Restaurateurs Quotes

#1. When the sommelier Enrico Bernardo moved to Paris from Italy nearly two decades ago, the world of French gastronomy brutally rejected him. No matter that he had won the competition for best sommelier in Italy; when he asked 30 restaurateurs for work in their wine cellars, all turned him down.

Elaine Sciolino

#2. The personal interiorization of the practice of humiliation is called humility.

Kathy Acker

#3. My hand and pen are not in plight,
As they have been of yore.

Thomas Vaux, 2nd Baron Vaux Of Harrowden

#4. Being a rock star is like being a cult leader - you really have to be in your own religion.

Courtney Love

#5. His knowledge of ancient Greece was based entirely on a poem Edgar Allan Poe, a few homosexual encounters with restaurateurs (he ate free at almost every soda fountain in the city), and a plaster reproduction of the Akropolis which, for some reason, he had coated with red nail polish.

Leonard Cohen

#6. Everywhere I go, I always look for creative entrepreneurs, whether it's artisans and craftsmen, small farmers and gardeners, or restaurateurs who use fresh, locally sourced ingredients.

Martha Stewart

#7. Aside from hospitality and delicious food, our [restaurateurs'] job is to entertain people. Restaurants should make people feel special, excited and fulfilled.

Joe Bastianich

#8. But our goal, remember, is to feed around our table the people we love. We're not chefs or restaurateurs or culinary school graduates, and we shouldn't try to be. Make it the way the people you love want to eat it.

Shauna Niequist

#9. For the longest time, chefs and restaurateurs were able to get products home cooks couldn't get, but that's not the case anymore.

Michael Symon

#10. The Bible, itself the ultimate curse, is an in-depth profile of the divine spleen.

Ruth Hurmence Green

#11. Trees are always the cure for your modern bollocks.

Kevin Hearne

#12. For me, I grew up in a house doing charity work for homeless people, and my parents had a lot of homeless friends. We were always taught to not discriminate and not judge.

Shenae Grimes

#13. My background is in theater. I was a theater major in college.

Amy Schumer

#14. If a Labour movement, on a bourgeois basis, has hitherto existed in the country where the new movement is awakening it will certainly not disappear all at once.

Karl Radek

#15. God looks at you as if you were a little Christ: Christ stands beside you to turn you into one.

C.S. Lewis

#16. There are apothecaries' shops, where prepared medicines, liquids, ointments, and plasters are sold; barbers' shops, where they wash and shave the head; and restaurateurs, that furnish food and drink at a certain price.

Hernan Cortes

#17. Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

Ernest Hemingway,

#18. Didn't you read the invitation? There's going to be a game in a little while
the big Twister game in an hour. Make sure you eat plenty of bread.

Elle Lothlorien

#19. The continent did not appeal: France was filled with irritating people; Spain was corrupt and unstable; Russia, impossible; Italy, absurd; Germany, rigid; Portugal, in decline. Holland, thought favorably disposed toward him, was dull. The United States of America, he decided, was a possibility.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#20. I miss being fawned over by restaurateurs and chefs.

Toby Young

#21. A handy pair of tweezers go a long way. You never know when you're going to have to pluck out a few of those eyebrow hairs. Keep the tweezers in the purse!

Sufe Bradshaw

#22. When I go on my boat or to my vacation houses, where I still unfortunately spend very little time, I don't go with the celebrities I know but with a close group of friends and people who have worked with me for a long time.

Giorgio Armani