Drinkers Quotes - Page 6

• I nursed a worthless, pint drinker for twelve years and when my lazy, life-sucking, daddy finally died, I swore to God with tears in my eyes I'd never marry one. And then I did.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Eye, Years, Nurse

  Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.222, Penguin

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• I'm not a writer with a drinking problem, I'm a drinker with a writing problem.

  Dorothy Parker

  Drinking, Writing, Problem

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• I've got the drinkers and the smokers and the eaters on my side.

  John Daly

  Golf, Sides, Smokers

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• It is not the drinker, but the man who has just stopped drinking, who thinks the world is going to the dogs.

  H. L. Mencken

  Dog, Drinking, Beer

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• Seeing is believing to most families who have lived with a drinker.

  Bill W.

  Believe, Humor, Alcohol

  Bill W. (2013). “Alcoholics Anonymous: The Original 1939 Edition”, p.148, Courier Corporation

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• Come boy, and pour for me a cup Of old Falernian. Fill it up With wine, strong, sparkling, bright, and clear; Our host decrees no water here. Let dullards drink the Nymph's pale brew, The sluggish thin their blood with dew. For such pale stuff we have no use; For us the purple grape's rich juice. Begone, ye chilling water sprite; Here burning Bacchus rules tonight! Catullus, Selections From Catullus No poems can live long or please that are written by water-drinkers.

  Horace

  Strong, Wine, Boys

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• I thought Mr. Millward never would cease telling us that he was no tea-drinker, and that it was highly injurious to keep loading the stomach with slops to the exclusion of more wholesome sustenance, and so give himself time to finish his fourth cup.

  Anne Bronte

  Giving, Tea, Cups

  Anne Bronte (2009). “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.111, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• They're professionals at this in Russia, so no matter how many Jell-O shots or Jager shooters you might have downed at college mixers, no matter how good a drinker you might think you are, don't forget that the Russians - any Russian - can drink you under the table.

  Anthony Bourdain

  College, Thinking, Russia

  "A Cook's Tour". Book by Anthony Bourdain, 2001.

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• I find the treatment of royalty distinctly peculiar. The royal family lives in palaces heavily screened from prying eyes by fences, grounds, gates, guards, all designed to ensure the family absolute privacy. And every newspaper in London carried headlines announcing PRINCESS ANNE HAS OVARIAN CYST REMOVED. I mean you're a young girl reared in heavily guarded seclusion and every beer drinker in every pub knows the precise state of your ovaries.

  Helene Hanff

  Girl, Princess, Eye

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• There was nothing glorious about the life of a drinker or the life of a writer.

  Charles Bukowski

  Alcohol, Glorious

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• I changed my mind. I don’t want to be an inveshtigative journalist anymore. I want to be a professional rum drinker.” “There are people who do that,” Duff said. He’d barely sipped his rum. “Really? What do you call them?” “Alcoholics.

  Libba Bray

  People, Mind, Want

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• Economists often talk about the 80/20 Principle, which is the idea that in any situation roughly 80 percent of the “work” will be done by 20 percent of the participants. In most societies, 20 percent of criminals commit 80 percent of crimes. Twenty percent of motorists cause 80 percent of all accidents. Twenty percent of beer drinkers drink 80 percent of all beer. When it comes to epidemics, though, this disproportionality becomes even more extreme: a tiny percentage of people do the majority of the work.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Beer, Epidemics, Ideas

  "How to start an epidemic" by Malcolm Gladwell, www.theguardian.com. April 22, 2000.

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• I used to drink a lot of lager when I was younger, but I'm more of a wine drinker now, I guess. I feel daunted looking at full pints.

  Edgar Wright

  Wine, Drink, Used

  "The Origins of 'World's End' & A Look at 'Ant-Man'". Interview with David Weiner, www.etonline.com. November 19, 2013.

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• Kali is the goddess of destruction, the Clawed Hands, the Blood Drinker... And that's one side of her, as it is for any god. If you knew her for thousands of years you'd know she could be all colors. The sky is black at night, but if your eyes were good enough, they could see the different lights of a million stars. Death is part of her because death is part of life.

  Martin Cruz Smith

  Stars, Eye, Night

  Martin Cruz Smith (2016). “Gypsy in Amber”, p.194, Simon and Schuster

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• To a drinker the sensation is real and pure and akin to something spiritual: you seek; in the bottle, you find.

  Caroline Knapp

  Spiritual, Real, Alcohol

  Caroline Knapp (1999). “Drinking: A Love Story”, p.71, Dial Press

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• I think I'm a girly beer drinker - I like the fruity ones. And the radler has lower alcohol.

  Rona Ambrose

  Girly, Beer, Thinking

  "Rona Ambrose is on a mission to give Canadians more Canadian beer". Interview with Sarah Boesveld, www.chatelaine.com. August 18, 2016.

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• I wasn't a social drinker. I used to say that I didn't want to go to bars because they were full of assholes like me.

  Stephen King

  Bars, Want, Social

  Interview with Andy Greene, www.rollingstone.com. October 31, 2014.

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• I realized I was growing up or something like that. You have responsibilities...you've got to think about getting your act together. I didn't even know what it had been doing to me. I didn't realize how dangerous it was. People talked in terms of drugs and I used to think in terms of...well in Ireland, everybody drinks. Nobody gives it a second thought. You're Irish number one and you're a drinker number two. That's the first two things about us Irish.

  Van Morrison

  Growing Up, Responsibility, Thinking

  Interview with Ritchie Yorke, ritchieyorke.com. April 21.

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• I'm not a big drinker, but coffee is important to me.

  Greg Rutherford

  Coffee, Important, Bigs

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• I was such a heavy drinker I was going to die at age 37. Not to mention the drugs. I'm glad to be sober, I haven't missed a thing. A lot of people never get the chance to come back.

  Steve Young

  People, Drug, Age

  Interview with Gordon Ames, www.outlawmagazine.com. May 2, 2012.

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• One sometimes gets the impression that the mere words ' Socialism ' and ' Communism ' draw towards them with magnetic force every fruit-juice drinker, nudist, sandal-wearer, sex-maniac, Quaker, 'Nature Cure' quack, pacifist, and feminist in England.

  George Orwell

  Sex, Fruit Juice, Feminist

  George Orwell (2001). “Orwell's England: the Road to Wigan Pier in the context of essays, reviews, letters and poems selected from the Complete works of George Orwell”, ePenguin

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• I don't like the word 'alcoholic'. I like to think of myself as an advanced drinker.

  Chelsea Handler

  Funny, Drinking, Humor

  Chelsea Handler (2005). “My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands”, p.64, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked him if he'd been drunk the night before, he would always answer offhandedly, 'Oh, I imagine.' I've always liked that answer. It acknowledges life as a dream.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Dream, Night, Drunk

  Kurt Vonnegut (1988). “Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut”, p.180, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• So somebody told me that if I wasn't a coffee drinker yet, by the end of college I'd have to be, because a math major is so tough I would have to stay up very late. I was going to need coffee to do that. Well, merely because they said that, I never drank coffee in college, never got addicted to it, never needed it.

  Danica McKellar

  Coffee, Math, College

  "Math Book Helps Girls Embrace Their Inner Mathematician". Interview with Aaron Rowe, www.wired.com. August 2, 2007.

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• So the story goes, so I'm told
  The people he knew were
  Less than golden hearted
  Gamblers and robbers
  Drinkers and jokers, all soul searchers
  Like you and me

  Dave Matthews

  People, Soul, Stories

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