Quotes About Hospitality

I shouldn't be surprised if John Cleese's scripts don't become set texts for examinations-they're classics. And I can't tell you how service in English hotels has improved since 'Fawlty Towers.'

Mustafa Ali's one of my buddies man, and every so often, he would get home. He would invite me over. We know a couple of people around town.

I say to my industrialist friends, when you have guests from out of town, I don't care how important they are, you should feed them the essence of Italian culture: spaghetti, bread and olive oil.

John Candy gave me a Hard Rock Cafe jacket, which was awesome because I was really from a very rural, small town, and it seemed so exciting to me. I think my mom still has that jacket.

I'm not really that private of a person. I live in a small town and I'm very neighborly. I go out to dinner just about four nights a week and sit and talk to people. I'm not that private, so it's not that strange to do an interview and try to share a little bit of your life.

There is sort of a small town mentality on the east coast of Canada.

I speak at a lot of banquets in small towns, because small towns have so many great people.

But instead of that stuff you get relationships with people and neighbors that you would never get in a city. People in small towns are a lot more open.

Towns and cities throughout the United States have opened their hearts and homes to thousands of families displaced from their homes as a result of this horrific storm.

Backyard barbecues are really just about getting together. It's all about making people come over, having a really good time, talking about their lives, and sharing some great recipes.

In some hotels they give you a little sewing kit. You know what I do? I sew the towels together. One time I sewed a button on a lampshade. I like to leave a mark.

The most reserved of men, that will not exchange two syllables together in an English coffee-house, should they meet at Ispahan, would drink sherbet and eat a mess of rice together.

Any two meals at a boarding-house are together less than two square meals.

I love talking about food, and bringing people together to enjoy it.

Food brings people together on many different levels. It's nourishment of the soul and body it's truly love.

I really like having someone who knows about food and what goes well together make a meal for me.

One of the joys of travel is visiting new towns and meeting new people.

No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.

The best way to travel abroad is to live with the locals.

Comfort has its place, but it seems rude to visit another country dressed as if you've come to mow its lawns.

A guest never forgets the host who has treated him kindly.

I urge you to travel - as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to.

There are three very good reasons to travel: 1. See the world. 2. Meet new people. 3. Room service.

The very fact that a Frenchman was prepared, after two minutes of conversation, to be so friendly towards anyone, especially one who had come from England, made me restless.