Bill Geist Quotes

• They used to have a fish on the menu that was smoked, grilled and peppered They did everything to this fish but pistol-whip it and dress it in Bermuda shorts.

  Bill Geist

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

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• I'm a man. Men cook outside. That outdoor grilling is a manly pursuit has long been beyond question. If this wasn't understood, you'd never get grown men to put on those aprons with pictures of dancing weenies on the front, and messages like 'Come 'n' Get It!

  Bill Geist

  Men, Long, Dancing

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• New York is a city of conversations overheard, of people at the next restaurant table (micrometers away) checking your watch, of people reading the stories in your newspaper on the subway train.

  Bill Geist

  New York, Reading, Cities

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• There is a lovely warmness about feelings of nostalgia as though in one's head one is putting on a pair of comfy old slippers and curling up in front of a fire.

  Bill Geist

  Fire, Feelings, Lovely

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• Drawn by warm nostalgic feelings for the place and by two sweet little words: "Open Bar."

  Bill Geist

  Sweet, Two, Feelings

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• Kristin Brown looks as though she could have been mailed first-class to New York for about a dollar and a half.

  Bill Geist

  New York, Class, Dollars

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• Grown men have been seen fleeing after reading the menu posted outside.

  Bill Geist

  Reading, Men, Fleeing

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• Pressed caviar has the consistency of chilled tar.

  Bill Geist

  Consistency, Caviar, Chilled

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