Famous Quotes & Sayings

William H. Gass

The alcoholic trance is not just a haze, as though the eyes were also unshaven. It is not a mere buzzing in the ears, a dizzinessor disturbance of balance. One arrives in the garden again, at nursery time, when the gentle animals are fed and in all the world there are only toys.

Warren Zevon

I'm drinking here break motor oil and Bombay gin, I'll sleep when I'm dead.

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.

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.

Gretchen Wilson

Well I'm an eight ball shooting, double-fisted drinking son of a gun

Henry David Thoreau

I would fain keep sober always; and there are infinite degrees of drunkenness.

Henry David Thoreau

I know a good woman who thinks that her son lost his life because he took to drinking water only.

Jerry Seinfeld

I like any cereal. I like the idea of just eating and drinking with one hand without looking.

Jerome K. Jerome

We drink [to] one another's health and spoil our own.

Jeff Foxworthy

You might be a redneck if you're a lite beer drinker, because you start drinking when it gets light.

Jean Kerr

I don't want to see the uncut version of anything.

Jean Kerr

Even though a number of people have tried, no one has yet found a way to drink for a living.

Jackie Gleason

Drinking removes warts and pimples. Not from me. But from those I look at.

George Harrison

My mum did encourage me, perhaps most of all by never discouraging me from anything I wanted to do. If you tell kids not to, they're going to do it in the end anyway. I'd finished all that staying-out-all-night-drinking bit when everybody else came to it. Probably why I don't like alcohol today. I had it all by the age of 10.

Gary Allan

My goal is to hit the gym every day I'm on vacation. Usually I just end up sleeping and drinking beer.

Gary Busey

Drinking your own blood is the paradigm of recycling.

Franklin P. Adams

Drinking is bad taste but tastes good.

Jewel

Solutions and technologies exist to provide clean, affordable drinking water anywhere in the world. These solutions will save lives, reduce financial burdens, foster peace, and relieve millions of people from worrying about their next drink of water.

Jeaniene Frost

He leaned over and kissed me. A long, deep kiss filled with promise and passion. I loved the way he kissed me. Like he was drinking in the taste of me and still coming back thirsty.

Jeff Buckley

Sometimes if somebody you feel you need... the whole universe tells you that you have to have her, you start watching her favorite TV shows all night, you start buying her the things she needs, you start drinking her drinks, you start smoking her bad cigarettes, you start picking up her nuances in her voice, you sleep in safe sometimes the most dangerous thing... this is called Mojo Pin.

George Saintsbury

It is the unbroken testimony of all history that alcoholic liquors have been used by the strongest, wisest, handsomest, and in every way best races of all times.

Jeffrey Bernard

The more necessary it becomes to stop drinking, the more impossible it becomes to stop.

Jim Hamilton

I was trying my best not to drink. I'd go a day or two, and I just couldn't stand it. It kinda got around that 'Hamilton got religion.' So for about a year, it was the most miserable time of my life because I was secretly still drinking. One night I came home, after about a year of this, and I woke up the next day and the desire was gone.

Jerry Reed

She Got The Gold Mine, I Got the Shaft.

Elvis Costello

You're drinking vintage Elvis Presley wine.

Elvis Costello

And I'm up while the dawn is breaking, even though my heart is aching. I should be drinking a toast to absent friends instead of these comedians.

Hilary Swank

To me, working out is literally like eating a meal or drinking water or breathing.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right.