Quotes About Cognac

#1. One scholar used sales figures from the French company Hennessy to estimate that Kim's annual cognac budget before the sanctions could have been as high as $800,000 a year.

Anonymous

#2. You'd think they would train these SOE girls better, it's just sloppy.' Hans sipped his cognac. 'She looked the wrong way crossing the road, silly girl.

Kate Lord Brown

#3. I tell you Dain is a splendid catch. I advise you to set your hooks and reel him in."
Jessica took a long swallow of her cognac. "This is not a trout, Genevieve. This is a great, hungry shark."
"Then use a harpoon.

Loretta Chase

#4. No, no, we are definitely writ on water. Or cognac
if we've any luck at all.

Jess Walter

#5. I'll be damned if I'm the weak link in a line of cognac drinkers.

Heather Lyons

#6. These ante meridiem cats, insomniacs ...
Four in the mornin' we throwin back some Cognac juice.

Prodigy

#7. Kim Jong Il made his staff call him "dear" and spent the day drinking cognac. It's like I have a twin, ladies and gentlemen.

David Letterman

#8. The great thing about making cognac is that it teaches you above everything else to wait-man proposes, but time and God and the seasons have got to be on your side.

Jean Monnet

#9. I am essence of Rose Solitude
my cheeks are laced with cognac
my hips sealed with five satin nails
I carry dreams and romance of new fools and old
flames
between the musk of fat
and the side pocket of my mink tongue.

Jayne Cortez

#10. A city of squalls, foggy mornings, intervals of blue and white so immaculate the eyes ached. A city of readers, coffee drinkers, kissers on sidewalks, sad faces at wet windows. A city of umbrellas, woolen scarves, raincoats, cigarettes, wineglasses, cognac.

Keith Miller

#11. If life is a birthday cake let my face be smeared with its icing of cognac and kindness.

Aberjhani

#12. don't swill my best cognac. You must savour each drop."
"Savour like you do a man".

Astrid Cooper

#13. my brother's cognac and tobacco talk

Charles Dickens

#14. Mir astronaut Jerry Linenger writes in his memoir that he was surprised to find a bottle of cognac in one arm of his spacesuit and a bottle of whiskey in the other. (Linenger was the Frank Burns of space exploration:

Mary Roach

#15. Considering that Americans are now moving away from whiskey, moving away from brown spirits in general, I believe that they will all join Russians who drink vodka straight. They will sip it like cognac.

Roustam Tariko

#16. It is well to remember that there are five reasons for drinking: the arrival of a friend, one's present or future thirst, the excellence of the cognac, or any other reason

W.C. Fields

#17. I meditate, I do yoga and I have a lot of friends who are healers ... And if none of that works, I go by a chocolate bar and a bottle of cognac.

Susan Strasberg

#18. Fromage and coffee and cognac and no gods.

Wallace Stevens

#19. I clink my glass against hers and we drink without toasting. The aged cognac tastes like history. Not the kind taught in schools, full of wars and politics and cultural revolution - the smaller, softer history of a world with only two people in it.

Isaac Marion

#20. What do people who don't drink do on such occasions? Face the facts perhaps. But facing a fact is one thing, and overcoming it is another. Cognac was going to overcome the facts: overcome Edna's willed hardness and overcome my lack of suitable words and actions.

Waguih Ghali

#21. Sometimes love was sacred, the most holy and powerful force in the universe. Sometimes it was a warm, fuzzy feeling. Occasionally it was a wildfire of passion that, like cognac, inflamed every cell of your body.
And sometimes it was just a decision, plain and simple.

G.A. McKevett

#22. Stab your demoniac smile to my brain,
Soak me in cognac, love, and cocaine

Aleister Crowley

#23. Mike Hammer drinks beer because I can't spell Cognac.

Mickey Spillane

#24. Many a gentleman had likened his first meeting with her to downing a very strong cognac when one was expecting to imbibe fruit juice - that is to say, startling and apt to leave one with a distinct burning sensation. No,

Gail Carriger

#25. Reading in bed can be heaven, assuming you can get just the right amount of light on the page and aren't prone to spilling your coffee or cognac on the sheets.

Stephen King

#26. What the song expressed so perfectly from lyric to melody was unrequited love, and we men of the south loved nothing more than unrequited love, cracked hearts our primary weakness after cigarettes, coffee, and cognac.

Viet Thanh Nguyen

#27. Of course we got drunk!" Semyon said. "It's okay to get drunk, Anton. If you need to real bad. Only you have to get drunk on vodka. Cognac and wine - that's all for the heart."
"So what's vodka for?"
"For the soul. If it's hurting real bad

Sergei Lukyanenko

#28. These questions required either Camus or cognac, and as Camus was not available I ordered cognac.

Viet Thanh Nguyen

#29. Who can ever forget George W. Bush, in the days and weeks after the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001, exhorting people not to be afraid, to get out and do the right thing, the patriotic thing, the one thing that could get the economy moving forward again: start shopping.

Richard Florida

#30. It is spring again, my heart is dancing with flowers with love and joy.

Debasish Mridha

#31. Who did you lose?"
This girl is full of questions.
"Nobody." Or everyone - depends how I look at it. People don't really need to die to be gone.

Patricia Vanasse

#32. I used to play the piano, I was pretty decent, so that was the only thing I could hold onto in terms of coming up with melodies; but at the time I [still] just couldn't, so my early beats were really sample-based.

Lunice

#33. Are you a gunslinger, Roland? If you are, you better get ready.

Stephen King

#34. The only option for a pure idealist is to commit suicide.

Wu Guoguang

#35. Capitalists are motivated not chiefly by the desire to consume wealth or indulge their appetites, but by the freedom and power to consummate their entrepreneurial ideas.

George Gilder

#36. Life is a wheel. The more you give, the more you get back.

Jerold Panas

#37. You know that place between sleep and awake, that place where you still remember dreaming? That's where I'll always love you. That's where I'll be waiting.

J.M. Barrie

#38. Every man aims at avoiding what causes him pain; the activities of government ultimately consist in the infliction of pain. All great achievements of mankind were the product of a spontaneous effort on the part of individuals; government substitutes coercion for voluntary action.

Ludwig Von Mises

#39. As somebody back then wrote, "Facebook is where you lie to your friends, Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers.

Jon Ronson

#40. Chemistry cannot be manufactured or forced, so Wild Flag was not a sure thing, it was a 'maybe,' a 'possibility.' But after a handful of practice sessions, spread out over a period of months, I think we all realized that we could be greater than the sum of our parts.

Carrie Brownstein