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From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.


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I have even written a book about Wine called The Grapes of Ralph.
RALPH STEADMAN You can look in the classifieds in the back of any wine magazine, and there will be ads for wine app...
ED MCCARTHY Wine makes all sorts of creatures at table.
GEORGE HERBERT Where the drink goes in, there the wit goes out.
GEORGE HERBERT The wine in the bottell doth not quench thirst. [The wine in the bottle does not quench thirst.]
GEORGE HERBERT From wine what sudden friendship springs?
JOHN GAY A medium Vodka dry Martini--with a slice of lemon peel. Shaken and not stirred.
IAN FLEMING Bring me wine, but wine which never grew In the belly of the grape, Or grew on vine whose tap-...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON When asked what wines he liked to drink he replied, "That which belongs to another." - Laerti...
LAERTIUS DIOGENES "It wasn't the wine," murmured Mr. Snodgrass in a broken voice, "it was the salmon."
CHARLES DICKENS The conscious water saw its God and blushed. - Richard Crashaw,
RICHARD CRASHAW Ten thousand casks, Forever dribbling out their base contents, Touch'd by the Midas finger of ...
WILLIAM COWPER Sing! Who sings To her who weareth a hundred rings? Ah, who is this lady fine? The Vine...
BARRY CORNWALL (PSEUDONYM OF BRYAN WALLER PROCTER) Sweet is old wine in bottles, ale in barrels.
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) Which cheers the sad, revives the old, inspires The young, makes Weariness forget his toil, An...
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain,...
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) So Noah, when he anchor'd safe on The mountain's top, his lofty haven, And all the passengers ...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring fo...
BIBLE Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth it...
BIBLE Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
BIBLE Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities.
BIBLE Old Simon the cellarer keep a rare store Of Malmsey and Malvoisie.
W.A. BELLAMY Firm and erect the Caledonian stood; Sound was his mutton, and his claret good; "Let him drink...
ANONYMOUS John Barleycorn was a hero bold, Of noble enterprise, For if you do but taste his blood, ...
ROBERT BURNS I said, I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of the boughs thereof; now also thy breasts...
BIBLE I hang no ivie out to sell my wine; The nectar of good wits will sell itself.
ROBERT ALLOTT (ALLOT) Old wine and friends improve with age.
ITALIAN PROVERB I'm really, really dumb about describing wine, but I like wine that's full-bodied and dry.
ESAI MORALES There's always a wine bully. The one person who did read the 'Wine Spectator,' who tells...
GARY VAYNERCHUK In France, I learned about wine and cheese.
WALTER WAGER People mature with age and experience. I hope I more resemble a fine wine than bad vinegar.
RICK KAPLAN I would think so. Like a fine wine, you get better with age. You're comfortable with the system, you...
TOMMY MADDOX I read the Life magazine articles about free love and free dope in California. At age 20 I drove to ...
GLENN FREY Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old a...
FRANCIS BACON Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old ...
FRANCIS BACON The wines were great, and better by the minute, even as the drinkers softened. Just as wines opened ...
ALLEGRA GOODMAN The name 'The Tig' comes from a wine called tignanello, and the first time I had a sip of th...
MEGHAN MARKLE I have this beautiful antique silver wine decanter that I bought at an auction. I always pour wine f...
PAUL LYNDE Growing up, my dad drank a lot of wine, so I got a taste for, and learned how to enjoy it. He spoke ...
TOM ARAYA I had a little epiphany when I was a writer at 'Chicago' magazine. I sat down to dinner at t...
TED ALLEN Age can be wonderful for red wine, but not for spacecraft.
NATHAN MYHRVOLD Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trus...
FRANCIS BACON Age appears to be best in four things, - old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to tr...
ALONSO OF ARAGON ...take about ten of your chosen tablet or capsules with as large a drink of spirits or wine as you ...
DEREK HUMPHRY I was a jazz drummer, and it was my life for a while: what I lived and breathed every day.
DAMIEN CHAZELLE What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
THOMAS MOORE What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine
THOMAS MORE Age is just a number. It's totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine.
JOAN COLLINS Bad news isn't wine. It doesn't improve with age.
COLIN POWELL I'm like a fine wine. I get better with age. The best is yet to come.
RICHELLE MEAD Do not let friars enter your wine cellars for fear they will bless every barrel and change the wine ...
JOHN WYCLIFFE I don't eat shellfish. I drink wine moderately and have one whiskey every evening before dinner.
NORMAN LLOYD I have stolen ideas from every book I have ever read.
PHILIP PULLMAN I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and resto...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Dennis is passionate about the wine business. His experience from a local, state, national and globa...
DON BRADY I think I read about it from a golfer in a magazine, tried it, and it seemed to work for me.
PAUL QUIGLEY I love Hershey's chocolate. I feel the same about chocolate as I do about wine. Connoisseurs lik...
PAULA DEEN I have kept a diary,
WITHNAIL AND I I go to a lot of wine dinners and people are surprised that our wine sells for $25. They're used to ...
DAVE PHILLIPS The first wine I drank, a Chateau Haut-Brion, I was 22, it was my first glass of wine, and I discove...
CAROLE BOUQUET I have eyewitnesses saying that Michael Jackson regularly pours white wine into soda cans. That's 'J...
MAUREEN ORTH I learned early to drink beer, wine and whiskey. And I think I was about 5 when I first chewed tobac...
BABE RUTH Wine, like food, is so emotional. If you think about it, so much of the courting ritual is surrounde...
PADMA LAKSHMI On one occasion some one put a very little wine into a wine cooler, and said that it was sixteen ye...
ATHENAEUS I read my first book on Woodrow Wilson at age 15, and I was hooked.
A. SCOTT BERG Ideas either age like fine wine or rot like potatoes over time.
PAWAN MISHRA Middle age is when you drink wine.... That combined with the health message means that you get a lot...
JON FREDRIKSON As he talked, Pepino roughly diced a concasse into a stainless steel bowl, deftly peeling and deseed...
BRIAN O'REILLY I have read every book in the 'Dune' series and every Anne Rice book.
LORRAINE TOUSSAINT I went to college in Connecticut, which was when I still lived at home. I worked at a video store, a...
CHRISTOPHER ABBOTT A book of verses underneath the bough, A jug of wine, a loaf of bread-and thou.
EDWARD FITZGERALD A book of verses underneath the bough, A jug of wine, a loaf of bread-and thou
EDWARD FITZGERALD When I moved to Paris at 16, I held a dinner party in my first apartment and served only red wine, F...
JERRY HALL I feast on wine and bread, and feasts they are.
MICHELANGELO We supply wine to all the guests - but most of the guests don't bring the wine on. But I drink wine ...
GRAHAM NORTON When I was 17 or 18 I wanted to become a wine expert, and my parents wouldn't let me drink. So I...
GARY VAYNERCHUK A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover.
CLIFTON FADIMAN It made wine tasting and going to Wine Country a great adventure.
BARBARA INSEL Many people who I respected were disappointed when I started 'Wine Library TV.' They thought...
GARY VAYNERCHUK My wife and I really enjoy a glass of red wine. We're too old to drink cheap wine, and we don...
PAUL HENDERSON Bad news isn't wine. It doesn't improve with age.
COLIN POWELL And no man putteth new wine into old bottles: else the new wine doth burst the bottles, and the wine...
BIBLE People still come up to me and say you're the guy who hijacked the Napa Valley Wine Train. That was ...
LANCE CUTLER There is nothing about making wine kosher that needs to be different than making any other wine -- e...
JEFF MORGAN I had about half a bottle of red wine and it kind of took the edge off me,
DUSTIN NGUYEN I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
FRANCIS BACON Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
ATHENAEUS Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
ATHENAEUS Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
FRANCIS BACON SR. I threw the pearl of my soul into a cup of wine. I went down the primrose path to the sound of flute...
OSCAR WILDE From wine also perished the Centaur.
NICARCHUS I read of the Kalamazoo girl who killed herself after reading the book. I am not at all surprised. S...
MARY MACLANE My philosophy from day one is that I can sleep better at night if I can improve an individual's know...
EMERIL LAGASSE Men are like wine. Some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.
POPE JOHN XXIII Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.
POPE JOHN XXIII The nice thing about the wine show is you have owners pouring their wines, and people can ask them q...
MARK ARMSTRONG He will be there to present the wine Saturday and will be wandering around, really making himself av...
AMY FOSTER DEVORE Sweet wine makes drunk, sour wine (insult) is "tetelestai". Life is not about what we have done and ...
INDONESIA123 We lived and breathed acting.
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GARY SHTEYNGART I read real books. On paper. You know, those printed books? I feel like this is the last thing I do ...
GARY SHTEYNGART I think what will happen is that fiction will become more like poetry. As in, the only people who re...
GARY SHTEYNGART I took an acting class with Louise Lasser, Woody Allen's first wife and co-star in many movies. ...
GARY SHTEYNGART American fiction is good. It would be nice if somebody read it.
GARY SHTEYNGART Without humor, I cannot go on and I doubt many of my readers would go on either. Humor is so importa...
GARY SHTEYNGART I just want fiction to remain a vital force for entertainment and not just for contemplation. Both t...
GARY SHTEYNGART If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead... or a really effective oligarch.
GARY SHTEYNGART That's what I always liked about science fiction - you can make the world end. Humour is my mult...
GARY SHTEYNGART I'd love to have a 19th Century Russian book club where all the members had to act like the pret...
GARY SHTEYNGART A lot of the ways of advertising a book - the cover, whether somebody sees it on a subway or sees it...
GARY SHTEYNGART I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them se...
GARY SHTEYNGART In America, everyone writes but no one reads. Everyone's writing all day long - sending emails, ...
GARY SHTEYNGART I don't have many possessions, apart from my books.
GARY SHTEYNGART I love things on the decline because that's really the natural progression of our lives. We'...
GARY SHTEYNGART I love Paul Giamatti - God, that man is like a walking Chekhov. His connection to humanity is unbeli...
GARY SHTEYNGART Silence has been destroyed, but also the idea that it's important to learn how another person th...
GARY SHTEYNGART I write almost entirely in bed or on a couch with my feet up on the coffee table. I feel most creati...
GARY SHTEYNGART Communications devices were always used to effect change, to effect revolution. Telephone, telegraph...
GARY SHTEYNGART The best thing about the iPhone is this that tells me where I am all the time. There's never a n...
GARY SHTEYNGART When civilization takes a nose dive, how can you look away? You've got to be there. You've g...
GARY SHTEYNGART Good fiction makes me turn off all the other parts of my brain, so that I become quiet and submissiv...
GARY SHTEYNGART I like the map feature on the iPhone that tells me where I am, because I travel a lot.
GARY SHTEYNGART In feature films, unless there was a body count, they weren't hiring me to direct it.
GARY SHERMAN