Green Grapes Quotes

#1. Don't think of Diana Vreeland's memoir as a book; it's more like a lunch. A bit of souffle, a glass of champagne, some green grapes - light, bubbly and slightly tart - all served up by an egocentric but inventive hostess.

Cathleen McGuigan

#2. Those who have no prejudices in themselves do not reject people, and therefore people do not reject them.

Suzuki Shosan

#3. Humiliation, slavery, fear have perverted us to the bone; we no longer look like men ... Men must be granted the respect due to them.

Mohammed Dib

#4. The fallen hazel-nuts, Stripped late of their green sheaths, The grapes, red-purple, Their berries Dripping with wine, Pomegranates already broken, And shrunken fig, And quinces untouched, I bring thee as offering.

Hilda Doolittle

#5. The words when I said them felt no different than they had the night before, but their meaning was clearer.

B.R. Sanders

#6. Come on, let's go meet the guy who thinks he's my better half . And dear God, I apologize ahead of time if he starts talking to you about how many eight-point bucks he's planning to hunt this weekend.

J. Lynn

#7. Love is blind
and lovers cannot see
the pretty follies
that themselves commit

William Shakespeare

#8. I personally find the whole destiny thing to be overrated. It rarely ends well and involves extensive death and sacrifice for the greater good. None of which is really my thing.

Rhonda Sermon

#9. Because I'm too drunk to feel the pain if you hit me, and if you kill me I'll be glad to be dead.

Anthony Burgess

#10. History almost everywhere is tragic and ironic, but in America the contrasts are more stark because we set such high ideals.

Rinker Buck

#11. Don't be consumed by the fire of jealousy, use that fire to chart your own path to success.

Vinita Kinra

#12. God has set the type of marriage through creation. Each creature seeks its perfection in another.

Martin Luther

#13. He who is (ever ready to) speak about it does not know it.

Lao-Tzu

#14. It's weird because movie-making, and especially movie theaters, have always been so old-school, and it wasn't until 3-D that a lot of them were forced to have digital projectors and even digital distribution.

Jon M. Chu

#15. We can't act until we know who we are and what we believe.

Marian Deegan

#16. An idolatrous attachment can lead you to break any promise, rationalize any indiscretion, or betray any other allegiance, in order to hold on to it. It may drive you to violate all good and proper boundaries. To practice idolatry is to be a slave.

Timothy Keller