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  • I smiled at the stacks, inhaling again. Hundreds of thousands of pages that had never been turned, waiting for me. The shelves were a warm, blond wood, piled with spines of every color. Staff picks were arranged on tables, glossy covers reflecting the light back at me. Behind the little cubby where the cashier sat, ignoring us, stairs covered with rich burgundy carpet led up to the worlds unknown. 'I could just live here,' I said.

    Light   Color   Waiting  
    Maggie Stiefvater (2009). “Shiver”, p.150, Scholastic Inc.
  • I think that, by comparison with $2,000 bottles of grand cru Burgundies, first-rate barolos, which sell for under $100, are undervalued ten-fold.

  • An aged Burgundy runs with a beardless Port. I cherish the fancy that Port speaks sentences of wisdom, Burgundy sings the inspired Ode.

    Running   Wine   Alcohol  
  • We should thank God for beer and burgundy by not drinking too much of them.

    Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.47, Simon and Schuster
  • If it's red, French, costs too much, and tastes like the water that's left in the vase after the flowers have died and rotted, it's probably Burgundy.

    Flower   Water   Cost  
  • But always, to her, red and green cabbages were to be jade and burgundy, chrysoprase and prophyry. Life has no weapons against a woman like that.

    Garden   Green   Weapons  
    Edna Ferber (2013). “So Big”, p.19, Harper Collins
  • Fairest Cordelia, that art most rich, being poor; Most choice, forsaken; and most loved, despised! Thee and thy virtues here I seize upon: Be it lawful I take up what's cast away. Gods, gods! 'tis strange that from their cold'st neglect My love should kindle to inflamed respect. Thy dowerless daughter, king, thrown to my chance, Is queen of us, of ours, and our fair France: Not all the dukes of waterish Burgundy Can buy this unprized precious maid of me. Bid them farewell, Cordelia, though unkind: Thou losest here, a better where to find.

    Daughter   Art   Queens  
    William Shakespeare, Jay L. Halio (1992). “The Tragedy of King Lear”, p.109, Cambridge University Press
  • I'm a huge fan of Cabernet and Bordeaux, and am passionate about Pinot Noir and Burgundies.

  • I love white Portugal wine better than claret, champagne, or burgundy. I have a sad vulgar appetite.

    Wine   White   Portugal  
    Jonathan Swift, Thomas Roscoe (1859). “The works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: with copious notes and additions and a memoir of the author”, p.373
  • There are many ways to the recognition of truth, and Burgundy is one of them.

    Wine   Way   Recognition  
    Isak Dinesen (2011). “Seven Gothic Tales”, p.100, Vintage
  • Burgundy was the winiest wine, the central, essential, and typical wine, the soul and greatest common measure of all the kindly wines of the earth.

    Wine   Soul   Typical  
  • Every season has its lipstick trend, and just because your perfect color is a pinky beige, that doesn't mean you can't wear deep burgundy.

    Mean   Color   Perfect  
    "Insiders' Guide: How To Find The Best Lip Color" by Susan Cernek, www.glamour.com. October 20, 2008.
  • Anchorman' is my favorite movie of all time and Ron Burgundy is one of my favorite characters of all time. It's my 'Gone With the Wind.

  • I would happily die with a bottle of white Burgundy in my mouth.

    White   Bottles   Mouths  
  • The color palette grew as the story progressed. The 1920's sharecroppers were muted and neutrals, the 30's and 40's introduced burgundy to the neutral palette. The 1950's introduced green, black and denim blue, the 1960's introduced orange and heavier more saturated color, the 1970's introduced more primaries, and the fashion palette became more recognizable as a contemporary one from there.

    Fashion   Blue   Color  
  • Well, you know, when you go into a restaurant, one of the scariest things is the wine list, so whenever I'm really feeling intimidated, I'll just pick a wine type, like a Chianti or Brunello or a Burgundy, and I'll pick a year that's missing and ask for that one.

    Wine   Years   Missing  
  • It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.

    Food   Wine   Thinking  
    Cartoon caption, New Yorker, 27 Mar. 1937
  • If Claret is the king of natural wines, Burgundy is the queen.

    Kings   Queens   Wine  
  • The odour of Burgundy, and the smell of French sauces, and the sight of clean napkins and long loaves, knocked as a very welcome visitor at the door of our inner man.

    Wine   Men   Sight  
    Jerome K. Jerome (1998). “Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel”, p.159, OUP Oxford
  • A carbonated wine foisted upon Americans (who else would drink it?) by winery ad agencies as a way of getting rid of inferior champagne by mixing it with inferior burgundy.

    Food   Wine   Agency  
  • I'm a big fan of the Adidas three-stripe old-school zip-up tracksuit tops. I've got several for everyday wear, including an olive-green one, a burgundy one and a cream one with leather arms.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • This is brain surgery. Ski masks on my bullets, let 'em commit brain burglary. Emergency, it's an emergency. Someone in all black left the whole scene burgundy.

    Black   Brain   Ems  
  • I got sent to a health camp when I was about 6 years old, and we all had to wear the same starchy blue uniform. The lady who took care of me after school knit me a burgundy sweater. It was the only thing that gave me any individuality.

    School   Blue   Years  
  • It is true that the king has made a truce with the duke of Burgundy for fifteen days and that the duke is to turn over the city of Paris at the end of fifteen days. Yet you should not marvel if I do not enter that city so quickly.

    Kings   Cities   Paris  
  • The sun goes down long and red. All the magic names of the valley unrolled - Manteca, Madera, all the rest. Soon it got dusk, a grapy dusk, a purple dusk over tangerine groves and long melon field; the sun the color of pressed grapes, slashed with burgundy red, the fields the color of love and Spanish mysteries. I stuck my head out the window and took deep breaths of the fragant air. It was the most beautiful of all moments.

    Beautiful   Air   Color  
    Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road”, Viking Press
  • Well, I could be wrong, but I believe diversity is an old, old wooden ship that was used during the Civil War era.

    Anchorman   War   Believe  
    "Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy". www.imdb.com. 2004.
  • I will smash your face into a car windshield, and then take your mother, Dorothy Mantooth, out for a nice seafood dinner and never call her again.

    Anchorman   Mother   Nice  
    "Fictional character: Champ Kind". "Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy", www.imdb.com. 2004.
  • Burgundy makes you think of silly things; Bordeaux makes you talk about them, and Champagne makes you do them.

    Silly   Food   Wine  
  • The best advice I can give people when they buy Burgundy, which is a bit of a roulette game, is to look for producers who are tried and true... Look for the name of the producer, whether Michel Lafarge, Domaine Leflaivre, Dominique Lafont, or another. When they put their name on the bottle, they're proud.

    Wine   Games   Names  
  • I look good. I mean, really good. Hey everyone! Come and see how good I look!

    Anchorman   Mean   Looks  
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