Grapes Quotes - Page 4

• I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.

  Larry Hovis

  Writing, Mean, Kind

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• I would say 95% of the time, because you just can't remember your lines if you're drinking alcohol. I would say about 95% of the time it was grape juice or this fake wine, which was horrible.

  Thomas Haden Church

  Fake People, Drinking, Wine

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• I have even written a book about Wine called The Grapes of Ralph.

  Ralph Steadman

  Book, Wine, Written

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• How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of his children? You can't scare him--he has known a fear beyond every other.

  John Steinbeck

  Children, Men, Wrath

  John Steinbeck (2016). “The Grapes of Wrath”, p.190, Hamilton Books

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• The grape becomes tinted from the grape it comes in contact with.

  Juvenal

  Contact

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• I remember reading 'The Grapes of Wrath' in high school in 1983. My family had immigrated to the U.S. three years before, and I had spent the better part of the first two years learning English. John Steinbeck's book was the first book I read in English where I had an 'Aha!' moment, namely in the famed turtle chapter.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Book, Reading, School

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• Apples, grapes... any kind of fruit gives me the energy I need to get through my busy day.

  Kristin Chenoweth

  Apples, Giving, Energy

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• Bubble gum angels swooped from top margins or scraped their wings between teeming paragraphs, maidens with golden hair dripped sea blue tears into the books spine, grape-colored whales spouted blood around a newspaper item (pasted in) listing arrivals to the endangered spieces list. Six hatchlings cried from shattered shells near an entry made on Easter. Cecilia had filled the pages with a profusion of colors and curlicues, candyland ladders and striped shamrocks.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Easter, Book, Angel

  Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.29, Macmillan

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• In our short walks we passed the kitchen where food was prepared for the nurses and doctors. There we got glimpses of melons and grapes and all kinds of fruits, beautiful white bread and nice meats, and the hungry feeling would be increased tenfold.

  Nellie Bly

  Beautiful, Nice, Doctors

  Nellie Bly (2015). “The Collected Works of Nellie Bly (Annotated)”, p.69, Golgotha Press

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• When men drink, then they are rich and successful and win lawsuits and are happy and help their friends. Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.

  Aristophanes

  Friendship, Clever, Wine

  Knights, l. 92., 424 B.C..

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• When the wine is in, the wit is out.

  Thomas Becon

  Drinking, Food, Wine

  'Catechism' (ed. J. Ayre, 1844) p. 375

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• I can certainly see that you know your wine. Most of the guests who stay here wouldn't know the difference between Bordeaux and Claret.

  John Cleese

  Wine, Differences, Vineyards

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• It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine.

  Heraclitus

  Book, Wine, Ignorance

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• It is well to remember that there are five reasons for drinking: the arrival of a friend, one's present or future thirst, the excellence of the cognac, or any other reason

  W. C. Fields

  Drinking, Wine, Excellence

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• And this you can know- fear the time when Manself will not suffer and die for a concept, for this one quality is man, distinctive in the universe.

  John Steinbeck

  Men, Wrath, Suffering

  John Steinbeck (2016). “The Grapes of Wrath”, p.119, Hamilton Books

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• One should write not unskillfully in the running hand, be able to sing in a pleasing voice and keep good time to music; and, lastly, a man should not refuse a little wine when it is pressed upon him.

  Yoshida Kenko

  Running, Writing, Wine

  Yoshida Kenko (2009). “Essays in Idleness”, p.4, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.

  Abigail Van Buren

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Wine

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• Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.

  Lord Byron

  Laughter, Drinking, Food

  'Don Juan' (1819-24) canto 2, st. 178

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• Oh, wherefore come ye forth in triumph from the north,
  With your hands, and your feet, and your raiment all red?
  And wherefore doth your rout send forth a joyous shout?
  And whence be the grapes of the wine-press which ye tread?

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Wine, Hands, Feet

  Thomas Babbington Macaulay, “The Battle Of Naseby”

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• One day you are drinking the wine, and they next day you are picking the grapes.

  Lou Holtz

  Sports, Drinking, Wine

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• A man cannot make him laugh - but that's no marvel; he drinks no wine.

  William Shakespeare

  Wine, Men, Laughing

  'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 4, sc. 3, l. [95]

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• And Noah he often said to his wife when he sat down to dine, "I don't care where the water goes if it doesn't get into the wine."

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Wine, Water, Wife

  Flying Inn (1914) ch. 5 "Wine and Water"

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• Wine brings to light the hidden secrets of the soul, gives being to our hopes, bids the coward flight, drives dull care away, and teaches new means for the accomplishment of our wishes.

  Horace

  Wine, Mean, Light

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• If all be true that I do think, There are five reasons we should drink: Good wine - a friend - or being dry - Or lest we should be by and by - Or any other reason why.

  Henry Aldrich

  Drinking, Food, Wine

  'Reasons for Drinking'

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• Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

  John Steinbeck

  Work, Men, Wrath

  Grapes of Wrath (1939) ch. 14

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