Quotes About Presentation

I love to bring a bowl or basket filled with clementines that can be used as an easy centerpiece and enjoyed after the party.

I love a finished speaker, I really, truly do I don't mean one who's polished, I just mean one who's through.

I love 'Top Chef.' I think it rewrote the book on how food shows are presented on TV.

The songwriter mustn't fall in love with his own song. If it doesn't belong, he can't push it into a show. Let him save it; maybe it'll fit in another show.

I enjoy doing physical comedy. I'd love, you know, them to throw me some shtick that way. I'd love to do that, if they need physical comedy, if they'd let me display my wares that way.

I'm handed a bunch of existing data. My job is to put that in the best narrative form. That is a puzzle I love to solve.

The gospel is one of harmony, unity, and agreement. It must be presented in love, and with glad tidings, by those who are calm.

Called "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies," it is one of the most extraordinary scientific papers ever published, as much for how it was presented as for what it said.

He sold Syria way better than he sold this.

Existe un dicho entre los oradores profesionales que dice: no debes bromear, a no ser que quieras que te paguen.

Instead, Hester had been presented at court

Put on a face to meet the faces that you meet - T S Eliot - used in The Book Of Peach

My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.

Assule went on and on about the civilization that had been here first. It could have been very interesting if he hadn't managed to make it so boring. I don't know how he did it, actually. Some latent talent for sending everyone droad, I suppose.

That's what teaching is, the art of explanation: presenting the right information in the right order in a memorable way.

Now, Stuart, as you will discover if you have not done so already, believes that the principal raison d'etre of food is to conceal from public view the hideous pattern on the plate beneath.

CHAPTER 13: WORKING WITH STYLE SHEETS

I don't do interviews without a collared shirt.

I think that clothes and accessories define and describe who we are. I can't see many differences between them; they are indeed a way to introduce ourselves to other people, and they help us transmitting a message to others.

I've just been very, very lucky with the film having been introduced in the right way.

As an introvert, you have to spend a lot of time with me and then little bits of my personality will come out over time. But as an artist, sometimes you only get five minutes to impress someone, so it is kind of hard.

In fiction, you don't invent the events. What is imaginative about it is the consciousness: how you think about the events and how you present them. And that changes the nature of everything, and that is the attraction of writing fiction.

It's as important to sell yourselves as much as the service. The business model's going to change 50 times, and the market's going to change, but you need to convince that investor that you are smart enough and excited enough about the opportunity that you'll figure it out.

When you're facing an investor or the institutions or a distributor, it's you yourself with your own ideas and your own project.