Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mireille Guiliano

Wine is a living, breathing thing during its time in the bottle and in the glass. It is always changing, especially in the glass. A little oxygen can really open up and release the flavors in a complex wine, as well as mellow the rougher edge of immaturity.

Leonardo da Vinci

The soul can never be corrupted with the corruption of the body, but it is like the wind which causes the sound of the organ, and which ceases to produce a good effect when a pipe is spoilt.

Paul Prudhomme

I opened a restaurant that had nothing but California wines.

Patrick Rothfuss

How odd to watch a mortal kindle / Then to dwindle day by day / Knowing their bright souls are tinder / And the wind will have its way

Padma Lakshmi

Wine, like food, is so emotional. If you think about it, so much of the courting ritual is surrounded by wine and food. There's a built-in romance to wine.

Lev Yilmaz

People always say you can't win if you don't play

Laurence J. Peter

The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.

P. J. O'Rourke

What would annoy the most people most often? That is the true left-wing test of government intervention.

Pablo Picasso

I like all paintings. I always look at the paintings, good or bad, in barbershops, furniture stores, provincial hotels. I'm like a drinker who needs wine. As long as it is wine, it doesn't matter which wine.

Paul Merson

To win the Champions League with Porto, you have to be tactically acute

Paul Celan

With wine and being lost, with less and less of both: I rode through the snow, do you read me I rode God far--I rode God near, he sang, it was our last ride over the hurdled humans. They cowered when they heard us overhead, they wrote, they lied our neighing into one of their image-ridden languages.

Kingsley Amis

A German wine label is one of the things life's too short for.

Kingsley Amis

A German wine label is one of the things life's too short for, a daunting testimony to that peculiar nation's love of detail and organization.

Oliver Goldsmith

No vernal blooms their torpid rocks array, But winter lingering chills the lap of May; No zephyr fondly sues the mountain's breast, But meteors glare, and stormy glooms invest.

Margaret Atwood

Her glass wings are gone.

Marcus Samuelsson

You know that old expression "It's not whether you win or lose; it's how you play the game". That line was definitely not coined by a chef. Because for a chef, it's only about whether or not you pull through. If you fail, nobody cares how hard you tried.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

There is nothing which wings its flight so swiftly as calumny, nothing is uttered with more ease; nothing is listened to with more readiness, nothing disbursed more widely.

Kevin Myers

We were all born with wings. In times of doubt: spread them.

Ken Livingstone

[Pigeons are] rats with wings.

Kelly Clarkson

I'll spread my wings and I'll learn how to fly. I'll do what it takes till I touch the sky.

Margaret Thatcher

You don't win by just being against things, you only win by being for things and making your message perfectly clear.

Margaret Thatcher

The desire to win is born in most of us. The will to win is a matter of training. The manner of winning is a matter of honour.

Chris Witty

That's all I had. Once you win a medal, you always want to be medalist, and that's why it's disappointing.

Ashley Benson

I love Michelle Williams and Natalie Portman - those are the careers I want. My goal is to win an Oscar, and I'm going to take the steps to get there.

Ben Roethlisberger

The biggest thing isn't necessarily how I play, but that we win. That's my number-one goal. I could be the worst quarterback out there, but if we come out with a victory that's all that matters to me.

Bear Bryant

You're still going to win with preparation and dedication and plain old desire. If you don't have genuine desire, you won't be dedicated enough to prepare properly.

Despair is vinegar from the wine of hope.

Many a man wins glory for prudence by seeking advice, then seeking advice as to what advice would be best to take, and finally following appetite.

Bruce Springsteen

Nobody wins unless everybody wins.

Paul Wellstone

Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning.

Martin Amis

Screw-top wine has improved the quality of life by about ten percent, wouldn't you say?

Pietro Metastasio

The aged oak upon the steep stands more firm and secure if assailed by angry winds; for if the winter bares its head, the more strongly it strikes its roots into the ground, acquiring strength as it loses beauty.

Pete Townshend

Backstage, I get sleepy, and want to curl up and snooze. I never get nervous, whatever the event. I feel quite detached until I walk on stage, and then some gear inside me clicks and off I go like a wind up doll.