"Wine to me is something that brings people together. Â Wine does promote conversation and promote civility, but it's also fascinating. Â It's the greatest subject to study. Â No matter how much you learn, every vintage is going to come at you with different factors that make you have to think again."

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Source : "Lion in Winter: Robert M. Parker Jr. Addresses Wine Writers" by Richard Jennings, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 27, 2014.

Robert M. Parker, Jr.

#Wine Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Vintage Quotes

“I get to be one of the torch-bearers for a new generation.”
“People do eventually see something that's quality.”
“In golf, 'close' is like the north and south rim of the Grand Canyon.”
“Someone once told me that there is more to life than golf. I think it was my ex-wife.”

Source : Bruce Lansky (2011). “Golf, It's Just a Game: The Best Quotes & Cartoons About Golf”, p.106, Simon and Schuster
“You have been a very foolish boy, wasting your time dreaming of impossible things when you speak of Mr. Pontellier setting me free! I am no longer one of Mr. Pontelliere's possessions to dispose of or not. I give myself where I choose. If he were to say, 'Here Robert, take her and be happy; she is yours,' I should laugh at you both.”
“What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.”
“My esoteric doctrine, is that if you entertain any doubt, it is safest to take the unpopular side in the first instance. Transit from the unpopular, is easy... but from the popular to the unpopular is so steep and rugged that it is impossible to maintain it.”
“Against Nature's silence I use action In the vast indifference I invent a meaning I don't watch unmoved I intervene and say that this and this are wrong and I work to alter them and improve them The important thing is to pull yourself up by your own hair to turn yourself inside out and see the whole world with fresh eyes”

Source : Peter Weiss (1993). “Peter Weiss' The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat: As Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade [a Play]”

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