Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Haden Church

I would say 95% of the time, because you just can't remember your lines if you're drinking alcohol. I would say about 95% of the time it was grape juice or this fake wine, which was horrible.

Thomas Haden Church

I love going to the feed store and drinking coffee and talking about how much rain we need.

Tim Wise

When I got to college, the fake ID thing wasn't that important, since pretty much everyone could get away with drinking in New Orleans. But the drugs, well, that was a different story altogether, because drugs are every bit as illegal in New Orleans as anywhere else--at least, if you're black and poor, and have the misfortune of doing your drugs somewhere other than the dorms at Tulane University. But if you are lucky enough to be living at Tulane, which is a pretty white place, especially contrasted with the city where it's located, which is 65 percent black, then you are absolutely set.

Thomas Love Peacock

There are two reasons for drinking wine...when you are thirsty, to cure it; the other, when you are not thirsty, to prevent it... prevention is better than cure.

Thomas Jordan Jarvis

Men even contract the dirty, filthy habit of chewing tobacco, and when the habit gets a good hold upon them they are never satisfied except when they have a wad of the stuff in their mouth. So with drinking. It is largely a habit.

Russell Lynes

Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.

Russell Brand

This is no time for drinking a mug of water - which you would do nowhere else in the world. A mug of water! You just don't drink water from mugs, do ya? Except on the telly. Water out of a mug! Should be a hot drink... mug of water.

Russell Brand

The mentality and behavior of drug addicts and alcoholics is wholly irrational until you understand that they are completely powerless over their addiction and unless they have structured help, they have no hope.

Truman Capote

I don't think I've ever drunk champagne before breakfast before. With breakfast on several occasions, but never before before.

Truman Capote

But I'm not a saint yet. I'm an alcoholic. I'm a drug addict. I'm homosexual. I'm a genius.

Trisha Goddard

I know I can get to the stage where I'm drinking a lot. I tend to be rotten and groggy all day and hanging out for the next drink and five o'clock, ping! I have to just stop.

Rick Derringer

And what makes me happy now has changed as well... Its one thing to play in a bar or at a biker festival, and hear a guy who's been drinking beer all day come up and tell you how good you are. For a long time in your life that will make you happy.

Rex Stout

Wolfe was drinking beer and looking at pictures of snowflakes in a book someone had sent him from Czechoslovakia... ...Wolfe seemed absorbed in the pictures. Looking at him, I said to myself, "He's in a battle with the elements. He's fighting his way through a raging blizzard, just sitting there comfortably looking at pictures of snowflakes. That's the advantage of being an artist, of having imagination." I said aloud, "You mustn't go to sleep, sir, it's fatal. You freeze to death." The League of Frightened Men

Raymond Chandler

I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principle, so he won't let himself get snotty about it.

Raymond Chandler

The overall picture, as the boys say, is of a degraded community whose idealism even is largely fake. The pretentiousness, the bogus enthusiasm, the constant drinking, the incessant squabbling over money, the all-pervasive agent, the strutting of the big shots (and their usually utter incompetence to achieve anything they start out to do), the constant fear of losing all this fairy gold and being the nothing they have never ceased to be, the snide tricks, the whole damn mess is out of this world.

Raymond Chandler

There is no bad whiskey. There are only some whiskeys that aren't as good as others.

Rick Yancey

The doctor frowned upon drinking and often expressed wonderment at men who willingly made imbeciles of themselves.

Maggie Stiefvater

I'm very nearly drunk enough to be transcendent," Calla said after a space. She was not the only psychic drinking, but she was the closest one to transcendence. Persephone peered dubiously into the bottom of her own glass. In a very small voice (her voice was always small), she said sadly, "I am not drunk at all." Maura offered, "It's the Russian in you." "Estonian,"Persephone replied.

William Faulkner

My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.

William Faulkner

There is no such thing as a bad whisky. Some whiskies just happen to be better than others.

Winston Churchill

The water was not fit to drink. To make it palatable, we had to add whisky. By diligent effort, I learned to like it.

Winston Churchill

My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars.

Will Rogers

Prohibition is better than no liquor at all.

W. C. Fields

We frequently hear of people dying from too much drinking. That this happens is a matter of record. But the blame is always placed on whisky. Why this should be I never could understand. You can die from drinking too much of anything - coffee, water, milk, soft drinks and all such stuff as that. And so as long as the presence of death lurks with anyone who goes through the simple act of swallowing. I will make mine whisky.

W. C. Fields

The cost of living has gone up another dollar a quart.

W. C. Fields

Now don't say you can't swear off drinking; it's easy. I've done it a thousand times.

W. C. Fields

I once donated a pint of my finest red corpuscles to the great American Red Cross and the doctor opined my blood was very helpful; contained so much alcohol they could use it to sterilize their instruments.

W. C. Fields

I never drank anything stronger than beer before I was twelve.

W. C. Fields

When life hands you lemons, make whisky sours.

W. C. Fields

I never drink water... fish f**k in it.

W. C. Fields

I only drink to steady my nerves... sometimes I'm so steady I don't move for months.

W. C. Fields

Back in my rummy days, I would tremble and shake for hours upon arising. It was the only exercise I got.

W. C. Fields

Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house unless they have a well-stocked bar.