle, must be the most disillusioned of men.

  Iris Murdoch

  Men, Race, Feelings

  Iris Murdoch (2001). “A Fairly Honourable Defeat”, p.209, Penguin

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• I'm on the mirror diet. You eat all your food in front of a mirror in the nude. It works pretty good, though some of the fancier restaurants don't go for it.

  Roseanne Barr

  Mirrors, Diets, Fronts

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• A chop is a piece of leather skillfully attached to a bone and administered to the patients at restaurants.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Food, Cooking, Pieces

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• Given the clientele, the restaurants on Capri might resemble those fancy Northern Italian places on the East Side of Manhattan where the captain has taken bilingual sneering lessons from the maitre d' at the French joint down the street and the waiter, whose father was born in Palermo, would deny under torture that tomato sauce has ever touched his lips.

  Calvin Trillin

  Father, Taken, Food

  Calvin Trillin (1984). “Third Helpings”, Viking Press

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• I wonder if I love the communal act of eating so much because throughout my childhood, with four older brothers and a mom who worked in the restaurant business, I spent a lot of time fending for myself, eating alone - and recognizing how eating together made all the difference.

  Thomas Keller

  Mom, Brother, Food

  Thomas Keller (2016). “Bouchon”, p.2, Artisan Books

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• I could never be in a situation with a job where I was not allowed to listen to music all day. I would rather work at a fast food restaurant where I could turn on the radio all day rather than be in a situation where I have to sneak and listen to music.

  Kanye West

  Jobs, Radio, Fast Food

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• The one thing I always talk about in terms of restaurants is consistency. I think that's what we love about the vodka, is that it's consistent. It's consistent in its pureness and that's how I tie it to restaurants. When I think of a good restaurant, it's where the food has been consistent; there's always a consistency.

  Robert De Niro

  Thinking, Ties, Consistency

  Source: www.thenewpotato.com

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• My mother imparted her daily truths so she could help my older brothers and me rise above our circumstances. We lived in San Francisco's Chinatown. Like most of the other Chinese children who played in the back alleys of restaurants and curio shops, I didn't think we were poor. My bowl was always full, three five-course meals every day, beginning with a soup full of mysterious things I didn't want to know the names of.

  Amy Tan

  Family, Mother, Brother

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.89, Penguin

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• conformity has been a devastating thing. Its ill effects continue right to this day. Customers still look at the woman in the next chair and say, 'I'll have what she has.' That's all right for ordering at a restaurant - but not in a beauty parlor.

  Virginia Graham

  Hair, Looks, Next

  Virginia Graham (1967). “Don't blame the mirror”

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• [To the mother of two unruly children in a restaurant after the woman said she really didn't know what to do with her children:] Have you tried infanticide?

  Joan Crawford

  Mother, Children, Two

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• Italians are never punctual; the café, the convenient place to wait, absolves them from that. There is no question of hanging about, no looking lost and unwanted or even disreputable, as there is in hotel lobbies or the foyers of restaurants. One just sits and enjoys the scene, and waits.

  Shirley Hazzard

  Hotel Lobby, Waiting, Foyers

  Shirley Hazzard (2004). “The Evening of the Holiday: A Novel”, p.30, Macmillan

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• The decimation of Lebanon was showing up in Chicago as a series of restaurants and little shops, just as the destruction of Vietnam had been visible here a decade earlier. If you never read the news but ate out a lot you should be able to tell who was getting beaten up around the world.

  Sara Paretsky

  Littles, Able, Showing Up

  Sara Paretsky (2005). “Killing Orders”, Signet

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• There's a couple of universal principles in life. One is, don't ever open a restaurant. One out of every two fails.

  Susan Powter

  Couple, Two, Principles

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• You ought to try eating raw oysters in a restaurant with every eye focused upon you - it makes you feel as if the creatures were whales, your fork a derrick and your mouth Mammouth Cave.

  Lillian Russell

  Eye, Whales, Oysters

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• I'd watch my father get up at 5 o'clock and go down to the Eastern Market in Detroit to do the shopping for his restaurant, and get that business going and then go out on his vending machine business.

  Ed Bradley

  Father, Shopping, Watches

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• I’ve made money in real estate, hotel, and restaurant investments.

  Hill Harper

  Real, Investment, Made

  "Hill Harper Defines True Wealth" by Hill Harper, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 24, 2011.

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• I don't think I have charisma. I don't think that someone will yell 'Wow, he's charismatic' when I'm eating in a restaurant.

  Jay Park

  Thinking, Wow, Eating

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• I was working at a restaurant in L.A. when a producer came in. He said I should audition for this movie Cellular. I did, and I got the part. It actually makes me sick to tell that story because its obnoxious.

  Mircea Monroe

  Sick, Stories, Auditions

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