Breitenbach Winery Quotes

#1. What do you do there, moon, in the sky? Tell me what you do, silent moon. When evening comes you rise and go contemplating wastelands; then you set.

Giacomo Leopardi

#2. Certain creatures laid eggs that were able to endure the dry season. Others survived by burying themselves in mud, simulating death, waiting for the return of rain.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#3. If I were in heaven, Nelly, I should be extremely miserable."
"Because you are not fit to go there," I answered. "All sinners would be miserable in heaven.

Emily Bronte

#4. Eugene, Eugene, Eugene, this is a bad business!

Charles Dickens

#5. You don't have to have clarity," he said, "to take a clear position.

Heather Sellers

#6. The Victorians needed parody. Without it their literature would have been a rank and weedy growth, over-watered with tears.

Stephen Leacock

#7. Boredom is why God invented books.

Julie Schumacher

#8. The subtleties of mathematics defecate the grossness of our apprehension, and supply the elements of a sounder and severer logic.

William Godwin

#9. Someday, someday, this crazy world will have to end,
And our God will take things back that He to us did lend.
And if, on that sad day, you want to scold our God,
Why just go ahead and scold Him. He'll just smile and nod.

Kurt Vonnegut

#10. Whose asshole do I have to tongue punch to get a fucking drink around here?

J.C. Wickhart

#11. I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage that was for six years wonderfully productive of poetry and then ended in tragedy.

Anne Stevenson

#12. The written revelation of God is in the world, but men heed it not. Instead, they look for knowledge where it is not to be found.

Edward J. Young