Top 1200 Great Wine Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

I like to keep things simple. It's really about the wine, food and the beach view. Nothing can beat that.

Even more importantly, it's wine, food and the arts. Incorporating those three enhances the quality of life.

You could name the great stars of the silent screen who were finished; the great directors gone; the great title writers who were washed up. But remember this, as long as you live: the producers didn't lose a man. They all made the switch. That's where the great talent is.

I love white Portugal wine better than claret, champagne, or burgundy. I have a sad vulgar appetite.

Women are like wine: strong, spirited, full bodied, intoxicating, and potent. And we never cease to surprise.

I used to drink straight Hennessy, but I started drinking wine and champagne. It's easier to tour like that.

Spritzers are festive yet economical. By adding seltzer and juice, you stretch the number of people a bottle of wine serves.

What I normally do with recording, performing, and touring is my name. It's all on my shoulders. If it's a great show, I'm great. If it's not a great show, I'm not great.

One of my experiences around feminist risk and change is that it's difficult, if not impossible, to put new wine into old wineskins.

I threw the pearl of my soul into a cup of wine. I went down the primrose path to the sound of flutes. I lived on honeycomb.

Reserve is no more essentially connected with understanding than a church organ with devotion, or wine with good-nature.

The truth is that all great men have had great mothers. Great women have had, as a rule, great fathers.

Pour out wine till I become a wanderer from myself; for in selfhood and existence I have felt only fatigue.

My manner of living is plain and I do not mean to be put out of it. A glass of wine and a bit of mutton are always ready.

People mature with age and experience. I hope I more resemble a fine wine than bad vinegar.

When a private talk over a bottle of wine is broadcast on the radio, what can it mean but that the world is turning into a concentration camp?

I enjoyed retirement the right way... linguine con vongole, red wine and plenty of truffle cheese.

The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine.

The camera, you know, will never capture you. Photography, in my experience, has the miraculous power of transferring wine into water.

I told my wife a man is like wine, he gets better with age. She locked me in the cellar.

Sir, I did not count your glasses of wine, why should you number up my cups of tea?

Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.

There's actually a big difference between story and character. A great story doesn't make a great movie. A great script, which defines its moments and characters can become a great movie. You can make a movie that makes a lot of money and it may or may not have great story or great characters.

Beer dulls a memory, brand sets it burning, but wine is the best for a sore heart's yearning.

It was about finding creative, original musicians. Musicians who are strong composers. Flexible, empathetic musicians, who are great individually but who also have a great sense for cooperation and collaboration, great listeners as well as great players.

Wine stimulates the mind and makes it quick with heat; care flees and is dissolved in much drink.

Good Chianti, that aged, majestic and proud wine, enlivens my heart, and frees it painlessly from all fatigue and sadness.

Better one bite at forty, of truths bitter rind, than the hot wine that gushed from the vintage of twenty.

Things of greatest profit are set forth with least price. Where the wine is neat there needeth no live blush.

I was out once and had wine and I got sick to my stomach, and I vowed I would never drink again.

Life is too short, and I'm Italian. I'd much rather eat pasta and drink wine than be a size 0.

Be temperate in your drinking, remembering that too much wine cannot keep either a secret or a promise.

My chosen drink would be a Southern Comfort, lime and lemonade, a dry martini or a good red wine.

I like good food and decent wine as much as Roy Jenkins does, but I keep quiet about it.

My fantasy is to have a restaurant where there are no written menus, but where you just ask people, What are you in the mood for? Fish? Meat? White wine?

My wife will tell you that if you feel my hands before I walk on for a performance, you could chill a bottle of wine.

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.

I've always wanted to improve on the idea of living well, In moderation, wine is good for you - mentally, physically, and spiritually.

The sight of blood to crowds begets the thirst of more, As the first wine-cup leads to the long revel.

If you have to ask someone to change, to tell you they love you, to bring wine to dinner, to call you when they land, you can't afford to be with them.

Let now the chimneys blaze And cups o'erflow with wine; Let well-tuned words amaze With harmony divine.

My wife and I love to host wine and cheese parties. They are simple and elegant and you don't have to put a lot of effort and time into it.

My fantasy is to have a restaurant where there are no written menus, but where you just ask people, 'What are you in the mood for? Fish? Meat? White wine?'

I always knew that food and wine were vital, with my mother being Italian and a good cook.

Wine, women and song have been replaced by prune juice, a heating pad and the Gong Show.

It will be a great accomplishment if I become the best player in the world. But if my children can grow up with great core values and become great people and do good things and are happy, then, man, that would bring me great joy.

When you paint late at night, drinking beer or wine or both, you gotta be very careful to watch what you are doing.

Long before I became 'rich and famous' I just sat round drinking wine and staring at the walls.

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

If wine tells truth - and so have said the wise, It makes me laugh to think how brandy lies!

It is the crushed grape that gives out the blood-red wine: it is the suffering soul that breathes the sweetest melodies.

The trouble with some cooking is that the real flavours get cancelled out by the wine, cream, and butter sauces.

I love the Sonoma wine community. It's like Pixar - nothing competitive, only supportive. They're always rooting for you.

I enjoyed retirement the right way linguine con vongole, red wine and plenty of truffle cheese.

Candlelight and red wine? I don't know. Vulnerability catches me off guard every single time.

I could probably die happy with a cheeseboard and a glass of French red wine - that's my idea of a perfect dinner.

I am thinking about launching a wine website where there is a deal and the crowd can dictate how cheap it can get.

Cannes is a little bit like French wine. There are certain years that people prefer over others.

I thought of calorie-counting as a budget: I was happy to skip bread at dinner so I could 'spend' on a glass of wine.

The Spanish wine, my God, it is foul, catpiss is champagne compared, this is the sulphurous urination of some aged horse.