Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Webster

All the damnable degrees Of drinking have you staggered through.

John Tillotson

In matters of great concern, and which must be done, there is no surer argument of a weak mind than irresolution; to be undetermined where the case is so plain, and the necessity so urgent. To be always intending to live a new life, but never to find time to set about it; this is as if a man should put off eating, and drinking, and sleeping, from one day and night to another, till he is starved and destroyed.

John Stamos

I don't do anything or have any magical secret or something, other than drinking baby's blood, of course.

Sherwood Boehlert

Craft brewers are committed to promoting the safe and moderate consumption of their beverage, and work closely with their communities to prevent underage drinking and alcohol abuse.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

I’m a goddess of destruction. Tell me honestly that you find nothing exciting about the idea of a billion people screaming out for mercy when there’s no one left who cares what befalls them. Of the entire earth being rained on by all manner of demons bent on ultimate torture and sacrifice. Them ripping and shredding human flesh as they claw in a drunken frenzy fueled by their hatred of everything. Drinking blood in an orgy of terror...ahhh, the beauty of annihilation. There’s nothing like it.(Apollymi)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

I mumble hocus-pocus and the next thing you know, I’m a cat. (Ravyn) I suppose it’s a step up. The last guy I had in my house could only turn into a beer-drinking pig. (Susan)

Terence Winter

I guess ... I'm going to get that ice cream sundae they give you on the airplane. I usually pass on that, but I think I'm actually going to get extra whipped cream and maybe even the chocolate syrup. I'm really winging it here. I'm going to be flying. It's really a little too early to start drinking.

Nicolas Cage

I don't know if my wife left me because of my drinking or I started drinking 'cause my wife left me.

Nora Dunn

I prepared for the part by drinking, but I was sober when I was performing

Nicole Krauss

Sometimes, waking early before the others, wandering the rooms wrapped in a blanket or drinking my tea in the empty kitchen, I had that most rare of feelings, the sense that the world, so consistently overwhelming and incomprehensible, in fact has an order, oblique as it may seem, and I a place within it.

Myrna Loy

I got rid of all those reporters.

Miranda July

That is my problem with life, I rush through it, like I'm being chased. Even things whose whole point is slowness, like drinking relaxing tea. When I drink relaxing tea I suck it down as if I'm in a contest for who can drink relaxing tea the quickest.

Mignon McLaughlin

The chief reason for drinking is the desire to behave in a certain way, and to be able to blame it on alcohol.

Johnny Galecki

I don't know what to do with myself between films. I end up doing unhealthy things like shopping or drinking. I'm pretty schizophrenic about it.

Johnny Marr

The reason I don't drink is that the drinking lifestyle robs me of my musical intensity and sharpness. I live a super-healthy lifestyle not because it's sensible or that I'm contrite, but because I need to keep my focus on the music I'm making. To do that, I need to be wide awake.

Maxim Gorky

Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.

Maurice Gibb

So many groups fail because they spend all their time in the clubs. Work pours in and they can't handle it because of late-night drinking.

Matthew Pearl

Though a woman tempted man to eat, my dear Longfellow," said Holmes, "you never hear of Eve having to do with his drinking, for he took to that of his own notion.

Matthew Perry

The thing that I'm most proud of in my life is that if a stranger came up to me and said, 'I can't stop drinking. I can't stop drinking. Can you help me?' I can say, 'Yes, I can help you.'

Plato

And what do you say of lovers of wine... they are glad of any pretext of drinking any wine

Philip Larkin

The chromatic scale is what you use to give the effect of drinking a quinine martini and having an enema simultaneously.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

I think I would have drank myself to death, literally, if I didn't just stop, once and for all when I did. I am not ever going to preach to anyone about drugs or drinking. But, for me, when they were around, I had no self control.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

I don't know, I was young, I drank too much, you know, so I stopped. You know what I mean, it's not really complicated. I had no interest in drinking in moderation. And I still don't. Just because all that time's passed doesn't mean maybe it was just a phase. That's you know, that's who I am.

Phil Keoghan

I love finding myself in the most bizarre situations, drinking cobra's blood - really diverse stories. And yet, I will still turn up on location sometimes and be surprised by what I'm encountering or by how to do something.

LeBron James

As loud as they were , they need to go home now and start soaking up a lot of tea, drinking a lot of tea for the next 36 hours, whatever the case may be, 'cause they need to be just as loud Thursday night. We need you guys to get those voices right. But they're gonna be unbelievable Thursday night as well. Those guys, everyone, they're amazing.

Peg Bracken

Drinking: something to do while getting drunk.

Menander

Of all the wild beasts of land or sea, the wildest is woman.

Michael J. Fox

It’s all about control. Control is illusory. No matter what university you go to, no matter what degree you hold, if your goal is to become master of your own destiny, you have more to learn. Parkinson’s is a perfect metaphor for lack of control. Every unwanted movement in my hand or arm, every twitch that I cannot anticipate or arrest, is a reminder that even in the domain of my own being, I am not calling the shots. I tried to exert control by drinking myself to a place of indifference, which just exacerbated the sense of miserable hopelessness.

Michael J. Fox

I'm glad I don't have a drinking problem,' I confided, 'because I don't think I'd ever be able to quit.

Mark Ruffalo

Nothing anyone says in a bar is true.

Theodore Sturgeon

Ninety percent of everything is crap.

The Weeknd

They asked me why I don't quit drinking, I told 'em I'm not a quitter.

Margaret Halsey

when I spoke of having a drink, it was a euphemism for having a whole flock of them.