Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Green

She taught me everything I knew about crawfish and kissing and pink wine and poetry. She made me different.

Caroline Knapp

But then the wine came, one glass and then a second glass. And somewhere during that second drink, the switch was flipped. The wine gave me a melting feeling, a warm light sensation in my head, and I felt like safety itself had arrived in that glass, poured out from the bottle and allowed to spill out between us.

Kurt Russell

I was brought up by two people who just said, Whatever it is you're interested in, go do it. There is no winning or losing. You find out when you do it what the experience is.

Kim Stanley Robinson

A sudden gust: How big the world seems in a wind.

Julia Gillard

Our nation is well equipped to make the transition. We have an abundance of natural resources like wind, natural gas, solar and geothermal.

Julia Child

I had my first French meal and I never got over it. It was just marvelous. We had oysters and a lovely dry white wine. And then we had one of those lovely scalloped dishes and the lovely, creamery buttery sauce. Then we had a roast duck and I don't know what else.

Julia Child

Forget the cheap white wine: go to beef and gin!

Julia Child

Wine is meant to be with food - that's the point of it.

Julia Child

Food, like the people who eat it, can be stimulated by wine or spirits. And, as with people, it can also be spoiled.

Julia Child

Fine #‎ wine is a living liquid ... Its life comprises youth, maturity, old age, and death.

Julia Child

Wine is one of the agreeable and essential ingredients of life

Julia Child

A house without a cat is like a day without sunshine, a pie without fromage, a dinner without wine.

Julia Child

Wine is a living liquid containing no preservatives. Its life cycle comprises youth, maturity, old age, and death. When not treated with reasonable respect it will sicken and die.

Julia Child

As we say in the American Institute of Wine and Food, small helpings, no seconds. A little bit of everything. No snacking. And have a good time.

Julia Child

I enjoy cooking with wine, sometimes I even put it in the food I'm cooking.

Julia Child

I don't use the word gourmet. The word doesn't mean anything anymore. 'Gourmet' makes it sound like someone is putting sherry wine in the corn-flake casserole.

Josh Charles

A pinwheel also needs wind. And with our actions, and our intentions, we can be that wind. We have to be those agents of change for the young people and their families in our communities.

Pat Summitt

Coaches who start listening to fans often wind up sitting next to them.

P. J. O'Rourke

Never Refuse Wine. It is an odd but universally held opinion that anyone who doesn't drink must be an alcoholic.

P. G. Wodehouse

I shoved on a dressing-gown, and flew downstairs like a mighty, rushing wind.

P. G. Wodehouse

Bicky rocked, like a jelly in a high wind.

P. G. Wodehouse

The storm is over, there is sunlight in my heart. I have a glass of wine and sit thinking of what has passed.

Ovid

Wine stimulates the mind and makes it quick with heat; care flees and is dissolved in much drink.

Ovid

Who gives to Aristaeus honey; Or wine to Bacchus, or Triptolemus Earth's fruits, or apples to Alcinous?

Ovid

It warms the blood, adds luster to the eyes, and wine and love have ever been allies.

Paul Newman

Winning isn't everything.... it's just all there is.

Matt Groening

I plead alignment to the flakes of the untitled snakes of a merry cow and to the republicrats for which they scam: one nacho, underpants with licorice and jugs of wine for owls.

Mary Wortley Montagu

And we meet, with champagne and a chicken, at last.

Mark Gorman

Marriage isn't about winning. It's about lasting.

Oswald Chambers

God makes us as broken bread and poured-out wine to please Him. Beware of competing calls once the call of God grips you.

Oswald Chambers

Grapes become wine only when they have been squeezed.

Oswald Chambers

When we are consciously aware of being used as broken bread and poured out wine, we have yet another level to reach - a level where all awareness of ourselves and what God is doing through us is completely eliminated. A saint is never consciously a saint - a saint is consciously dependent on God.

Paul Henderson

My wife and I really enjoy a glass of red wine. We're too old to drink cheap wine, and we don't.