#restaurant

I'm OK with firing people when they fuck up, but canning them when they've done nothing wrong - that's painful. [on the layoffs needed after 9/11 hit the business] ↗

— Marcus Samuelsson

#restaurants #business

I've got the best of all worlds. It's every actor's dream to wake up in New York City and go to an acting job rather than to a restaurant to wash dirty dishes. And I live so close to the studios that I ride my bike to work. ↗

— Christopher Meloni

#actor #best #bike #city #close

Andrew just shrugged, and I fiddled with the napkin in my lap while glancing idly around the restaurant. The obligatory mirrors hung on the walls, and there was one of those fountains with fake lily pads in the entryway. The restaurant was also lit like a mine shaft. I've never understood why dim lighting is supposed to be so romantic. Night vision belongs into a Paris Hilton sex tape - not in a restaurant that could potentially poison me with peanut sauce. ↗

— Alicia Thompson

#restaurants #sarcasm #romantic

I'm open to starting restaurants anywhere as long as the produce that's readily available is high quality. For example, I'm never doing a restaurant in Shanghai because I saw the produce available there, and it's just not good. I won't do a restaurant in Moscow for the same reason. ↗

— Joel Robuchon

#available #because #doing #example #for example

Rarely do pens go dry in restaurants. ↗

— Nicholson Baker

#go #pens #rarely #restaurants

I wasn't a trained Mickey Mouse club performer. I played in jazz clubs and restaurants. ↗

— Norah Jones

#clubs #i #jazz #mickey #mickey mouse

In any restaurant of this caliber, the chefs are in the same position, building relationships. ↗

— Thomas Keller

#building #caliber #chefs #position #relationships

Love, like a chicken salad or restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor. ↗

— Helen Rowland

#blind faith #chicken #faith #flavor #hash

My parents demonstrated against the Vietnam war, they were into the civil rights movement, the feminist movement, they started the first vegetarian restaurant in Pittsburgh. ↗

— Justin Sane

#civil #civil rights #civil rights movement #demonstrated #feminist

Know how to behave at a fine restaurant, which is a telltale measure of social maturity. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#fine #how #know #maturity #measure