Quotes About Chianti

#1. After World War II, a lot of people moved to the cities for work and abandoned the old vineyards. Then in the 1950s and 1960s, wineries were paid to produce volume at a cheap price. That's when the Lambruscos and bad Chianti were popular.

Joe Bastianich

#2. Well into the 1980s, New Orleans restaurants continued to list "wop salad" on their menus and a glass of Chianti could be had by calling for a "dago red.

James Gill

#3. I like cast iron coated with enamel for longevity and forgiveness if I happen to take my eyes off the prize while pouring Chianti.

Mario Batali

#4. Some people drip wax on themselves like a human chianti bottle to see if they feel anything ... .but getting a wicker basket to fit them is a fiasco

Josh Stern

#5. Good Chianti, that aged, majestic and proud wine, enlivens my heart, and frees it painlessly from all fatigue and sadness.

Francesco Redi

#6. Love endeth like the chianti flask, its drops are bitter.

Gelett Burgess

#7. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti

Thomas Harris

#8. Well, you know, when you go into a restaurant, one of the scariest things is the wine list, so whenever I'm really feeling intimidated, I'll just pick a wine type, like a Chianti or Brunello or a Burgundy, and I'll pick a year that's missing and ask for that one.

Alton Brown

#9. All my wife has ever taken from the Mediterranean - from that whole vast intuitive culture - are four bottles of Chianti to make into lamps, and two china condiment donkeys labelled Sally and Peppy.

Peter Shaffer

#10. As Geography without History seemeth a carkasse without motion; so History without Geography wandreth as a Vagrant without a certaine habitation.

John Smith

#11. Our souls already know each other, don't they?' he whispered. 'It's our bodies that are new.

Karen Ross

#12. The simple everyday experiences become the doorway to new thoughts and inspirations.

E.A. Bucchianeri

#13. Do not believe hastily.

Ovid

#14. Our parents had to drive us to the gig, or even go in with us because of the liquor laws. The owners were really scared to death that we'd drink. We usually just went out somewhere and smoked weed. I don't smoke anymore, but back then we used to smoke quite a lot.

Dexter Romweber

#15. In Russia it is always the future that is thought of. It is the crops next year, it is the comfort that will come in ten years, it is the clothes that will be made very soon. If ever a people took its energy from hope, it is the Russian people.

John Steinbeck

#16. The highway of life was littered with the roadkill of those who didn't know when to change lanes.

Karen White

#17. I think perfection is ugly. Somewhere in the things humans make, I want to see scars, failure, disorder, distortion.

Yohji Yamamoto

#18. Whatever people are doing, they're probably going to be doing it five years from now. You have your banker, your general store runner, the principal of the school, and things of that sort. It's nice to see that, and to get old with other people.

Valerie June

#19. But how can I give to God what is rightfully His? There is only one way; that is in service to others.

Charles L. Allen