"I hover over the expensive Scotch and then the Armagnac, but finally settle on a glass of rich red claret. I put it near my nose and nearly pass out. It smells of old houses and aged wood and dark secrets, but also of hard, hot sunshine through ancient shutters and long, wicked afternoons in a four-poster bed. It's not a wine, it's a life, right there in the glass."

-- Nick Harkaway

#Wine Quotes #Dark Quotes #Sunshine Quotes

“I wake up every morning singing The Star-Spangled Banner.”
“There are few things more bizarre than watching people advocate that another country be bombed even while acknowledging that it will achieve no good outcomes other than safeguarding the 'credibility' of those doing the bombing. Relatedly, it's hard to imagine a more potent sign of a weak, declining empire than having one's national 'credibility' depend upon periodically bombing other countries.”

Source : "Obama, Congress and Syria" by Glenn Greenwald, www.theguardian.com. September 1, 2013.
“When you're in the desert, you look into infinity.... It makes you feel terribly small, and also in a strange way, quite big.”
“Music is an expression of sound that reflects the beauty of life.”
“In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment.”
“If love found me it can surely find you. I ain't even got one sad tear left in me.”

Source : "Ledisi: A Singer's Second Life". Interview with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. July 9, 2011.
“The real exertion in the case of an opera singer lies not so much in her singing as in her acting of a role, for nearly every modern opera makes great dramatic and physical demands.”
“An eternal marriage is eternal. Eternal implies continuing growth and improvement. It signifies that love will grow stronger with time and that it extends beyond the grave. It means that each partner will be blessed with the company of the other partner forever. Eternal signifies repentance, forgiveness, long-suffering, patience, hope, charity, love, and humility. All of these things are involved in anything that is eternal, and surely we must learn and practice them if we intend to claim an eternal marriage.”

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