Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Motherwell

The 'pure' red of which certain abstractionists speak does not exist. Any red is rooted in blood, glass, wine, hunters' caps and a thousand other concrete phenomena. Otherwise we would have no feeling toward red and its relations...

Salvador Dali

Qui sait déguster ne boit plus jamais de vin, mais goûte des secrets

Robert M. Parker, Jr.

No viticultural region in America has demonstrated as much progress in quality and potential for greatness as... the Santa Barbara region, where the Burgundian varietals Chardonnay and Pinot Noir are planted in its cooler climates.

Rod Stewart

I'll tell you what I love. Sending back bottles of wine that aren't right in restaurants in France! Whoa! I love the French, but I do find their wine snobbery something unbearable.

Voltaire

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

Voltaire

Wine is the divine juice of September.

William Lloyd Garrison

Since the creation of the world there has been no tyrant like Intemperance, and no slaves so cruelly treated as his.

William Butler Yeats

now I bring full-flavoured wine out of a barrel found Where seven Ephesian topers slept and never knew When Alexander's empire passed, they slept so sound.

William Butler Yeats

Wine enters through the mouth, Love, the eyes. I raise the glass to my mouth, I look at you, I sigh.

W. Somerset Maugham

I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

The element of surprise wasn't allowed near the Periodic Table.

Diana Vreeland

Poor, darling fellow - he died of food. He was killed by the dinner table.

Marilyn vos Savant

Be able to set a table so that you feel like you're dining, not just sitting and eating.

Michel de Montaigne

And not to serve for a table-talk.

James A. Garfield

I will not vote against the truths of the multiplication table.

Hillary Clinton

I have said publicly no option should be off the table, but I would certainly take nuclear weapons off the table.

Ethel Merman

At a flea market I always head for the junk jewelry table first.

Erma Bombeck

I don't know when pepper mills in a restaurant got to be right behind frankincense and myrrh in prominence. It used to be in a little jar that sat next to the salt on the table and everyone passed it around, sneezed, and it was no big deal.