Zakarian Restaurants Quotes & Sayings

If we have meetings, I try to schedule the meetings at different restaurants I want to try - so I always suggest the restaurants. — Geoffrey Zakarian

In this round world of many circles within circles, do we make a weary journey from the high grade to the low, to find at last that they lie close together, that the two extremes touch, and that our journey's end is but our starting-place? — Charles Dickens

I like old fashioned things. We have these old wine buckets at the restaurant and none of them match. — Geoffrey Zakarian

From we to three. Oh, my dear, I love you so. — Laura Wright

The Internet, my fickle friend, my two-faced enemy, what would life be like without you? Where else can I be anonymously anyone and yet, have no anonymity at all? — Susan Schussler

An effective leader must step back, look at the big picture, and make sure the important things are not being pushed out of the way by the seemingly urgent needs of the moment. — Kenneth H. Blanchard

I wish that restaurateurs would choose simpler and smaller glassware. The tables on restaurants these days are way too crowded, and mostly because the plates are too odd looking and big, and the wine glasses are so gigantic that it takes up the whole surface area and you can't move. I prefer smaller glassware. — Geoffrey Zakarian

Solitude opens all closed doors, even those nailed shut. — Nancy Wood

I'm very active. I've got two small daughters and four restaurants in three cities. I'm busy. — Geoffrey Zakarian

My mum had 14 pregnancies - but only four of us survived. We had a little sister born for a few days and she died. There had to be a funeral. — Tyson Fury

What we've witnessed in the past 25 or 30 years is just incredible. We've birthed 30,000 or 40,000 restaurants. I used to go to Europe every year to get experience [and ideas]. I don't go to Europe anymore. I go to Oregon, I go to Washington, I go to Louisiana, I go to Little Rock, I go to Austin, I travel New York City. I don't go to Europe anymore. — Geoffrey Zakarian

From now on, how one arrives at a definition of the relationship of man's basic nature to his culturally conditioned control systems (extensions) is of crucial importance. For in our shrinking globe man can ill afford cultural illiteracy. — Edward T. Hall

Imagination is phenomenal. — Lailah Gifty Akita