Cellars Quotes

• When I pair food and wine, I start with the food. If I have a beautiful roasted bird, I might choose a Cabernet or Pinot Noir, or maybe a Syrah, depending on the sauce and what is in my cellar.

  Jacques Pepin

  Beautiful, Wine, Bird

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• Now to rivulets from the mountains Point the rods of fortune-tellers; Youth perpetual dwells in fountains, Not in flasks, and casks, and cellars.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Drinking, Mountain, Youth

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1849). “The Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ; Complete in One Volume”, p.110

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• I didn't know a time when there wasn't a war because I spent all my time from the age of two or three to eight in a coal cellar really.

  David Bailey

  War, Eight, Two

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• ...stories about [the German composer Johannes] Brahms's rudeness and wit amused me in particular. For instance, I loved the one about how a great wine connoisseur invited the composer to dinner. 'This is the Brahms of my cellar,' he said to his guests, producing a dust-covered bottle and pouring some into the master's glass. Brahms looked first at the color of the wine, then sniffed its bouquet, finally took a sip, and put the glass down without saying a word. 'Don't you like it?' asked the host. 'Hmm,' Brahms muttered. 'Better bring your Beethoven!'

  Arthur Rubinstein

  Wine, Glasses, Dust

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• Wine to me is passion. It's family and friends. It's warmth of heart and generosity of spirit.

  Robert Mondavi

  Passion, Heart, Wine

  Robert Mondavi (1999). “Harvests of Joy: How the Good Life Became Great Business”, p.15, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• To be successful, keep looking tanned, live in an elegant building (even if you're in the cellar), be seen in smart restaurants (even if you only nurse one drink) and if you borrow, borrow big.

  Aristotle Onassis

  Smart, Successful, Nurse

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• It comes from the likes of you! Take what you can get! Grab the chances as they come along! Act in hallways! Sing in doorways! Dance in cellars!

  Alexander Woollcott

  Doorways, Likes, Chance

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• The older I get, the better I used to be.

  Lee Trevino

  Wine, Golf, Tennis

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• Can anyone remember love? It's like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume.

  Arthur Miller

  Best Friend, Smell, Rose

  Arthur Miller (2015). “After the Fall”, p.146, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.

  Samuel Butler

  Wine, Men, Sound

  Samuel Butler (1951). “Notebooks: Selections Edited by Geoffrey Keynes and Brian Hill”

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• God intends us to penetrate the world. Christian salt has no business to remain snugly in elegant little ecclesiastical salt cellars; our place is to be rubbed into the secular community, as salt is rubbed into meat, to stop it going bad. And when society does go bad, we Christians tend to throw up our hands in pious horror and reproach the non-Christian world; but should we not rather reproach ourselves? One can hardly blame unsalted meat for going bad. It cannot do anything else. The real question to ask is: Where is the salt?

  John Stott

  Christian, Real, Hands

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• The secret formula of the saints: When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Religious, Wine, Religion

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• Whatever is dirty, it is women's job to clean up, or drive some man to clean up, and that goes for everything from cellar to senate.

  Agnes Macphail

  Jobs, Dirty, Men

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• I don't really have studios. I wander around - around people's attics, out in fields, in cellars, anyplace I find that invites me.

  Andrew Wyeth

  People, Fields, Wander

  Time Magazine, August 18, 1986.

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• The older I get, the better I was.

  Van Dyke Parks

  Wine, Golf, Age

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Born in a cellar, and living in a garret.

  Samuel Foote

  Life, Ancestry, Born

  'The Author' (1757) act 2

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• To die is as if one's eyes had been put out and one cannot see anything any more. Perhaps it is like being shut in a cellar. One is abandoned by all. They have slammed the door and are gone. One does not see anything and notices only the damp smell of putrefaction.

  Edvard Munch

  Eye, Doors, Smell

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• They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wine, Literature, Olives

  Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods”, p.30, Courier Corporation

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• Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Atheist, Cat, Dark

  Robert A. Heinlein (1985). “Job, a Comedy of Justice”, Del Rey

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• Wine is the most civilized thing in the world.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Wine, Vineyards, World

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.2197, Simon and Schuster

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• It was the best place to be, thought Wilbur, this warm delicious cellar, with the garrulous geese, the changing seasons, the heat of the sun, the passage of swallows, the nearness of rats, the sameness of sheep, the love of spiders, the smell of manure, and the glory of everything.

  E. B. White

  Love, Happiness, Sheep

  Charlotte'sWeb ch. 22 (1952)

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• If a man go into the London Docks sober without means of getting drunk, and comes out of one of the cellars very drunk wherein are a million gallons of wine, I think that would be reasonable evidence that he had stolen some of the wine in that cellar, though you could not prove that any wine was stolen, or any wine was missed.

  William Henry Maule

  Wine, Mean, Men

  Reg. v. Burton, Dearsly's C. C. 284, 1854.

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• My father taught me photography. It was his hobby, and we had a small darkroom in the fruit cellar of our basement. It was the kind of makeshift darkroom that was only dark at night.

  Sam Abell

  Photography, Father, Dark

  "A Life in Photos: Q&A with Sam Abell". Interview with Jenny Wells, uknow.uky.edu. July 20, 2012.

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• As against having beautiful workshops, studies, etc., one writes best in a cellar on a rainy day.

  Van Wyck Brooks

  Beautiful, Writing, Rainy Day

  Van Wyck Brooks (1941). “Opinions of Oliver Allston”, New York, Dutton

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• Wine makes every meal an occasion.

  Andre Simon

  Wine, Meals, Vineyards

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