Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jessica Pare

I hadn't done any professional singing. I had sung in the shower and in my car and sometimes at a family bonfire if there was enough alcoholized wine.

Gilles Marini

I don't eat bad stuff too much but I have my glass of wine as I am French and it would be insulting not to.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The Catholic Church is like a thick steak, a glass of red wine, and a good cigar.

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.

Pat Conroy

It enclosed us in its laceries as we watched the moon spill across the Atlantic like wine from an overturned glass. With the light all around us, we felt secret in that moon-infused water like pearls forming in the soft tissues of oysters.

Paul Prudhomme

I opened a restaurant that had nothing but California wines.

Paul Gascoigne

I'll tell you the truth; I had a double brandy before the game but, before, it used to be four bottles of whisky. Not any more. I was fine. I had a glass of wine after the game. But it was just a mouthful.

Paul Giamatti

I'm not a big wine guy. And bars, I never go to bars anymore. It's such a drag, man.

Padma Lakshmi

I always think, after the second glass of wine, you should be putting something in your stomach.

Padma Lakshmi

If you like a wine that you drink, now with your phone, it's so easy. Just take a picture of the label. You learn about it. You learn where it comes from and what the soil is like and why you like it. And that'll lead you to another wine.

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.

Padma Lakshmi

I think wine is such a big universe that it's kind of like food - it's intimidating to a lot of people, myself included.

Mikhail Bulgakov

Most bad," the host concluded. "If you ask me, something sinister lurks in men who avoid wine, games, the company of lovely women, and dinnertime conversation. Such people are either gravely ill or secretly detest everyone around them.

Mikhail Bakunin

There are but three ways for the populace to escape its wretched lot. The first two are by the routes of the wine-shop or the church; the third is by that of the social revolution.

Nathan Myhrvold

Researchers who examined the voting records of wine judges found that 90 percent of the time they give inconsistent ratings to a particular wine when they judge it on multiple occasions.

Nathan Myhrvold

Wine lovers have known for centuries that decanting wine before serving it often improves its flavor. Whatever the dominant process, the traditional decanter is a rather pathetic tool to accomplish it. A few years ago, I found I could get much better results by using an ordinary kitchen blender.

Naomi Watts

I always love being in the company of women. It's all about good conversation and great wine.

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.

Publilius Syrus

You need not hang up the ivy branch over the wine that will sell.

Publilius Syrus

Wine has drowned more than the sea.

NeNe Leakes

Im coming out with a wine... Im actually a restaurateur. I have Famous Famiglia Pizzeria that has opened up in the Sacramento airport. Im also working with my business partner on opening up the Linnethia Lounge.

Neil MacGregor

In 1600, when Shakespeares audience at the Globe heard Hamlet for the first time, every one of them knew very well what it meant to be handed a cup of wine by a figure of authority and told to drink.

Rachel Nichols

I love having wine with my meals. And if I splurge, I'm going to splurge big, because if I deny my cravings, it just ends up backfiring on me, you know?

Joely Fisher

I took up French boys and wine and I studied psychology.

Jodi Picoult

The Lord turned water into wine. All I'm suggesting is a trip to the grocery store.

John Greenleaf Whittier

The green earth sends her incense up. From many a mountain shrine; From folded leaf and dewey cup She pours her sacred wine.

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.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

As in the case of wines that improve with age, the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful.

Kid Rock

Politicians and music don't mix. It's like whiskey and wine.

Ken Livingstone

The problem is that many MPs never see the London that exists beyond the wine bars and brothels of Westminster.

Larry the Cable Guy

I'm on the diet where you eat vegetables and drink wine. That's a good diet. I lost 10 pounds and my driver's license.

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.