Marcus Samuelsson Quotes

I love shopping for guys! A watch is a fantastic gift idea - an oversized, stainless steel version with links is classic and cool.

Although I believe affection and romance should be shown all year around, it's always smart to have a good plan up your sleeve for Valentine's Day.

This is my present, you know. My present from Mother.

Underwear is such a great gift, but try to go for brands that flatter your girlfriend's shape - a little structure can be great.

One year, my good deed started with deciding to give all my friends makeup from a cruelty-free cosmetics line that I love. I did this with the hope that they would love it as much as I do and end up switching their makeup over to that cruelty-free line forever.

A tea set is good for a newborn girl. It is a gift that instantly makes the room a girl's room.

I love photography. My boyfriend's got a great camera, which I bought for his birthday.

I give novels as gifts, and there is nothing I like to receive more as a gift.

I really think that American gentlemen are the best after all, because kissing your hand may make you feel very good but a diamond and a sapphire bracelet lasts forever.

I love good food and I love to eat in nice restaurants. I love Japanese food. I love Gordon Ramsay in London; he is pretty amazing.

I don't really want a film as a present; you can get me a diamond ring.

Actually, I'm happiest in Williams-Sonoma in New York. That's a wonderful cooking store.

Mexican, Mediterranean, Italian, sushi, I love it all. Put it on a plate, and as long as I know what it is, I will eat it.

My father was a painter, so I was encouraged to take a sketchbook everywhere. Cameras are perishable, but I still have tonnes of sketchbooks from all the trips I've ever been on. It gets you by when you don't know what to give people as a gift; drawings are good souvenirs.

When you hear romantic music, it makes you want to take your girl out to dinner or buy her something or take her out in the moonlight or take her on a walk.

I love really good food and I don't ever want to spend too much for it, but I like hanging out and having really good, tasty, interesting food.

I'll tell you - there's no author that wants to give his mother an e-book of his new book. I think he wants to present her with - or she - wants to present her with something beautiful that he or she created.

Courtney Cox got me this Laura Mercier tinted moisturizer. She wears it, too! If one of us finds a product we love, we buy it for the other.

Sometimes I buy my wife flowers.

You can love someone but not want to keep a gift from that person. It's okay to pass an item along to someone who will appreciate it more.

I'm a huge holiday person. I love having parties and giving gifts.

I would love to date a chef. I'd probably get really fat, but I don't care.

I love presents, But since I've gotten older, I haven't really wanted anything. Christmas is about family.

I love making things for people.

I have a very big family and a lot of friends, and buying presents is one of my favorite things to do.