Initialled Wine Quotes

#1. Late season fruits.
The blood orange has its admirer, who suck it smugly. Cooks stalk it; they'd like to put it in some tartare sauce. However, some, like me, turn their noses up. In silence they mould bits of bread into balls, delighting in their work, then chuck them in God's face.

Claude Cahun

#2. I mistook you for a metaphor.

Rachel Hartman

#3. When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So I sat down and wrote 1,700 pages of sheer psychotherapy drivel. It was first person, and there would be pages about wet socks and cold feet.

Karl Marlantes

#4. I don't understand the mentality of a rock fan, being obsessed with two or three songs from 25 years ago. I'm not that kind of a fan.

Sebastian Bach

#5. My mother's father drank and her mother was an unhappy, neurotic woman, and I think she has lived all her life afraid of anyone who drinks for fear something like that might happen to her.

John Hurt

#6. All of my characters are a little bit based on people I know in real life. You know when you do that you have to change the character a little bit in case your friend or your relative reads the book, because you don't want them to know you wrote about them ... They might get mad.

Meg Cabot

#7. You cannot expect others to believe in you until you believe in yourself.

Orrin Woodward

#8. The way I make art - the way a lot of people make art - is as an extension of language and communication, where references are incredibly important.

Shepard Fairey

#9. I do think that a minister who can preach a sermon without addressing sinners does not know how to preach.

Charles Spurgeon

#10. Oh, I forgot to tell you the rest of it
- he's a widower now, so they can ride off together into the sunset, their wedding rings glinting.

Brenda Joyce

#11. You know, when you see something from the inside, you see all the corruption.

Jeffrey Goldberg

#12. I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.

Aaron Douglas

#13. In reality the monk abandons the world only in order to listen more intently to the deepest and most neglected voices that proceed from its inner depth.

Thomas Merton

#14. I wanted to emulate my father. I wanted to be as tough as he was. I wanted to do the things that he did. I watched him.

Arnold Palmer