"Port is not for the very young, the vain and the active. It is the comfort of age and the companion of the scholar and the philosopher"

-- Evelyn Waugh

#Wine Quotes #Age Quotes #Comfort Quotes

“And my interest in history was, and remains, very strong: what I wanted was to understand certain things better by understanding them psychoanalytically.”
“The best songs are stories, and the best singers storytellers. Great singers can make you care about what they're feeling. You have a sense of knowing them.”
“Any poll is a picture of an unfinished horse race except the Election Day polls.”
“Who cares if you're enlightened forever? Can you just get it in this moment, now?”
“A sketch is just a mini movie.”

Source : "How Jim Rash Went From Improv to ‘Community’ to a ‘Descendants’ Oscar Nomination". Interview with Tim Molloy, www.thewrap.com. February 17, 2012.
“Science was tearing through the 'fine-spun ecclesiastical cobwebs' to behold a new cosmos, in which our Earth is merely an 'eccentric speck' - a world of evolution 'and unchanging causation'. It invited new ways of thinking. It demanded a new rationale for belief. With science's truths the only accessible ones, 'blind faith' was no longer admirable but 'the one unpardonable sin'.”
“Whether youre president or speaker, if youre wrong, we need to stand up and point it out. Thats what Martin Luther King had talked about: being judged by the content of our character and not the color of our skin. So some of us pounded away on some of the ridiculous policies of Pelosi - and lo and behold, over time, the public began to see.”
“Value is the most invincible and impalpable of ghosts, and comes and goes unthought of, while the visible and dense matter remains as it was.”

You may also like:

Aldous Huxley
Writer
Alec Waugh
Novelist
Auberon Waugh
Journalist
C. S. Lewis
Novelist
Graham Greene
Writer
Nancy Mitford
Novelist
P. G. Wodehouse
Writer
T. S. Eliot
Playwright
W. Somerset Maugham
Playwright