Piano Player Quote by André Aciman

“Jazz and vodka, the fuel of resistance.”

— Rawi Hage

“Your presence resembles a dirty martini, she only drinks it when she’s thirsty.”

— Shannon Lynette

“This steak wouldn't have tasted nearly as good if I'd been lying dead at the bottom of a ravine. I lifted my martini and…

— Marcia Clark

“If Falstaff had stuck to martinis, he'd be with us today.”

— W. C. Fields

“What an exquisite life you have had! You have drunk deeply of everything. You have crushed the grapes against your palate. Nothing has been…

— Oscar Wilde

“Ginsberg and those coffee houses with hungry-looking guitar players never did mean shit to me. They never took their drinking seriously.”

— Oscar Zeta Acosta

“I should like to elbow aside the established pieties and raise my martini glass in salute to the mortal arts of pleasure.”

— Bob Shacochis

“R-E-M-O-R-S-E! Those dry Martinis did the work for me; Last night at twelve I felt intense, Today I feel like thirty cents. My eyes…

— George Ade

“I order three martinis and down them in quick succession, shuddering at the strength of the alcohol. When they don’t immediately work, I order…

— Helen Harper

“She ordered a martini and encouraged me to, but said she couldn't drink it with her medication. She just liked seeing it in front…

— Richard Ford

“ Decade When you came, you were like red wine and honey, And the taste of you burnt my mouth with its sweetness. Now…

— Amy Lowell

“in the high, old tottering voice that seemed to have been tuned and broken at the capstan bars. Then he rapped on the door…

— Robert Louis Stevenson