Miguel McKelvey Quotes

Be aware of textural elements throughout a party, like silverware, stemware, and linens. But the biggest element is metaphorical: it's your own touch. How are you making people feel?

When designing - whether it's a living room, event space, or tablescape - I always want guests to feel as though they are part of the experience.

In popular houses where visitors like to go again and again, there is always a happy combination of some attention on the part of the hostess and the perfect freedom of the guests to occupy their time as they choose.

I have loved hosting over the years, simply because I love working with people. It's the perfect job.

Starbucks was founded around the experience and the environment of their stores. Starbucks was about a space with comfortable chairs, lots of power outlets, tables and desks at which we could work and the option to spend as much time in their stores as we wanted without any pressure to buy. The coffee was incidental.

A first date should be elegant. In comfortable surroundings. A place with excellent food, where you can talk easily and get to know each other.

To me, the stage is like my living room, or my home, and when you come over to my house, I have to be a hostess and invite you in so that we can have a great time.

You wouldn't have the same art on the walls at every restaurant or the same waiter uniforms. Neither should you have the same service style at every restaurant.

I understand entertaining. You want people to walk out saying, 'I spent a night with interesting people.'

If you put busy men in an attractive atmosphere where the surroundings are comfortable, the food is good, you relax, you unwind, there’s stimulating conversation. You know, sometimes quite a lot can happen.

There's no question that the Kings have been, are, and can be great hosts for any major events.

For me, a great meal is a collision of company, environment, ambient temperature, the waiters, where you are emotionally.

In my opinion, if you're entertaining guests, you should do everything possible to make them comfortable.

There are so many restaurants that cook for themselves and think they are different. But it is always about making your guest feel special.

It's hard making people sitting in hotel rooms interesting.

When I was in the restaurant and bar business, I followed a rule, which was that the places that I opened were places that I wanted to go to.

Obviously, the hotel is related to my name, so my mom makes sure the staff, the service, the cleaning part of it is 100 out of 100. Not 99, 100 out of 100. We've got great reviews because of that. That's why a lot of people want to stay out our place, because we provide a lot of good services.

Conventions are expensive to run and attend.

More pianos in hotel rooms please.

A hotel isn't like a home, but it's better than being a house guest.

I’ve never really had a party before.” “Why did you have one now?” I say, just to keep him talking. He gives a half laugh. “I thought if I had a party, you would come.

We love to entertain kings and queens, but at Disneyland, everyone is a V.I.P.

Public space is for living, doing business, kissing, and playing. Its value can't be measured with economics or mathematics; it must be felt with the soul.

A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.

She surrounded herself with books at work and at home. Her living space was a testament to her first and abiding love with shelves jammed with books tables crowded with them. She saw them not only as knowledge entertainment comfort even sanity but as a kind of artful decoration.