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  • I basically modeled my way through college, doing local runway shows in L.A. that don't pay a lot and a couple of shows in N.Y. and S.F., and I probably made the same as the average 19-year-old waiter; I just worked less and was around beautiful girls, so it was nice.

    Beautiful   Girl   Couple  
    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • I don't like Switzerland; it has produced nothing but theologians and waiters.

    Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.136, Wordsworth Editions
  • Talk is a pure art. Its only limits are the patience of listeners who, when they get tired, can always pay for their coffee or change it with a friendly waiter and walk out.

    Art   Coffee   Tired  
  • I own the restaurant. There are a lot of cooks, waiters and waitresses in this restaurant. They worry about their problems. I worry about all the problems.

  • I went into a French restaraunt and asked the waiter, 'Have you got frog's legs?' He said, 'Yes,' so I said, 'Well hop into the kitchen and get me a cheese sandwich.'

  • I love to watch those old movies on late-night television, particularly when a couple get up from a champagne dinner in a posh restaurant and the hero hands the waiter $3. But the best part is when he says, "Keep the change."

    Couple   Hero   Night  
  • People who are rude to waiters... I don't like that sort of thing. People who take cuts in line... it doesn't fly!

    Cutting   People   Rude  
    Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
  • Insanity hovered close at hand, like an eager waiter at an expensive restaurant.

    Arundhati Roy (2002). “The God of Small Things”, p.207, Penguin Books India
  • You noodle around with tempo and sound until you get the perfect fit for that particular song, and then, so long as you can sustain it, God is on your side and everything comes easily and even the waiters smile.

    Song   Your Side   Long  
    Wilfrid Sheed (1990). “Essays in Disguise”, Alfred A. Knopf
  • 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.

  • Hold the newsreader's nose squarely, waiter, or friendly milk will countermand my trousers.

    Friendly   Noses   Milk  
    "A Bit of Fry and Laurie". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 1987-1995.
  • There are things you just can't do in life. You can't beat the phone company, you can't make a waiter see you until he's ready to see you, and you can't go home again.

    Home   Phones   House  
    1989 The Lost Continent, ch.2.
  • So I went to the Chinese restaurant and this duck came up to me with a red rose and says "Your eyes sparkle like diamonds". I said "Waiter, I asked for a-ROMATIC duck".

    Funny   Humor   Eye  
  • A real litmus test for me is how people treat someone who is waiting on them. That's a dealbreaker for me.If I were on the verge of getting into a serious relationship and I saw that person be mean to a waiter... I'm out.

    Real   Mean   People  
    Source: www.esquire.com
  • I don't like people being rude. Bad manners and arrogance make me cross. People making others feel uncomfortable. And I really don't like it in restaurants when people are rude or patronising to waiters. I feel like saying, 'They're not your slave'. But my knees only shake around once every five years. You're safe, don't worry.

    Years   Worry   People  
    Source: www.mirror.co.uk
  • God finally caught his eye.

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

  • I was afraid to board a streetcar because of the conductor; I was afraid to enter the Kabuki Theater for fear of the usherettes standing along the sides of the red-carpeted staircase at the main entrance; I was afraid to go into a restaurant because I was intimidated by the waiters furtively hovering behind me waiting for my plate to be emptied.

    Osamu Dazai (1973). “No Longer Human”, p.61, New Directions Publishing
  • [On being an actor] .nothing more than a worker in a service occupation . It's like being a waiter or a gas station attendant, but I'm waiting on 6 million people in a week if I'm lucky.

    Patience   Time   People  
  • There have been many definitions of hell, but for the English the best definition is that it is the place where the Germans are the police, the Swedish are the comedians, the Italians are the defense force, Frenchmen dig the roads, the Belgians are the pop singers, the Spanish run the railways, the Turks cook the food, the Irish are the waiters, the Greeks run the government, and the common language is Dutch.

  • 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 (1988). “Bad Behavior: Stories”, Poseidon Press
  • ...the waiters carried themselves with a quiet joy, as if their entire mission in life was to make their customers feel comfortable and well tended.

    Joy   Quiet   Missions  
    Julia Child, Alex Prud'homme (2006). “My Life in France”, p.17, Anchor
  • 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.

    "Roundtable With Seven Stars Who Had an Emmy-Worthy Year". Interview with Jenelle Riley, www.backstage.com. June 6, 2012.
  • The small irritations or indignities that we experience are nothing compared to what a previous generation experienced... It’s one thing for me to be mistaken for a waiter at a gala. It’s another thing for my son to be mistaken for a robber and to be handcuffed or, worse, if he happens to be walking down the street and is dressed the way teenagers dress.

    "We Can Still Make a Difference". Interview with Jess Cagle, Sandra Sobieraj Westfall, people.com. December 29, 2014.
  • The British tourist is always happy abroad as long as the natives are waiters.

    Long   Tourism   Tourists  
    "Death of Baron De Kalb" by Benjamin Franklin Ells, 1849.
  • Waiters will always pee in soup, people will always fall in love.

  • Well, isn't Bohemia a place where everyone is as good as everyone else - and must not a waiter be a little less than a waiter to be a good Bohemian?

    Djuna Barnes (2016). “Vivid and Repulsive as the Truth: The Early Works of Djuna Barnes”, p.69, Courier Dover Publications
  • Tipping generally changes depending on where you are in the world. In Britain you don't always have to tip, but I always make sure I do. I have a lot of respect for waiters and waitresses - it can't be an easy job and they often don't get paid huge amounts, so I think it's important to reward them and let them know if they are giving great service.

    Jobs   Thinking   Giving  
    Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
  • Hell is probably quite similar to most Paris bistros ... a bit overheated, somewhat too crowded, and a little too noisy for my tastes. The waiters will surely treat you rudely and the cashiers will always add a few extra francs to your bill but ... and this is the important part ... the food will be marvelous.

    Food   Paris   Cooking  
  • The actors I was most impressed with and who were influencing my taste were all movie actors, so I always wanted to do movies but I didnt want to go to Hollywood and become a waiter in the meantime. The chances are really slim that an actor will be discovered in Hollywood. ... Ive never had to compromise myself for a job, ever.

    Jobs   Hollywood   Actors  
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