Daniel Humm Just as food is a craft, great service is, too. It can take years to perfect the technical aspects of clearing a plate, carving tableside, or pouring wine, and a lifetime to master the emotional elements of service. – Daniel Humm Aspects Quotes Carving Quotes Clearing Quotes Craft Quotes Elements Quotes Emotional Quotes Food Quotes Lifetime Quotes Master Quotes Perfect Quotes Plate Quotes Pouring Quotes Service Quotes Tableside Quotes Technical Quotes Wine Quotes A cook never knows if the dish he perfected for hours was described properly or if a guest even liked his food. It’s hard to spend hours perfecting a dish only to relinquish control. But chefs need to put aside their egos and trust the people serving the food. I think sometimes with the parsnip, people are maybe a little afraid and don’t use it as often.
Reggie Watts I compare a lot of life to looking at a map through a straw. The less ability you have to see life in a humorous way, the smaller the straw is that you’re looking at the map of life. You’re not looking at the whole picture. You can’t see the whole topography without it, and it can help you to make better choices. – Reggie Watts
Didier Deschamps Look, I was a water carrier, I don’t reject my image. I didn’t have the pretension to think that I could change a match by myself. – Didier Deschamps
Eric McCormack We didn’t, with ‘Will & Grace,’ set out to change the gay world. We just set out to be funny. – Eric McCormack
J M Coetzee There is nothing more inimical to writing than the spirit of fundamentalism. Fundamentalism abhors the play of signs, the endlessness of writing. Fundamentalism means nothing more or less than going back to an origin and staying there. It stands for one founding book and, thereafter, no more books. – J M Coetzee
Jon Lovett When I was a kid, all I knew about Michael Jackson was that he was crazy. He had a monkey named Bubbles and some kind of oxygen chamber, and he used to be black, but he made himself white, and he was nuts. That was Michael Jackson in full. Wacko Jacko. – Jon Lovett
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