Quotes About Good Wine And Food

#1. Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.

Alfred Hitchcock

#2. But now we are either horrified at what we see or we pretend we are horrified, while in reality we relish the spectacle, as connoisseurs of strong and eccentric sensations that rouse us from our cynical and lazy apathy;

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#3. In Spain we have a saying about the essentials of life: good food, good wine, good sex, good sleep.

Antonio Banderas

#4. If food is the body of good living, wine is its soul.

Clifton Fadiman

#5. I never studied film formally at school, but as a kid, I spent most of my time in cinemas.

Wong Kar-Wai

#6. Luxury is anything you don't need, right? I mean, you need food, water, clothing, shelter ... but good wine, good food, beautiful interiors, nice clothes; those aren't necessities, they are luxuries - it's all luxury.

Marc Jacobs

#7. If you have to control people, you have to have an administrative force that does it. So in U.S. industry, even more than elsewhere, there's layer after layer of management - a kind of economic waste, but useful for control and domination. And the same is true in universities.

Noam Chomsky

#8. Ronda is the place where to go, if you are planning to travel to Spain for a honeymoon or for being with a girlfriend. The whole city and its surroundings are a romantic set ... Nice promenades, good wine, excellent food, nothing to do ...

Ernest Hemingway,

#9. Tomatoes and oregano make it Italian; wine and tarragon make it French. Sour cream makes it Russian; lemon and cinnamon make it Greek. Soy sauce makes it Chinese; garlic makes it good.

Alice May Brock

#10. Drinking good wine with good food in good company is one of life's most civilized pleasures.

Michael Broadbent

#11. He broke his heart into a million pieces before it could gather itself back and fall in love with her yet again.

Such was her charisma.

Abhishek Krishnan

#12. It is not "just beer," it is a noble and ancient beverage which, like wine, food and television advertising, can be extraordinarily good or unmercifully bad.

Stephen Beaumont

#13. It is well known among physicians that the best of the nourishing foods is the one that the Moslem religion forbids, i.e., Wine. It contains much good and light nourishment. It is rapidly digested and helps to digest other foods.

Maimonides

#14. Experience is retrospect knowledge.

Hosea Ballou

#15. I fell in love with the Mediterranean philosophy of good wine, good food and family.

Stephen White

#16. Make your meditation a continuous state of mind. A great worship is going on all the time, so nothing should be neglected or excluded from your constant meditative awareness.

Ramakrishna

#17. Good grief. Did my mother leave me any secrets? My favorite wine. Food. the key to my house. What's left?"
- "Well, we still don't know if you spit or swallow.

Eve Langlais

#18. As we say in the American Institute of Wine and Food, small helpings, no seconds. A little bit of everything. No snacking. And have a good time.

Julia Child

#19. About all that is needed to put the world on its feet are the right qualities of mind and heart on the part of all men.

Charles M. Schwab

#20. She lived frugally, but her meals were the only things on which she deliberately spent her money. She never compromised on the quality of her groceries, and drank only good-quality wines.

Haruki Murakami

#21. Harry had worked his way through the American Dream and come to the conclusion that is was composed of a good lunch and a deep red wine that could soar.

Colum McCann

#22. If you love food and you love red wine and they put you in France, you're in a good place and you're in a bad place at the same time. You have to weigh yourself every day, and you have to have an alarm number. When you get to that number, you have to start putting it in reverse.

Salma Hayek

#23. I'm the ranking Republican on the foreign aid appropriations subcommittee, so I know Tunisia well.

Lindsey Graham

#24. The worst sin, the ultimate sin for me, in anything, is to be bored.

Ted Turner

#25. Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures.

M.F.K. Fisher

#26. My dad gave me the gene to enjoy cooking, and to enjoy consuming good food and wine.

Danny Meyer

#27. The most important things are actually the easiest to obtain: great friends, good food, and a decent bottle of wine.

Blake Mycoskie

#28. I like good food and decent wine as much as Roy Jenkins does, but I keep quiet about it.

David Steel

#29. I always knew that food and wine were vital, with my mother being Italian and a good cook.

Robert Mondavi

#30. I like to eat good food. I cook and collect wine. I like going for long walks when I can.

Eric Allman

#31. It was not the military prowess of the Germani that kept them outside the Empire, but their poverty.11

Peter Heather

#32. Once you can understand where the conversation is, who leads, the type of voices and the best place for you to add your voice, you can then start becoming a more active participant.

Mitch Joel

#33. Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it toward others. And the more peace there is in us, the more peace there will also be in our troubled world.

Etty Hillesum

#34. What are you asking God for?" I joked. "A million dollars? Two million?" "I'm not asking Him for anything," he said. "I'm thanking Him for good food and wine, good health and famiglia.

Wally Lamb