I have tipped waiters, and I have been tipped by waiters.
George Orwell
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All I ask is that you tip your waiters and waitresses. We have to turn this situation around.
JAY LENO Waiters are seldom socialists.
GEORGE ORWELL When those waiters ask me if I want some fresh ground pepper, I ask if they have any aged pepper.
ANDY ROONEY I don't like Switzerland; it has produced nothing but theologians and waiters.
OSCAR WILDE They stoop like subservient wine waiters,
HENRY BLOFELD I'm going to go with my read. What tipped me off was, if he had a real hand, he would've bet $30,000...
DANIEL NEGREANU Then she wanted to get out, so he just tipped over the trolley and she crawled out.
VERA UYS Never keep long and be waiting. Waiters and quitters have just a slight difference but a common end.
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.
PATRICK DUFFY She tipped back her glass and finished it.
"Ah, lass. You drink like you're Irish already." ASHLYN CHASE Someone tipped them off that it was going down the interstate, and the next tip they got, it was in ...
SCOTT JASEK Those who write are writers. Those who wait are waiters.
A. LEE MARTINEZ I want to read Keats and Wordsworth, Hemingway, George Orwell.
ARAVIND ADIGA I saw the opening and I saw the hole. So I tipped it over and I got the kill.
LAUREN HOFFMAN right before you came, I almost completely tipped over like a board -- 'Timber!'
CHARLOTTE AYANNA But for 30 years, Orthodox leaders have tipped the balance between hawks and doves, and have been in...
AMOS OZ There was a set of apartment buildings that simply tipped over. One of the buildings tipped over so ...
CARL WENTWORTH I distrust anyone with a slash in their job description. I've met too many actor/waiters and too man...
BRAD HOLLAND I immediately looked at Dale Sveum and forgot that he was my third base coach. He might have tipped ...
BRONSON ARROYO I hire a lot of waiters, waitresses. Someone who's successful has a background that's not pr...
MICKEY DREXLER Scales are tipped with sweat from hard work
MOHAMED ALI ALMADFAI I don't like grand restaurants or kowtowing waiters. I don't need that kind of attention and...
DANIELLE STEEL (Hamilton) tipped it, but like I said, the ref was kind of behind the call and didn't really get a g...
ZABIAN DOWDELL The British tourist is always happy abroad as long as the natives are waiters.
ROBERT MORLEY I desperately need the love of complete strangers. That's one reason I overtip. I love when skyc...
AARON SORKIN I woke at intervals until . . . the intervals of waking tipped the scales, and I was more often awak...
ANNIE DILLARD I woke at intervals until . . . the intervals of waking tipped the scales, and I was more often aw...
ANNIE DILLARD Their the waiters' eyes sparkled and their pencils flew as she proceeded to eviscerate my wallet - p
S. J. PERELMAN All I can figure is that the buffet floated, and when the waters receded it must have slowly tipped ...
LOUIS MATTO We ask our waiters to get the ingredients ready as fast as they can as we don't want our customers t...
JIANGUO LIU Waiters said the woman came to the restaurant with two men and a woman, who acted very weird.
ZHAO JINYI What else do I deserve?” One side of his lips tipped up. “Everything, baby, you deserve everythi...
JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT A tiny radish of passionate scarlet, tipped modestly in white.
CLEMENTINE PADDLEFORD If I ever own a restaurant, I will never allow the waiters to ask if the diners like their dishes. P...
ORSON WELLES What tipped the scales was that psychology involved working with rats.
MORRIE SCHWARTZ After being tipped to the issue, we immediately disabled the cookies.
DON WEBER Skyrocketing gas prices have tipped consumers upside down this summer and to protect our economy, th...
CHUCK SCHUMER We might have even tipped the ball as she shot it, but we were right up on her defending and she sti...
JOSH MONTGOMERY When chefs like Wolfgang Puck became household names, that became a compelling reason for an intelli...
DANNY MEYER Why can't teachers end up owning schools, the way waiters can open their own restaurants?
PETER BRIMELOW At its very essence, this is about waiters and waitresses, who work for tips, being told they have t...
JOT CONDIE He's a great player to have. He was looking to penetrate and knew his shot was off. I think he was h...
CHANNING TONEY I was screened out only on the second goal, really. The other ones that were tipped, I simply didn't...
VESA TOSKALA Nathan Douglas was tipped for a possible medal, but he was really alone out there,
COLIN JACKSON When the opportunity was there I felt it and went for it. I tipped him and threw the legs at the end...
KYLE AVERY We've got to get better. We had four or five scoring opportunities. When you have two tipped passes ...
PETE ADRIAN I have learned to delegate.
GWEN STEFANI When I was 5, I wore a tie, and I wanted to change my name to Larry, which probably tipped my parent...
LAURA RICKETTS The waiters were kind of suspicious of me when I started here in September 2004. I was the successor...
ANDREA COLLA Wage restraint was helping businesses out and now it's not. Have we tipped over the edge? Maybe not,...
GREGORY MILLER Under the spreading chestnut tree
I sold you and you sold me--
GEORGE ORWELL I thought it would be neat because if these students go on in acting, they will likely be doing dinn...
AMY COLEMAN I remembered reading in a hard-boiled detective novel that if you drink in the same place two nights...
RYū MURAKAMI In an age like our own, when the artist is an altogether exceptional person, he must be allowed a ce...
GEORGE ORWELL The point is that you have here a direct, unmistakable assault on sanity and decency; and even - sin...
GEORGE ORWELL Now that I have made this catalogue of swindles and perversions, let me give another example of the ...
GEORGE ORWELL So long as I remain alive and well I shall continue to feel strongly about prose style, to love the ...
GEORGE ORWELL One guy shot, and another guy tipped it out to another dude who missed it at the buzzer. I was not t...
AARON MILES He tipped her head up. "Don't give up. Don't leave me before you're even here.
MELISSA MARR Judge Roberts as chief justice threatens decades of a federal court system tipped against equality.
JOE SOLMONESE Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you...
LEMONY SNICKET All those stats erase once the ball is tipped off. I don't really worry about those numbers. I just ...
ANTWI ATUAHENE I have learned that I am a one-woman man.
ALEJANDRO GONZALEZ INARRITU There are these white-tipped reef sharks that won't hurt you. It's not the sharks you have to watch ...
KATY JOHNSON The scales were tipped a good bit. We schedule these bouts because the teams are very good and chall...
DAVID MICAHNIK As I started to turn round a guy tipped a bucket of farmyard muck over me and then threw the rest of...
ROBERT KILROY-SILK New York waiters, probably the surliest in the Western world are better images of their city than th...
ALAN BRIEN You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty, and then we shall fill you with ourselves.
GEORGE ORWELL When I was a kid, like 14 or 15, I played with the waiters from the hotel, 'cause that was the b...
LARRY BIRD The video shows white tipped with black, exactly what we reproduced with a model ivory-billed wing.
JOHN FITZPATRICK Un mundo feliz, de Aldous Huxley, y 1984, de George Orwell. Esa
ZYGMUNT BAUMAN The Ritz in London has an old-fashioned charm, with waiters wearing tails and white gloves. The dini...
ANTON DU BEKE I caddied for Dwight Eisenhower and Omar Bradley long before they became generals or president, for ...
JOHN HENRIK CLARKE There are two things in life you cannot choose. The first is your enemies; the second your family. S...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN Winston Smith: Does Big Brother exist?
O'Brien: Of course he exists.
Winston Smith: Does h...
GEORGE ORWELL I mean, I've had bartenders and waiters and waitresses make a comment about a joke of mine, like...
TODD BARRY The scale between players is so easily tipped, that one call, one point does make a huge difference.
CLIFF DRYSDALE There wasn't much to it. They picked off a pass and then took a good low shot that was tipped in.
BRIAN DUROCHER We were tipped off about this from a complainant who came in to file a wage claim, and said that a c...
DEAN FRYER „Până nu devin comștienți, nu se vor răzvrăti și până nu se răzvrătesc, nu pot deveni c...
GEORGE ORWELL There were things, your own acts, from which you could never recover. Something was killed in your b...
GEORGE ORWELL Patch tipped my chin up. "If I could make this go away, I would. If I could stand in your place, I w...
BECCA FITZPATRICK Everybody goes through situations like this. A tipped ball, a shoe-string tackle on a third-down scr...
JEFF FISHER Yeah, but I forgot to take my George Orwell-shaped multivitamins along with my breakfast bowl of Big...
JIM BUTCHER Gabrielle chuckled, her dark eyes twinkling. “So he’s been after you, has he? Poor Etta, pursued...
MICHELLE O'LEARY The first time I was in London, I went to an English greasy spoon to get some breakfast and realised...
MONICA BELLUCCI I have learned in fashion to be a little savage.
JOHN FAIRCHILD I have learned to be patient.
YUAN YUAN TAN I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.
WALT WHITMAN I have learned that acting is not about beauty.
VINCENT CASSEL I have learned not to feed the trolls. I just don't respond.
DANA BRUNETTI I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. I have a dream today
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. One should see the world, and see himself as a scale with an equal balance of good and evil. When he...
MAIMONIDES I hate it when people are impolite to waiters or to the valet or the guy in the supermarket. There...
ASHLEY MADEKWE I thought she (Bauer) did a real good job. She made some saves where she tipped the ball to herself....
MARIE MUHVIC Our defense just played amazing. We got a lot of tipped balls and got some fast breaks. That opened ...
CHAD HETTERMANN I certainly hope so, ... The hospitality industry ... is a really dysfunctional, one-way relationshi...
RYAN REYNOLDS It was just a matter of being in the right place at the right time. It was going to (Alge) Crumpler,...
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GEORGE ORWELL Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser t...
GEORGE ORWELL The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
GEORGE ORWELL England is not the jewelled isle of Shakespeare's much-quoted message, nor is it the inferno depicte...
GEORGE ORWELL For a second, two seconds, they had exchanged an equivocal glance, and that was the end of the story...
GEORGE ORWELL She knew when to cheer and when to boo, and that was all one needed
GEORGE ORWELL The truest happiness, he said, lay in working hard and living frugally.
GEORGE ORWELL Todos los animales son iguales, pero algunos son más iguales que otros.
GEORGE ORWELL Those who 'abjure' violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their b...
GEORGE ORWELL People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on t...
GEORGE ORWELL He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personal...
GEORGE ORWELL The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and inte...
GEORGE ORWELL Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
GEORGE ORWELL Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physi...
GEORGE ORWELL