Famous Quotes & Sayings

Coke's reason for getting rid of him was for drinking the competitor's product.

The situation is quite serious - groundwater is important source for water use, including drinking water, and if it gets contaminated, it's very costly and difficult to clean.

The story was more gracious than we were expecting after hearing all the interview hype. Obviously, Nike doesn't support drinking and skiing, or drinking and sports activities.

So to give drinking systems more time, the ones we feel are at risk of violating, we won't test them until the end of the cycle.

Jeremy Jackson

I've been drinking and just got really mad that my friend was punched in the face for no reason.

This is a place to hold conversations. We had eight or 10 people in here for New Year's, drinking port and smoking cigars.

This is outrageous. Prison authorities said he was simply drinking tea where he should not have been.

Carl Sandburg

Poetry is a plan for a slit in the face of a bronze fountain goat and the path of fresh drinking water.

Alain de Botton

The activities of drawing, eating and drinking, all involve assimilations by the self of desirable elements from the world, a transfer of goodness from without to within.

Gary L. Francione

So it is always preferable to discuss the matter of veganism in a non-judgemental way. Remember that to most people, eating flesh or dairy and using animal products such as leather, wool, and silk, is as normal as breathing air or drinking water. A person who consumes dairy or uses animal products is not necessarily or usually what a recent and unpopular American president labelled an "evil doer.

I am awake, I might as well be drinking

Bob Dole

We know smoking tobacco is not good for kids, but a lot of other things aren't good. Drinking's not good. Some would say milk's not good.

Billy Connolly

I decided to stop drinking while it was still my idea.

Charles Bukowski

That's the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.

Edward Abbey

A drink a day keeps the shrink away.

We've had several people get engaged here on Valentine's Day. One time we put an engagement ring in the glass of wine so when she started drinking it she noticed the ring. I actually suggested that to the guy because that's what I did when I got engaged. One year we even had a wedding on Valentine's Day.

We're taking a system down that can do the whole project - all the way to drinking water if they need us to do that.

Dan Andriano

We figured it's about time we tried to put on a really good show. It's hard to do that when you're going out drinking every night.

There's no reason for kids to be drinking sports drinks during school when they're not exercising or playing sports.

Sandra Postel

There's not enough water to grow all the food that the region needs to grow for itself, and provide enough drinking water and water for industry.

What's going on is he's not happy with the situation he's in. His drinking is a symptom of that, not the problem.

Doris Lessing

London has changed enormously and so have the English in the past decade. They're more like Americans and more like Europeans, too. They're always eating out, and when they're at home they don't cook the way they did ten years ago. They're all sitting around in cafés, like the Continentals, drinking coffee and chattering and watching the world go by.

Craig Parker

Drinking coffee is kinda my major hobby... the great benefit of being an actor is you have all this spare time. My ideal is just hanging out with people - I think I am innately lazy.

Daniel Silva

So what are you planning to do with the rest of your life? Develop a drinking problem. More Scotch, please.

Clive James

When I finally embraced abstinence it was because of the simple urge to work a longer day. Thus, without joining Alcoholics Anonymous, I was at last able to leave Piss-Artists Notorious.

Dylan Moran

That's a rather flippant quote "drinking and writing bad poetry" from me. I mean, I said it, but I was doing other stuff too. I certainly didn't manage the full stretch of four years.

Ann Landers

People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.

Amy Winehouse

My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they're going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking.

Abraham Lincoln

I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice.

Aldous Huxley

Drinking can not be sacramentalised except in religions which set no store on decorum. The worship of Dionysos or the Celtic god of beer was a loud and disorderly affair.

Adlai E. Stevenson

Protocol, alcohol, and Geritol

Don McLean

Bye, Bye Miss American Pie, drove my chevy to the levy but the levy was dry. Good old boys drinking whiskey and rye, singing, this'll be the day that I die.

Dylan Thomas

A horrid alcoholic explosion scatters all my good intentions like bits of limbs and clothes over the doorsteps and into the saloon bars of the tawdriest pubs.