Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sonny Rollins

I have seen great jazz musicians die obscure and drinking themselves to death and not really being able to get any work and working in small, funky jazz clubs.

Steve Jobs

The technology companies don't understand creative things at all. Silicon Valley's view of the creative process in Hollywood is a bunch of guys in their young thirties sitting on a couch, drinking beer, and thinking up jokes.

Viktor Chernomyrdin

Wine we need for health, and the health we need to drink vodka.

Samuel Johnson

Sir, I have no objection to a man's drinking wine, if he can do it in moderation. I found myself apt to go to excess in it, and therefore, after having been for some time without it, on account of illness, I thought it better not to return to it. Every man is to judge for himself, according to the effects which he experiences.

Samuel Johnson

There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten.

Samuel Johnson

Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.

Ryan Adams

I quit drinking every night, at 1:30 A.M.

Ruhollah Khomeini

Happy are those who have departed through martyrdom. Unhappy am I that I still survive.... Taking this decision is more deadly than drinking from a poisoned chalice. I submitted myself to Allah's will and took this drink for His satisfaction.

Rodney Dangerfield

Yeah, I know I'm ugly... I said to a bartender, 'Make me a zombie.' He said 'God beat me to it.'

Rodney Dangerfield

I'm taking Viagra and drinking prune juice - I don't know if I'm coming or going.

Rodney Dangerfield

I told my doctor, "I've swallowed a bottle of sleeping pills" and he told me to have a few drinks and get some rest.

Rodney Dangerfield

My doctor told me to watch my drinking. Now I drink in front of a mirror.

Rocky Graziano

I don't know, I'm not from this neighborhood."-to Jake LaMotta after a night of drinking when LaMotta asked "is that the sun or the moon?

Steve Wozniak

I went drinking with Gray Powell and all I got was a lousy iPhone prototype.

Steve Albini

I stopped drinking almost immediately after I had ready access to liquor, when I got to college. It almost immediately lost its appeal for me.

Usain Bolt

I have learned that if this is what I am going to do, and do it well, then I have to avoid drinking.

Stephen King

Once, during the drinking phase, Wendy had accused him of desiring his own destruction but not possessing the necessary moral fiber to support a full-blown deathwish. So he manufactured ways in which other people could do it, lopping a piece at a time off himself and their family.

Stephen King

I always drank, from when it was legal for me to drink. And there was never a time for me when the goal wasn't to get as hammered as I could possibly afford to. I never understood social drinking, that's always seemed to me like kissing your sister.

Stephen King

I work until beer o'clock.

Tom Waits

...and I'm standing on the corner of Fifth and Vermouth.

Tom Waits

I'd rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.

Tom Waits

I don't have a drinking problem 'Cept when I can't get a drink.

Stephen King

Do you drink?" "Of course,I just said I was a writer.

Simon Cowell

It simply works. You do it twice a year. Who cares? And it balances my smoking and drinking.

Shelley Winters

I have bursts of being a lady, but it doesn't last long.

Shailene Woodley

Start small - if you drink soda, stop drinking soda. You don't have to make every single change at once or overnight, you can make them slowly to adjust to figure out what works for your body, there is no formula and there is also no right or wrong.

Kelly McGillis

I am not drinking now but I cannot guarantee tomorrow.

Katy Perry

I was, like, just eating Flamin' Hot Cheetos and drinking, and that's it.

Rainbow Rowell

Drinking tequila is more about the journey than the destination

Tennessee Williams

It's like a switch, clickin' off in my head. Turns the hot light off and the cool one on, and all of a sudden there's peace.

Soren Kierkegaard

Death induces the sensual person to say: Let us eat and drink, because tomorrow we shall die - but this is sensuality's cowardly lust for life, that contemptible order of things where one lives in order to eat and drink instead of eating and drinking in order to live.

Stephen Colbert

Can accidentally eating halal food make you Muslim? Yes, the same way drinking a cosmo can make you gay.

Stella Benson

The moment of cocoa-drinking was always the moment of confidences.