Good Food Good Wine Quotes

#1. In Spain we have a saying about the essentials of life: good food, good wine, good sex, good sleep.

Antonio Banderas

#2. Tomatoes and oregano make it Italian; wine and tarragon make it French. Sour cream makes it Russian; lemon and cinnamon make it Greek. Soy sauce makes it Chinese; garlic makes it good.

Alice May Brock

#3. Sweet kiss is as sweet the moonbeams kiss the sea.

N.G. Dian

#4. Drinking good wine with good food in good company is one of life's most civilized pleasures.

Michael Broadbent

#5. I can't live without scissors. I don't have any tattoos, but I thought if I ever got a tattoo, it should probably be scissors.

Rebecca Ward

#6. If food is the body of good living, wine is its soul.

Clifton Fadiman

#7. Recently, I was preparing to sing Springsteen's 'If I Should Fall Behind' for a wedding and was unable to get through it without tears. My wife handed me 'Love You Forever.' I read it. I cried. But that cry somehow cured me of crying while singing the song. Go figure.

Clyde Edgerton

#8. Luxury is anything you don't need, right? I mean, you need food, water, clothing, shelter ... but good wine, good food, beautiful interiors, nice clothes; those aren't necessities, they are luxuries - it's all luxury.

Marc Jacobs

#9. The idea of the mulatto has been a gathering point for a wide variety of racial prejudices, fears, myths, and speculations.

Randall Kennedy

#10. Ronda is the place where to go, if you are planning to travel to Spain for a honeymoon or for being with a girlfriend. The whole city and its surroundings are a romantic set ... Nice promenades, good wine, excellent food, nothing to do ...

Ernest Hemingway,

#11. We have to make movies where we do not think this is for the American market or this is for the Chinese market. We have to make a good movie that anyone would just want to sit down and watch because love, language, culture transcend everything.

Michelle Yeoh

#12. If you are in a remote desert island, let your best hope be your own efforts to build a ship instead of waiting for a ship to appear among the fogs!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#13. Adversity makes men wise but not rich.

John Ray

#14. It is not "just beer," it is a noble and ancient beverage which, like wine, food and television advertising, can be extraordinarily good or unmercifully bad.

Stephen Beaumont

#15. It is well known among physicians that the best of the nourishing foods is the one that the Moslem religion forbids, i.e., Wine. It contains much good and light nourishment. It is rapidly digested and helps to digest other foods.

Maimonides

#16. I fell in love with the Mediterranean philosophy of good wine, good food and family.

Stephen White

#17. Robert Pattinson is rebel cool incarnated
the James Dean of the undead.

James Wolcott

#18. Good grief. Did my mother leave me any secrets? My favorite wine. Food. the key to my house. What's left?"
- "Well, we still don't know if you spit or swallow.

Eve Langlais

#19. As we say in the American Institute of Wine and Food, small helpings, no seconds. A little bit of everything. No snacking. And have a good time.

Julia Child

#20. The most important things are actually the easiest to obtain: great friends, good food, and a decent bottle of wine.

Blake Mycoskie

#21. When I pray, I pray believing that God will speak to me and give me an answer to that prayer. That's what a calling is. If I pray, a calling means that I feel like I have a sense from God.

Michele Bachmann

#22. Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.

Alfred Hitchcock

#23. What are you asking God for?" I joked. "A million dollars? Two million?" "I'm not asking Him for anything," he said. "I'm thanking Him for good food and wine, good health and famiglia.

Wally Lamb

#24. One of the odder byways of nonfiction is the dishy memoir by those who have served the great or the near-great.

Robert Gottlieb

#25. I like to eat good food. I cook and collect wine. I like going for long walks when I can.

Eric Allman

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

Robert Mondavi

#27. And the respect which he felt for her high rank, and his veneration for her as his patroness, mingling with a very good opinion of himself, of his authority as a clergyman, and his right as a rector, made him altogether a mixture of pride and obsequiousness, self-importance and humility.

Jane Austen

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

David Steel

#29. She lived frugally, but her meals were the only things on which she deliberately spent her money. She never compromised on the quality of her groceries, and drank only good-quality wines.

Haruki Murakami

#30. The thing I want to know is, if you tell your brain not to do stuff ... and it keeps doing it anyway, does that mean your mind has a mind of its own? And if it does, then who's in charge here, anyway?

Jane Yolen

#31. My dad gave me the gene to enjoy cooking, and to enjoy consuming good food and wine.

Danny Meyer

#32. Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures.

M.F.K. Fisher

#33. Life was too short and too precious to waste making decisions you didn't really want.

J. Sterling

#34. I find a therapy in playing music, in many different ways.

Dave Matthews

#35. If you love food and you love red wine and they put you in France, you're in a good place and you're in a bad place at the same time. You have to weigh yourself every day, and you have to have an alarm number. When you get to that number, you have to start putting it in reverse.

Salma Hayek

#36. Harry had worked his way through the American Dream and come to the conclusion that is was composed of a good lunch and a deep red wine that could soar.

Colum McCann