Clifton Fadiman
Clifton Fadiman
Clifton Paul "Kip" Fadimanwas an American intellectual, author, editor, radio and television personality...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Show Host
Date of Birth15 May 1904
CountryUnited States of America
wine blood names
Name me any liquid except our own blood that flows more intimately and incessantly through the labyrinth of symbols we have conceived to make our status as human beings, from the rudest peasant festival to the mystery of the Eucharist. To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.
drinking wine hobbies
The drinking of wine seems to me to have a moral edge over many pleasures and hobbies in that it promotes love of one's neighbor.
wine agents
Wine is a civilizing agent.
football wine hysteria
A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover. The social emotions it generates are equidistant from the philatelist's solitary gloating and the football fan's gregarious hysteria.
wine rivers vineyards
To take wine into your mouth is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.
wine bottles
Wine is poetry in a bottle.
wine bottles vineyards
A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover.
wine soul body
If food is the body of good living, wine is its soul.
happen master miss past slowly stein
Miss Stein was a past master in making nothing happen very slowly
cheesy milk cheese
Cheese is milk's leap towards immortality.
birthday wall years
To divide one's life by years is of course to tumble into a trap set by our own arithmetic. The calendar consents to carry on its dull wall-existence by the arbitrary timetables we have drawn up in consultation with those permanent commuters, Earth and Sun. But we, unlike trees, need grow no annual rings.
children keys imagination
To read in bed is to draw around us invisible, noiseless curtains. Then at last we are in a room of our own and are ready to burrow back, back to that private life of the imagination we all led as a child and to whose secret satisfactions so many of us have mislaid the key.
eye men hiding-something
Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye, particularly if he adds a firm handshake, is hiding something.
grandmother kind poet
The kind of poetry to avoid in the pretty-pretty kind that pleased our grandmothers, the kind that Longfellow and Tennyson, good poets at their best, wrote at their worst.