Restaurants Quotes - Page 6

• When you're cooking in the premier league of restaurants, when things go down, it has to be sorted immediately.

  Gordon Ramsay

  League, Cooking, Premier League

  Source: articles.chicagotribune.com

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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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• As anyone who has ever fallen foul of an airport, a conventional hospital or a bad restaurant knows, misery is made up of little things.

  Katharine Whitehorn

  Airports, Littles, Misery

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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 won't go to a restaurant to eat with friends, always join them afterwards for coffee. In company I always get over enthusiastic, and this leads to indigestion.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Coffee, Eating, Enthusiastic

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• While I wouldn't object to work at a restaurant or a different place that sells decent-or-better food, I think that I can learn much more by becoming a coder.

  Emma Watson

  Thinking, Becoming, Coders

  Source: www.shlomifish.org

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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 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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• Restaurant Man is kind of the story, an unabridged story of what happened in my life, the good bad and ugly. Some people might glean some life lessons. It is honest, not written as a press release.

  Joe Bastianich

  Life Lesson, Men, People

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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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• [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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• 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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• To eat well, I always disagree with critics who say that all restaurants should be fine dining. You can get a Michelin star if you serve the best hamburger in the world.

  David Chang

  Stars, Dining, World

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• Fine dining teaches you how to cook many different things, and it gives you the basic fundamentals, but these specialty restaurants, theyre not teaching you the broad foundation you need to become a well-rounded cook.

  David Chang

  Teaching, Giving, Foundation

  "David Chang On American Cuisine, Vanishing Seafood, Cooking At Home & Seasoning Properly". Interview with Colin Sterling, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 7, 2011.

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• It doesn't need to be the same every day, doesn't need to be the same shower I use, the same restaurant I go to, the same hour I go to sleep. I've always been very flexible. I don't care if I practice at nine in the morning or 10 P.M.

  Roger Federer

  Morning, Sleep, Practice

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• I hope that any expansion of London will learn from the planning examples of some of its most desirable areas such as Chelsea, Notting Hill, Belgravia and Mayfair. All are characterised by high density and a generosity of green spaces. They are all pedestrian-friendly with shops, entertainment, restaurants and pubs within easy walking distance.

  Norman Foster

  Distance, Space, Generosity

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• Frankly, Milan kind of sucks as a restaurant city. Its so fashion-obsessed that people dont pay that much attention to the food.

  Joe Bastianich

  Fashion, Cities, People

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• I don't like dates. If you meet someone that you like then meet them out somewhere. That's good because that's comfortable. I don't like the feeling of going to pick someone up that I don't know that well at their house and then take them to kind of a formal restaurant.

  Vince Vaughn

  House, Feelings, Kind

  Source: movieweb.com

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• I don't even look at resumes anymore. I think they're misguided. I talk to them, ask them where they've been, "What's your favorite experience in a restaurant?" Where do they like to eat? Blah blah blah. All that stuff, but I can only really describe my journey with another person if I can connect with them and their passion. Otherwise, I don't care where they've worked. It doesn't matter to me. Really I have to feel it, and then I can teach them anything.

  Geoffrey Zakarian

  Passion, Journey, Thinking

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