Grapes Quotes - Page 8

• To defend Western Europe we have to let the Pentagon buy all these tanks and guns and things, and the Pentagon is unable to buy any object that that costs less than a condominium in Vail. If the Pentagon needs, say, fruit, it will argue that it must have fruit that can withstand the rigors of combat conditions, and it will wind up purchasing the FX-700 Seedless Tactical Grape, which will cost $160,000 per bunch, and will have an 83 percent failure rate.

  Dave Barry

  Gun, Europe, Wind

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• Everyone has the talent to some degree: even making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, you know whether it tastes better to you with raspberry jam or grape jelly; on chewy pumpernickel or white toast.

  Anna D. Shapiro

  White, Peanut Butter, Degrees

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• In prison, inmates sometimes use Cheetos and grape juice as makeup. I wouldn't use that beauty regimen around Britney Spears - she might lick your face off!

  Joel McHale

  Makeup, Juice, Use

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My mother, who hates thunderstorms,
  Holds up each summer day and shakes
  It out suspiciously, lest swarms
  Of grape-dark clouds are lurking there.

  Philip Larkin

  Summer, Mother, Hate

  Philip Larkin, “Mother, Summer, I”

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• Mankind does not drink alcohol because there are breweries, distilleries, and vineyards; men brew beer, distill spirits, and grow grapes because of the demand for alcoholic drinks.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Beer, Men, Alcohol

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• Pedialyte's a super-Gatorade that they give infants when they're dehydrated. It's on all our riders now. Drink a liter of grape Pedialyte and no hangover. The guys from Pantera taught us that trick.

  Sully Erna

  Hangover, Taught Us, Giving

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• I didn't even know what I did in 'What's Eating Gilbert Grape'. I just went off with whatever I felt instinctually without a second thought.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Eating, Second Thoughts, Knows

  "New Again: Leonardo Dicaprio". Interview with Ingrid Sischy, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 4, 2012.

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• Better be jocund with the fruitful Grape Than sadden after none, or bitter, Fruit.

  Omar Khayyam

  Fruit, Bitter, Pleasure

  Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald, Christopher Decker (1997). “Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition”, p.174, University of Virginia Press

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• I suppose that the main benefit of being rich (over just being independent) is to be able to despise rich people (a good concentration of whom you find in glitzy ski resorts) without any sour grapes. It is even sweeter when these farts don't know that you are richer than they are.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Independent, People, Benefits

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2012). “Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder”, p.176, Random House

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• It's so funny, because when I was growing up in a small town in New Hampshire, I was obsessed with Leonardo DiCaprio - from the 'Growing Pains'/'What's Eating Gilbert Grape' era, because he was superhot - and I carried a laminated photo of him in my wallet and said he was my boyfriend. But no one believed me.

  Eliza Coupe

  Growing Up, Pain, My Boyfriend

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• You can grow grapes in almost any part of the world. You just have to develop your palate enough to realize wine is an expression of the place where you make it. You don't have to take over the world; just be an artist and express your area.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Wine, Artist, Expression

  "Tool Lead Singer Hits the Right Notes in the Winemaking Community". The San Diego Union-Tribune, November 07, 2008.

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• Unlike every other product that is now manufactured for the table, wine exists in as many varieties as there are people who produce it. Variations in technique, climate, grape, soil and culture ensure that wine is, to the ordinary drinker, the most unpredictable of drinks, and to the connoisseur the most intricately informative, responding to its origins like a game of chess to its opening move.

  Roger Scruton

  Moving, Wine, Games

  Roger Scruton (2013). “I Drink Therefore I Am: A Philosopher's Guide to Wine”, p.22, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Good days are to be gathered like grapes, to be trodden and bottled into wine and kept for age to sip at ease beside the fire. If the traveler has vintaged well, he need trouble to wander no longer; the ruby moments glow in his glass at will.

  Freya Stark

  Good Day, Wine, Fire

  Freya Stark (2013). “Perseus In The Wind: A Life of Travel”, p.147, Tauris Parke Paperbacks

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• Soon it got dusk, a grapy dusk, a purple dusk over tangerine groves and long melon fields; the sun the color of pressed grapes, slashed with burgandy red, the fields the color of love and Spanish mysteries.

  Jack Kerouac

  Sunset, Color, Purple

  Jack Kerouac (1957). “On the Road”, Viking Press

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• The rest of my days I'm going to spend on the sea. And when I die, I'm going to die on the sea. You know what I shall die of? I shall die of eating an unwashed grape. One day out on the ocean I will die — with my hand in the hand of some nice-looking ship's doctor, a very young one with a small blond moustache and a big silver watch.

  Tennessee Williams

  Nice, Ocean, Doctors

  "A Streetcar Named Desire: Play in Three Acts".

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• When this is over...we will got to the rainforest, or a beach as white as bone. We will eat grapes from the vine, we will swim with sea turtles, we will walk miles on cobblestone streets. We will laugh and talk and confess. We will.

  Jodi Picoult

  Beach, Turtles, Sea

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• (Talks about her childhood) I grew up on a Christmas tree farm in Reading, PA. It was the most magical fun childhood. We had grape arbours and we would make jam with my mom. My dad would go to work and he'd come home. He'd clean out stalls and fix split-row fences.

  Taylor Swift

  Mom, Fun, Dad

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• If reassurances could dull pain, nobody would ever go to the trouble of pressing grapes.

  Scott Lynch

  Pain, Dull, Reassurance

  Scott Lynch (2006). “The Lies of Locke Lamora”, p.122, Spectra

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• My heart is like a singing bird Whose nest is in a water'd shoot; My heart is like an apple-tree Whose boughs are bent with thick-set fruit; My heart is like a rainbow shell That paddles in a halcyon sea; My heart is gladder than all these, Because my love is come to me. Raise me a daïs of silk and down; Hang it with vair and purple dyes; Carve it in doves and pomegranates, And peacocks with a hundred eyes; Work it in gold and silver grapes, In leaves and silver fleurs-de-lys; Because the birthday of my life Is come, my love is come to me.

  Christina Rossetti

  Life, Work, Eye

  Christina Georgina Rossetti, “A Birthday”

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• Let us have wine and woman, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda water the day after. Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; The best of life is but intoxication: Glory, the grape, love, gold, in these are sunk The hopes of all men, and of every nation; Without their sap, how branchless were the trunk Of life's strange tree, so fruitful on occasion: But to return--Get very drunk; and when You wake with head-ache, you shall see what then.

  Lord Byron

  Laughter, Wine, Men

  'Don Juan' (1819-24) canto 2, st. 179

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• I read and am liberated. I acquire objectivity. I cease being myself and so scattered. And what I read, instead of being like a nearly invisible suit that sometimes oppresses me, is the external world’s tremendous and remarkable clarity, the sun that sees everyone, the moon that splotches the still earth with shadows, the wide expanses that end in the sea, the blackly solid trees whose tops greenly wave, the steady peace of ponds on farms, the terraced slopes with their paths overgrown by grape-vines.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Moon, Objectivity, Sea

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• When Isaiah predicted that spears would become pruning hooks, that's a reference to cultivating. Pruning and trimming and growing and paying close attention to the plants and whether they're getting enough water and if their roots are deep enough. Soil under the fingernails, grapes being trampled under bare feet, fingers sticky from handling fresh fruit. It's that green stripe you get around the sole of your shoes when you mow the lawn. Life in the age to come. Earthy.

  Rob Bell

  Shoes, Roots, Feet

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• Toby smiled and started to speak, but Josh adjusted his hold on Tank and reached back, covering Toby's mouth. "Wait," Grace said. "I think he was going to actually use words." "Yeah, but trust me, you don't want to hear them." Toby pulled Josh's hand away. "Are you my new mommy?" Grace's mouth fell open in shock, and Toby giggled at the sight. "Okay, Tiger," Josh said. "You know I love the sound of your laugh, probably more than any sound in the world, but I will squash you like a grape if you say that to one more woman today.

  Jill Shalvis

  Thinking, Sight, Hands

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• Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.

  Dorothy Parker

  Foxes, Sour, Bewildered

  Dorothy Parker (1970). “A month of Saturdays: thirty-one famous pieces by "Constant Reader"”

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• The sun goes down long and red. All the magic names of the valley unrolled - Manteca, Madera, all the rest. Soon it got dusk, a grapy dusk, a purple dusk over tangerine groves and long melon field; the sun the color of pressed grapes, slashed with burgundy red, the fields the color of love and Spanish mysteries. I stuck my head out the window and took deep breaths of the fragant air. It was the most beautiful of all moments.

  Jack Kerouac

  Beautiful, Air, Color

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road”, Viking Press

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