Quotes About Drinks

Bitters often come into play in French-Italian drinks, especially when whiskey or brandy is called for as a base, and the creative bartender should always bear that in mind when composing new formulas. By experimenting with Angostura, Peychaud's, orange, or any other flavor of bitters, you can change the character of the resultant cocktail quite dramatically.

In addition to internal heat production, the human body can absorb a small amount of heat from external sources, such as the sun, a fire, another warm body, the ingestion of hot drinks, and the inhalation of warm air.

I never have more than one drink before dinner. But I do like that one to be large and very strong and very cold and very well-made. I hate small portions of anything, particularly when they taste bad.

He pulled out a chair and while they sat down he beckoned to a waiter and despite Mathis's expostulations insisted on ordering the drinks – a 'fine à l'eau' for Mathis and a 'bacardi' for the girl.

I enjoy going on motorcycle trips and stopping in small towns and enjoying drinks with the locals.

I love the benefits I get from drinking Obrigado. It's naturally high in potassium and low in sodium and calories, so it's a great alternative to sports drinks.

The whole point of a bar is, I look in your eyes, you look in my eyes, we've never met each other before, we talk, we get to know each other, have a drink together, and the great end of that story is we get married someday.

The lover drinksand the cup-bearer pours.The lover thinksbut the cup-bearer knows:love begets love.Since this wine is love, then this cup is love, then this tavern is love, then this life is love.

The women streamed out of the auditorium with old or new friends, heading toward drinks or a nighttime walk, or to the Tube together, in the endlessly exciting, inviting city. I still have a picture from that last day of the old world.

Clovache's Voice said, How large is the device? Her accent was sort of like Russian, as least to my untravelled ears. (Hau larch . . . ?) The size of one of those cans of sweetened syrup, Batanya answered. Ah, the burping drinks, Clovache said.

Drinks here weren't free, but by way of real-life neighborhood civility they were cheap enough.

James Bond is quite serious about his drinks and clothing and cigarettes and food and all that sort of thing. There is nothing wry or amused about James Bond.

That's ruining two good drinks (adding water to scotch).

Life, liberty and the pursuit of happy hour, the long weekend, the all-inclusive island resort, the sunny beach vacation. Happiness is somewhere else, someplace with boat drinks, some secret, distant state of bliss which if they were given would bore them in minutes.

Mixed feelings, like mixed drinks, are a confusion to the soul.

Cocktails should be cold. Cubes. Plural. Not the rapper.

There's nothing more annoying than a man ordering wine at a bar when you're not eating.

I love awesome mixed drinks.

I don't love mixed drinks.

I hate champagne more than anything in the world next to Seven-Up.

The rich are the most discriminated-against minority in the world. Openly or covertly, everybody hates the rich because, openly or covertly, everybody envies the rich. Me, I love the rich. Somebody has to love them. Sure, a lot o' rich people are assholes, but believe me, a lot o' poor people are assholes, too, and an asshole with money can at least pay for his own drinks.

Drinks have had a closer connection to the flow of history than is generally acknowledged, and a greater influence on its course. Understanding the ramifications of who drank what, and why, and where they got it from, requires the traversal of many disparate and otherwise unrelated fields: the histories of agriculture, philosophy, religion, medicine, technology, and commerce.

Never despise a drink because it is easy to make and/or uses commercial mixes. Unquestioning devotion to authenticity is, in any department of life, a mark of the naive - or worse.

A long boozy dinner in the East Village with people you need to impress. After dinner, more drinks down the street. After those drinks, more drinks at your hotel's rooftop bar. After that, hours on the sofa in your room staring at CNN, shaking, afraid to go to sleep because it will lead to waking up.