Famous Quotes & Sayings

Natalie Goldberg

Katagiri Roshi says: "Poor artists. They suffer very much. They finish a masterpiece and they are not satisfied. They want to go on and do another." Yes, but it's better to go on and do another if you have the urge than to start drinking and become alcoholic or eat a pound of good fudge and get fat.

Tallulah Bankhead

I have been tight as a tick! Fried as a mink! Stiff as a goat!

Peg Bracken

Drinking: something to do while getting drunk.

Neal Shusterman

Sometimes, though, you make a pact with yourself. I'll pretend there's nothing wrong if you pretend there's nothing wrong. It's called denial, and it's one of the strongest pacts in the world. Just ask all those people who were still drinking champagne while the Titanic went down.

Louis Tomlinson

The Story of My Life is drinking cups of tea, eating coco pops and playing Playstation.

John Green

Talking to a drunk person was like talking to an extremely happy, severely brain-damaged three-year-old.

John Fowles

Which are you drinking? The water or the wave?

Jonathan Evison

I discovered John Fante when I was 17 years old - strangely, not through Charles Bukowski, but through William Saroyan, who was his drinking buddy.

Jonathan Coe

We say, 'Shall we meet for a drink?', as though drinking were the main end of the appointment, and the matter of company only incidental, we are so shy about admitting our need for one another.[...]We say, 'Would you like to come for some coffee?', as though it were less frightening to acknowledge that we are heavily dependent on mildly stimulating drinks, than to acknowledge that we are at all dependent on the companionship of other people.

Pete Wentz

It's bizarre to have both a super-connected and disconnected world. Like, you can use Twitter in the most narcissistic way. Do people really need to know that I'm drinking a latte right now? It's so indulgent.

Pete Townshend

Like so many addicts, I'd thought that if I could only sort out my life, I could then sort out my drinking. It was a revelation to see that it would be simpler the other way around

Pete Coors

The 21st Amendment gives the states the right to decide what the drinking ages should be and other aspects relative to alcoholic beverages, and I support that. As a United States senator, I want to weigh in - this is not my agenda.

Pete Coors

If it went on the ballot in Colorado, I would vote to lower the drinking age.

Pete Coors

I don't want to get in a big, long discussion about right and wrong, but our company has been working on the issue of underage drinking and alcohol abuse for a long time. I've been outspoken about it.

Rachel Carson

A Who's Who of pesticides is therefore of concern to us all. If we are going to live so intimately with these chemicals eating and drinking them, taking them into the very marrow of our bones - we had better know something about their nature and their power.

Quentin Crisp

To minimize my guilt at going to the pictures - to call this wanton pursuit of an effete pleasure by another name - I needed movie companions as drunkards need drinking partners. If I entered a cinema alone, God might plunge his arm through the roof of the auditorium booming in a stereophonic voice, 'And you, Crisp, what are you doing here?' I would never have dared reply, 'I'm just enjoying myself, Lord.'

Ovid

Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.

Paul McCartney

Trumpets are a bit more adventurous; they're drunk! Trumpeters are generally drunk. It wets their whistle.

Joe Perry

I didn't think I could go onstage and play unless I had a beer to loosen up. Well, if it was only one beer to loosen up, I'd probably still be drinking today.

Joe E. Lewis

I always wake up at the crack of ice.

Joe E. Lewis

I know a lot more old drunks than old doctors.

Joe E. Lewis

I drink to forget I drink.

Joe E. Lewis

Whenever someone asks me if I want water with my scotch, I say, I'm thirsty, not dirty.

Joe E. Lewis

I went on a diet, swore off drinking and heavy eating, and in fourteen days I had lost exactly two weeks.

Joe Eszterhas

I'm not suggesting at all that we take away all of the characters' vices. I am suggesting that this particular vice is so insidious, so nefarious, and so deadly that simply by glamorizing it or poisoning our young adults, and I think it's a very separate category, but in no way am I suggesting that we move on from banning smoking in movies to banning drinking, or whatever else we want to do.

Joe Eszterhas

That's sort of what I felt... I miss drinking, I thought bars were truly holy places.

Jimmy Breslin

When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place.

Jim Morrison

It's like gambling somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don't know where your going to end up the next day. It could work out good or it could be disastrous. It's like the throw of the dice.

John Holdren

Adding a sterilant to drinking water or staple foods is a suggestion that seems to horrify people more than most proposals for involuntary fertility control.

John Huston

I prefer to think that God is not dead, just drunk.

Leo Durocher

To some it's a six-pack, to me it's a "support group". Salvation in a can!

Lewis Grizzard

The only way that I could figure they could improve upon Coca-Cola, one of life's most delightful elixirs, which studies prove will heal the sick and occasionally raise the dead, is to put bourbon in it.

Karl Popper

Some scientists find, or so it seems, that they get their best ideas when smoking; others by drinking coffee or whisky. Thus there is no reason why I should not admit that some may get their ideas by observing, or by repeating observations.