Blantons Bourbon Quotes & Sayings

If it comes down to you or the program that decision was made long ago. — Don Meyer

But so far as countries are concerned, I don't go to a place to see what's there, but who is there. — David McCallum

Maybe love, too, is beautiful because it has a wildness that cannot be tamed. I don't know. All I know is that passion can take you up like a house of cards in a tornado, leaving destruction in its wake. Or it can let you alone because you've built a stone wall against it, set out the armed guards to keep it from touching you. The real trick is not to let it in, but to hold on. To understand that the heart is as wide and vast as the universe, but that we come to know it best from here, this place is gravity and stability, where out feet can still touch ground. — Deb Caletti

Anyone informed that the universe is expanding and contracting in pulsations of eighty billion years has a right to ask. What's in it for me? — Peter De Vries

I can drink tea until the cows come home and I love the atmosphere in tea-shops. — Zola Budd

From authors whom I read more than once I learn to value the weight of words and to delight in their meter and cadence
in Gibbon's polyphonic counterpoint and Guedalla's command of the subjunctive, in Mailer's hyperbole and Dillard's similes, in Twain's invectives and burlesques with which he set the torch of his ferocious wit to the hospitality tents of the world's colossal humbug ... I know no other way out of what is both the maze of the eternal present and the prison of the self except with a string of words.
- from Harper's Notebook, November 2010 — Lewis H. Lapham

A cheap writer has an expensive thoughts. — J. Limbu

When times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge. — Robert Kiyosaki