To ‚choose‘ dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.
Christopher HitchensOne of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
Samuel JohnsonThe faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.
George Bernard ShawI’m a Sagittarius, and one of our major qualities is that we’re blindly optimistic.
Taylor SwiftWine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.
Samuel JohnsonSome of the stories I admire seem to zero in on one particular time and place. There isn’t a rule about this. But there’s a tidy sense about many stories I read. In my own work, I tend to cover a lot of time and to jump back and forward in time, and sometimes the way I do this is not very straightforward.
Alice MunroIt is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.
Francis BaconA physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
HippocratesI must confess, I was born at a very early age.
Groucho MarxWhen you’re born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you’re born in America, you get a front row seat.
George CarlinIf a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheLanguage is wine upon the lips.
Virginia WoolfPeople of Berlin – people of the world – this is our moment. This is our time.
Barack ObamaSuperstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.
VoltaireAbout astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.
Kurt VonnegutI was born on January 8, 1942, exactly three hundred years after the death of Galileo. I estimate, however, that about two hundred thousand other babies were also born that day. I don’t know whether any of them was later interested in astronomy.
Stephen HawkingIt’s going to be a season with lots of accidents, and I’ll risk saying that we’ll be lucky if something really serious doesn’t happen.
Ayrton SennaWe all have our imperfections. But I’m human, and you know, it’s important to concentrate on other qualities besides outer beauty.
Beyonce KnowlesThere is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.
James BaldwinA man is great by deeds, not by birth.
ChanakyaThe first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution – this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.
Groucho MarxI have total recall. I remember being born. I remember being in the womb, I remember being inside. Coming out was great.
Ray BradburyBeauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
Aldous HuxleyHide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.
HeraclitusEverybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. We come from the Creator with creativity. I think that each one of us is born with creativity.
Maya AngelouThe Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.
Henry AdamsEvery December, I host a tree-trimming party. I serve chili with cornbread and lots of good wine. It’s a wonderful party, and it shows how much adults like to play.
Maya AngelouOur admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI love America, it’s a much more permissive place.
Amy WinehouseYou’re born. You suffer. You die. Fortunately, there’s a loophole.
Billy GrahamDeath, like birth, is a secret of Nature.
Marcus AureliusWhat I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.
DiogenesCourage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.
Carl von ClausewitzAlmost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.
Charles BukowskiChristmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection.
Winston ChurchillMusic is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.
Ludwig van BeethovenWe are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.
Jean-Jacques RousseauThat I be not as those are who spend the day in complaining of headache and the night in drinking the wine which gives the headache!
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheYou will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.
Benjamin DisraeliThe memory of that scene for me is like a frame of film forever frozen at that moment: the red carpet, the green lawn, the white house, the leaden sky. The new president and his first lady.
Richard M. NixonI’m working on bringing the instant film camera back as part of the future.
Lady GagaYou can’t get too much winter in the winter.
Robert FrostWine gives a man nothing… it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.
Samuel JohnsonThere’s not much time to unwind, but you know what, it’s because I love what I do. I look forward to the season. I look forward to playing games. It doesn’t ever feel like work.
Tom BradyWhen we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.
William ShakespeareWe are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI’m definitely a Polaroid camera girl. For me, what I’m really excited about is bringing back the artistry and the nature of Polaroid.
Lady GagaWhy is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.
Mark TwainLet us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.
Mark TwainThe man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThere is no birth of consciousness without pain.
Carl JungThou know’st the first time that we smell the air we wawl and cry. When we are born we cry, that we are come to this great state of fools.
William ShakespeareWood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheNo man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.
Booker T. WashingtonThe chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.
Joseph AddisonThe prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one’s furniture.
Brian EnoEach day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.
Arthur SchopenhauerThe name Zahra was to have been lman’s own name at birth, but a senior member of the family changed it to lman at the last minute.
David BowieI always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It’s still got the same strings on it.
Brian EnoLove is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.
Mother Teresa