Win The Life

Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays. -Henry Youngman

 

A restaurant is a fantasy - a kind of living fantasy in which diners are the most important members of the cast. -Warner Leroy

 

A restaurant with candles and flowers evokes more reveries than the Isle of Bali does. -Mason Cooley

 

A successful restaurant makes everything in it, including the patrons, seem a little better than they are. -Mason Cooley

 

Today's restaurant is theater on a grand scale.- Marian Burros

 

I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still. -Calvin Trillin

 

The disparity between a restaurant's price and food quality rises in direct proportion to the size of the pepper mill. -Bryan Miller

 

Do not approach with anything even resembling assurance a restaurant that moves. -Fran Lebowitz

 

When I was a small boy, my father told me never to recommend a church or a woman to anyone. And I have found it wise never to recommend a restaurant either. Something always goes wrong with the cheese soufflé. -Edmund G Love

 

Contrary to popular notion, truck drivers know nothing about good restaurants. If you want a reliable tip, drive into a town, go to the nearest appliance store and seek out the dishwasher repair man. He spends a lot of time in restaurant kitchens and usually has strong opinions about them. -Bryan Miller

 

Salad bars are like a restaurant's lungs. They soak up the impurities and bacteria in the environment, leaving you with much cleaner air to enjoy.-Doug Coupland

 

So I quit my job and went to the New England Culinary Institute for the full two years and worked in the restaurant industry after that until finally I thought I had a grasp on what I needed to do what I do.-Alton Brown

 

So I went to the Chinese restaurant and this duck came up to me with a red.-Tim Vine

 

Some of the things I think I learned from that were very educational as far as just paying bills - the basics in dealing with a restaurant like that. It was just life - the education involved in running the organization, even on a small level.-Todd English

 

Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.-Henny Youngman

 

That being said, I often write into recipes techniques I learned in the restaurant kitchen. There are ways of organizing your prep and so on that are immensely useful. Those are woven into all the recipes I do.-Sally Schneider

 

The average housewife goes to the restaurant to relax and enjoy the food. But when Eva walks in, she becomes the center of attention.-Eva Gabor

 

The bad part about being recognized is that when I walk into a restaurant and sit down, I've got to eat everything on the plate, whether it's good or bad. People would take it as an insult if I did otherwise.-Paul Prudhomme

 

The business that people do in LA on the social level is amazing. You go to a restaurant, bump into this guy or that guy. The next day you get a call, and they want you in their movie.-Kevin Bacon

 

The disparity between a restaurant's price and food quality rises in direct proportion to the size of the pepper mill.-Bryan Miller

 

The great mystery to me is how restaurant critics think they can get away with doing their job without anybody noticing who they are.-Ted Allen

 

The hardest novel to write was Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant.-Anne Tyler

 

The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going.-George Carlin

 

The prejudice was so bad in the United States at that time that a dark person with a white person would not be served in a restaurant. My father, mother, and I would try it occasionally. We would sit there, and the food would never come.-Amar Bose

 

The restaurant chefs in Spain are breaking ground, but in terms of the everyday cooking in Spain I still hear people coming back and saying they were disappointed. I think it's because they're expecting the chef stuff.-Sally Schneider

 

There are advantages to being a star though - you can always get a table in a full restaurant.-Ingrid Bergman

 

There certainly is a good 'Tex Mex' restaurant very close to our office. My office is around 100 yards from it. I call it Tex Mex because every couple of years it's changed hands and changed name, I'm not exactly sure why!-Andrew Oliver

 

There wasn't much around. After the shows, we would go to an Italian restaurant that a friend of ours owned and so I didn't get a chance to see much. Actually, that holds true of most places I've been.-Connie Francis

 

This music that was supposed to only come from tapes like in any restaurant. Something would happened. One bird will start to do a little jazz thing, and another bird will start to answer.-John Hench

 

Today's restaurant is theater on a grand scale.-Marian Burros

 

In Goodfellas they have this one scene where the camera goes down some steps and walks through a kitchen into a restaurant and the critics were all over this as evidence of the genius of Scorsese and Scorsese is a genius.-Alex Cox

 

In the restaurant business, you never want to have enemies, whereas it seems that many politicians judge their success by how high their enemies are and whether they can show that they can hold their ground and give a punch for every punch they take.-John Hickenlooper

 

In the restaurant it's much more serious.-Emeril Lagasse

 

It all comes back to the basics. Serve customers the best-tasting food at a good value in a clean, comfortable restaurant, and they'll keep coming back.-Dave Thomas

 

It was probably when I met Jeff Hamilton, the drummer I've been working with for the last 20 years. He's the one who brought Ray Brown to hear me sing at a restaurant in my hometown.-Diana Krall

 

It's a very, very difficult space to operate in, the restaurant business-it requires a lot of human beings to intersect at just the right place to make it all work out.-Rocco DiSpirito

 

It's easier to be faithful to a restaurant than it is to a woman.-Federico Fellini

 

It's great to be recognized when I'm looking for a table at a crowded restaurant, but I still don't put it to best use. I'm such a lump. I won't cut the line. It's my Catholic guilt. I gotta get used to it.-Christopher Meloni

 

Know how to behave at a fine restaurant, which is a telltale measure of social maturity.-Marilyn vos Savant

 

Like going to my favorite restaurant, it can sometimes get hard. I just can't go to the mall.-Hilary Duff

 

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

 

Maybe come to think about it, that is the sign of an extrovert, in any event I have always from the earliest of ages found it difficult to wander into a restaurant on my own.-Roger Moore

 

Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is best not to stir them.-P. G. Wodehouse

 

Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.-Robert M. Pirsig

 

My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.-Ed Bradley

 

My only failure was the restaurant in Myrtle Beach. I kept it open for four years. It was in a tourist town, it was only busy four and half, five months of the year. But the bills kept coming all year.-Mickey Gilley

 

My parents own a restaurant in Albuquerque.-Neil Patrick Harris

 

My partner and I are looking at several locations on Park Avenue South and Midtown for a new restaurant space.-Bobby Flay

 

Paul and I were both struggling actors. One night he would serve me in a restaurant, and the next night I would serve him. It was what out of work actors did.-David Soul

 

Playwrights are like men who have been dining for a month in an Indian restaurant. After eating curry night after night, they deny the existence of asparagus.-Peter Ustinov

 

I went to the Paradise Restaurant on 49th Street and Broadway which was where they were playing, and I sat in.-Ray Conniff

 

I would work as a cook, get a little money, then open another restaurant.-Paul Prudhomme

 

I'd gone into that restaurant and sat down and the waitress had taken my order and everybody else had seen me with this what must have looked like this creature, this animal, sitting on the top of my head!-Derek Jacobi

 

I'd like to have the first restaurant that can deliver incredible quality food to your table at your house at any time-right where you live.-Paul Prudhomme

 

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

 

I'm carded for R-rated movies. And I get talked down to a lot. When I try to go rent a car or buy an airplane ticket or other stuff adults do, I get 'Okaaaaaay, honey.' I remember when I was 18, getting crayons in a restaurant.-Kristen Bell

 

I'm in the process of brainstorming with my marketing team and all that stuff, trying to come up with a concept for a late-night restaurant for people in Birmingham.-Ruben Studdard

 

I'm not a TV guy. I'm a restaurant chef and a businessman.-Emeril Lagasse

 

I'm plagued with indecision in my life. I can't figure out what to order in a restaurant.-Chuck Close

 

I'm working harder than ever now, and I'm putting on my pants the same as I always have. I just get up every day and try to do a little better than the day before, and that is to run a great restaurant with great food, great wine, and great service. That's my philosophy.-Emeril Lagasse

 

I've always worked a bit like a cook in a big restaurant, where you've got lots and lots of things laid out and you go and look into one cauldron and you look into the other and you see what's coming to the boil.-Peter Brook

 

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

 

I've known what it is to be hungry, but I always went right to a restaurant.-Ring Lardner

 

If I go to a restaurant, other people stare. The meal is ruined.-Brigitte Bardot

 

If I have a choice between putting my kids to bed and going to a party, I'll put my kids to bed. If I have a choice of going to a restaurant or having friends round, I'll have friends round. Every time.-Elle Macpherson

 

If you can play guitar and sing, you can probably get a gig down the road playing at a restaurant, but don't throw your life away chasing something that is so elusive it will only lead you to regret and may turn you bitter.-Cliff Richard

 

If you have good food, people will come to your restaurant.-Mickey Gilley

 

If you see me at a restaurant, blow me a kiss, wave, blow me another kiss, then walk five steps backward.-Todd Barry

 

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

 

In college I had a weekend gig at a restaurant, a solo thing that was the best practice I could have ever had. That's where I learned to coordinate my singing and my piano playing.-Norah Jones