Source: The Titan's Curse
Shaun White (1986) American snowboarder and skateboarder
Saslow, Eli (2006). "For Fun, White Is on Board" http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/19/AR2006061901248.html Washington Post (accessed July 17, 2006).<br>On sitting next to Regis Philbin at a Knicks game.
“A bottle of wine was good company.”
Ernest Hemingway book The Sun Also Rises
The Sun Also Rises (1926)
“A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover”
Clifton Fadiman (1904–1999) American editor
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892–1973) British philologist and author, creator of classic fantasy works
No. 163: On his discovery of Finnish language, in a letter to W. H. Auden (1955)
The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien (1981)
“All the young dudes
Carry the news
Boogaloo dudes
Carry the news.”
David Bowie (1947–2016) British musician, actor, record producer and arranger
All The Young Dudes, performed by Mott the Hoople
Song lyrics
“Only a fool tries to reconstruct a bunch of grapes from a bottle of wine.”
Jeanette Winterson (1959) English writer
Source: Art and Lies
“A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world.”
Louis Pasteur (1822–1895) French chemist and microbiologist
The Mammoth Book of Zingers, Quips, and One-Liners (2004) by Geoff Tibballs
David Gemmell book Stormrider
Source: Rigante series, Stormrider, Ch. 7
Context: No need for confusion, my dear Mulgrave [... ] Beautiful wine and sour vinegar come from exactly the same source. Curiously if one leaves a bottle of wine open for long enough it will become vinegar. Happily in this house wine never survives long enough to go bad.
“I rather like bad wine," said Mr. Mountchesney; "one gets so bored with good wine.”
Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister
Book 1, chapter 1.
Books, Coningsby (1844), Sybil (1845)
