Gisborne Wine Quotes & Sayings

But you don't really mean to say that you couldn't love me if my name wasn't Ernest?
GWENDOLEN: But your name is Ernest.
JACK: Yes, I know it is. But supposing it was something else? Do you mean to say you couldn't love me then?
GWENDOLEN (glibly): Ah! that is clearly a metaphysical speculation, and like most metaphysical speculations has very little reference at all to the actual facts of real life, as we know them. — Oscar Wilde

I was once asked if I'd like to meet the president of a certain country. I said, "No, but I'd love to meet some sheepherders." The sheepherders, farmers and taxi drivers are often the most interesting people. — James A. Michener

Recall that the United Nations commissioned Arab scholars and analysts to publish the Arab Human Development Report. What causes the backwardness, the scholars wondered, of 22 Arab states, covering nearly 300 million people? Their conclusion? Of all world regions, the Arab countries scored the lowest in freedom, media independence, civil liberties, political process and political rights. — Larry Elder

It is easy to display a wound, the proud scars of combat. It is hard to show a pimple — Leonard Cohen

The story of the past generation has been that the right has won politically and the left has won culturally. — Geoffrey Wheatcroft

In my youth I thought I was going to be a professional rugby player. — Georgie Fame

What makes creative people tingle are interesting problems, the chance to impress their friends, and caffeine. — Alex Steffen

Many authors hate to go on grinding book tours. But I've always found it a useful way to be a foreign correspondent in America and take the pulse of the country. — Thomas Friedman

Pythagorean thought was dominated by mathematics, but it was also profoundly mystical. — Vanna Bonta

For thousands of years, long before there was such a thing as a science of chemistry, people were fascinated by plants, because they knew that plants contained substances that could affect people. Coffee will keep you awake. Tobacco contains something that will calm your nerves. Foxglove contains an extract that'll affect your heart. — Gregory Petsko

No one knows the fear in a front runner's mind more than me. When you set off at a cracking pace for four or five laps and find that your main rivals are still breathing down your neck, that's when you start to panic. — Ron Clarke

I make myself have energy. It's stubbornness in the face of cancer. — Stuart Scott

Our sex bears the disgrace not only of a great deal of genuine poltroonery, but also of much which is mere affectation. — Frances Power Cobbe

When I was younger I used to think that band-aids did all the work. I mean after all, it binds your wound together and makes everything better back to the way it was. But then I became an adult and started to fall in love,fvi and I realize that band-aids are so overrated lol. — Onee'sha Ford

Life is like a long ride to nowhere in particular. — Nikki Sixx