Wine Quotes - Page 20

• What grape to keep its place in the sun, taught our ancestors to make wine?

  Cyril Connolly

  Sun, Taught, Grapes

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• Beer is prose. Wine is poetry.

  Jennifer Rosen

  Beer, Poetry Is, Prose

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• Some eschew wine for their religion; others just don't cotton to it. A slew of Americans consider wine a fancy-schmancy treat for special occasions. They do not understand the concept of daily wine. It's as though you insisted on confetti and a swing-band at every meal.

  Jennifer Rosen

  Swings, Special, Meals

  Jennifer Rosen (2005). “Waiter, There's a Horse in My Wine: A Treasury of Entertainment, Exploration and Education by America's Wittiest Wine Critic”, p.268

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• Wine lovers all speak of their First Time, a quasi-spiritual moment of awakening to wine's wonderment. After that, it's a life sentence. I've seen it happen to even the most confirmed beer sluggers.

  Jennifer Rosen

  Spiritual, Beer, Awakening

  Jennifer Rosen (2006). “The Cork Jester's Guide to Wine: An Entertaining Companion for Tasting It, Ordering It and Enjoying It”, p.13, Clerisy Press

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• Wine is a sign of happiness, love and plenty, how many of our adolescents and young people sense that these are no longer found in their homes? How many women, sad and lonely, wonder when love left, when it slipped away from their lives? How many elderly people feel left out of family celebrations, cast aside and longing each day for a little love?

  Pope Francis

  Love, Happiness, Lonely

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• When a person has swum, traveled, run a lathe, planted flowers, ridden a motorcycle, made wine, painted a picture, parachuted, he has increased the fund from which he may draw for new figural developments. In other words, as the background of his experience becomes more diversified, it also becomes potentially more harmonious with a whole range of happenings.

  Erving Polster

  Running, Flower, Motorcycle

  Erving Polster, Miriam Polster (1973). “Gestalt therapy integrated: contours of theory and practice”

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• By day, or on a cloudless night, a pilot may drink the wine of the gods, but it has an earthly taste; he's a god of the earth, like one of the Grecian deities who lives on worldly mountains and descended for intercourse with men. But at night, over a stratus layer, all sense of the planet may disappear. You know that down below, beneath that heavenly blanket is the earth, factual and hard. But it's an intellectual knowledge; it's a knowledge tucked away in the mind; not a feeling that penetrates the body.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Night, Men, Feelings

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• I write right off the typer. I call it my "machinegun." I hit it hard, usually late at night while drinking wine and listening to classical music on the radio and smoking mangalore ganesh beedies.

  Charles Bukowski

  Drinking, Writing, Night

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• I like to write without being stoned. I like to have a hit or two and then go punch up the writing. I just see different things and hear different things. But it's nice to be working from the base that I wrote originally and then come to it with a little buzz. I can have a little wine from time to time. I have a hit from time to time, but those are the only things I do.

  George Carlin

  Nice, Writing, Two

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• Poetry is the most informative of all of the arts because everything comes down to poetry. No matter what it is we are describing, ultimately we use either a metaphor; or we say "that's poetry in motion." You drink a glass of wine and say, "that's poetry in a bottle." Everything is poetry, so I think we come down to emotional information. And that's what poetry conveys.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Art, Emotional, Thinking

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• Poetry is like air. It's one of the necessary things. Everyone benefits from poetry. And as you know, poetry is international. There are only two things that are truly international, poetry and wine.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Air, Two, Benefits

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• Different drinks have different metaphorical weight. Wine's heady, gin is poisonous, vodka's cold, and beer is plain boring. In real life, I'm a big fan of boxed white wine, much to the dismay of my more refined friends.

  Cate Marvin

  Real, Beer, White

  Source: www.redividerjournal.org

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• Doctor says to a man, "You're pregnant!" The man says, "How does a man get pregnant?" The doctor says, "The usual way - a little wine, a little dinner...."

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Humor, Men

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• I've always wanted to do blow with Genghis Khan, 'bet that guy knows how to party. I also think a bottle of wine with Hitchcock would've been cool. Also doing shots with the baby Jesus, bet that guy knows how to party.

  Mike Mendez

  Baby, Jesus, Party

  "LatinoBuzz: SXSW Interview With Mike Mendez – Big Ass Spider". www.indiewire.com. March 13, 2013.

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• There are two types of wine essentially, and everybody knows this. There's the one where you drink it and go, "Mmmm, well that's ok, can we get 8 of those please, give us 8 of those." There's the other one, you know, where you go "Ga... bt... Jesus, WHAT is that?" Very, very occasionally I concede you will hit a subtle one. You know, where you go "Ga... ba... ah, actually that's not that bad, that is. It's quite nice."

  Dylan Moran

  Funny, Jesus, Nice

  "Dylan Moran: Monster". Documentary, Comedy, 2004.

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• I went to rehab [for alcoholism] in wine country, just to keep my options open.

  Robin Williams

  Funny, Country, Humor

  "Robin Williams: Weapons of Self Destruction". TV Special, December 6, 2009.

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• I'm not claiming to be sober. I think that that would be misleading. I drink alcohol. My father has a vineyard, and the wine is really delicious, by the way.

  Fergie

  Father, Thinking, Alcohol

  "Fergie: The Superstar". Interview with Katie Couric, www.glamour.com. November 1, 2010.

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• I always think, after the second glass of wine, you should be putting something in your stomach.

  Padma Lakshmi

  Thinking, Glasses, Should

  "And Now, Four Glasses of Wine with Padma Lakshmi". Interview with Matt Goulet, www.esquire.com. September 14, 2012.

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• I don't really believe in vices. I love wine and cheese and chocolate, but they're what make life fun. They're a pleasure and an important part of living.

  Donna Air

  Fun, Believe, Chocolate

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• There can never be any substitute for your own palate nor any better education than tasting the wine yourself.

  Robert B. Parker

  Substitutes, Palate, Tasting

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• There's something about being able to literally consume a work of art - then to divide all that pleasure of it - because it's a memory. A great wine for me is a memory, it's an extraordinary experience.

  Robert B. Parker

  Art, Memories, Able

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• When I played drunks I had to remain sober because I didn't know how to play them when I was drunk.

  Richard Burton

  Funny, Humorous, Drinking

  "Bottled Wisdom: Over 1,000 Spirited Quotations & Anecdotes" by Mark Pollman, Wildstone Media, (p. 146), January 1, 1998.

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• Fill high the cup with Samian wine!

  Lord Byron

  Cups

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.1969, Delphi Classics

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• I serve your Beaune to my friends, but your Volnay I keep for myself.

  Voltaire

  French Wine, My Friends

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• The effervescence of this fresh wine reveals the true brilliance of the French people.

  Voltaire

  People, Champagne, Brilliance

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