Leonetti Winery Quotes & Sayings

I don't know," Valerius said. " I hear some godawful kind of music from outside, horns blaring, and I'm in a house with a mohawk cuckoo bird, a transvestite, and a knife-weilding lunatic."
"Why are You at Tabitha's?" Acheron asked — Sherrilyn Kenyon

For half an hour they poked about in a happy dusty dream, through the junk and broken furniture and ornaments. It was like reading the story of somebody's life, Jane thought, as she gazed at the tiny matchstick masts of the ship sailing motionless forever in the green glass bottle. All these things had been used once, had been part of every day in the house below. Someone has slept on the bed, anxiously watched the minutes on the clock, pounced joyfully on each magazine as it arrived. But those people were long dead, or gone away, and now the oddments of their lives were piled up here, forgotten. She found herself feeling rather sad. — Susan Cooper

The artificial primacy of defense among our national priorities is a constant unearned windfall for some, but it's privation for the rest of America; it steals from what we could be and can do. In Econ 101, they teach that the big-picture fight over national priorities is guns versus butter. Now it's butter versus margarine - guns get a pass.
Overall, we're weaker for it, and at enormous cost. — Rachel Maddow

If their tears could be read,
as the blind can read braille
Would your eyes then be opened
to another & how they feel?
Without condemnation
or any aversions from within
Could you set aside judgement
while seeking total absolution? — Christine Upton

Not by talking, but by praying And becoming something good, Can we offer peace to the world. — Sri Chinmoy

Or you can start by declaring that novels can no longer be written, and then, behind your own back as it were, produce a mighty blockbuster that establishes you as the last of the great novelists. — Gunter Grass

The mere fact that a belief is unpopular at present (or at some other time) is interesting from a sociological point of view but evidentially irrelevant. — Alvin Plantinga

You might not think it now, but if you're one of God's children, you're going to figure it out by the end of your life God is good. — James MacDonald

If you have not seen a latest movie by taking a furlough, you have not really enjoyed the perks of a government job. — Girdhar Joshi

First there's the promise ring, then the engagement ring, then the wedding ring ... soon after ... comes Suffer ... ring! — Jay Leno

I was born and raised on a Carolina sea island and I carried the sunshine of the low-country, inked in dark gold, on my back and shoulders. — Pat Conroy

Dukakis. A name with more than two vowels in it running for President! The last time that had happened was Eisenhower (who looked good on a tank). Generally speaking, Americans like their presidents to have no more than two vowels. Truman. Johnson. Nixon. Clinton. If they have more than two vowels (Reagan), they can have no more than two syllables. Even better is one syllable and one vowel: Bush. Had to do that twice. — Jeffrey Eugenides

I don't think your ability to fight has anything to do with how big you are. It's to do with how much anger is in you. — Amy Winehouse

We've plotted through the years of how to get to here, where we are now, or we would have never made it. — George Thorogood