Quotes About Vermouth

#1. Most criminals are stupid. They creep $500,000 homes in the Garden District, load up two dozen bottles of gin, whiskey, vermouth, and Collins mix in a $2,000 Irish linen tablecloth and later drink the booze and throw the tablecloth away.

James Lee Burke

#2. I'm only Superman, I'm not God.

Iris Johansen

#3. I look up the telephone number of Alcoholics Anonymous. Then, my hands shaking, I open the bar and drink the leftover whiskey, gin and vermouth-whatever I can lay my shaking hands on.

John Cheever

#4. There is something about a martini, Ere the dining and dancing begin, And to tell you the truth, It is not the vermouth- I think that perhaps it's the gin.

Ogden Nash

#5. There is not much to say about Burrough's writing. It consists of semiliterate ravings by a very sick mind, a kaleidoscope or surrealistic depictions of drug-taking, violent, often misogynistic fantasy, and sexual depravity.

Roger Kimball

#6. Science is a cooperative enterprise spanning the generations. It's the passing of a torch from teacher to student to teacher. A community of minds, reaching back to antiquity and forward to the stars.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#7. Zen martini: A martini with no vermouth at all. And no gin, either.

P. J. O'Rourke

#8. Soon we'll be out amid the cold world's strife. Soon we'll be sliding down the razor blade of life. But as we go our sordid sep'rate ways, We shall ne'er forget thee, thou golden college days. Hearts full of youth, Hearts full of truth, Six parts gin to one part vermouth.

Tom Lehrer

#9. Is everything right because the law allows it?

Solomon Northup

#10. I simply cannot understand the passion that some people have for making themselves thoroughly uncomfortable and then boasting about it afterwards.

Patricia Moyes

#11. To you the earth yields her fruit, and you shall not want if you but know how to fill your hands.

Kahlil Gibran

#12. Vermouth always makes me brilliant unless it makes me idiotic.

E.F. Benson

#13. And I'm standing on the corner of Fifth and Vermouth.

Tom Waits

#14. The men of this party had both the quality and the defect of frankness in their opinions.

Leo Tolstoy

#15. I didn't know how well my first album had done; it was enough to get me to do the second album, which was a continuation of the music I'd worked on and perfected.

Roberta Flack

#16. You are as dry as vermouth.

Lauren Groff

#17. Suffering is as necessary to entertaining as vermouth is to a Martini - a small but vital ingredient.

Phyllis McGinley

#18. But, you know, I'm sorry, I think democracy requires participation. I mean, I don't want to proselytize but I do feel some sort of duty to participate in the process in some way other than just blindly getting behind a political party.

John Cusack

#19. A secret makes a woman woman - Vermouth

Gosho Aoyama

#20. The proper union of gin and vermouth is a great and sudden glory; it is one of the happiest marriages on earth, and one of the shortest lived.

Bernard DeVoto