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“Rich can live better than poor but they cannot live without poor.”

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Book:Wealth of Words

Source: Wealth of Words

“Look at your waiter's face. He knows. It's another reason to be polite to your waiter: he could save your life with a raised eyebrow or a sigh.”

Food Food Writing Waiter Restaurant Be Nice Food Service

Book:Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

Source: Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

“One time, I went to a restaurant and I asked the waiter for some food for thought. He left, came back, and tried shoving a sirloin in my ear.”

Humor Food Thought Sarcastic Waiter Restaurant Shoving Sirloin

Book:Write like no one is reading

Source: Write like no one is reading

“Quitters don’t gain what they have started working on; waiters don’t start what they could have gained. What is common there is failure.”

Source: Shaping the dream

“While the drinks may be complimentary at an open bar, the service isn't. Remember to tip the bartenders, waiters, and waitresses who are working hard to keep your experience enjoyable.”

Hospitality Waiter Waitress Bartender Restaurant Drinks Club Open Bar

Author:Jason Langella

“Waitressing: [...] She was a very old soul, which meant that her life was driven by love and not ego. [...] She, on a soul level, had decided to commit a huge part of her life to serving people, to being kind and caring and wouldn't seek a lot of attention for it. The work was its own reward.”

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Book:The Psychic Pathway: A Workbook for Reawakening the Voice of Your Soul

Source: The Psychic Pathway: A Workbook for Reawakening the Voice of Your Soul

“What was your first job title? Waiter. It was at a showy opera festival in a barn in Oxfordshire. I did it for a whole summer and people would be so extraordinarily rude that it made me decide that I would never be rude in my life, specifically to people who were kind enough to serve things.”

Kindness Serving Waiter Actor Tom Hiddleston

Author:Tom Hiddleston

“Waiter - there's a bigot in my soup.”

Soup Waiter Bigot

Book:The Time Saving Agency

Source: The Time Saving Agency

“Quitters and waiters have a varied beginning, but a similar ending. They don't win! Don't wait; don’t quit... Arise and shine with the light of passion right there in you!”

Source: Daily Drive 365

“Every time the waiter with the cheese platter comes by I take two or three cracker loads at a time. I give him a polite smile, hoping he can guess I once did his job and I know his feet hurt like pins are being driven through the heels. The expensive cheeses are salty and soft against the crispiness of the crackers, and I realize how hungry I am. How little I have been eating these past weeks. Perhaps the waiter can sense this too; he begins to make a beeline for me each time he comes from the kitchen with a new plate. Goat, blue, Brie. Soothingly thick and creamy in my throat.”

Hungry Waiter Tastes Cheeses Grace Miller

Book:The Color of Tea

Source: The Color of Tea

“...everyone holding a check pad is an aspiring something-else.”

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Book:Small Orange Fruit

Source: Small Orange Fruit

“The only time a Girl asked me for a coffee was when she mistook me for a waiter.”

God Coffee Waiter

Author:Nitya Prakash

“Goddam it, whenever a person wants reassurance he tells a friend to think what he wants to be true. It's like asking a waiter what's good tonight.”

Friendship Waiter Reassurance

Book:East of Eden

Source: East of Eden

“I hold doors open for people and tip twenty percent. I would never be rude or condescend to anyone in the service industry trying to support a family on minimum wage. I don’t like these bullies running around treating decent people like dispensable cogs. These guys take a waiter or a schoolteacher and stand on their necks until they’re nearly suffocated.”

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Book:Sabrina

Source: Sabrina

“Like royalty disguised in rags, those who live to serve undertake a higher calling which most folks overlook.”

Love Service Royalty King Serving Others Queen Waiter Waitress Restaurant Disguised

Author:Criss Jami

“When I talk about my husband, I feel as if people roll their eyes. It's like when you're 16 and order a martini, and the waiter says, 'Do you think I'm stupid?'. They can't grasp that I'm old enough to be married.”

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Author:Megan Fox

“I did a dance sequence in my second short film, which was my best short film, called 'Hairway to the Stars,' and I think Chris Wink, the founder of Blue Man Group, was in that. It's a black-and-white dance sequence. We were Glorious Food waiters together.”

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Author:David O. Russell

“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.”

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Book:No Longer Human

Source: No Longer Human

“My father was a waiter basically, and when I got my first professional job as an actor, I left a job that he found me for half the amount of money. So anyone would think that they're stupid, that that would be a stupid move.”

Thinking Firsts Would Be Jobs Moving Actors Found Father Left Half Stupid Amount Waiter

Author:Alfred Molina

“I'm thinking waiters and waitresses are going to be bracing for more customers coming in going, not just kind of where is that beef from, but, like, where is that vanilla from and what's up with that sunflower oil? Is it organic or not and how many pesticides?”

Thinking Kind Customers Oil Beef Waiter Waitress Vanilla Sunflower Pesticides

Author:Michael Moss

“To go to the Oscars for 'Moneyball' - that was pretty amazing. And to be able to go work with Kathryn Bigelow - that's going to be pretty sweet. Hopefully I don't have to go back to being a waiter. That's still my main goal.”

Stills Able Goal Sweet Hopefully Oscars Waiter

Author:Chris Pratt

“From being a waiter, to a door-to-door salesman, to a car-washer, to a delivery boy - I have done it all.”

Done Boys Doors Car Delivery Salesman Waiter

Author:Randeep Hooda

“Beauty is Nature in perfection; circularity is its chief attribute. Behold the full moon, the enchanting golf ball, the domes of splendid temples, the huckleberry pie, the wedding ring, the circus ring, the ring for the waiter, and the "round" of drinks.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry (Illustrated)

“Now, if you are like me - if you are like practically anybody in America - then you probably hold some negative opinions about the French, based upon movies, rumors, recent headlines, unfortunate run-ins with Parisian waiters, or... you know... all that unpleasantness surrounding the Vichy regime.”

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Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“I was working in restaurants as a captain and as a waiter.”

Restaurants Captains Waiter

Author:Sally Schneider

“I hate it when people are impolite to waiters or to the valet or the guy in the supermarket. There's no need for that; it doesn't cost anything to be polite.”

People Needs Guy Hate Cost I Hate Polite Supermarkets Waiter Valet

Author:Ashley Madekwe

“My father was a guy who, because of the businesses he was in - the hotel business, the hospitality business - he didn't differentiate between the waiter serving you dinner, from the maitre d from the guy who owns a restaurant. Everybody was the same to him. He didn't look at who you were. He didn't look at your wallet.”

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Author:Steve Tisch

“People say when you're in love, you don't need etiquette. Well, you need it then more than anything. Or they say, "At home I can just be myself." What they mean is they can be their worst selves... They always mean they will save all their anxiety about how to behave for somebody like the head waiter of a restaurant, someone they'll never see again.”

People Needs Wells Mean I Can Self Home Worst Love You Anxiety Behave Restaurants Etiquette Waiter

Author:Judith Martin

“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.”

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Author:Judith Martin

“Eating reveals the characteristic grossness of the human race and also the in-built failure of its satisfactions. We arrive eager, we stuff ourselves and we go away depressed and disappointed and probably feeling a bit queasy into the bargain. It's an image of the déçu in human existence. A greedy start and a stupefied finish. Waiters, who are constantly observing this cycle, must be the most disillusioned of men.”

Source: A Fairly Honourable Defeat

“For days on end, I would hardly speak, and when I did only the vilest sort of gibberish would spout forth. I became morose and fat. Unapproachable, except when eating - and then only by waiters.”

Ends Speak Depression Eating Fats Waiter Morose

Book:A View from a Broad

Source: A View from a Broad

“I was photographing every meal I ate, every person I met, every waiter or waitress who served me, every bed I slept in, every toilet I used.”

Persons Used Mets Bed Photographer Meals Toilets Waiter Waitress

Author:Stephen Shore

“Given the clientele, the restaurants on Capri might resemble those fancy Northern Italian places on the East Side of Manhattan where the captain has taken bilingual sneering lessons from the maitre d' at the French joint down the street and the waiter, whose father was born in Palermo, would deny under torture that tomato sauce has ever touched his lips.”

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Book:Third Helpings

Source: Third Helpings

“A critic at best is a waiter at the great table of literature.”

Literature Tables Critics Waiter

Book:Paradise: Essays on Myth, Art & Reality

Source: Paradise: Essays on Myth, Art & Reality

“Waiters are like hookers, never around when you want them.”

Want Waiter

Author:Bernie Ecclestone

“[To waiter who had spilled soup on her:] Never darken my Dior again!”

Soup Waiter Dior

Author:Beatrice Lillie

“He thinks he is a flower to be looked at And when he pulls his frilly nylon pants right up tight He feels a dedicated follower of fashion. When a waiter at Buckingham Palace spilled soup on her dress: Never darken my Dior again!”

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Author:Ray Davies

“The New York waiter ... knows more than you do about everything. He disapproves of your taste in food and clothing, your gauche manners, your miserliness, and sometimes, it seems, of your very existence, which he tries to ignore.”

Knows Trying Sometimes Seems Existence New York Taste Manners Clothings Waiter

Book:New York Places & Pleasures: An Uncommon Guidebook. Drawings by Bob Gill

Source: New York Places & Pleasures: An Uncommon Guidebook. Drawings by Bob Gill

“New York City is like the appetizer table at a Jewish wedding, loaded with salt and spice and cholesterol and flavor, with a waiter holding out pleasure in his right hand and indigestion in his left. If you've got the bucks, this burg has the bangs.”

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Author:Leonore Fleischer

“When I was a waiter, I wanted to be the best waiter I could be and worked to be better at it every day.”

Wanted Being The Best Waiter

Author:Robert Herjavec

“How someone treats a waiter or doorman can tell you so much about a person.”

Persons Treats Waiter

Author:Austin Butler

“I was an amazing bartender and a great waiter. I think, in a way, that was my acting school.”

Thinking Way School Acting Waiter Bartender

Author:Nick Frost

“I left school at 16 and skipped university to work, initially as a waiter. I think I missed out on what would have been great years.”

Thinking Years Has Beens School Left University Waiter Great Year

Author:Peter Mayle

“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."”

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Author:Robert Orben

“... Waiter! raw beef-steak for the gentleman's eye,-nothing like raw beef-steak for a bruise, sir; cold lamp-post very good, but lamp-post inconvenient-damned odd standing in the open street half-an-hour, with your eye against a lamp.”

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Book:The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, Volume 1 (of 2) (Illustrations)

Source: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, Volume 1 (of 2) (Illustrations)

“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.”

Long Song Sound Sides Perfect Particular Fit Tempo Your Side Waiter Noodles Perfect Fit

Book:Essays in Disguise

Source: Essays in Disguise

“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 Walks Pay Talking Pure Conversation Limits Tired Coffee Friendly Listeners Waiter

Author:John Dos Passos

“In Manhattan, every flat surface is a potential stage and every inattentive waiter an unemployed, possibly unemployable, actor.”

Actors Stage Surface Flats Manhattan Unemployed Waiter

Author:Quentin Crisp

“Robert Whitmore died of apoplexy when a stranger from Georgia mistook him for a former Macon waiter.”

Died Stranger Former Georgia Waiter

Book:Black Moods: Collected Poems

Source: Black Moods: Collected Poems

“It is not strange that some of our revoltes preach trial marriage: for the only safe way to marry them at all would be on trial. Until you had definitely experienced all the human situations with them, you would have no means of knowing how, in any given situation, they would behave. They might conform about evening-dress, and throw plates between courses; they might be charming to your friends, and ask the waiter to sit down and finish dinner with you. Or they might in all things, little and big, be irreproachable. The point is that you would never know.”

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