Wine Quotes - Page 40

• If I were a bottle of wine, my name would be Thom Cork

  Thom Yorke

  Names, Would Be, Bottles

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• I come from a family of communist nudists. I was allowed to do or not do what I liked. My parents were not interested in whether I went to school or got drunk on white wine.

  Lars von Trier

  School, White, Drunk

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• Champagne is the only wine that enhances a woman's beauty.

  Madame de Pompadour

  Women's Beauty, Champagne

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• People who are knowledgeable about poetry sometimes discuss it in that knowing, rather hateful way in which oenophiles talk about wine: robust, delicate, muscular. This has nothing to do with how most of us experience it, the heart coming around the corner and unexpectedly running into the mind. Of all the words that have stuck to the ribs of my soul, poetry has been the most filling.

  Anna Quindlen

  Running, Heart, Knowing

  Anna Quindlen (2004). “Loud and Clear”, Random House Large Print Publishing

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• It's like these people are programmed by Karl Rove. What he wants is to have liberal critics ridicule Bush because he says 'nucular' and 'misunderestimate' and talks with a probably fake Texas accent and so on, because then can come back with the big propaganda apparatus saying, 'See, those elite liberals who run the world and are sitting around drinking French wine and eating quiche don't understand us ordinary guys'; regular guys like the guy working on the assembly line and George Bush, who is going back to his ranch to cut brush.

  Noam Chomsky

  Running, Drinking, Cutting

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• The storm is over, there is sunlight in my heart. I have a glass of wine and sit thinking of what has passed.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Heart, Thinking, Glasses

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• There is a communication of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine is drunk. And that is my answer when people ask me: Why do you write about hunger, and not wars or love.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  War, Food, Communication

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• Make new friends, but keep the old;
  Those are silver, these are gold.
  New-made friendships, like new wine,
  Age will mellow and refine.
  Friendships that have stood the test -
  Time and change - are surely best;
  Brow may wrinkle, hair grow gray,
  Friendship never knows decay.
  For 'mid old friends, tried and true,
  Once more we our youth renew.
  But old friends, alas! may die,
  New friends must their place supply.
  Cherish friendship in your breast-
  New is good, but old is best;
  Make new friends, but keep the old;
  Those are silver, these are gold.

  Joseph Parry

  Friendship, Wrinkles, Hair

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• I'm not a Luddite, but I'm outside more than I'm on my computer. We have a micro-farm - it's a step up from a garden. We have a pretty extensive vineyard. We grow about 60 percent of our own food, make our own wine, have chickens for eggs.

  Emilio Estevez

  Garden, Eggs, Steps

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• I have known many gods. He who denies them is as blind as he who trusts them too deeply. I see not beyond death. Let me live while I live; let me know the rich juices of red meat and stinging wine on my palate, the hot embrace of white arms, the mad exultation of battle when the blue blades flame and crimson, and I am content. I know this: if life is an illusion, then I am no less than an illusion, and being thus, the illusion is real to me. I live, I burn with life, I love, I slay, and am content.

  Robert E. Howard

  Real, Blue, Flames

  "Queen of the Black Coast". Short story by Robert E. Howard, 1934.

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• Ideas, like young wine, should be put in storage and taken up again only after they have been allowed to ferment and to ripen.

  Richard Strauss

  Taken, Ideas, Like You

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• Strategy is buying a bottle of fine wine when you take a lady out for dinner. Tactics is getting her to drink it.

  Frank Muir

  Bottles, Tactics, Dinner

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• Poetry, my dear friends, is a sacred incarnation of a smile. Poetry is a sigh that dries the tears. Poetry is a spirit who dwells in the soul, whose nourishment is the heart, whose wine is affection. Poetry that comes not in this form is a false messiah.

  Khalil Gibran

  Heart, Soul, Tears

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• The best advice I can give people when they buy Burgundy, which is a bit of a roulette game, is to look for producers who are tried and true... Look for the name of the producer, whether Michel Lafarge, Domaine Leflaivre, Dominique Lafont, or another. When they put their name on the bottle, they're proud.

  Daniel Johnnes

  Games, Names, People

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• According to DC's HIV/AIDS office, three percent of the local population has HIV or AIDS... The DC City Council, perhaps on the theory that serving up another glass of wine is the way to help a drunk, is scheduled to vote on December 1 to legalize same sex marriage in America's capital city.

  Star Parker

  Sex, Cities, America

  Star Parker (2010). “Uncle Sam's Plantation: How Big Government Enslaves America's Poor and What We Can Do About It”, p.210, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Be aware, and wine becomes water. Be aware - sex becomes love. Be aware - love becomes prayer. Be aware - prayer becomes meditation. Simply one thing has to be remembered: do whatsoever you like, but do it with full consciousness, and then you will not go astray.

  Rajneesh

  Sex, Prayer, Love Is

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• There's little in taking or giving, There's little in water or wine: This living, this living, this living, Was never a project of mine. Oh, hard is the struggle, and sparse is The gain of the one at the top, For art is a form of catharsis, And love is a permanent flop, And work is the province of cattle, And rest's for a clam in a shell, So I'm thinking of throwing the battle - Would you kindly direct me to hell?

  Dorothy Parker

  Art, Humorous, Struggle

  Dorothy Parker (1936). “Collected poems: Not so deep as a well”

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• It is especially taboo for a wine writer to admit that he or she likes the buzz. But wine is a full sensory experience. It's not just tasting notes.

  Natalie MacLean

  Buzz, Likes, Notes

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• It takes a great deal of labor and love to make ice wine. When you have it with dessert, you miss the point of enjoying it on its own.

  Alpana Singh

  Ice, Missing, And Love

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• Black wines have become the rage over the last 20 years. I prefer our wines to be red.

  Christian Moueix

  Years, Black, Red

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• Even after several hospitalizations for alcohol and drug-related nervous breakdowns, poet Edna St. Vincent Millay defined sobriety as restricting her daily intake of liquor to a liter and a half of wine.

  Judith Thurman

  Sobriety, Alcohol, Drug

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• Wedlock's like wine - not properly judged of till the second glass.

  Ernest Jarrold

  Glasses, Wedlock, Judged

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• The Duke of Clarence . . . a prisoner in the Tower, was secretly put to death and drowned in a barrel of Malmesey wine.

  Robert Fabyan

  Towers, Dukes, Barrels

  'The New Chronicles of England and France' pt. 2 (1477); early editions have the spelling malvesye

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• You're walking by the tomb of Battiades,
  Who knew well how to write poetry, and enjoy
  Laughter at the right moment, over the wine.

  Callimachus

  Laughter, Writing, Poetry

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• Despair is vinegar from the wine of hope.

  Austin O'Malley

  Despair, Vinegar

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