Quotes About Hospitality

Get your friends together, even if it's just once a week or twice a month, and make dinner together.

Weirdly enough - if I make enough money one day - I want to open a board game bar.

My mobile rang around lunchtime one day, and it was George Michael. He wanted to come in on Friday. We were like, 'okay, if that's what you want'. And he was a very good guest. That's a real exception to the rule.

I was the sort of person who wouldn't just bring one friend home after school, I'd bring half a dozen.

One of the things I love most about being at home is that I'm comfortable there. And since we are the home of Christ, we need to make sure He's comfortable in us.

We're social beings, and food is one of the things we can use three times a day to connect with family or with friends.

I think maybe the only time I think of being a woman... is being on the road and making sure my musicians are fed and they sleep. 'Are you OK? Do you need some water? Are you hungry? Can I get you a cookie?' I'm not sure all the men bandleaders do that.

We used to travel through Alabama a lot and get onto back roads and just marvel at how pretty it was and how nice the people were.

I lived five years in the Midwest, and I loved it. The people were so nice. The people were so open.

I want to open a restaurant.

Game's always been open arms with me.

Atlanta has accepted me with open arms. Baltimore is always my first home but being able to come here is special.

I loved Hackney because they embraced me really, like with open arms.

My mama just accepted everybody with open arms. Everybody knew her.

I always worked in institutions, I never had a restaurant of my own before, but I have opened over 30 hotels, restaurants and casinos. I understand what it takes to keep them running.

I even opened a nightclub called Evonne's.

I really want to keep on opening doors for myself, and others who want to come in.

Madrid always opens its doors to great players.

There's always room for an operator like Airbnb, but it's quite a different thing to my serviced apartments. Airbnb is a different market - it has nothing to do with me.

Have some bread and butter. The bread and butter is for Gwendolen. Gwendolen is devoted to bread and butter.

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

That is the peculiarity of London. There is a sort of cold unfriendliness about it. A city like New York makes the new arrival feel at home in half an hour; but London is a specialist in what Psmith called in his letter the Distant Stare. You have to buy London's good will.

The cup of tea on arrival at a country house is a thing which, as a rule, I particularly enjoy. I like the crackling logs, the shaded lights, the scent of buttered toast, the general atmosphere of leisured cosiness.

We do not tell old friends beneath our roof-tree that they are an offence to the eyesight.