Vinotheque Quotes & Sayings

Yet you could feel a vibration in the air, a sense of hastening. It had started with the moon, inaccessible poem that it was. Now men had walked upon it, rubber treads on a pearl of the gods. Perhaps it was an awareness of time passing, the last summer of the decade. Sometimes I just wanted to raise my hands and stop. But stop what? Maybe just growing up. — Patti Smith

The teachers unions are the clearest example of a group that has lost its way. Whenever anyone dares to offer a new idea, the unions protest the loudest. Their attitude was memorably expressed by a longtime president of the American Federation of Teachers: He said, quote, 'When school children start paying union dues, that's when I'll start representing the interests of children.' — Albert Shanker

I should say no more. Because when we dislike someone we are always very ready to believe any ill of them — Jude Morgan

Which relationship would you try harder to keep; one that allows you to be yourself and enjoy the things you like, or one where you have to hide your desires and live in fear? When — Benjamin Burns

What we [outsiders] feel America is really about - the kind of crazed ravings of the Christian right - when it's probably something quite different. — Nick Cave

A gentleman is not born but crafted. He had to work on himself in the same way as a sculptor shaped a rough stone and made it a thing of beauty. — Karen Armstrong

The transition to a low-carbon economy will be one of the defining issues of the 21st century. This plan sets out a route-map for the UK's transition from here to 2020 ... every business, every community will need to be involved. Together we can create a more secure, more prosperous low carbon Britain and a world which is sustainable for future generations. — Ed Miliband

In our day, we thought that the bards would sing of us for generations to come, but we did not believe it. But in fact Arthur now occupies a higher throne than he ever did when he was alive. The fragments of all our lives have been put together to form legend. Camelot has become the nursery of Britain: the glorious past that never was and always will be. — Clara Winter

We don't manage time, we manage activities within time — Bernard Kelvin Clive

[T]hey somehow conveyed to me that they were all toadies and humbugs, but that each of them pretended not to know that the others were toadies and humbugs: because the admission that he or she did know it, would have made him or her out to be a toady and humbug. — Charles Dickens

Just because someone is an idiot doesn't mean they're a bad person. And just because someone is smart doesn't mean they're good. — Penny Reid

I'm sorry," he whispered. "I know I can make this up to you. Don't hate me. — Penelope Douglas

What is Thanksgiving without a nutty relative? — Judith Martin

I now understand how varied the world of cultivated rice is; that rice can play the lead or be a sidekick; that brown rice is as valuable as white; and that short-grain rice is the bee's knees. — Yotam Ottolenghi