Stephen King
Author
"Friends come in and out of our lives, like busboys in a restaurant."
Restaurants quotes
Restaurants
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David Bowie
Musician, Actor
"I think fame itself is not a rewarding thing. The most you can say is that it gets you a seat in restaurants."
Kanye West
Rapper, Producer, Fashion Designer
"I am a God, so hurry up with my damn massage; in a French-ass restaurant, hurry up with my damn croissants."
Calvin Trillin
Author, Humorist
"I'm in favor of liberalizing immigration because of the effect it would have on restaurants. I'd let just about everybody in except the English."
Salvador Dali
Artist, Surrealist
"I do not understand why, when I ask for grilled lobster in a restaurant, I'm never served a cooked telephone."
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"It all comes back to the basics. Serve customers the best-tasting food at a good value in a clean, comfortable restaurant, and theyll keep coming back."
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"If anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it's the restaurant business."
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"When you go to a restaurant, the less you know about what happens in the kitchen, the more you enjoy your meal."
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"If I ever own a restaurant, I will never allow the waiters to ask if the diners like their dishes. Particularly when they're talking."
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"My music will mean something. I'll have my own production company. I'm doing my own movies. I have my own restaurant. I just wanna expand."
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"It's worth your life to order an omelette in most restaurants. You never know what you're going to get."
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"In a Pyongyang restaurant, don't ever ask for a doggie bag."
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"I took you to an intimate restaurant, then to a suggestive movie. There's nothing left to talk about, unless it's horizontally."
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"Restaurants get you in with food to sell you liquor; religions get you in with belief to sell you rules."
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"Marriage is not merely sharing the fettucini, but sharing the burden of finding the fettucini restaurant in the first place."
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"Even the busboys at the restaurants have a script to give you. Everybody is in the business."
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"If you're a person who says yes most of the time, you'll find yourself in the hotel business and the restaurant business."
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"Rarely do pens go dry in restaurants."
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"I've never sexually harassed anyone, and yes, I was falsely accused while I was at the National Restaurant Association."
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"Overheard today in restaurant: Can you stop listening to our conversation?"
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"If you have a good experience in a restaurant, you tell 2 people. If you have a bad experience, you tell 10 people."
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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."
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"I don't cook. I don't know anything about food. I've never reviewed a restaurant."
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"Why are fish unsustainable? Because they're popular. What makes restaurants work? Popular dishes that people come back for."
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"I love Indian, Italian and Mexican food. And if it's a romantic type of thing, I like a good French restaurant."
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