Century Quote by Charlie Trotter Download Open image “A quarter century of running a restaurant - that's a long time to do one thing.” — Charlie Trotter ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Century Long Long time One thing Quarter Restaurant Running Thing Time
“This particular restaurant is one where you have to call three months in advance—or six, or eight, don’t ask me. Personally, I’d never want… — Herman Koch Copy Share Image
I spent a long time working in restaurants and making no money. It was very character-building, but I think it could have been built… — Graham Norton Copy Share Image
A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
You know, running a restaurant is something you have to be working at each and every day; it's not a foregone conclusion that you're… — Gordon Ramsay Copy Share Image
I grew up in the restaurant business, and that's always something I wanted to do. — Nick Foles Copy Share Image
'Seconds' is grounded in the reality of this restaurant environment, and I did do plenty of research, so there's that. It takes place in… — Bryan Lee O'Malley Copy Share Image
I just want to serve food that people want to eat, and show a way forward for the restaurant industry, for all industries. One… — Arthur Potts Dawson Copy Share Image
Thirty-five years ago, being a cook was the same as being a used-car salesman. — Wolfgang Puck Copy Share Image
I can remember the three restaurant experiences of my childhood. All I wanted to do on my birthday was to go to the Automat… — Alice Waters Copy Share Image
I don't want to turn 50 and say, 'Gosh, I wish I'd lived in that part of the world for a time. I wish… — Charlie Trotter Copy Share Image
If people give me a year or two of their best effort, then I am their friend for life. — Charlie Trotter Copy Share Image
You know the old adage that the customer's always right? Well, I kind of think that the opposite is true. The customer is rarely… — Charlie Trotter Copy Share Image
I never considered Miles Davis a perfectionist; I always considered him as an excellence-ist, where deviation is actually kind of cool. — Charlie Trotter Copy Share Image
I wasn't using college as a stepping stone to law school or some other career. I just wanted a liberal-arts education. — Charlie Trotter Copy Share Image
There has been no great surprise, no sudden revelation. I knew pretty much what I was getting into. What I've learned is that a… — Charlie Trotter Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think I should have chosen a line of work where it was just me alone in the room, with the sun coming… — Charlie Trotter Copy Share Image
I'm really not that comfortable with people. I mean, I love individuals, but I'm not very social. — Charlie Trotter Copy Share Image
I have a goal so lofty it's almost embarrassing to talk about. And that's to be the best restaurant in the world. — Charlie Trotter Copy Share Image
At home, a man is entitled to raise his voice maybe once a year, if something really gets under his skin. At work, it's… — Charlie Trotter Copy Share Image
In a time when it is common for chefs to simply reproduce the innovations of others, the few who speak for themselves through their… — Charlie Trotter Copy Share Image
I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[The Dalai Lama] told me some years ago, "I've made every concession to China, and I've been as open and tolerant as I could,… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Anybody looking for a quiet life has picked the wrong century to born in. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. — David Hare Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Talented people can predict with great accuracy what's about to happen just a tiny bit ahead of their competitors. It might be two seconds… — Kevin Maney Copy Share Image
The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the… — Ida B. Wells Copy Share Image
At no time in the past century has public distrust of the government been so broadly distributed across the political spectrum, as it is… — Phil Zimmermann Copy Share Image
While husbands and lovers in the stories are of all kinds, ranging from sympathetic to disgusting, women are invariably deceivers: inconstant, unscrupulous, quarrelsome, querulous,… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
The wisdom of our actions in the first three years of peace will determine the course of world history for half a century. — Henry A. Wallace Copy Share Image