Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Don Johnson

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

Richard Thaler

I don't go by the ratings. I buy wine that tastes good. Statistically, anybody's ability to predict what will be a good wine a decade from now is limited.

Miguel de Cervantes

Wine in excess keeps neither secrets nor promises.

Matt Mullenweg

I drive a Prius and drink $10k bottles of wine. The wine isnt on Instagram. The Prius is.

Martin Luther

Do not suppose that abuses are eliminated by destroying the object which is abused. Men can go wrong with wine and women. Shall we then prohibit and abolish women?

Mario Andretti

In racing, there is no question who is best - the first one to cross the finish line wins first prize. But with wine, even if you make the best wine in the world, someone isn't going to like it, because it isn't their style. Judging wine is very subjective.

Mark Carwardine

China is responsible for a lot of the major conservation issues we're facing. It's the main market for rhino horn. Tigers are being killed for tiger bone wine. They're driving the tropical timber trade and illegal logging in Indonesia, and the trade in tropical reef fish.

Anthony Jeselnik

I love Austin, but last time I was in town for twelve hours. I was exhausted, drunk and miserable. But none of that was Austin's fault.

Anne Sexton

It would be pleasant to be drunk.

Noel Gallagher

I'm going to get drunk and insult as many musicians from the 80's as is humanly possible.

George Saunders

The generalizing writer is like the passionate drunk, stumbling into your house mumbling: I know I'm not being clear, exactly, but don't you kind of feel what I'm feeling?

Fyodor Dostoevsky

I'm drunk but truthful.

Frank Wedekind

We see God and the devil making fools of each other, and we nurture in ourselves the absolutely unshakable conviction that both of them are drunk.

Jim Carrey

I hope I'll never be is drunk with my own power.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Those who have been too long at their labor, who have drunk too long at the cup of voluptuousness, who feel they have become temporarily inhumane, who are tormented by their families, who find life sad and love ephemeral......they should all eat chocolate and they will be comforted.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

I don't get the whole getting drunk thing.

Woody Allen

I've often said, the only thing standing between me and greatness is me

Plautus

Arrogance is the outgrowth of prosperity.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

There is a certain category of fool-the overeducated, the academic, the journalist, the newspaper reader, the mechanistic scientist, the pseudo-empiricist, those endowed with what I call epistemic arrogance, this wonderful ability to discount what they did not see, the unobserved.

Jeffrey Immelt

I think there's a sense of arrogance and entitlement here, a complacency in the United States.

Howard Fast

Yiddish for gall, nerve, arrogance-whatever

Sorin Cerin

How many consuming fires can there be in the words: freedom, peace and democracy and how easy they can be extinguished by ignorance, stupidity and arrogance?

Gregory Amditis

We weren't angry. The captain kept cutting us off. He had a smirk on his face. His arrogance was awful.

Ken Follet

We were young and had the arrogance of youth, nevertheless when you look at the issues we fought over, I think by and large we were right.

Sasa Cuic

UCLA plays with a winning mentality. They know how to win games. They have that attitude, an arrogance, to come up with wins like this one.