Brander Vineyard Quotes & Sayings

I prefer natural hardwood lump charcoal - the other stuff makes your food taste like Goodyear tires. — Jose Andres

These are people who consciously choose failure in order to preserve their own sense of integrity. They are more elitist than mere snobs, because of their high standards. — Azar Nafisi

It is a lonely feeling when someone you care about becomes a stranger. — Lemony Snicket

Our goal is to enjoy, not to achieve perfection — Susan Jeffers

There was not an awareness of pop culture in the household. There was a lot of respect for working hard, and for intellectual and professional achievement. — Sheila Heti

Driving someone into a corner is the equivalent of driving yourself into a corner, so i will die in battle someday. — Ai Yazawa

What am I writing for anyway? Is it like dreaming? Is it a benevolent process? Something that moves the past forward? And what about those people who say all you get from looking at the past is a stiff neck? — Selima Hill

Isn't she gorgeous, Ken?"
"Too pretty for Thatch, that's for damn sure.," Ken remarked with a smurk. "Seriously, Cassie? Is he blackmailing you? Do we need to alert the authorities? Blink twice if he kidnapped you. Three times if you fear for you life. — Max Monroe

People in New York never have time for anything. — Marina Abramovic

Things that are good are good, and if one is responding to that goodness one is in contact with a truth from which one is getting something ... The truth of the sunshine, the truth of the rain, the truth of the fresh air, the truth of the wind in the trees ... and if we allow ourselves to be benefited by the forms of truth that are readily accessible to us instead of rejecting them as "merely natural," we will be in a better position to profit by higher forms of truth when they come our way. — Thomas Merton