Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Rick Riordan

She looked at me, like she was drinking in the fact that I was still here. And I realized I was doing the same thing. The world was collapsing, and the only thing that really mattered to me was that she was alive.

Remy de Gourmont

Of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity.

Reese Witherspoon

I clearly had one drink too many and I am deeply embarrassed about the things I said,

Tim McGraw

When I first started, I was really nervous. You could hear my voice quiver. So I started drinking a bit and that helped. A lot of entertainers have a few drinks before going onstage and don't overdo it. Me, it turned into a bigger habit. But I stopped that. I was getting older, and I was thinking about my kids. There's enough roadblocks out there without throwing in more yourself.

Steven Spielberg

Making a movie and not directing the little moments is like drinking a soda and leaving the little slurp puddle for someone else.

Reggie Jackson

I'm the straw that stirs the drink.

Tom Hodgkinson

Sensible people advise against drinking on an empty stomach, but to my mind it is the best sort of drinking.

Tommy Chong

I'd rather have my kid smoking pot than drinking.

Robert Benchley

I know I'm drinking myself to a slow death, but then I'm in no hurry.

Robert Benchley

Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with that it's compounding a felony.

Rita Mae Brown

Alcohol is an allergy of the body and an obsession of the mind.

Richard Matheson

That's what was wrong with drinking too much. You became immune to drunken delights. There was no solace in liquor. Before you got happy, you collapsed.

Thomas Paine

Paper money is like dram-drinking, it relieves for a moment by deceitful sensation, but gradually diminishes the natural heat, and leaves the body worse than it found it. Were not this the case, and could money be made of paper at pleasure, every sovereign in Europe would be as rich as he pleased. But the truth is, that it is a bubble and the attempt vanity. Nature has provided the proper materials for money: gold and silver, and any attempt of ours to rival her is ridiculous....

Thomas Huxley

I hated tobacco. I could have almost lent my support to any institution that had for its object the putting of tobacco smokers to death...I now feel that smoking in moderation is a comfortable and laudable practice, and is productive of good. There is no more harm in a pipe than in a cup of tea. You may poison yourself by drinking too much green tea, and kill yourself by eating too many beefsteaks. For my part, I consider that tobacco, in moderation, is a sweetener and equalizer of the temper.

Thomas de Quincey

It is most absurdly said, in popular language, of any man, that he is disguised in liquor; for, on the contrary, most men are disguised by sobriety.

Tom Robbins

Never underestimate how much assistance, how much satisfaction, how much comfort, how much soul and transcendence there might be in a well-made taco and a cold bottle of beer.

Tom Ford

If you don't need to quit drinking, you shouldn't quit drinking. I used to really love to drink, and especially living in London, it's just built for drinking...

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.

Suzanne Collins

Someone ought to get Haymitch a drink.

Robert Burns

There's some are fou o' love divine; There's some are fou o' brandy.

Robert Browning

When the liquor's out, why clink the cannikin?

Robbie Williams

I've been watching what I eat. When I was putting on all the weight, I was drinking Guinness and not eating. I didn't have room to because I was drinking all the time.

Ricky Williams

And any time you feed your ego, it's a one-way street. ... There were so many things I had to deal with that erased the positives I got from playing the game that it wasn't worth it. It's like eating a Big Mac and drinking a Diet Coke.

Richard Simmons

Therell always be some weird thing about eating four grapes before you go to bed, or drinking a special tea, or buying this little bean from El Salvador.

Richard Harris

I don't drink because I have problems or I want to escape. I just love drinking and being drunk.