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.

Brandon Jay McLaren

I would say just the weather in Vancouver in the winter can be kind of unforgiving.

e. e. cummings

The snow doesn't give a soft white damn whom it touches.

Alexander Pope

Behold the groves that shine with silver frost, their beauty withered, and their verdure lost!

T. S. Eliot

Winter kept us warm, covering Earth in forgetful snow

T. S. Eliot

For most of us, there is only the unattended Moment, the moment in and out of time, The distraction fit, lost in a shaft of sunlight, The wild thyme unseen, or the winter lightning Or the waterfall, or music heard so deeply That it is not heard at all, but you are the music While the music lasts

Ranulph Fiennes

Rivalry is one of the factors pushing me. While my back was turned, the Norwegians managed to achieve the first Arctic crossing in winter. I didn't want the same to happen in the Antarctic.

Thomas Merton

Love winter when the plant says nothing.

Sally Phillips

I've got spider veins all over my legs, so I wear opaque tights all winter. All sorts of colours.

Ruth Pitter

We go, in winter's biting wind, On many a short-lived winter day, With aching back but willing mind To dig and double dig the clay.

Stephen Colbert

Nothing is more vintage than dying of Rubella.

John Varvatos

I collect vintage vinyl records.

Theo Rossi

I jog at the Rose Bowl, and I collect antique and vintage furniture, so I'm there every few weeks for the flea market.

Gwen Stefani

I like the old, vintage Hollywood look.

Jennifer Aniston

I spent my first paycheck on a vintage Mercedes.

Elle Fanning

I wore the Marc Jacobs dress, so I love Marc Jacobs. He has a vintage flair. But I've always worn a lot of vintage stuff, so it hasn't been a lot of designers. If I see something that I like, I just buy it.

George Herbert

Short boughs, long vintage.

Paloma Faith

I always carry a good lipstick with me, like MAC in Ruby Woo. It has a matt finish, the essence of that vintage glamour look.

ASAP Rocky

I don't like new cars; I'm into vintage cars - there's a Jaguar E-Type in the 'Goldie' video.