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  • I might have it at six-fifteen a.m. just as soon as I get in, but usually it's about eleven o'clock when I'll have a glass of sherry.

    "Maya Angelou Always Rented A Hotel Room Just For Writing" by Julie Zeveloff, www.businessinsider.com. May 28, 2014.
  • The foaminess of the Falls, together with the tinge of tawny yellow in the troubled waters, only reminded me of so much unattainable soda and sherry, and made me feel thirstier than ever.

    Fall   Yellow   Water  
    1865 On seeing Niagara Falls for the first time. My Diary in America in theMidst ofWar.
  • In romance, there's nothing more attractive to a man than a woman who has dignity and pride in who she is.

    Pride   Men   Romance  
    Sherry Argov, “Why Men Marry Bitches: A Woman's Guide to Winning Her Man's Heart”
  • I don't use the word gourmet. The word doesn't mean anything anymore. 'Gourmet' makes it sound like someone is putting sherry wine in the corn-flake casserole.

    Wine   Mean   Corn Flakes  
  • If penicillin can cure those that are ill, Spanish sherry can bring the dead back to life.

    Food   Wine   Cooking  
  • The rites of passage in the academic world are arcane and, in their own way, highly romantic, and the tensions and unplesantries of dissertations and final oral examinations are quickly forgotten in the wonderful moment of the sherry afterward, admission into a very old club, parties of celebration, doctoral gowns, academic rituals, and hearing for the first time "Dr.," rather than "Miss" Jamison.

  • Sherry...a silly, sickly compound, the use of which will transform a nation, however bold and warlike by nature, into a race of sketchers, scribblers, and punsters, in fact into what Englishmen are at the present day.

    Silly   Race   Use  
    "Wild Wales". Book by George Henry Borrow, ch. 38, 1862.
  • A great deal of contemporary criticism reads to me like a man saying, 'Of course I do not like green cheese. I am very fond of brown sherry.

    Men   Criticism   Green  
    1933 All I Survey,'On Jonathan Swift'.
  • Why, sir, Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity, Sir, is not in Nature.

    Pain   Stupid   Taken  
    On Thomas Sheridan, in James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 1, p. 453 (28 July 1763)
  • I will never, ever drink whiskey again. From now on, it's strictly sherry.

    Whiskey   Drink   Sherry  
    Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.101, Simon and Schuster
  • As she cried, I could feel growing there, as had once before, a presence between us: the tiny perfect form of Sherry nestled between her parents' bodies. Our bodies were shaped by her absence, by the almost unbearable weight of her loss.

    Loss   Perfect   Parent  
  • He is like some sherry-crazed old dowager who has lost the family silver at roulette, and who now decides to double up by betting the house as well.

    Business   House   Debt  
  • I have a nervous breakdown in the film and in one scene I get to stand at the top of the stairs waving an empty sherry bottle which is, of course, a typical scene from my daily life, so isn't much of a stretch.

    Bottles   Typical   Film  
  • When a man sees you are happy with him but you can be just as happy having nothing to do with him, that’s when he won’t want to leave your side. When you are happy, you are sexy.

    Sexy   Men   Your Side  
    Sherry Argov, “Why Men Marry Bitches: A Woman's Guide to Winning Her Man's Heart”
  • We're lonely, but we're afraid of intimacy. And so from social networks to sociable robots, we're designing technologies that will give us the illusion of companionship without the demands of friendship.

    "Are We Plugged-In, Connected, But Alone?". 'TED Radio Hour' with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. February 26, 2013.
  • When you are happy, you are sexy

    Sexy   Sherry  
    Sherry Argov, “Why Men Marry Bitches: A Woman's Guide to Winning Her Man's Heart”
  • If God had not made Sherry, how imperfect his work would have been.

    Wine   Imperfect   Sherry  
  • I go to a hotel and try to get there by 5:30 in the morning. I keep a dictionary, a thesaurus, a bible, a deck of playing cards, a bottle of sherry, and stacks of yellow sticky pads. I shut myself in for six, seven hours. I have an arrangement with the hotel that no one may go in my room. After three or four months, they might slip notes under my door like, "Dear Ms. Angelou, please let us change the linens. We think they might be molding." It's probably true. I let them in if they promise not to touch anything other then the bed.

    Source: www.washingtoncitypaper.com
  • We expect more from technology and less from each other.

    "Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other". Book by Sherry Turkle, 2011.
  • The feeling that 'no one is listening to me' make us want to spend time with machines that seem to care about us.

    Sherry Turkle (2015). “Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age”, p.250, Penguin
  • ....that the mounds of ices, and the bowls of mint-julep and sherry cobbler they make in these latitudes, are refreshments never to be thought of afterwards, in summer, by those who would preserve contented minds.

    Summer   Ice   Mind  
    Charles Dickens (1842). “American Notes for General Circulation”, p.170
  • I recall drinking sherry in California and dreaming of England, where I ate dalmoth and dreamed of Delhi. What is the purpose, I wonder, of all this restlessness? I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.

  • I drink sherry and wine by myself because I like it and I get the sensuous feeling of indulgence...luxury, bliss, erotic-tinged.

    Wine   Luxury   Erotic  
  • Well let there be sunlight, let there be rain Let the brokenhearted love again Sherry, we can run with our arms open before the tide.

    Running   Rain   Arms  
    Song: Sherry Darling, Album: The River
  • I always believed a singer should be able to sing any kind of song. If I wanted to sing a Cole Porter song, I should be able to do that. Or Sherry, I should be able to do that. Or a Dylan song.

    Song   Singers   Able  
  • For the first time, I notice the lax skin at Mrs. Nightwing's jaw, the fine down that lies upon her cheek like the imprint of a childe's hand, and I wonder what it must be like watching yourself soften under the years, unable to stop it. what it's like measuring your days in perfecting girls' curtsies and drinking nightly glasses of sherry, trying to keep up with the world as it pulls you spinning into the furure, knowing you are always one step behind it.

    Girl   Lying   Drinking  
  • Sherry, the civilized drink.

    Wine   Drink   Sherry  
  • The seat received him in a loose and distant kind of way, like an aunt who disapproves of the last fifteen years of your life and will therefore furnish you with a basic sherry, but refuses to catch your eye.

    Eye   Aunt   Years  
    Douglas Adams (2014). “Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency”, p.70, Simon and Schuster
  • Anytime a woman competes with another woman she demeans herself.

    Sherry Argov, “Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl - A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship”
  • On Sherry: The destiny of a thousand generations is concentrated in each drop. If the cares of the world overwhelm you, only taste it, pilgrim, and you will swear that heaven is on earth.

    Wine   Destiny   Heaven  
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