by Mark Brown | Dec 26, 2020 | Notable Quotes
No! No! No! No! No! You no order that! I tell you what you get! Waiter Edsel Ford Fong (often called the world’s rudest waiter) shouted this to me and Debbie Jenkins in 1968 at Sam Wo’s Restaurant in San Francisco’s Chinatown, correcting our order. Fong greeted... 
by Mark Brown | Dec 18, 2020 | Notable Quotes
“You don’t pick your totem animal. Your totem animal chooses you.” Raven sunrise at the Trona Pinnacles • Photo by MMB This quote, which I heard recently on a podcast, shed some light on a seminal event in my young life. When I was a child, my family was at an outdoor... 
by Mark Brown | Dec 10, 2020 | Notable Quotes
“If you don’t like the news, go out and make some of your own.” I often heard this call to action from Scoop Nisker coming out of my radio, at the end of his progressive news reports and alerts on San Francisco’s KSAN and KFOG radio stations. He was an author,... 
by Mark Brown | Dec 4, 2020 | Notable Quotes
“We hid most of the wine in the back of the cave and made a false rock wall so that the Nazi’s wouldn’t find it and steal it.” Rene Loyau was an old French wine maker in the Loire Valley village of Vouvray and was spinning tales for us young Stanford students...
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