Top 38 Maccioni Quotes
#1. Sirio Maccioni is the perfect Maestro. He does it all: great food, great entertainment, and always with a room full of the best people. He's the only person I could ever imagine going into the restaurant business with!
Donald Trump
#2. I get along with everybody because I don't believe anybody.
Sirio Maccioni
#3. Jimmy Carter is the most intelligent. Jimmy Carter is a good man.
Sirio Maccioni
#4. Our pasta primavera was born when I promised fresh pasta with tomatoes and basil to critic Craig Claiborne, but we had no tomatoes.
Sirio Maccioni
#5. I lived in Cuba - I was there for one year in the 1950s. We built the famous nightclub, which is still there, Tropicana, and a restaurant, Montecatini, that I opened is still there. I was there when the U.S. ambassador said everyone must leave because Castro was arriving the next morning.
Sirio Maccioni
#6. I really hate to get old. I don't talk about it much. And sometimes at night I wake up and I have nightmares that I know how old I am.
Sirio Maccioni
#7. No one could touch the home cooking of an Italian woman. French women, they are very intelligent, very sexy - but they don't like to cook.
Sirio Maccioni
#8. I had a slight touch of Tourette's, which means you talk to yourself and bark and cry out at night.
Dan Aykroyd
#9. Paris is great. I stay at the Ritz Paris - I'm good friends with the Director, Frank Klein, and the owner. I lived there 3 years; I was the only foreigner working at Maxim's. They only took French, which was a mistake.
Sirio Maccioni
#10. [3] c Weeping may tarry for the night, but d joy comes with the morning.
Anonymous
#12. It didn't get any more glamorous than Havana, Cuba, in the 1950s. I used to go there when I was a waiter on a cruise ship.
Sirio Maccioni
#13. They had forgotten the abuses, the murders, the corruption, the spying, the isolation, the fear: horror had become myth. Everybody had jobs and there wasn't so much crime.
Mario Vargas-Llosa
#14. I try to be happy, but I'm never happy. I don't believe in happiness. I was happy yesterday, but today and tomorrow is a different story.
Sirio Maccioni
#15. Le Cirque is strictly New York people. New York people don't eat at home; New York people go out.
Sirio Maccioni
#16. If you don't have a pool in Las Vegas, you have to put your children in the icebox.
Sirio Maccioni
#17. The kiss wasn't an intrusion; it was a question. Morrigan answered it with an exclamation mark.
P.C. Cast
#18. And this is the mission of the church
not civilization, but salvation
not better laws, purer legislation, social elevation, human equality and liberty, but first, the "kingdom of God and His righteousness;" regenerated hearts, and all other things will follow.
Abbott Eliot Kittredge
#19. I like simple food, seasoned with just salt, pepper, oil and vinegar. Complicated food and complicated lives are never good.
Sirio Maccioni
#20. I love mentoring young girls. I've always been like that.
Naomi Campbell
#22. At home, I never plate. Things go in the middle of the table, and you serve yourself. In the restaurant, every day I plate things, but at home, I want to enjoy my company.
Jean-Georges Vongerichten
#23. The blueberry-soy weight-loss smoothies my son makes for me taste terrible, but my doctor says they're good for me.
Sirio Maccioni
#24. I was born in a house where my family lived for 300 years. I was born in the home where my grandfather was born in.
Sirio Maccioni
#25. The challenge for a nonfiction writer is to achieve a poetic precision using the documents of truth but somehow to make people and places spring to life as if the reader was in their presence.
Simon Schama
#26. Unlike Ronan, Adam's Aglionby jumper was second-hand, but he'd taken great care to be certain it was impeccable. He was slim and tall, with dusty hair unevenly cropped above a fine-boned, tanned face. He was a sepia photograph.
Maggie Stiefvater
#27. Why do you want to die?'
I shivered. For a second I couldn't breathe.
'You knew ... ?'
She gave a sad smile.
'I'm your mother.
Mitch Albom
#28. In the eighties, we had the ladies who lunch, the power lunch - everything was power. At the beginning of the nineties, things changed.
Sirio Maccioni
#29. In times like these, who had either the leisure or the inclination to indulge in a touch of elegance?
Yu Hua
#30. One time, I was young. I was skinny. I was elegant. Getting old is terrible.
Sirio Maccioni
#31. When I want to really eat great, I eat at home when my wife cooks.
Sirio Maccioni
#32. We are thrilled with the response we are getting to Le Cirque at The Leela Palace New Delhi. Our goal is to bring a luxury dining experience consistent with international standards of excellence to the expanding and discerning clientele in India.
Sirio Maccioni
#33. Water creates a neurosis in golfers. The very thought of this harmless fluid robs them of their normal powers of rational thought, turns their legs to jelly, and produces a palsy of the upper limbs.
Peter Dobereiner
#34. I started to work at the Colony in March 1958. I remember my first day because the telephone started to ring, and it was Sinatra, three for lunch, his usual table; Onassis, two for lunch, usual table; the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Leland Hayward, Truman Capote, all wanting their usual tables.
Sirio Maccioni
#35. My philosophy is that one must always give a lady what she wants. That never goes out of style.
Sirio Maccioni
#36. I'm not a philosopher, Harry," [Michael] said. "But here's something for you to think about, at least. What goes around comes around. And sometimes you get what's coming around." He paused for a moment, frowning faintly, pursing his lips. "And sometimes you are what's coming around.
Jim Butcher
#37. My wife, she is so good. She was a famous singer - had a show in Carnegie Hall, did a big city tour for RCA. Then she made the mistake of marrying me. The next year, another tour, but the third year, she had Mario and said, 'Either I'm a mother or a singer.'
Sirio Maccioni
