Famous Quotes & Sayings

Roger Ebert

Why do alcoholics begin down the same hazardous road day after day? They are in search of that elusive window of well-being that opens when you drink your way out of a hangover and aren't yet drunk all over again. The alcoholic's day consists of trying to keep that window open.

Tracey Emin

When I am ill or upset he jumps up on to the bed to curl up close beside me. But if I am in bed with a hangover he will have nothing to do with me.

Terry Eagleton

Post-structuralism is among other things a kind of theoretical hangover from the failed uprising of '68, a way of keeping the revolution warm at the level of language, blending the euphoric libertarianism of that moment with the stoical melancholia of its aftermath.

Lemmy Kilmister

A kid once said to me "Do you get hangovers?" I said, "To get hangovers you have to stop drinking.

Kenzaburo Oe

If any suffering was fruitless it was the agony of a hangover; what he suffered now could not expiate suffering of any other kind.

Joyce Brothers

Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately and gives you a lift... The hangover comes the day after.

John Fowles

There are two kinds of hangover: in one you feel ill and incapable, in the other you feel ill and lucid.

Jimmy Breslin

The test of a good idea is its ability to last through a hangover

Jimmy Breslin

Don't trust a brilliant idea unless it survives the hangover.

Richelle Mead

You kill me, Rose," he said melodramatically. "Every day is agony without you. Empty. Alone. I pine for you, wondering if you're even still alive.

Robert E. Howard

Every twinge of sensation, even of agony, was a negation of death.

William Goldman

You could concentrate much more deeply when you were alone with agony.

Scott Turow

You know, my mom, who inspired me to be a novelist, I remember her reading 'The Agony and the Ecstasy,' about Michelangelo, and saying, 'No mother would want that for her child, no matter how great the artist.' I have my share of demons, but I am a gregarious sort.

Ellen G. White

The Saviour would have passed through the agony of Calvary that one might be saved in His kingdom. He will never abandon one for whom He has died.

Frank Keating

The agony that we went through needed to be redeemed, and needed to be recompensed, and that did occur and we're very happy that this part is over.

Lisa Kleypas

I can't imagine a sweeter agony, having him so close.

Joyce Meyer

We suffer much agony because we try to get from people what only God can give us, which is a sense of worth and value. Look to God for what you need, not to people.

Josephine Hart

We do have choice, but not without some agony.

Richard Paul Evans

Suffering ceases to be suffering when we form a clear picture of it.

Whitley Strieber

I wondered if I might not be in the grip of demons, if they were not making me suffer for their own purposes, or simply for their enjoyment.

Samuel Johnson

The equity of Providence has balanced peculiar sufferings with peculiar enjoyments.

Willa Cather

Only a Woman, divine, could know all that a woman can suffer.

Walter Kaufmann

It does not follow that the meaning must be given from above; that life and suffering must come neatly labeled; that nothing is worth while if the world is not governed by a purpose.

William Boyd

There is a disconnect between the film Bond and the literary Bond which is their contemporaneity. I don't suffer from that.

Samuel Johnson

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it.

Wendell Berry

For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.

W. Somerset Maugham

Her tears were partly tears of happiness, for she felt that the strangeness between them was gone. She loved him now with a new love because he had made her suffer.