Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barbara Pym

She set about preparing her supper. It would have to be one of those classically simple meals, the sort that French peasants are said to eat and that enlightened English people sometimes enjoy rather self-consciously - a crusty French loaf, cheese, and lettuce and tomatoes from the garden. Of course there should have been wine and a lovingly prepared dressing of oil and vinegar, but Dulcie drank orange squash and ate mayonnaise that came from a bottle.

Art Buchwald

When it came to writing about wine, I did what almost everybody does - faked it

Art Buchwald

I like champagne because it always tastes as though my foot's asleep.

Brian Schmidt

I'm actually surprised how technical a lot of commercial wine production is. Things are done very much from an industrial chemistry point of view at certain price points, but that's not the impression you get with wine.

Diane Keaton

I drink red wine on ice to water it down.

Edgar Allan Poe

He knew that Hop-Frog was not fond of wine; for it excited the poor cripple almost to madness; and madness is no comfortable feeling.

Edward Abbey

The best people, like the best wines, come from the hills.

Alexander Fleming

If penicillin can cure those that are ill, Spanish sherry can bring the dead back to life.

Don Johnson

Life's too short to drink bad wine or smoke poor cigars.

Andy Bush

We were prepared for mass casualties and had 60,000 bottles of water brought in overnight.

John Cook

We might not be popping the champagne bottles yet, ... but we're chilling them already.

Stephen J. Cannell

A lot of making TV is lightening in a bottle.

Stendhal

After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.

Gordon Janow

If it's an environmental expedition, it seems to me the primary goal should be to clean up what's on Everest like the tent parts, oxygen bottles and other trash. It gets to be misleading when you run the whole media gamut.

Robert Shaffer

We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit.

J. K. Rowling

I can teach you how to bottle fame, brew glory, even put a stopper on death.

Richard Bush

I came up here to help out where I can. And not just medical stuff, but I've been moving bottles of water and everything else.

Sela Ward

I always carry Evian bottle and sunscreen.

Anthony Bourdain

I'm evangelical on the subject of some chefs and writers.

Clint Hurdle

We were up there hacking like chefs at Benihana's the first three innings.

Henry Beard

Chef: Any cook who swears in French.

Emilia Fox

I'm the joke of the family with cooking because I've never done it - primarily because I've been surrounded by people who are so good at it. Mum's brilliant. Boyfriends have always been good at it. I'm waiting for my inner chef to be released.