Oenophiles Quotes

#1. Whisky nosers, as they called themselves, eschewed what they saw as the pretentiousness of wine vocabulary. While oenophiles resorted to recondite adjectives, whisky nosers spoke the language of everyday life, detecting hints of stale seaweed, or even diesel fuel.

Alexander McCall Smith

#2. The end of knowledge is power ... the scope of all speculation is the performing of some action or thing to be done.

Thomas Hobbes

#3. Let's discuss Jeb Bush's terrible week. I'm really troubled by his awful performances, and I'm generally a person who takes bad news about politicians pretty well.

Anonymous

#4. People just try to put you in a box and I don't see myself in any particular box. I'm making my own box. There's no way I would be able to make the music I'm making without dancing ...

Jillian Hervey

#5. If you can achieve puberty, you can achieve a past.

Robert Harling

#6. Fasting is not nearly so deadly as feasting.

J. Harold Smith

#7. There are those who have a desire to love, but do not have the capacity to love

Giovanni Papini

#8. In the first speech I delivered as health secretary, I made one thing perfectly clear: we need a cultural shift in the NHS: from a culture responsive mainly to orders from the top down to one responsive to patients, in which patient safety is put first.

Andrew Lansley

#9. Sometimes one can be so closely involved with things that the larger context is lost to view.

Brian Ferneyhough