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.
The ocean of the body crashes against the ocean of the heart. Between them is a barrier they cannot cross.
Love is the most transformative medicine For Love slowly transforms you Into what psychedelics only get you to glimpse.
I've caught belief like a disease. I've fallen into belief like I fell in love.
Nothing can be accomplished without love.
Some words have to be explicitly uttered, Lenore. Only by actually uttering certain words does one really DO what one SAYS. 'Love' is one of those words, performative words. Some words can literally make things real.
We have before us the glorious opportunity to inject a new dimension of love into the veins of our civilization.
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