Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carole Bouquet

Wine is connected to abundance.

Carole Bouquet

The first wine I drank, a Chateau Haut-Brion, I was 22, it was my first glass of wine, and I discovered voluptuousness. From there, I started tasting French wines, then Spanish wines, then Italian wines.

C. S. Lewis

But now I discovered the wonderful power of wine. I understood why men become drunkards. For the way it worked on me was not at all that it blotted out these sorrows, but that it made them seem glorious and noble, like sad music, and I somehow great and revered for feeling them.

Charles Caleb Colton

In order to try whether a vessel be leaky, we first prove it with water before we trust it with wine.

Charles Dickens

Along the Paris streets, the death-carts rumble, hollow and harsh. Six tumbrils carry the day's wine to La Guillotine.

Charles Dickens

The wine-shops breed, in physical atmosphere of malaria and a moral pestilence of envy and vengeance, the men of crime and revolution.

Charles Dickens

"It wasn't the wine," murmured Mr. Snodgrass, in a broken voice. "It was the salmon."

Brian Eno

One night, I pissed into an empty wine bottle so I could continue watching Monty Python, and suddenly thought 'I've never tasted my own piss,' so I drank a little. It looked just like Orvieto Classico and tasted of nearly nothing

Brandi Carlile

I have vocal trouble from time to time associated with sleep or wine! Or from sleeping in a bunk the size of a coffin and breathing in bus air conditioning all day.

Charles Caleb Colton

Unlike the sun, intellectual luminaries shine brightest after they set.

Charles Caleb Colton

Style is indeed the valet of genius, and an able one too; but as the true gentleman will appear, even in rags, so true genius will shine, even through the coarsest style.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

She was seventeen, her entire life shining on her lips.

Alan Jay Lerner

Don't let it be forgot, that once there was a spot, for one brief shining moment, that was known as Camelot.

Al Sharpton

I've seen enough things to know that if you just keep on going, if you turn the corner, the sun will be shining.

Elie Tahari

Clothing should be quieter than the woman so that her true beauty can shine through.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

...there's something in science like the shine of the Patronus Charm, driving back all sorts of darkness and madness...

Caity Lotz

I was never a big fan of horror. I got into it making these films, but I don't ever see myself doing slasher movies. The kind of horror film I like is 'The Shining.' I don't really like slashers, but I love thrillers with tension.

Catherynne M. Valente

You know how we can be about things which sparkle and shine. We imagine they will put back something of what has been lost.

Carre Otis

Part of treatment for drugs and alcohol is you abstain from these, but with eating disorders you can't abstain from food so the treatment is longer than drugs and alcohol.

Carl Andre

That's wonderful, but my mind has been destroyed by alcohol.

National Institute

The craving that an alcoholic feels for alcohol can be as strong as the need for food or water, ... An alcoholic will continue to drink despite serious family, health, or legal problems.

David Strickland

I would never have discovered alcohol.

Alan Jackson

Tonight I'm the designated drinker.

Chester Bennington

It's not cool to be an alcoholic.

Pete Smith

We believe that these people would just contact these girls. They would look for a wayward girl on the street, possibly down and out. They would play into those insecurities. They would bring them back to this residence, ply them with alcohol ? and then eventually bring them in and train them in the craft of prostitution.

Noel Wells

I'm sure there have been a lot of boys I've chased over the years that has been fueled by alcohol and stupidity. But that's kind of how things happen - sometimes you have to do something really stupid, and sometimes it works out, and sometimes you fall flat on your face.

Austin O'Malley

A drunkard is like a whiskey-bottle, all neck and belly and no head.