"Going to a restaurant is one of my keenest pleasures. Meeting someplace with old and new friends, ordering wine, eating food, surrounded by strangers, I think is the core of what it means to live a civilised life."

-- Adam Gopnik

#Wine Quotes #Mean Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Where are you originally from?â€ â€œThe planet Lorien, three hundred million miles away.â€ â€œMust have been a long trip, John Smith.â€ â€œTook almost a year. Next time Iâ€™m bringing a book.”
“None of the proposed inter-city solutions would have offered more frequent or more affordable service than existing options like bussing. Busses can also be easily re-routed around gas leaks, car accidents, or traffic congestion.”

Source : Source: www.columbusunderground.com
“I am not for raising taxes on the American people in a soft economy.”
“I would have liked to come back in 300; they did an origins film of 300 just recently, and it would have been fun to come back and see what happened to my character.”
“Certainly, historically, there has been more attention given in the international media to Indian English-language writers than to Pakistani English-language writers. But that, in my opinion, was justified by the sheer number of excellent writers coming from India and the Indian diaspora.”
“The bulletproof vest--'bullet resistant,' technically--is made of two double panels of a synthetic material called Kevlar, inside a cloth carrier that holds it around your torso like a lead X-ray smock. One cop wrote phrases from the Bible on his, 'Yea, though I walk in the valley of the Shadow of Death...' Other cops wrote their blood type.”
“Anyone who believes that the laws of physics are mere social conventions is invited to try transgressing those conventions from the windows of my apartment. (I live on the twenty-first floor).”

Source : Alan D. Sokal (2008). “Beyond the hoax: science, philosophy and culture”, Oxford University Press, USA
“Sometimes when you're editing a movie, you have the thing that you don't expect - which is you make it longer and longer as you go along.”

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