Mondovino Quotes

#1. The premise of Nossiter in 'Mondovino' would have been a lot more accurate when I started writing about wine in 1978 than when the movie was made in 2003. When I started, I was enormously critical of California wines, and I thought the entire wine industry was on a real slippery slope.

Robert M. Parker Jr.

#2. If you won't believe in yourself, who will?

Ishi

#3. There's not a person in history who achieved greatness without choking back some pride, without ever smiling at someone they despised, without playing along even if they hated the very idea of it

S.J. Kincaid

#4. As someone pointed out, you could have an attribute that says 'optimize the heck out of this routine', and your definition of heck would be a parameter to the optimizer.

Larry Wall

#5. If I do marry, I'll expect a pretty serious dowry. I'm talking goats, pigs, chickens, the works.

Dov Davidoff

#6. So, for instance, if you came to me, I'd ask, 'Do you want to write? Do you want to improvise? Why do you want to play this instrument? What do you want to do?'

Ornette Coleman

#7. Miracles come in moments. Be ready and willing.

Wayne Dyer

#8. My father and mother in 1817 were forty-nine days on the road with their emigrant wagons [from Vermont] to Ohio. More than two days for each hour that I spent in the same journey.

Rutherford B. Hayes

#9. You'll still get guys with an array of badges to demonstrate their importance, but that just excludes people. I think fandom is more inclusive now.

Charles Stross

#10. Other things, like capitalism, free enterprise, the economy, currency, the market, are not forces of nature, we invented them. They are not immutable and we can change them.

David Suzuki

#11. What inspired me as a child is the same thing that inspires me now: being nice. I always try to one up everybody with verses and be lyrical and just stand for the art.

Joell Ortiz

#12. The whole point of the Resurrection stories - and the Resurrection itself - is that we don't recognize Jesus when he comes back to us.

Jay Parini

#13. Good is no hermit. It has ever neighbors.

Confucius