Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nick Offerman

I was drinking a lot of bourbon. I was miserable. I was starting to get work, but it wasn't remotely satisfying. It was garbage compared to the theater I was doing.

Matt Bomer

I’m a pretty chill person. I’m kind of a homebody and I like to just hang out with friends and have dinner. I’m not, you know - I’m definitely not Neal Caffrey in the sense that I’m not, you know, drinking a $500 bottle of wine at a nightclub. I’m just - I’m pretty chill.

Matt Damon

It's very frustrating [ to work under director's control], not just because you're getting rejected constantly, but also because you're at a time in your life where you have an enormous amount of creative energy, and there's no way to express it. That's why a lot of people get into drinking or drugs or whatever.

Matt Damon

Clean water is only as far away as the nearest tap, and there are taps everywhere. There's a faucet everywhere. But the reality is, the water in our toilets is cleaner than the water that most people are drinking.

Nicholas Negroponte

A Wired reader told me once, Get a life, which I read from the back of a yacht in the Aegean, while eating fresh sea urchins and drinking terrific Montrachet.

John Green

He took a long drink, then grimaced. “I do not have a drinking problem,” he announced, his voice needlessly loud. “I have a Churchillian relationship with alcohol: I can crack jokes and govern England and do anything I want to do. Except not drink.

Patti Smith

I wasn't taking drugs or drinking. I was working and working and working. But I wasn't writing anything.

P. J. O'Rourke

They don't like anyone who isn't Korean, and they don't like each other all that much, either. They're hardheaded, hard-drinking, tough little bastards, 'the Irish of Asia'.

P. J. O'Rourke

If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult.

Ozzy Osbourne

I discovered rock'n'roll. You could go round Europe in a van with your best mates, drinking beer, smoking dope and screwing chicks.

Ozzy Osbourne

Drugs and alcohol were ruling my life. I made a lot of bad decisions while I was drinking alcohol. The first thing I stopped was cigarettes and tobacco.

Paul O'Grady

What was I drinking last night? Furniture polish?

Michel de Montaigne

Satiety comes of too frequent repetition and he who will not give himself leisure to be thirsty can never find the true pleasure of drinking

Michel de Montaigne

The pleasure we hold in esteem for the course of our lives ought to have a greater share of our time dedicated to it; we should refuse no occasion nor omit any opportunity of drinking, and always have it in our minds.

Mark Twain

Taking the pledge will not make bad liquor good, but it will improve it.

Mark Twain

Demagogue--a vessel containing beer and other liquids.

Freddie Hubbard

I quit drinking, so I can think clear. When you have chop trouble, drinking doesn't help the healing process.

Francois Rabelais

A little rain beats down a big wind. Long drinking bouts break open the tun(der).

Francois Rabelais

There are more old drunkards than old physicians. [Fr., Il y a plus de vieux ivrongnes qu'il y a de vieux medecins.]

Francois Rabelais

When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.

Francois Rabelais

There are more old drunkards than old physicians.

Francois Rabelais

I drink eternally. For me it is an eternity of drinking, and a drinking up of eternity.

Francois Rabelais

Appetite comes with eating.....but thirst goes away with drinking.

Christopher Eccleston

My parents always knew I was hopeless at everything else, I was fortunate in that I was backed all the way. I came to it late and only because I thought there'd be loads of women and drinking!

Christina Ricci

I went through a normal kind of late teens, early 20s drinking, but it was a choice I made, because I didn’t think it was very good for my life.

Chris Mohr

Your body is incredible at 'detoxing'. It's called pooping & sweating. Best 'detox diet' = regular exercise, eating more veggies, fruit, healthy fats, lean meat, some grains and drinking more water.

Gilbert Gottfried

One pleasant surprise was when I interviewed Butch Patrick. I was expecting this bitter old drunk, and instead he had a total sense of humor about his career and his drinking and drug problem.

Gerard Way

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Gerard Way

Drinking beer doesn't make you fat, it makes you lean...Against bars, tables, chairs, and poles.

Fran Lebowitz

The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink.

George Washington

An aching head and trembling limbs, which are the inevitable effects of drinking, disincline the hands from work.

George Santayana

To drink in the spirit of a place you should be not only alone but unhurried.

George Orwell

Lastly, tea--unless one is drinking it in the Russian style--should be drunk WITHOUT SUGAR. I know very well that I am in a minority here. But still, how can you call yourself a true tea-lover if you destroy the flavour of your tea by putting sugar in it? It would be equally reasonable to put in pepper or salt. Tea is meant to be bitter, just as beer is meant to be bitter. If you sweeten it, you are no longer tasting the tea, you are merely tasting the sugar; you could make a very similar drink by dissolving sugar in plain hot water.