Famous Quotes & Sayings

Catullus

Away with you, water, destruction of wine!

Carl Sagan

Science and mathematics [are] much more compelling and exciting than the doctrines of pseudoscience, whose practitioners were condemned as early as the fifth century B.C. by the Ionian philosopher Heraclitus as 'night walkers, magicians, priests of Bacchus, priestesses of the wine-vat, mystery-mongers.' But science is more intricate and subtle, reveals a much richer universe, and powerfully evokes our sense of wonder. And it has the additional and important virtue-to whatever extent the word has any meaning-of being true.

Bette Davis

Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they're phonies.

Bernard Berenson

I am only a picture-taster, the way others are wine-or tea-tasters.

Arsene Wenger

If I give you a good wine, you will see how it tastes and after you ask where it comes from.

B. B. King

I can't afford no liquor, all I can buy is beer and wine.

William Shakespeare

If it be true that good wine needs no bush, 'tis true that a good play needs no epilogue.

William Shakespeare

Wine loved I deeply, dice dearly.

William Shakespeare

A man cannot make him laugh; but that's no marvel; he drinks no wine.... If I had a thousand sons, the first human principle I would teach them should be, to forswear thin potations and to addict themselves to sack.

Octavio Paz

Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision.

Octavio Paz

Any reflection about poetry should begin, or end, with this question: who and how many read poetry books?

Phoebe Snow

Back then, I was an acoustically-oriented artist. Honestly, 'Poetry Man' wouldn't have been my first choice.

Edward Hirsch

Poetry takes place in time. It is a durational. Things take place in sequence.

Dave Evans

Poetry should be for the people. It always has been, ... Ted writes poetry for the people.

Edward Hirsch

Poetry itself hasn't been well served by poets who fled to the margins.

Robert Pinsky

Poetry is not easy. Or should I say, real poetry is not easy.

Edward Hirsch

Poetry is a vocation. It is not a career but a calling.

Juan Felipe Herrera

Poetry is a call to action, and it also is action.

Bill Vaughan

The devil, my friends, is a woman just now. 'Tis a woman that reigns in Hell.

Bertrand Russell

You could take up the line that some of the gnostics took up - a line which I often thought was a very plausible one - that as a matter of fact this world that we know was made by the devil at a moment when God was not looking. There is a good deal to be said for that, and I am not concerned to refute it.

Saint Bernard

God removes the sin of the one who makes humble confession, and thereby the devil loses the sovereignty he had gained over the human heart.

William Shakespeare

When devils will the blackest sins put on They do suggest at first with heavenly shows

William Shakespeare

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Todd Jones

I thought I was finished then. I was thinking if I can't make the Devil Rays, can I pitch anymore? Is this it, is this how I go out? It was embarrassing not to be able to make that team.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I'd fallen in love with the devil.

Joyce Meyer

The last thing the devil wants you to do is be an obedient Christian.

Mitch Hedberg

I think pickles are cucumbers that sold out. They sold their soul to the devil - and the devil was dill.