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“People who have known a person for many days but could never spot or appreciate his hidden talent in the first place, are likely to raise their suspicions on seeing him ever winning laurels in the life's race.”
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“I love hospitality, and I love cooking. The kitchen is where I feel most at ease and where I feel most like myself.”
Source : "World Chefs: Geoffrey Zakarian Dishes on Must-have Ingredients in New Book". Interview with Richard Leong, uk.reuters.com. November 18, 2014. 
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“If I see a movie star in the department store buying something, I'll kind of sidle up and see what they're saying, what they look like, how they sound. That's an invasion of privacy.”
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“I wasn't reading it [the Bible] as literature. I was reading it as literature, and as history, and as a moral guide, and as anthropology and law and culture.”
Source : Source: www.washingtonpost.com
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“I believe that people should write biographies only about people they love, or understand, or both. Novels, on the other hand, are often better if they're about people the writer doesn't like very much.”
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“But memory, after a time, dispenses its own emphasis, making a feuilleton of what we once thought most ponderable, laying its wreath on what we never thought to recall.”
Source : Hortense Calisher (2013). “In the Absence of Angels: Stories”, p.88, Open Road Media
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“I always say I have a Socratic approach to most things that I do. I pummel people with questions, because I need to know what they're thinking, what they're trying to achieve, what they believe the final outcome is going to be.”
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“Bling is over. Red carpet covered with rhinestones is out. I call it 'the new modesty.'”
