Wine Quotations | Page 8

That sounds insane to me. Why animals go with wine, I don't know. The average consumer can't tell one wine from another, did you know that?

Eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart

The bottles had a tripping device on them where the shelves would just literally topple over, and all of the wine and liquors would dump down into the sewer.

The average wine cellar can hold 1,500 to 2,000 bottles of wine, is temperature-controlled and is completely insulated.

The Australian wine industry remains a problem spot for Foster's and that won't be resolved for a little while yet. Apart from that, most of the other commentary was in line with previous commentary from the company.

The Australian wine industry has been going through the industry equivalent of the perfect storm.

The Australian wine consumer represents less than 15 per cent of our profit pool,

Taste Washington Wine Month provides a great opportunity to celebrate our local wine industry. Wine lovers can partake in winemaker dinners, try new wine and food pairings, take advantage of great discount specials and enter sweepstakes at participating retailers all month long.

Taste Washington is one of the largest wine events in the nation highlighting a single wine region, providing connoisseurs and novices alike with the opportunity to mingle with Washington winemakers, sample hundreds of award winning wines and learn from leading experts in the field. We are introducing some changes to Taste Washington this year to bring the focus back to wine and create a more relaxed, intimate tasting experience for attendees. With more than 380 wineries located in virtually every corner of the state, our 'Ultimate Wine Tour' theme shines a spotlight on the many touring regions wine enthusiasts can visit, and reinforces the message that Washington state truly is wine country.

It's casual upscale bistro dining with a good wine list.

It's been incredibly satisfying to see music lovers embrace the concept - we look forward to another summer of great music, food and wine in the best wineries.

It needs to be adjusted to accommodate a growing wine industry.

I've got the keys to three doctors' homes. You know what kind of wine they got? I've been drinking wine and eating cheese with my friends each night.

I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they've gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the colour of my mind.

It's very much the same process, although there is a lot more understanding of it. If you go back and look at (early records of wine making), they knew a lot from a very early period, and they used a lot of the same procedures.

It's wonderful for us, but also they're pretty anxious to open up the market and get their wine in here. We're the vehicle.

I wanted to provide a place where people could come in, have a nice meal, and maybe have a glass of wine with their meal.

They came over for one glass of wine and stayed until midnight. They drank all my wine, smoked all my cigars and ate all my food. We were all supposed to go out to eat, but I'm still waiting to go. They brought their kids over and made my wife watch them.

They are not, the days of wine and roses: Out of a misty dream, Our path emerges for a while, then closes, Within a dream

There's time, but the clock is ticking. We are fearful of what might happen in the absence of legislation. It could leave us open to lawsuits and judicial rulings which might severely damage the Illinois wine industry.

There was an old saying that 95 percent of all wine sold is in the Chicago metro area, with 5 percent of that outside Chicago well, 3 percent of that is Champaign-Urbana. The strongest wine market outside Chicago is Champaign-Urbana.

The reuse of the equipment from the kit will make subsequent batches of wine cost only $45 to $85, in the neighborhood of $2 per bottle.

I want to talk with pitchers to gain trust. Even if they don't understand what I say, they'll know I'm eager to communicate. I've heard Jamie Moyer likes wine, so I've decided to drink wine too.

Every tub smells of the wine it holds

Incredibly efficient, there's almost no loss of wine in this system, they have the ability to re-introduce wine into the system just in case there is any over filling or anything like that.

In my fantasy, you look good entwinedIn my hair and skin and spit and sweat and spilled red wine

I'm proposing increases that amount to a nickel on a can of pop or beer - and you all know that I love soda pop. I drink Pepsis all the time and I'm willing to pay 5 cents more. We're proposing a quarter on a good bottle of wine and less than $1.50 on a fifth of hard liquor, the good stuff.

I never eat between meals and I don't eat junk food. I mostly stick to fish, vegetables and chicken. But I do love chocolate, coffee, red wine and cigarettes...

I may not here omit those two main plagues, and common dotages of human kind, wine and women, which have infatuated and besotted myriads of people. They go commonly together.

I had about half a bottle of red wine and it kind of took the edge off me,

If you are making a product to sell to a winery, you absolutely have to be there. Everyone in the wine industry is going to be there. It's going to be a full two days of nonstop meetings and talking with customers.

If you look at what's growing in the beer industry, it's import and craft beers. They're higher priced and perceived as luxury products. And so if you look at the whole alcohol category, people perceive wine and spirits as high-end, so there's some trading up between beer and wine and spirits.

If you've been to a wine bar or to Starbucks, there may have been one in there.

Interest in understanding the global wine market is keen, and globalization and its challenges were recurring topics during the Unified Symposium. However, overall there's a strong sense of optimism that the American grape and wine community is well positioned for success.

Instead my life has been like being mashed and mashed through a wine press until finally there will be nothing left but the desire to live by divine will, knowing what I'm really supposed to do and doing it.

In reality, sparkling wine can be every bit as good as champagne.

I remember on that occasion, Roz invited a group of friends to gather around a festive table for a meal, with flowers, wine bottle and a portrait of Edith as the centerpiece.

I love the fact that she's recognizing wine period.

In the long run, a ban is inevitable. Where there's been a ban elsewhere in the world, revenues dip then bounce back. In our non-smoking pubs we're getting more women, more families and selling more wine and food.

In the case of the wine cellar, it is so private and quiet, and it's away from the maddening crowd. There is nobody walking by. The atmosphere is tremendous. It is a very rare place to have a working wine cellar to have your dinner in.

The best thing about Ikea - I'm going to do a quiz here - the names. Do you know what a Floria Fin (ph) is? It's a candle. A Pogestra (ph) - table. A Bar Grick (ph) is a plate, an Eterleeg (ph) is a wine glass and a Scuggle (ph) is the name of my third nipple.

I'm very surprised - midway through my second glass of red wine last night, I really didn't think I'd be standing here with a trophy in my hands.

No use complaining, don't you worry, don't you wine. Cause if you get it wrong, you'll get it right next time.

Hey, my love, you came to me like wine comes to the mouth grown tired of water all the time You quench my heart. And love, you quench my mind.

Go on, have a glass of wine with dinner. What is wine, anyway? Pure grapes. A glass of wine is much better for you than a Coke.

I have the ability to create and be in touch with God. I can't change bread and wine into body and blood, but I can take the scum or the slime of the earth and make it into a man or woman.

Before I was born my mother was in great agony of spirit and in a tragic situation. She could take no food except iced oysters and champagne. If people ask me when I began to dance, I reply 'In my mother's womb, probably as a result of the oysters and Champagne.'

Art's a staple. Like bread or wine or a warm coat in winter. Those who think it is a luxury have only a fragment of a mind. Man's spirit grows hungry for art in the same way his stomach growls for food.

Most of us sleepwalk through our lives. We take all its glories, its wine, food, love, and friendship, its sunsets and its stars, its poetry and fireplaces and laughter, for granted. We forget that experience is not, or should not be, a casual encounter, but rather an embrace. Consequently, for too many of us, when we come to the end, we wonder where the years have gone. And we suspect we have not lived.

Of course, they (i. e., demons) had always been observed with some regularity, but that could usually be ascribed to an overabundance of piety or wine or imagination. Take your pick.

We could park the van and walk to town, find cheapest bottle of wine that we could find. And talk about the road behind, how getting lost is not a waste of time.

In all this welter of women I still hadn't got one for myself, not that I was trying too hard, but sometimes I felt lonely to see everybody paired off and having a good time and all I did was curl up in my sleeping bag in the rosebushes and sigh and say bah. For me it was just red wine in my mouth and a pile of firewood

Aw I don't wanta go to no such thing, I just wanta drink in alleys.'... But you'll miss all that, just for some old wine.' There's wisdom in wine, goddam it!' I yelled. 'Have a shot!

Oh my God, sociability is just a big smile and a big smile is nothing but teeth, I wish I could just stay up here and rest and be kind." But somebody brought up some wine and that started me off.

There's wisdom in wine.

Happy. Just in my swim shorts, barefooted, wild-haired, in the red fire dark, singing, swigging wine, spitting, jumping, running -- that's the way to live. All alone and free in the soft sands of the beach....

The most savory grape, the one that produces the wines with best texture and aroma, the sweetest and most generous, doesn't grow in rich soil but in stony land; the plant, with a mother's obstinacy, overcomes obstacles to thrust its roots deep into the ground and take advantage of every drop of water. That, my grandmother explained to me, is how flavors are concentrated in the grape.

Charlie doesn't touch anything now, and Mick will only have a glass of wine on a night off. But then it's easier for them; alcohol is in my genes.

He said treat them like your girlfriends. Wine and dine them, do whatever you've got to do. They're your best friends.

Good wine is okay but if you keep drinking the wine the bottle will empty.

Through it all, this wild life on and off the road , through Jordanian deserts , Spanish islands, German prisons, Caribbean tax scams, halls of fame,wine, women, and all the drugs under the sun - one constant companion has never abandoned me . My first true love : singing Its been the savior of many poor boy, and God I know I'm one

Everything rests on the poisoned wine. If it were just the queen, I could force it down her gullet, but Declan Broekhart would run me through with that damned ceremonial sword, and if his wife's stares were daggers, he'd be dead already.

But I saw the pain and sadness in everything, and swirled it round my mouth like a fine wine.

You're drinking vintage Elvis Presley wine.

If I am frightened then I can hide it If I am crying, I'll call it laughter If I am haunted, I'll call it my imaginary friend If I am bleeding I'll call it wine But if you leave me then I am broken And if I'm broken then only death remains

Everything comes to an end. A good bottle of wine, a summer’s day, a long-running sitcom, one’s life, and eventually our species. The question for many of us is not that everything will come to an end but when. And can we do anything vaguely useful until it does?

Wine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man.

Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?

Wine is a bride who brings a great dowry to the man who woos her persistently and gracefully.

Limbo is the place. In Limbo one has natural happiness without the beatific vision; no harps; no communal order; but wine and conversation and imperfect, various humanity. Limbo for the unbaptized, for the pious heathen, the sincere sceptic.

Port is not for the very young, the vain and the active. It is the comfort of age and the companion of the scholar and the philosopher

When I demanded of my friend what viands he preferred, He quoth: "A large cold bottle, and a small hot bird!"

There is a glorious candor in an honest quart of wine, A certain inspitation which I cannot well define.

Like the sacramental use of water and bread and wine, friendship takes what's common in human experience and turns it into something holy.

There are four types of students: the sponge, the funnel, the strainer, and the sieve. The sponge, which soaks up everything; the funnel, which takes in at one end and lets out at the other; the strainer, which permits the wine to pass out and retains the lees; and the sieve, which separates the bran from the fine flour.

I'm really, really dumb about describing wine, but I like wine that's full-bodied and dry.

Side by side with the human race there runs another race of beings, the inhuman ones, the race of artists who, goaded by unknown impulses, take the lifeless mass of humanity and by the fever and ferment with which they imbue it turn this soggy dough into bread and the bread into wine and the wine into song.

Doctor says to a man, "You're pregnant!" The man says, "How does a man get pregnant?" The doctor says, "The usual way - a little wine, a little dinner...."

The usual way - a little wine, a little dinner....

Gaming, women, and wine, while they laugh they make men pine.

Wine makes all sorts of creatures at table.

You cannot know wine by the barrell.

I went to college in Connecticut, which was when I still lived at home. I worked at a video store, a wine store, and did odd jobs here and there like landscaping.

Wine is like beer except different.

The city?" Tyrion was lost. "What city would that be?" "King's Landing. I am sending you to court." It was the last thing Tyrion Lannister would ever have anticipated. He reached for his wine, considered for a moment as he sipped. "And what am I to do there?" "Rule," his father said curtly.

Jon:'What are you doing up there? Why aren't you at the feast?' Tyrion: 'Too hot, too noisy, and I'd drunk too much wine', the dwarf told him. 'I learned long ago that it is considered rude to vomit on your brother.

They say night's beauties fade at dawn, and the children of wine are oft disowned in the morning light.

Wine makes all things possible. GEORGE R. R. MARTIN, The Mystery Knight A cold wind was blowing from the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things. GEORGE R. R. MARTIN, A Game of Thrones Nothing burns like the cold. GEORGE R. R. MARTIN, A Game of Thrones Laughter is poison to fear.

Fantasy is silver and scarlet, indigo and azure, obsidian veined with gold and lapis lazuli. Reality is plywood and plastic, done up in mud brown and olive drab. Fantasy tastes of habaneros and honey, cinnamon and cloves, rare red meat and wines as sweet as summer. Reality is beans and tofu, and ashes at the end.

Wine makes all things possible.

Everything's better with some wine in the belly.

A seasoned woman is spicy. She has been marinated in life experiences. Like a complex wine, she can be alternately sweet, tart, sparkling, mellow. She is both maternal and playful. Assured, alluring, and resourceful.

If what makes you happy is going out and living it up and spending all your money on wine, women, and song, the world doesn't need that. But on the other hand, if you give your life to good works - you go and work in a leper colony and it doesn't make you happy - the chances are you're not doing it very well.

Someone said drink the water, but I will drink the wine Someone said take a poor man, the rich don't have a dime Go fool yourself, if you will, I just haven't got the time I'll give you back your water, and I will take the wine.

I'm not claiming to be sober. I think that that would be misleading. I drink alcohol. My father has a vineyard, and the wine is really delicious, by the way.

Life is good, but Wine is better.

If you calculate every single thing you could possibly need in your life, you would need no more than 200 people to keep all that afloat: a doctor, food, wine, cheese-eating friends, the person who makes paper, the shoemaker...

guilt to motherhood is like grapes to wine

I have had my dance with Folly, nor do I shirk the blame; I have sipped the so-called Wine of Life and paid the price of shame; But I know that I shall find surcease, the rest my spirit craves, Where the rainbows play in the flying spray, 'Mid the keen salt kiss of the waves.

Drunken with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you will. But be drunken.