Danny Meyer Quotes

The kitchen is the most important place in any house. Visit your family, and that's where you'll end up. Go to a party, that's where everyone congregates.

I've always had lots of friends and my house was the house they all hung out at.

In Chino Hills, everybody is cool with everybody, so I had a lot of friends. My house was kind of the hang out house, where everybody would come over.

The function of arts centers goes far beyond being places for performance. They might not be explicitly religious, but they are civic and social spaces.

Shopping malls across the county are dying fast, and my images of them are very nostalgic for most people that grew up attending these malls. These malls were communal spaces. These were gigantic chat rooms before the Internet existed. You went to the mall to meet and communicate with others, not just to shop.

I think we should have more coffeehouses, more cafes, more "third places." More places where people can get together that's not work, not home, and where they can interact with people who are different from them.

Libraries are not just for reading in, but for sociable thinking, exploring, exchanging ideas and falling in love. They were never silent. Technology will not change that, for even in the starchiest heyday of Victorian self-improvement, libraries were intended to be meeting places of the mind, recreational as well as educational.

When we are busy at work and busy at home, an hour's walking every day becomes a real luxury. If done alone, the walk injects a period of meditation into the day, and if done in company, it allows space for some really good conversation.

I come from a culture where the pub is the centre of the community. The pub is the Internet. It's where information is gathered, collated and addressed.

Why do guests always end up in the kitchen at parties? Is it a social phenomenon? Some strange gravitational pull? I don't know, but one thing is for sure: If your friends are going to congregate in your kitchen, you'd better make it as nice as possible.

The Royal Festival Hall in London is nice; people hang out there. I think this inviting, non-exclusive character is very important.

I had a lot of dates but I decided to stay home and dye my eyebrows.

I've always been the kind of person who leaves parties early to catch the last bus home.

The saloonkeeper is the only man who keeps open house in the ward. It is his business to entertain. It does not matter that he does not select his guests; that convention is useless among them. In fact, his democracy is one element of his strength. His face is the common meeting ground of his neighbors—and he supplies the stimulus which renders social life possible; there is an accretion of intelligence that comes to him in his business. He hears the best stories. He is the first to get accurate information as to the latest political deals and social mysteries. The common talk of the day passes through his ears and he is known to retain that which is the most interesting.

I don't hang out with cops.

I think I miss just being able to go out on the street and have fun.

I love to go to the bar close by for a good espresso and have a chat with the bartender.

The grill is the summer equivalent of a fireplace; everyone gravitates to it.

I love my living room: it's the heart of my home where I get to chill and spend time with family and friends.

My favorite spot to hang out is my apartment with my friends.

What’s wrong with just talking? Isn’t that why bars were invented? So you could talk to somebody over a drink—as opposed to sitting at home alone getting sloshed?

You get up in the morning because you might meet a woman. And if you stay at home by yourself, alone, you will not meet a woman.

I love talking to people, but what I really love is to feel you're doing something instead of sitting home and twiddling your thumbs.

Much of what we do with our kids is social and that's good, and we shouldn't stop all that. I mean, how boring would it be that, no, we can't eat anything out so we're just going to go home and sit in the closet and wait to the next day.

I never mingled with men, but I came home less of a man than I went out.