Restaurants Quotes - Page 38

• Heaven has no taste." "Now-" "And not one single sushi restaurant." A look of pain crossed the angel's suddenly very serious face.

  Terry Pratchett

  Pain, Angel, Heaven

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• The first floor could be a restaurant. A good restaurant can survive as long as it has easy accessibility.

  David Lee

  Long, Firsts, Easy

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• People talk about the prestige of beating records but prestige never bought me dinner in a restaurant. It's winning games that does that.

  Steve Coppell

  Winning, Games, People

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• I'm having trouble warming up to Mitt Romney. He looks like the guy in the restaurant that comes to your table to make sure everything's all right.

  David Letterman

  Guy, Looks, Tables

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• Being branded number one restaurant in the world is actually very humbling.

  Heston Blumenthal

  Numbers, World, Humbling

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

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• Here's the thing, I've been cooking more and more and I'm pretty good, the problem is I can only go out to restaurants that cook better than I do, therefore, it's expensive.

  Mark Morris

  Cooking, Problem, Cooks

  "Excerpts From an Interview With Mario Batali and Mark Morris". Interview with Julie Bloom, www.nytimes.com. February 23, 2010.

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• The predicament of a person in a restaurant who is unable to determine his or her designated restroom (e.g., turtles and tortoises).

  Rich Hall

  Humorous, Turtles, Tortoises

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• It's much tougher to be a restaurant critic now. You have to take a subway out to Brooklyn. I wouldn't want to do it.

  Mimi Sheraton

  Brooklyn, Want, Subway

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• Public health regulations are often controversial at the time but who would want to go back to the days of sitting in smoke-filled restaurants or cars without seatbelts?

  Sarah Wollaston

  Car, Sitting, Want

  "Big tobacco has got its way - now let's find what big alcohol is up to" by Sarah Wollaston, www.theguardian.com. July 15, 2013.

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• Eating a tuna roll at a sushi restaurant should be considered no more environmentally benign than driving a Hummer or harpooning a manatee.

  Daniel Pauly

  Tuna Fish, Sushi, Driving

  "The Perils Of Overfishing, Part 2". Interview with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 3, 2009.

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• I don't know exactly what a black Chinese restaurant would be, but I would sure love to see one.

  Paul Beatty

  Sure Love, Black, Chinese

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• One day, I just thought, if you see a bird with a broken leg, you really have the urge to do something about it and help the bird, then at the same time you go to a restaurant and eat a chicken or something. It doesn't make any sense.

  Patrik Baboumian

  Sympathy, Compassion, Bodybuilding

  "Vegan strongman shoulders 550 kg — a record, perhaps — at vegetarian food fest" by Jessica Mcdiarmid, www.thestar.com. September 8, 2013.

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• All businesses, including gasoline stations and restaurants, should close ever Sunday... by force of legislative fiat through the duly elected officials of the people.

  Harold Lindsell

  Sunday, People, Gasoline

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• I just love food, especially my mom's Bulgarian cooking. Taco Bell is my favorite fast food restaurant. I also love Italian food.

  Leah LaBelle

  Mom, Italian, Cooking

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• I bask in the affection I get on the streets. I recently went into the kitchen of a restaurant to meet the cooks. They were people I didn't know, but what a joy it was meet them! Such experiences wouldn't happen if I were doing only one kind of cinema.

  Boman Irani

  People, Joy, Kitchen

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• I refer the largest number of my clients to Payce Payroll because the specialize in the restaurant and contractors industries. I am pleased with the service they provide, competitive fees and responsiveness to clients. What most impressed me was that one of the founders, Gus, came to personally meet with me and a client to establish their payroll software. They truly care about their clients.

  Steve Melnyk

  Numbers, Gus, Care

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• Women who work for escort agencies that assign them out to prostitution dates at sushi restaurants know how to eat with chopsticks, and beyond that they are in every other way identical to other prostitutes. They’re not better looking; they’re not smarter; they’re not classier; they’re not more charming. They probably give more blowjobs than any reasonable woman, right? And they are empty inside, but it’s also society’s fault.

  Julie Klausner

  Agency, Giving, Sushi

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• KFC is not black owned, but it sure knows to market heavily to African Americans - obviously hoping we won-t care about what they do the underdog, or in this case, the underchicken - So, if KFC wants to take our money and use it to pay for sloppy practices that hurt animals?I say we send them a message that this is not going to happen. I-m calling on people to boycott KFC until they adopt animal welfare systems recommended by PETA and until they stop the worst abuses of the birds they raise for their restaurants.

  Bill Vaughan

  Hurt, Animal, Practice

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• I go to restaurants and the groups always play "Yesterday." I even signed a guy's violin in Spain after he played us "Yesterday." He couldn't understand that I didn't write the song. But I guess he couldn't have gone from table to table playing "I Am The Walrus.

  John Lennon

  Song, Writing, Play

  John Lennon, Yōko Ono, David Sheff, G. Barry Golson (1981). “The Playboy interviews with John Lennon and Yōko Ono”, Putnam Pub Group

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• The livelihood of the restaurant is dependent upon getting the word out. There's so much more competition. You can do an event every week and not cook at all.

  David Chang

  Competition, Events, Week

  "In Conversation: André Soltner and David Chang". Interview with Robin Raisfeld, Rob Patronite, nymag.com. September 28, 2008.

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• Eating at a new, highly recommended restaurant is like a Very Important Blind Date, a contract with uncertainty you enter into with great expectation battling the cynicism of experience. You sit waiting, wondering about the upcoming moments of revelation. Somewhere in the back of your head is the dour warning that disappointment is inevitable but you don't really believe it or you wouldn't be there. The best eaters are always optimists.

  Stuart Stevens

  Disappointment, Believe, Food

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• Always hold your sales meetings in rooms too small for the audience, even if it means holding them in the WC. 'Standing room only' creates an atmosphere of success, as in theatres and restaurants, while a half-empty auditorium smells of failure.

  David Ogilvy

  Mean, Smell, Atmosphere

  "Ogilvy on Advertising". Book by David Ogilvy, p. 172, 1983.

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• Well, I'm not able to work anymore as an actor and still at the level I would want to ... you start to lose your memory, you start to lose your confidence, you start to lose your invention. So, that's pretty much a closed book for me. And I'm grateful for the other things that have come into my life: grandkids, and restaurants and charity ... I've been doing it for 50 years. That's enough.

  Paul Newman

  Memories, Book, Grateful

  "Nightline's Last Interview With Paul Newman". ABC News interview, abcnews.go.com. May 2007.

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• I make no apology for preoccupying myself with architecture, television, conceptual art, restaurants and Jane Asher's cakes.

  Will Self

  Art, Apology, Cake

  2001 Feeding Frenzy.

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• There's not a sense that the person who is waiting on the table is somehow a lesser person that the person who is eating in the restaurant.

  Julia Gillard

  Waiting, Tables, Eating

  "Julia Gillard: 20 people, 20 questions". www.theguardian.com. May 26, 2013.

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