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Quotes About Waiter

I've done so many jobs. As an actor, you have to. I didn't have my parents footing the bill when I moved to New York. I moved here with, like, 300 bucks. I was a bike messenger. I was a waiter. I was a bartender. I worked in a consignment shop for high-end designers.
~ Michael Kelly
I like it when the waiter askes you if you want parmesan cheese on your dinner, yeah, give me essence of puke all over me tea!
~ Lee Evans
At dinner the waiter wore white gloves and served a lump of burnt lamb that bounced on the plate. Spread over the restaurant wall was an immense canvas of gauchos herding cattle into an orange sunset. An old-fashioned blonde gave up on the lamb and sat painting her nails. An Indian came in drunk and drank through three jugs of wine. His eyes were glittering slits in the red leather shield of his face. The jugs were of green plastic in the shape of penguins.
~ Bruce Chatwin
He's a waiter, not a Mafia stooge, so what's he going to do? Blac pepper them to death? Compliment them into a coma? Run them over with the dessert trolley?
~ Marian Keyes, Watermelon
Barceló signaled to a waiter of such remarkable decrepitude that he looked as if he should be declared a national landmark.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
A steaming plate appeared in front of Lex- the crab wontons, nestled in a lettuce leaf. Blond deep-fried dumplings. Maybe she'd walk out without braining George... Another waiter swept past their table holding two platters of Crustaceans' signature entree. Rich, briny crab. Nutty brown butter.
~ Camy Tang
A critic at best is a waiter at the great table of literature.
~ Louis Dudek
The sky is as gruff as a Chinese waiter. It keeps slamming the silverware against the horizon.
~ Tom Robbins
The waiter talks us through the selection of confectionery. There's a white chocolate mousse cake infused with fresh mint and topped with raspberry purée, organic truffles made with my favorite Madagascar beans flavored with jasmine tea, passion fruit and limes sundried on trees in Iran.
~ Carole Matthews
The waiter roars it through the hall:"We don't give bread with one fish ball!"
~ George Martin Lane
A diplomat these days is nothing but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally.
~ Peter Ustinov
Epitaph to a waiter: By and by God caught his eye.
~ David McCord
The waiter arrived and took their orders. When he was gone, Macy added, "Besides, my life coach says it's inefficient to spend time with people you're hoping will change, that it's a surefire way to derail your future.
~ J.D. Robb
?e te? w tym kraju ka?dy kelner jest filozofem i ka?dy filozof kelnerem.
~ Tadeusz Ró?ewicz
The waiter was a kind of surrogate uncle or grandfather for the duration of the meal; he paradoxically made you feel at home by treating you with undisguised contempt.
~ Ted Merwin
Hiro and Chuck grab the closest thing they can find to a corner table. Hiro buttonholes a waiter and surreptitiously orders a pitcher of Pub Special, mixed half and half with nonalcoholic beer. This way, Chuck ought to remain awake a little longer than he would otherwise. It doesn't take much to make him open up. He's like one of these old guys from a disgraced presidential administration, forced out by scandal, who devotes the rest of his life to finding people who will listen to him.
~ Neal Stephenson
Ordered it with whipped cream, of course. When it arrived at the table, I saw no trace of the stuff. After I told the waiter that my cocoa had no whipped cream, he asserted I couldn't see it because it sank to the bottom. But whipped cream has low density, and floats on all liquids that humans consume. So I offered the waiter two possible explanations: either somebody forgot to add the whipped cream to my hot cocoa or the universal laws of physics were different in his restaurant.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
a flesh-and-blood waiter and therefore as rare in San Francisco as a flying horse
~ Christie Golden
Is she special? (asks the gay waiter) I thinks she's going to break my heart On arrival of the girl The flannel is fine honey,but I have'nt seen anyone that over accesorized since batman!
~ Christopher Moore
My kingdom for caffeine," she mumbled, making prayer hands up at the ceiling. When, however, in the next second, Issa entered with tea, Zuzana was not grateful. " Coffee , I meant coffee ," she told the ceiling, as if the universe were a waiter that had gotten her order wrong.
~ Laini Taylor
shoulder. They weigh that much. Tyler's a banquet waiter
~ Chuck Palahniuk
heads together. I tell the waiter, give us clean food, please. Please, don't be doing any trash to the stuff we order. In that case, sir
~ Chuck Palahniuk
When, finally, she did sleep, it was the slumber of a watcher and waiter. Light, and full of sighs.
~ Clive Barker
Pretty young for a waiter, aren't you?" "I'm older than I look," Clancy assured her. "You better be because you look about nine." Clancy decided he did not like this woman.
~ Lauren Child