As much as I enjoy raindrops on roses, I think I prefer plump figs on notebooks and the scratch of pencil on paper. . . Perhaps I'm showing my age, but I love having notebooks for scribbling thoughts, tasting notes, recipes, quotes and bites of information.A few random ones from my 2010 notebook.
Kierkegaard - Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.
Twain - Be good and you will be lonesome.
Dave Rosenberg - Most people think of a panic as something like when somebody yells 'fire' in a crowded theatre. The difference with a panic on the sharemarket is that even if you pick the back row on the isle, you still have to find someone to take your seat before you can leave the theatre.
Abraham Maslow - It isn't normal to know what you want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.
Bitterness in olives is mostly due to the glycoside oleuropein.
Emerson - We are always getting ready to live, but never living.
Northop Frye - The primary function of education is to make one maladjusted to ordinary society.
Il dolce far niente.
Berlin - Pleuralism and untidiness are, to those who value freedom, better than rigorous imposition of all embracing systems no matter how rational. . .
WWII postal acronyms. ITALY - I trust and love you. BURMA - Be undressed and ready my angel.
Hilary Rose - We are so over Victoria Beckham-style half grape fruits. Breasts should move. They should be soft and yielding and have a visible relationship with each other, not with a bony ribcage.
Cyberdyne.
Compaticum - the root of companion - one who eats bread with another.
Willie Sutton when asked why he kept robbing banks - Because that's where the money is.
Percy Craddock on China - an acquired taste, much of it bitter.
RPJ on Clarendon Hills - Bratasiuk has rarely gotten accolades from the Australian press, largely because of his stubbornness and overall contempt for a wine press that seems largely bought and paid for by the large Australian wine companies.
Rodgers and Hammerstein - When the dog bites / When the bee stings / When I'm feeling sad /
I simply remember my favorite things / And then I don't feel so bad.
2 comments:
Some great thoughts/quotes in there. On the Clarendon Hills quote, i do find it interesting how little press coverage the winery gets given the quality of the wines over a long period of time
Red,
It is interesting re Clarendon Hills, though JO does cover the wines in his handbook and does give generous praise.
I found the comment from RPJ interesting given the bluntness of his words, there is a grain of truth given the size of the big players in our market. I wonder if there is any other wine market where power and market share are so dominated by so few?
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