Waiter Quotes - Page 5

• The best tournament that I have ever played in was in 1950. It was great - a waiter came to you during the game, and you could order anything you wanted to drink (even some vodka, if you liked). Pity, there are no longer tournaments organized in this manner.

  Boris Spassky

  Order, Games, Chess

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• Patience is more than a virtue for long lines and slow waiters. Patience is the red carpet upon which God's grace approaches us.

  Max Lucado

  Long, Grace, Lines

  Max Lucado (2012). “A Love Worth Giving Deluxe Edition: Living in the Overflow of God's Love”, p.20, Harper Collins

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• When I was a waiter I was fired twice from the same restaurant. I guess I was that good of an actor but that bad of a waiter.

  Nathan Fillion

  Actors, Restaurants

  "Roundtable With Seven Stars Who Had an Emmy-Worthy Year". Interview with Jenelle Riley, www.backstage.com. June 6, 2012.

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• I believe that humanity now is desperately calling for new ideas. These new ideas must come from spiritual teachers and artists, from poets and philosophers, from educators and ecologists, from postal clerks and miners and traffic cops and nurses and waiters and musicians and cooks and cleaners and from...Regular People Everywhere. That is to say, from YOU.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Spiritual, Teacher, Believe

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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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• Learn to take losses quickly and cleanly. There is something about inside information which seems to paralyze a man's reasoning powers. Beware of barbers, beauticians, waiters - or anyone - bringing gifts of 'inside' information or tips. Don't try to be a jack of all investment. Stick to the field you know best.

  Bernard Baruch

  Loss, Men, Trying

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• Waiting is a state of mind that says we want what we don't have. Therefore, with every kind of waiting we produce an inner conflict between now and the projected future. This greatly reduces the quality of our life. Are you a 'habitual waiter'?

  Eckhart Tolle

  Waiting, Mind, Quality

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• Corrupted by wealth and power, your government is like a restaurant with only one dish. They've got a set of Republican waiters on one side and a set of Democratic waiters on the other side. But no matter which set of waiters brings you the dish, the legislative grub is all prepared in the same Wall Street kitchen.

  Huey Long

  Wall, Government, Long

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• What is with waiters who don't write anything down and memorize your order instead? Are you trying to impress me or something? If you were that smart you wouldn't be a goddamn waiter in the first place.

  Aaron Karo

  Smart, Writing, Order

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• Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.

  W. H. Auden

  Evil, Bed, Tables

  "Herman Melville" l. 17 (1939)

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• I worked as a waiter when I was 15 and got a chance to appreciate good, simple food. There's nothing better than a boiled egg with toast.

  Ewan McGregor

  Simple, Eggs, Appreciate

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• He had lunch with Cecilia that afternoon. They ate their corned beef on rye and cream cheese with lox in a diner peopled by waiters who looked like they´d met with utter disappointment and become attached to it.

  Mary Gaitskill

  Disappointment, Lunch, Beef

  Mary Gaitskill (1988). “Bad Behavior: Stories”, Poseidon Press

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• I am one of those who like to stay late at the cafe," the older waiter said. "With all those who do not want to go to bed. With all those who need a light for the night." "I want to go home and into bed." "We are of two different kinds," the older waiter said. He was now dressed to go home. "It is not only a question of youth and confidence although those things are very beautiful. Each night. I am reluctant to close up because there may be someone who needs the cafe.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Beautiful, Home, Night

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• The young man called the waiter and paid. Then he got up and said to the girl: 'We're going.' Where to?' The girl feigned surprise. Don't ask, just come on,' said the young man. Is that any way to talk to me?' It's the way I talk to whores.

  Milan Kundera

  Girl, Men, Way

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• A bit of theory as we settle down for lunch: the waiter's treatment of Kitty is actually a kind of sandwich, with the bottom bread being the bored and slightly effete way he normally acts with customers, the middle being the crazed and abnormal way he feels around this famous nineteen-year-old girl, and the top bread being his attempt to contain and conceal this alien middle layer with some mode of behavior that at least approximates the bottom layer of boredom and effeteness that is his norm.

  Jennifer Egan

  Girl, Years, Lunch

  Jennifer Egan (2010). “A Visit from the Goon Squad”, p.128, Anchor

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• I'm here," she said, skidding to a stop. "Can we go now?" Sebastian insisted on helping her on with the coat. "I don't think anyone's ever helped me with my coat before," Clary observed, freeing the hair that had gotten trapped under her collar. "Well, maybe waiters. Were you ever a waiter?" "No, but I was brought up by a Frenchwoman," Sebastian reminded her. "It involves an even more rigorous course of training.

  Cassandra Clare

  Thinking, Hair, Training

  Cassandra Clare (2010). “City of Glass”, p.155, Simon and Schuster

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• The waiter brought fresh-baked bread and cheese, a bottle of sparkling water for Annabeth, and a Coke with ice for me (because I’m a barbarian).

  Rick Riordan

  Ice, Water, Annabeth

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• Could I have a Sloe Gin Fizz, without the gin?" "What's the point of that, Miss?" the waiter said. "Tomorrow morning," Mabel said.

  Libba Bray

  Morning, Missing, Tomorrow

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• I am not a fan of people who abuse service staff. In fact, I find it intolerable. It’s an unpardonable sin as far as I’m concerned, taking out personal business or some other kind of dissatisfaction on a waiter or busboy.

  Anthony Bourdain

  People, Abuse, Fans

  "Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook". Book by Anthony Bourdain, 2010.

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• When somebody is a little bit wrong - say, when a waited puts nonfat milk in your espresso macchiato, instead of lowfat milk - it is often quite easy to explain to them how and why they are wrong. But if somebody is surprisingly wrong - say, when a waiter bites your nose instead of taking your order - you can often be so surprised that you are unable to say anything at all. Paralyzed by how wrong the waiter is, your moth would hang slightly open and your eyes would blink over and over, but you would be unable to say a word.

  Daniel Handler

  Eye, Often Is, Order

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• Worship is first and foremost a feasting on all that God is for us in Jesus... [One] in which God is the host, the cook, the waiter, and the meal itself.

  Sam Storms

  Jesus, Meals, Firsts

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• If you wait for inspiration, you're not a writer, but a waiter.

  Louis L'Amour

  Inspiration, Waiting, Acting

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• I'd probably be famous now if I wasn't such a good waitress.

  Jane Siberry

  Waitress, Ifs

  Song: The Waitress, Album: No Borders Here

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• It isn't so much what's on the table that matters, as what's on the chairs.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Food, Cooking, Tables

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• My father was and is a great father. My father always wanted to do stand-up. He wanted to be an actor. But instead he did two jobs. He did customer service at a hospital and he worked as a waiter at night. He pretty much sacrificed everything for his daughters.

  Sherri Shepherd

  Daughter, Mother, Jobs

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