Quotes About Hosting

I like to cook for 2, or for 4 or 6 at the most 8 people. Beyond that you get into quantity cooking and that is just not my field at all. The last time we had 12 for a sit-down dinner and I did all the cooking, and Paul and I did all the setting up, serving, and washing up afterwards, I said never again. I'll do a buffet, but I don't consider that civilized dining; it is feeding, and I like to sit down at a well-set table.

This was a good dinner enough, to be sure, but it was not a dinner to ask a man to.

You look across the board at comedy quiz shows, and they are mainly hosted by men.

The Gunners' bomb-damaged ground at Highbury was still under repair, so they were hosting the Dynamos at nearby White Hart Lane on the following Wednesday.

I attended a dinner party where the hostess kept the bottle of water sequestered under the table, guarded by her feet during the entire meal. Midway through dinner, completely dessicated, I could hold out no longer and summoned up the last bit of moisture in my mouth to form the words to ask for a sip. With some reluctance, she reached down to extract the bottle and poured a tiny trickle into my glass. Right after my ration was doled out, she screwed the top back on and stowed away the bottle.

My table seats eight, so that's my maximum. Having a small number of guests is the only way to generate good conversation. Besides, your whole house doesn't get wrecked that way.

A good host is someone who really takes care of everyone, from the food to their daily programme. I can't.

I'm not very good with drink recipes. If I'm entertaining, I like to come up with a house drink for the evening, one thing I'll make for the whole evening of the whole month.

Beer is not a good cocktail-party drink, especially in a home where you don't know where the bathroom is.

A house may draw visitors but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.

Lord Emsworth belonged to the people-like-to-be-left-alone-to-amuse-themselves-when-they-come-to-a-place school of hosts

I think the success of a talk show depends on how true it is to the personality of the person hosting it. The shows I really admire, like 'Oprah' and 'Ellen ' are distinctively like their hosts, so I think my show will be successful only if we try to stay consistent to my own sense of myself.

I looked at game show hosting as the bottom of the totem pole, one step away from infomercials. I never watched them myself. However, it's been a lot of fun.

I like the creativity of planning a party, or cooking and taking care of people, creating a memorable meal or event.

People always say I can be a party planner because I'm really good at having to go and planning things out.

Our platform is self-service, so we enable people to host events themselves. The biggest events tend to be the free ones. We had 100,000 at a salsa congress in Mexico.

DJing is really, really pleasant. It's like having people over and making hors d'oeuvres.

I've done plenty of daredeviling - from white-water rafting to bungee jumping. But I think the most fearless was hosting the Emmy Awards. It was overwhelming, and I definitely had to leave fear at the door.

I would like to know how to get my name stamped on a coconut so when people come over to my house I can just hand them one with my name on it.

I like to entertain at home, to live beautifully but comfortably.

I made it a morning show. We have the coffee cup, we have the morning papers. It's got that feel to it, that's what I wanted.

Nothing spoils a good party like a genius.

To invite people to dine with us is to make ourselves responsible for their well-being for as long as they are under our roofs.

We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It's our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better.