Sommeliers Quotes

#1. Chef Matt Accarrino has the best pasta in San Francisco, and Shelley Lindgren is one of my favorite sommeliers. Their attention to detail in the service, food, and amazing wines will blow anyone away.

Elizabeth Falkner

#2. When I was dating and the wine list was presented to my male companion, I tried to ignore this unfortunate faux pas. But this practice still goes on ... Closing note to all servers and sommeliers: please include women in wine selection. Okay?

Alpana Singh

#3. I only really fake it anymore with sommeliers who are being really snotty to me and I don't want to take their grief and so I try to do something to kind of throw them off or put them on the defensive, even if I don't know what I'm talking about.

Alton Brown

#4. No tablecloths, silver cutlery, fine porcelain, sommeliers, or deep wine lists - that's fine. But no service or hospitality? That's going too far.

Daniel Humm

#5. When I started in 1978, the greatest wine in Spain, Vega Sicilia, wasn't even imported to the United States. The alleged greatest Australian wine, Penfolds Grange, wasn't imported to the United States. There were no by-the-glass programs. Sommeliers were intimidating.

Robert M. Parker Jr.

#6. Most people whom you may view as wine experts are usually just good at one thing: winemakers are good at making wine, sommeliers at talking about it, and wine journalists at drinking it for free.

Olivier Magny

#7. Right now, any opinion anyone has about whether dogs can or cannot really tell when their owner is coming home by some unknown means ... nobody knows. The weight of evi dence suggests they can.

Rupert Sheldrake

#8. I have to have faith that we're going to succeed in transforming where we get our energy from. The big worry is whether or not we're going to do it before it's too late. And I think nobody knows the answer to that.

Josh Fox

#9. Biography is, simply, the orphan of academia.

Nigel Hamilton

#10. The witless destroy what they don't understand.

Loretta Chase

#11. I'm not saving lives.

Rachel Weisz

#12. Let's be best friends," Nora said. "We can braid each other's hair and murder runaways together.

Tiffany Reisz

#13. It's a terrible feeling being lonely.

Rita Ora

#14. It is irresponsible for this Congress to not investigate the President's lack of an exit strategy, and the fraud, waste, and abuse of U.S. tax dollars.

Russ Carnahan

#15. It is incomprehensible grace to be a prodigal who is held by God again.

Angela Thomas

#16. He likewise directed, that every senator in the great council of a nation, after he had delivered his opinion, and argued in the defence of it, should be obliged to give his vote directly contrary; because if that were done, the result would infallibly terminate in the good of the public.

Jonathan Swift

#17. An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences life has to offer. In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet.

James Dean

#18. False face must hide what the false heart doth know.

William Shakespeare