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Quotes About Presentation

If you do not say a thing in an irritating way, you may as well not say it at all because people will not trouble themselves about anything that does not trouble them.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.
~ Dale Carnegie
Be stylish but look simple, be tough but look soft, be a failure but look perfect, be a beginner but look like a winner that's the style of life ..
~ Unknown
I carried Torsten's plate over to the table, placing
~ Marcus Samuelsson
Look at you—instead of being dressed for success, you're dressed to depress.
~ Mardi Ballou
Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it.
~ Marguerite Duras
When you look good, you feel good. Confidence with what you're wearing is very important. If you feel good, you will always perform your best without worrying about anything.
~ Maria Sharapova
The so-called nouvelle cuisine usually means not enough on your plate and too much on your bill.
~ Paul Bocuse
I want order and taste. A well displayed meal is enhanced one hundred per cent in my eyes.
~ Marie-Antoine Careme
Of all the items on the menu, soup is that which exacts the most delicate perfection and the strictest attention.
~ Auguste Escoffier
Cooking is an art, but you eat it too.
~ Marcella Hazan
It's so beautifully arranged on the plate - you know someone's fingers have been all over it.
~ Julia Child
Triangular sandwiches taste better than square ones.
~ Peter Kay
I like to serve chocolate cake, because it doesn't show the dirt.
~ Phyllis Diller
I sometimes feel that more lousy dishes are presented under the banner of pate than any other.
~ Kingsley Amis
Do not taste food while you're cooking. You may lose your nerve to serve it.
~ Phyllis Diller
I have an impressionable palate. A well-worded menu or beautifully presented dish excites me. I get a great deal of pleasure just thinking about food.
~ Gayle King
Molded salads are best served in situations where they have little or no competition ... Like television, gelatin is too often a vehicle for limp leftovers that couldn't make it anywhere else.
~ Peg Bracken
Great chefs know it's the appearance of food that counts...but great eaters know its the amount of food that counts
~ Jim Davis
Hot soup at table is very vulgar; it either leads to an unseemly mode of taking it, or keeps people waiting too long whilst it cools. Soup should be brought to table only moderately warm.
~ Charlie Day
Prepare your food attractively and serve it nicely.
~ Diane von Furstenberg
Food that's beautiful to look at seems to taste better than food that isn't.
~ Emeril Lagasse
A good speech should be like a woman's skirt: long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest
~ Winston Churchill
An actor who knows his business ought to be able to make the London telephone directory sound enthralling.
~ Donald Sinden