Restaurants Quotes - Page 17

• Do they always flirt with biblical quotes?" Asil asked Tad. In long-suffering tones, Tad said, "They can flirt with the periodic table or a restaurant menu. We've learned to live with it. Get a room you guys."

  Patricia Briggs

  Biblical, Flirting, Long

  "Frost Burned". Book by Patricia Briggs, January 28, 2014.

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• Dr. Bashiri, if I ever want to put a curse in someone, I say, 'May God give you a restaurant.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Giving, Want, Drs

  Khaled Hosseini (2013). “And the Mountains Echoed”, p.162, A&C Black

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• In a restaurant, tangoing couples circled past, and the look in Hale's eyes was especially mischievous when he told her, "Oh, I see. You brought me here so you can have your way with me on the dance floor.

  Ally Carter

  Couple, Eye, Past

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• Restaurants are minefields for the socially inept

  Graeme Simsion

  Minefields

  Graeme Simsion (2014). “The Rosie Project: A Novel”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• Celebrity has its uses. I can always get a seat in any restaurant.

  Julia Child

  Food, Use, Seats

  "Julia Child: What I've Learned". Interview with Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. June 2001.

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• I make fun whenever I go. If I go to restaurant by myself, rest assured, people will be talking about it.

  Cloris Leachman

  Fun, Women, Talking

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• The after-party is always at a restaurant, and for me, the fun starts when I get a cheese platter. That's as f-ed up as I get.

  Kate McKinnon

  Fun, Women, Party

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• If a rhinoceros were to enter this restaurant now, there is no denying he would have great power here. But I should be the first to rise and assure him that he had no authority whatever.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Leadership, Firsts, Authority

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• The secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money can buy nor power for power's sake... but absolute personal freedom, mobility, privacy. It is the instinct which drove America to the Pacific, all through the nineteenth century, the desire to be able to find a restaurant open in case you want a sandwich, to be a free agent, live by one's own rules.

  Joan Didion

  America, Secret, Desire

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• Restaurants get you in with food to sell you liquor; religions get you in with belief to sell you rules.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Belief, Liquor, Sells

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.1722, Random House

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• In Europe they look upon jazz as art. In America it's a diversion. Somebody opens a restaurant and installs another band off to the side. People don't listen.

  Chet Baker

  Art, Europe, America

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• I used to do my own taxes. You know how you buy that gigantic sheet at Staples, add up the restaurants, clothes, and taxis and glue your receipts into the book month by month? The more money I made, the more complicated things got.

  Heidi Klum

  Book, Clothes, Glue

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• [On entering the restaurant business:] Food has the dubious advantage of being legitimate, and one's customers somehow manage to live longer without sex than food, if you call that living.

  Sally Stanford

  Sex, Dubious, Entering

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• Salad bars are like a restaurant's lungs. They soak up the impurities and bacteria in the environment, leaving you with much cleaner air to enjoy.

  Douglas Coupland

  Air, Leaving, Bars

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• It specifically says in the Torah that you can eat shrimp and bacon in a Chinese restaurant.

  Jason Alexander

  Chinese, Shrimp, Torah

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• In the restaurant business, you never want to have enemies, whereas it seems that many politicians judge their success by how high their enemies are and whether they can show that they can hold their ground and give a punch for every punch they take.

  John Hickenlooper

  Giving, Judging, Enemy

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• I make shoes for white suburban kids, not the poor black kids. That would be like opening a restaurant for people without stomachs.

  Michael Jordan

  Kids, Shoes, White

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• I went to a restaurant, and I saw a guy wearing a leather jacket, eating a hamburger, drinking a glass of milk. I said, "Dude, you are a cow. The metamorphosis is complete. Don't fall asleep or I will tip you over!"

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Drinking, Fall

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• McDonalds in Tokyo is a terrible revenge for Pearl Harbor.

  S. I. Hayakawa

  Revenge, Mcdonalds, Pearls

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• I usually lump organized religion, organized labor, and organized crime together. The Mafia gets points for having the best restaurants

  Dave Beard

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

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• If you see me at a restaurant, blow me a kiss, wave, blow me another kiss, then walk five steps backward.

  Todd Barry

  Kissing, Blow, Kiss Me

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• A diner having a row with a waiter in a swanky restaurant chills the blood in a way that a quarrel over a pizza order elsewhere would never do. Compassion is rarely the custom of the privileged.

  Derren Brown

  Compassion, Blood, Order

  "Confessions of a Conjuror". Book by Derren Brown, 2009.

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• I really understood what was happening in Cannes. I was in a restaurant during a break and when I came out 2 hours later, 500 people were waiting for me at the exit. It was total chaos. They literally had to carry me to the car.

  Robert Pattinson

  People, Car, Waiting

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• I went out a couple of times with Pierce. He's totally recognizable, and he makes no effort to tone it down. Some people were glancing over at us in the restaurant, and he just went over and introduced himself. And it does work. It dissipates all the attention. Me? I just crawl under the table.

  Robert Pattinson

  Couple, People, Effort

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• Try doing something different every day-like talking to the person at the next table to you in a restaurant, visiting a hospital, putting your foot in a puddle, listening to what another person has to say, allowing the energy of love to flow freely, instead of putting it in a jug and standing it in a corner.

  Paulo Coelho

  Talking, Feet, Listening

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