Year Rye Whiskey

Famous quotes containing the words year, rye and/or whiskey:

    “You have been here only a short time, Mr. Barnard. You cannot know what it is to live here month upon month, year after year, breathing this infernal air, absorbing the miasma of barbarity that permeates these walls, especially this chamber.”
    —Richard Matheson (b. 1926)

    “Poems stirred
    into paper coffee-cups, eaten
    with petals on rye in the
    sun—the cold shadows in back,
    and the traffic grinding the
    borders of spring ...”
    —Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

    “Besides, you start drinking whiskey gambling, it gives you an excuse for losing. That’s something you don’t need, an excuse for losing.”
    —Sydney Carroll, U.S. screenwriter, and Robert Rossen. Bert Gordon (George C. Scott)