Riedel Quotes

#1. The finest glasses for both technical and hedonistic purposes are those made by Riedel. The effect of these glasses on fine wine is profound. I cannot emphasize enough what a difference they make.

Robert M. Parker Jr.

#2. When the communists won the Chinese civil war in 1949, they accepted neither the semi-independence of Tibet nor the boundary lines drawn by British imperialism between Tibet and India.

Bruce Riedel

#3. I was interested in politics very much when I was growing up, and that's what I think I really wanted to be - either a senator, or a Supreme Court Justice, and I always wanted to be a lawyer.

Michael Riedel

#4. I love key lime pie, although it's never made the proper way.

Paula Poundstone

#5. Let's run the experiment.

Chris Hayes

#6. There are three particularly important issues involved in delivering customer value: focusing on innovation rather than efficiency and optimization, concentrating on execution, and lean thinking.

Jim Highsmith

#7. Childhood has no necessary connection with age.

Austin O'Malley

#8. Barack Obama's discovering what a nightmare dealing with hostage problems is - a discovery previously made by Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan, i don't see a lot of room for change in American policy.

Bruce Riedel

#9. The problem with the drone is it's like your lawn mower. You've got to mow the lawn all the time. The minute you stop mowing, the grass is going to grow back.

Bruce Riedel

#10. Theater has always been something that I've had an interest in, but I was never a devoted fanatic theater-goer.

Michael Riedel

#11. I always read a lot as a kid and I'd spend long periods of time in my room reading ... I wasn't reading anything great until I got older, but I used to read Agatha Christie mysteries and all of Ian Fleming's 'James Bond' novels.

Michael Riedel

#12. I mean, I was first offered Princess Astra.

Lalla Ward

#13. Some of us will probably become famous. It will be an ironic fame fashioned largely by those who have never seen our work.

Allan Kaprow

#14. Atra esterni' ono thelduin
Mor' rana li'fa unin hjarta onr
Un du evari'nya ono varda
(May good fortune rule over you
peace live in your heart
may the stars watch over you)

Christopher Paolini

#15. Pakistan's political leadership needs to make a clear choice to fight the Taliban decisively, not with half measures, the burden is on Prime Minister Sharif to show he can unite the country to defend its children.

Bruce Riedel

#16. But the truth is there's no such thing as a bad house - just a bad show.

Michael Riedel

#17. I did some plays in high school which I had a good time doing.

Michael Riedel

#18. A young wine is like a horse, it is extremely vibrant. It needs taming. It has lots of life, the edges need bevelling and we need to reduce the tannins.

Georg Riedel

#19. Nobody ever pegged James Gandolfini for a leading man. Least of all James Gandolfini.

Michael Riedel

#20. Money, of course, is still needed to survive, but time is what you need to live. So, save what little money you possess to meet basic survival requirements, but spend your time lavishly in order to create the life values that make the fire worth the candle. Dig?

Rolf Potts

#21. Design: holding conflicting ideas in your head without difficulty

Danny Hillis

#22. I am completely convinced that UFOs have an out-of-world basis.

Walter Riedel

#23. There's plenty of room for finger-pointing for the debacle in Iraq. If it's a problem that the Iraqi military is broken at its core, then there's no point in sending more Humvees and Apaches.

Bruce Riedel

#24. Bear was as beautiful as he was hard. He was as complex as he was simple. He was both the storm and the calm. The fear and the solace. The rage and the peace.
My life and my love.

T.M. Frazier