Robert M. Parker, Jr. quote: "When I put my nose in a glass, it's like tunnel vision. I move into another world, where everything around me is just gone, and every bit of mental energy is focused on that wine."

Although the French appellation system has its roots in the 1923 system created in Chateauneuf-du-Pa...
ROBERT M. PARKER, JR.

I like white wine when it's young and vigorous. I don't think you should cellar white wine a...
ROBERT M. PARKER, JR.

As far as vintage Champagne goes, I loved 1990; it's a great, great vintage. I bought a lot of 1...
ROBERT M. PARKER, JR.

There is no question that Australia's most dramatic assault on the world market has been with it...
ROBERT M. PARKER, JR.

Trevisan is one of the few Paso Robles producers to recognize the potential of the region's old-...
ROBERT M. PARKER, JR.

I believe that the responsibility of the winemaker is to take that fruit and get it into the bottle ...
ROBERT M. PARKER, JR.

No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures; no ascetic can be considered reliabl...
ROBERT M. PARKER, JR.

What's important in a cellar is having wines that have a broad range of drinkability, which Cali...
ROBERT M. PARKER, JR.

I think the Japanese love young, tannic red wines much more than most Americans do. Perhaps it is be...
ROBERT M. PARKER, JR.

Wine writers have been around for almost as long as there has been wine, but in the past, generally ...
ROBERT M. PARKER, JR.

My first trip to Japan, in 1998, began with an enormous crowd of Japanese paparazzi and television c...
ROBERT M. PARKER, JR.

Back in 1990, there were fewer than 20 wineries in and around Paso Robles, a farming community midwa...
ROBERT M. PARKER, JR.

Generally speaking, when Australian winemakers try to make delicate, European-styled wines of finess...
ROBERT M. PARKER, JR.

When I started in 1978, the greatest wine in Spain, Vega Sicilia, wasn't even imported to the Un...
ROBERT M. PARKER, JR.

In the wine world, crusaders would have wine consumers believe that the only wines of merit are some...
ROBERT M. PARKER, JR.

The first famous winemaking consultant was the late professor Emile Peynaud, who reigned over Bordea...
ROBERT M. PARKER, JR.

It's nearly impossible to believe just how provincial the wine world was in 1978, the year I lau...
ROBERT M. PARKER, JR.

Part of life is to live it, and enjoy it, and seize the moments that you find particularly pleasing.
ROBERT M. PARKER, JR.

The best Chateauneuf-du-Papes are among the most natural expressions of grapes, place and vintage. C...
ROBERT M. PARKER, JR.

As I've grown older, I've developed an appreciation for wines that are immediately gratifyin...
ROBERT M. PARKER, JR.

Nineteen-eighty-two is a vintage of legendary proportions for all levels of the Bordeaux hierarchy. ...
ROBERT M. PARKER, JR.

If California ever developed a vineyard rating system, Saxum's James Berry Vineyard would be cla...
ROBERT M. PARKER, JR.

There is nothing in the world like the extraordinary Shiraz and Grenache wines from South Australia....
ROBERT M. PARKER, JR.

No scoring system is perfect, but a system that provides for flexibility in scores, if applied by th...
ROBERT M. PARKER, JR.

The premise of Nossiter in 'Mondovino' would have been a lot more accurate when I started wr...
ROBERT M. PARKER, JR.

...the Christian life in its fullness is far more than being active in a Christian community, affirm...
M. ROBERT MULHOLLAND JR.

Our cross is the point of our unlikeness to the image of Christ, where we must die to self in order ...
M. ROBERT MULHOLLAND JR.

There are technical ebbs and flows in the market and this is a technical bounce.
ROBERT PARKER

He is a very dangerous individual and we are very glad to have him back in custody.
ROBERT PARKER

Well, you give me too much credit for foresight and planning. I haven't got a clue what the hell I'm...
ROBERT PARKER

This is not a screenplay. I don't do twenty drafts. I'm not going to show this to you until it's pub...
ROBERT PARKER

My older son who is, I think, here tonight, is forty-one years old. Which is odd because so am I.
ROBERT PARKER

Their Spenser, Robert Urich, is big, graceful, good-looking and young (a runner-up in the Robert B. ...
ROBERT PARKER

It's tempting to say the Ph.D. didn't have an effect, but it's not so. I think whatever resonance I ...
ROBERT PARKER

I don't imagine I would have chosen to spend the last twenty-six years of my life writing about a ch...
ROBERT PARKER

There are a lot of people, who want to be writers, who stumble at a blank page. You could imagine an...
PHILIP M. PARKER

Yeah. Floyd is his batman."
His what?"
Batman, like in the British army, each officer had ...
ROBERT B. PARKER

Very few of my books are about who stole the Maltese Falcon.
ROBERT B. PARKER

College had little effect on me. I'd have been the same writer if I'd gone to MIT, except I&...
ROBERT B. PARKER

Well, you give me too much credit for foresight and planning. I haven't got a clue what the hell...
ROBERT B. PARKER

It was not just that Ross Macdonald taught us how to write; he did something much more, he taught us...
ROBERT B. PARKER

Pearl was hurring around my apartment, sniffing everything, including Rich Beaumont and Patty Giacom...
ROBERT B. PARKER

I pulled the MG in beside him at the curb and he got in.
"This thing ain't big enough for eithe...
ROBERT B. PARKER

'All Our Yesterdays' was unquestionably the best work I have ever done. And the reading publ...
ROBERT B. PARKER

If you want to write, write it. That's the first rule. And send it in, and send it in to someone...
ROBERT B. PARKER

Thank you sir," she said. "I hope that your friend feels better soon."
I shrugged. "The ways of...
ROBERT B. PARKER

How about the wrong crowd," I said. "You getting in with them?"
"Not much luck," Paul said. "I'...
ROBERT B. PARKER

I took my .38 out and looked to see that there were bullets in all the proper places. I knew there w...
ROBERT B. PARKER

Has anyone ever told you," I said, "that you coalesce reality?"
"No. They only say that I'm goo...
ROBERT B. PARKER

After a while I got hungry and went to the kitchen. There was nothing to eat. I drank another beer a...
ROBERT B. PARKER

...You have any suggestions, make them. I'm in charge but humble. No need to salute when you see me....
ROBERT B. PARKER

When the guy kissed her, Cassidy felt a stab of pain that was close to physical, and therefore withi...
JOHN L. PARKER JR.

I know very little about acting. I'm just an incredibly gifted faker.
ROBERT DOWNEY, JR.

I think I just never wanted to be the creepy guy where people say, 'Why do his leading ladies ke...
ROBERT DOWNEY, JR.

A lot of my peer group think I'm an eccentric bisexual, like I may even have an ammonia-filled tenta...
ROBERT DOWNEY JR.

[Addiction's] not about placating the bad dog - it's about feeding the good dog. You still have to f...
ROBERT DOWNEY JR.

My parents were admirers of President Roosevelt and the New Deal. Their parents and most of our rela...
ROBERT LUCAS, JR.

When I was 7 years old, I announced that I was going to write a book about pollution. I didn't g...
ROBERT KENNEDY, JR.

I read the script for Wonder Boys, and I said that was almost perfect, it was so classy, cool and fu...
ROBERT DOWNEY, JR.

Dad's Jewish and Irish, Mom's German and Scotch. I couldn't say I was anything. My last ...
ROBERT DOWNEY, JR.

If I could eat whatever I wanted every day, I would have Domino's pizza with pasta carbonara ins...
ROBERT DOWNEY, JR.

Our landscapes connect us to our history; they are the source of our character as a peopl, as well a...
ROBERT KENNEDY, JR.

I have the kind of life where I can take my kids on trips with me. I can involve them in my work. I&...
ROBERT KENNEDY, JR.

My father thought of America as the last best hope for humanity. He believed we had a historical mis...
ROBERT KENNEDY, JR.

When my father started talking about strip mining in the Appalachia back in the '60s, I remember...
ROBERT KENNEDY, JR.

There's many, many people who have been through a lot worse things than I went through. I lost m...
ROBERT KENNEDY, JR.

I always knew that I was going be an environmental advocate when I was very young.
ROBERT KENNEDY, JR.

I'm comfortable reading science and dissecting it and discerning the difference between junk sci...
ROBERT KENNEDY, JR.

Obama came in really wanting to change things, but he hit a wall of corporate money, oil and coal mo...
ROBERT KENNEDY, JR.

Lots of countries, like Israel, live with terrorism every day, and it doesn't impact their integ...
ROBERT KENNEDY, JR.

At the time of the Civil War, there were six democracies in the face of the planet. Today, there'...
ROBERT KENNEDY, JR.

Democracy is messy, and it's hard. It's never easy.
ROBERT KENNEDY, JR.

Water keepers patrol local waterways and prosecute polluters. Essentially, they act as the community...
ROBERT KENNEDY, JR.

We have very strong environmental laws in the United States and elsewhere around the world. The prob...
ROBERT KENNEDY, JR.

If you work hard at anything, you're going to experience some success. And the greatest gift is ...
ROBERT KENNEDY, JR.

In 1932, the predecessor organization, the CDC, took 299 black sharecroppers from the South who had ...
ROBERT KENNEDY, JR.

I think global warming is the gravest threat. With global warming, it's the product of a war bet...
ROBERT KENNEDY, JR.

A lot of life is about trying to turn bad experiences into something good. Usually if you work at it...
ROBERT KENNEDY, JR.

Thimerosal is a mercury-based preservative that was in many American vaccines until 2003. It was rem...
ROBERT KENNEDY, JR.

I'm very pro vaccine. I get all six of my kids vaccinated. I believe vaccines save millions of l...
ROBERT KENNEDY, JR.

PBS was not a left-wing ideology. I mean, Air America was, but PBS was not. But anybody who tells th...
ROBERT KENNEDY, JR.

Democracy is about institutions: it's about having things like schools and judiciary and the For...
ROBERT KENNEDY, JR.

There were a lot of years that I was trying to do things that other people wanted me to do. But you ...
ROBERT KENNEDY, JR.

I think that the power is the principle. The principle of moving forward, as though you have the con...
ROBERT DOWNEY, JR.

I think that we all do heroic things, but hero is not a noun, it's a verb.
ROBERT DOWNEY, JR.

I think life changes every year. This is just a little more comfortable.
ROBERT DOWNEY, JR.

I always saw pollution as theft, and I always thought, 'Why should somebody be able to pollute t...
ROBERT KENNEDY, JR.

I'm not 40 yet. I wouldn't even bother comparing myself to Chaplin.
ROBERT DOWNEY, JR.

I was kind of like chasing my tail and trying to do the right thing, and was a little bit stupid. Or...
ROBERT DOWNEY, JR.

There is abundant science out there that connects mercury exposure in vaccines to not only autism, b...
ROBERT KENNEDY, JR.

I think I've been lucky, being my frequent appearances on Court TV have brought to me another le...
ROBERT DOWNEY, JR.

I've always been a fella who put most of my eggs in one basket and then take a dump in the baske...
ROBERT DOWNEY, JR.

It's hard to get out of the barrel. It's slippery around the edges and people are happy to s...
ROBERT DOWNEY, JR.

I obtained a Woodrow Wilson Doctoral Fellowship and entered the graduate program in History at the U...
ROBERT LUCAS, JR.

I just don't like big guys who speak cryptically and act like they understand the language bette...
ROBERT DOWNEY, JR.

If someone really takes a risk, it doesn't get dismissed. That's what happened when the Osca...
ROBERT DOWNEY, JR.

There are some parents who have really done it right and told their kid, 'You know, we have this...
ROBERT DOWNEY, JR.

The observation that money changes induce output changes in the same direction receives confirmation...
ROBERT LUCAS, JR.

Monetary contractions are attractive as the key shocks in the 1929-1933 years, and in other severe d...
ROBERT LUCAS, JR.

I loved it, it's such fun. I like that people are seeing it and then talking about it. Like when...
ROBERT DOWNEY, JR.

I guess the issue for me is to keep things dynamic.
ROBERT DOWNEY, JR.

From the beginnings of modern monetary theory, in David Hume's marvelous essays of 1752, 'Of...
ROBERT LUCAS, JR.

It is more important to be of service than successful.
ROBERT KENNEDY JR.

If you're raised with a poverty mentality, nothing is going to change it. I do know some really ...
ROBERT DOWNEY, JR.

Does any new parent, even if you're not a first-time parent, ever really know what to do?
ROBERT DOWNEY, JR.

But I think Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang really got that thing where, if a movie reads really funny and then...
ROBERT DOWNEY, JR.

The lesson is that you can still make mistakes and be forgiven.
ROBERT DOWNEY, JR.

I'm in a happy relationship, me and my ex are on really good terms, my kid and I are in a good s...
ROBERT DOWNEY, JR.

When you have a good script you're almost in more trouble than when you have a terrible script.
ROBERT DOWNEY, JR.

With a terrible script you hustle and try to make it better. But with a good script it can be troubl...
ROBERT DOWNEY, JR.

Acting is the most wildly overpaid position imaginable.
ROBERT DOWNEY, JR.

Listen, smile, agree, and then do whatever the fuck you were gonna do anyway.
ROBERT DOWNEY JR.

I was good at math and science, and it was expected that I would attend the University of Washington...
ROBERT LUCAS, JR.

Life is just so painful and messy and hard and worth it and all that stuff.
ROBERT DOWNEY, JR.

There's nothing wrong with cash. It gives you time to think.
ROBERT PRECHTER JR.

It's a very smart and heartfelt movie and that's why, I think, we're all drawn to it. We...
ROBERT DOWNEY, JR.

There hasn't been a nuclear plant proposed since 1973 ... and the reason for it is because it is jus...
ROBERT KENNEDY, JR.

The central predictions of the quantity theory are that, in the long run, money growth should be neu...
ROBERT LUCAS, JR.

I could deal with this [Pokemon] if I smoked a couple of grams of blacktar heroin.
ROBERT DOWNEY JR.

It's a perfect fit. The way Shane thinks and writes is the way I talk.
ROBERT DOWNEY JR.

It's my turn ... to luck out.
ROBERT DOWNEY JR.

I know very little about acting. I'm just an incredibly gifted faker.
ROBERT DOWNEY JR.

(It's) like I've got a shotgun in my mouth, with my finger on the trigger, and I like the taste of g...
ROBERT DOWNEY JR.

It's a very smart and heartfelt movie and that's why, I think, we're all drawn to it. We really show...
ROBERT DOWNEY JR.

But I will agree that I think that things happen with people in relationships, that you might have b...
ROBERT DOWNEY, JR.

Sometimes you just gotta be drop-kicked out of the nest.
ROBERT DOWNEY, JR.

It's no coincidence that three of the top five stock option traders in a recent trading contest were...
ROBERT PRECHTER JR.

It was so nice to go into this fake courtroom [on Ally McBeal]. I immediately went up into the judge...
ROBERT DOWNEY JR.

Good Night. And, Good Luck.
ROBERT DOWNEY JR.

I take some pride in... representing myself exactly how I would like to have my son remember me to h...
ROBERT DOWNEY, JR.

I understand reversal of fortune; that usually has come through my own hand, but you know, you live ...
ROBERT DOWNEY, JR.

I had this bad-boy-from-New York vibe going, dressed like a punk rocker with spiky hair.
ROBERT DOWNEY, JR.

I want to give myself the freedom not to have to be projecting my whole life ahead.
ROBERT DOWNEY, JR.

I've noticed that worrying is like praying for what you don't want to happen.
ROBERT DOWNEY, JR.

Do I want to be a hero to my son? No. I would like to be a very real human being. That's hard en...
ROBERT DOWNEY, JR.

I always think part of success is being able to replicate results, taking what is interesting or via...
ROBERT DOWNEY, JR.

It's interesting when you're old enough to take a new, objective approach looking at your pa...
ROBERT DOWNEY, JR.

I walk by studio heads and they actually look and put their hand out now, like maybe I should be on ...
ROBERT DOWNEY, JR.

Sometimes if you're wanting to look just a little bit taller, then you want to dress with just m...
ROBERT DOWNEY, JR.

Nothing pleases me more than when somebody who was awe-inspired to be working with me realizes I'...
ROBERT DOWNEY, JR.

(It's) like I've got a shotgun in my mouth, with my finger on the trigger, and I like the taste of g...
ROBERT DOWNEY, JR.

The Buddha resides as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle tran...
ROBERT M. PIRSIG

The reality is, the United States has global interests. Our defense budget is about the same as the ...
ROBERT M. GATES

Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.
ROBERT M. PIRSIG

It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, 'Go away, I'm looking for the trut...
ROBERT M. PIRSIG

Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20 -- 20 hindsight. It's good for se...
ROBERT M. PIRSIG

The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puz...
ROBERT M. PIRSIG

It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jero...
ROBERT M. PIRSIG

The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you kno...
ROBERT M. PIRSIG

Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and hanging ar...
ROBERT M. PIRSIG

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
ROBERT M. HUTCHINS

When you educate a man you educate an individual; when you educate a woman you educate a whole fami...
ROBERT M. MACIVER

Somewhere along the way we all go a bit mad. So burn, let go and dive into the horror, because maybe...
ROBERT M. DRAKE

Sometimes the most beautiful people are beautifully broken.
ROBERT M. DRAKE

Sometimes to self-discover you must self-destruct.
ROBERT M. DRAKE

Death is the easy part, the hard part is living and knowing you could be so much more then you’re ...
ROBERT M. DRAKE

She was a beautiful dreamer. The kind of girl, who kept her head in the clouds, loved above the star...
ROBERT M. DRAKE

When you educate a man you educate an individual; when you educate a woman you educate a whole famil...
ROBERT M. MACIVER

Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.
ROBERT M. PIRSIG

Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of real ...
HENRY M. ROBERT

The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.
ROBERT M. PIRSIG

A world community can only exist with world communication, which means something more than extensive...
ROBERT M. HUTCHINS

A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive...
ROBERT M. HUTCHINS

The only Zen you find on tops of mountains is the Zen you bring there
ROBERT M. PIRSIG

If you run from technology, it will chase you.
ROBERT M. PIRSIG

The study of the art of motorcycle maintenance is really a miniature study of the art of rationality...
ROBERT M. PIRSIG

Boredom always precedes a period of great creativity.
ROBERT M. PIRSIG

It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things. The monkey w...
ROBERT M. HUTCHINS

A wild and crazy weekend involves sitting on the front porch, smoking a cigar, reading a book.
ROBERT M. GATES

The best kind of humans are the ones who stay.
ROBERT M. DRAKE

A tamed woman will never leave her mark in the world.
ROBERT M. DRAKE

Well, what I've said is that the war in Iraq will always be clouded by how it began, which was a...
ROBERT M. GATES

You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting...
ROBERT M. PIRSIG

Health care costs are eating the Defense Department alive.
ROBERT M. GATES

The three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alum...
ROBERT M. HUTCHINS

Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view.
ROBERT M. HUTCHINS

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinctio...
ROBERT M. HUTCHINS

I think that Iran with a nuclear weapon is extremely destabilizing. I think it could precipitate a n...
ROBERT M. GATES

Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unset...
ROBERT M. HUTCHINS

This is a do-it-yourself test for paranoia: you know you've got it when you can't think of a...
ROBERT M. HUTCHINS

Defense is not like other discretionary spending.
ROBERT M. GATES

I've been very sensitive for a long time to the repeated pattern, during economic hard times or ...
ROBERT M. GATES

Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.
ROBERT M. PIRSIG

It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts�...
ROBERT M. HUTCHINS

A book of quotations . . . can never be complete.
ROBERT M. HAMILTON

Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20 - 20 hindsight. It's good for see...
ROBERT M. PIRSIG

The funny thing about insane people is that it is kind of the opposite of being a celebrity. Nobody ...
ROBERT M. PIRSIG

If Iraq and Afghanistan have taught us anything in recent history, it is the unpredictability of war...
ROBERT M. GATES

One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. Geometry is not true,...
ROBERT M. PIRSIG

We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been dir...
ROBERT M. HUTCHINS

My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.
ROBERT M. HUTCHINS

Some people have said, in so many words, that I'm kind of wooly-headed in believing that the Ira...
ROBERT M. GATES

The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth, and it goes away. ...
ROBERT M. PIRSIG

I have a Disability yes thats true, but all that really means is I may have to take a slightly diffe...
ROBERT M. HENSEL

Placing one foot in front of the other, I've climbed to higher lengths. Reaching beyond my own limit...
ROBERT M. HENSEL

We, the one's who are challenged, need to be heard. To be seen not as a disability, but as a person ...
ROBERT M. HENSEL

Why, for example, should a group of simple, stable compounds of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitroge...
ROBERT M. PIRSIG

The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away....
ROBERT M. PIRSIG

If there's ever an example that military power alone cannot be successful in Afghanistan, I thin...
ROBERT M. GATES

When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delus...
ROBERT M. PIRSIG

When I put my nose in a glass, it's like tunnel vision. I move into another world, where everything around me is just gone, and every bit of mental energy is focused on that wine.

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