Maccioni Quotes & Sayings

Life is beautiful. Like a beautiful blue wave, it ebbs and flows, sometimes gushing forth and sometimes receding quietly. — Pooja Ruprell

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

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

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

I'm sure you know a lot of people who were born into privilege and amounted to absolutely nothing. We all have greatness within us. So it is really important for everyone to figure out what God put us on Earth to do, and steer clear of the seven pervasive lies that often blindside people. — Farrah Gray

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

The best way to stop a bad habit is never to begin it. — James Cash Penney

No logo, and you don't advertise for anyone. I don't believe in imposed luxury. I believe in built luxury. Something you refine with your own taste. Mass luxury is not my luxury. — Lapo Elkann

I don't want to die. But I want to be dead. — Jean Ingelow

Le Cirque is strictly New York people. New York people don't eat at home; New York people go out. — Sirio Maccioni

Henry Ford believed the soul of a person is located in their last breath and so captured the last breath of his best friend Thomas Edison in a test tube and kept it evermore. It is on display at the Henry Ford Museum outside Detroit, like Galileo's finger in the church of Santa Croce, but Edison's last breath is an invisible relic. — Elizabeth Alexander

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

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

All Italians speak Spanish without studying. — Sirio Maccioni

I get along with everybody because I don't believe anybody. — Sirio Maccioni

My father was a Methodist and my mother was a Baptist. — T.D. Jakes

Joylessness may be the sin most readily tolerated by the church. — John Ortberg

Success is not an accident, success is actually a choice. — Stephen Curry

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

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

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

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

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

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

scared as you may be of the consequences of the truth, it don't hold a candle to the consequences of a lie. Because guess what? When you lie, not only will you have to deal with the consequences of the lie, all the stress and worry of hiding the lie, but then when and if the lie is uncovered you still have to end up dealing with the truth anyway. — E.N. Joy

When I want to really eat great, I eat at home when my wife cooks. — Sirio Maccioni

My philosophy is that one must always give a lady what she wants. That never goes out of style. — Sirio Maccioni

This is laid down with a groove funkier and blacker than anything Prince of Michael Jackson
or any other black artist of the recent years for that matter
has come up with. — Bret Easton Ellis

If you don't have a pool in Las Vegas, you have to put your children in the icebox. — Sirio Maccioni

agreeableness, extraversion, neuroticism, openness to experience, and conscientiousness. And — Paul Tough

The blueberry-soy weight-loss smoothies my son makes for me taste terrible, but my doctor says they're good for me. — Sirio Maccioni

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

I like simple food, seasoned with just salt, pepper, oil and vinegar. Complicated food and complicated lives are never good. — Sirio Maccioni

Jimmy Carter is the most intelligent. Jimmy Carter is a good man. — Sirio Maccioni

One time, I was young. I was skinny. I was elegant. Getting old is terrible. — Sirio Maccioni

This is a bipartisan effort. This is just good common sense. This is where the public wants us to go. They want us to not be so dependent on foreign oil. — Sam Brownback