I get no kick from champagne. Mere alcohol doesn't thrill me at all. So, tell me why should it be true, that I get a kick out of you?
Interpretation
The quote expresses a sentiment that love is more fulfilling than material pleasures.
Cole Porter suggests that while he doesn't find joy or excitement in superficial pleasures like champagne or alcohol, he experiences genuine thrill and joy in the presence of the person he loves. This juxtaposition highlights the idea that true happiness and excitement come from deep emotional connections rather than temporary pleasures.
In practice
In a wedding speech highlighting the importance of emotional connections over material gifts.
Every time I look down on this timeless town Whether blue or gray be her skies. Whether loud be her cheers or soft be her tears, More and more do I realize: I love Paris in the springtime. I love Paris in the fall. I love Paris in the winter when it drizzles, I love Paris in the summer when it sizzles. I love Paris every moment, Every moment of the year. I love Paris, why, oh why do I love Paris? Because my love is near.
My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a director. ... (when asked who wrote 'Some Enchanted Evening') Rodgers and Hammerstein, if you can imagine it taking two men to write one song. ... Good authors, too, who once knew better words now use only four-letter words writing prose. ... Brush up your Shakespeare and they'll all kowtow.
It's delightful, it's delicious, it's de-lovely.
Be like the bluebird who never is blue, For he knows from his upbringing what singing can do
In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking. Now, Heaven knows, anything goes. The world has gone mad today, and good's bad today, and black's white today, and day's night today.
Night and day you are the one,_x000D_ _x000D_ Only you beneath the moon and under the sun.
and you come away with a great little story of a mess of a dreamer with the nerve to adore you
Nothing else wounds so deeply and irreparably. Nothing else robs us of hope so much as being unloved by one we love
Peoples of the entire world need to hear these words. Their conscience needs to grow in the certainty that Someone exists who holds in His Hands the destiny of this passing world... And this Someone is Love- Love that became Man, Love crucified and risen, Love unceasingly present among men. It is Eucharistic Love.
They say that gardens look better when they are created by loving gardeners rather than by landscapers, because the garden is more tended to and cared for. The same thing goes for cooking. I only cook for people I love.
I've seen too much hate to want to hate, myself.
Come on sweetheart let's adore one another before there is no more of you and me
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