Alcohol Quotes - Page 26

• Alcohol carries the pleasures of the palate to their highest degree.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Degrees, Pleasure, Palate

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• I realized I could really become hooked on these happy pills. They gave me a glorious feeling of general well-being and didn't make me fat, like alcohol. I wondered if there was any harm in being addicted to only these.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Feelings, Pills, Harm

  Augusten Burroughs (2004). “Magical Thinking: True Stories”, p.103, Macmillan

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• It's not like I was an alkie or anything. Alcohol is for cleaning needles

  Jerry Stahl

  Cleaning, Needles

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• When I discipline myself to eat properly, live morally, exercise regularly, grow mentally and spiritually, and not put any drugs or alcohol in my body, I have given myself the freedom to be at my best, perform at my best, and reap all the rewards that go along with it.

  Zig Ziglar

  Character, Exercise, Discipline

  Zig Ziglar “Over the Top”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• What happens on the football field matters, not in the way that food matters but as poetry does to some people and alcohol does to others: it engages the personality.

  Arthur Hopcraft

  Football, People, Personality

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• If hot food is they key to maintaining an expedition's stamina, then low grade gut-rot alcohol is the key to sustaining its sense of pleasure.

  Tahir Shah

  Keys, Hot, Maintaining

  Tahir Shah (2013). “House of the Tiger King, Dyslexic edition”, p.186, Lulu.com

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• We tax air passengers like cigarettes and alcohol - we impose sin taxes on travellers.

  Gordon Bethune

  Air, Sin, Cigarette

  "Sex, scotch and speed" by Andrew Clark, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2002.

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• I would argue that coffee has been far more important to literature than alcohol.

  Joseph Finder

  Coffee, Writing, Important

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• Through the discovery of Buchner, Biology was relieved of another fragment of mysticism. The splitting up of sugar into CO2 and alcohol is no more the effect of a 'vital principle' than the splitting up of cane sugar by invertase. The history of this problem is instructive, as it warns us against considering problems as beyond our reach because they have not yet found their solution.

  Jacques Loeb

  Science, Discovery, Principles

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• We’re all searching for something to fill up what I like to call that big, God-shaped hole in our souls. Some people use alcohol, or sex, or their children, or food, or money, or music, or heroin. A lot of people even use the concept of God itself. I could go on and on. I used to know a girl who used shoes. She had over two-hundred pairs. But it’s all the same thing, really. People, for some stupid reason, think they can escape their sorrows.

  Tiffanie DeBartolo

  Girl, Sex, Children

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• Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober them. They have a sort of permanent intoxication from within, a sort of invisible champagne. Americans do not need to drink to inspire them to do anything, though they do sometimes, I think, need a little for the deeper and more delicate purpose of teaching them how to do nothing.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Teaching, Wine, Beer

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• I am deeply sensitive to the spell of nationalism. I can play about thirty Bohemian folk songs ... on my mouth-organ. My oldest friend, who is Czech and a patriot, cannot bear to hear me play them because he says I do it in such a schmalzy way, 'crying into the mouth organ'. I do not think I could have written the book on nationalism which I did write, were I not capable of crying, with the help of a little alcohol, over folk songs, which happen to be my favourite form of music.

  Ernest Gellner

  Song, Book, Writing

  "The Social Philosophy of Ernest Gellner". Book by John A. Hall, Ian Charles Jarvie, 1996.

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• I did a little bit of cocaine in the Eighties, courtesy of John Belushi, but fortunately I didn’t like it. But I smoked marijuana for 50 years and I don’t know where I’d be without it. It opened my mind and now it eases my arthritis. After decades of research I’ve concluded that marijuana should be legal and alcohol illegal.

  James Garner

  Marijuana, Years, Mind

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If people want to think I get drunk and stay out all night, let'em. That's how I got here, you know.

  Dean Martin

  Night, Thinking, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Alcohol is the devil and I need Chinese food.

  Rihanna

  Chinese, Devil, Needs

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• Drugs and alcohol are not my problem, reality is my problem, drugs and alcohol are my solution.

  Russell Brand

  Reality, Drug, Problem

  "Russell Brand: my life without drugs" by Russell Brand, www.theguardian.com. March 9, 2013.

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• I am STILL better than you. Because I AM drug free, I AM alcohol free, and I’m straightedge.

  CM Punk

  Wwe, Drug, Stills

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• In church I was told that if I so much as smoked a cigarette or tasted alcohol, I’d be damned in hell for all eternity... it didn’t take long for me to start thinking that sounded all wrong... I didn’t cotton to the idea that your religion should be flaunted to other people. Your religion is for you, and is best kept close to your heart.

  Willie Nelson

  Heart, Thinking, Ideas

  "The Tao of Willie: A Guide to the Happiness in Your Heart". Book by Willie Nelson and Turk Pipkin, May 9, 2006.

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• Islam makes very large claims for itself. In its art, there is a prejudice against representing the human form at all. The prohibition on picturing the prophet - who was only another male mammal - is apparently absolute. So is the prohibition on pork or alcohol or, in some Muslim societies, music or dancing. Very well then, let a good Muslim abstain rigorously from all these. But if he claims the right to make me abstain as well, he offers the clearest possible warning and proof of an aggressive intent.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Art, Dancing, Islam

  "Cartoon Debate: The case for mocking religion". www.slate.com. February 04, 2006.

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• It's the fine balance of caffeine and alcohol that bookends my days

  Tim Minchin

  Balance, Fine, Caffeine

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• Champagne offers a minimum of alcohol and a maximum of companionship.

  David Niven

  Companionship, Champagne, Minimum

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• In Hollywood, there is a lot of pressure to do certain things and getting into drugs, alcohol, or partying a lot is a major one. I stay out of that, because it is a waste of my time. I always remember where I came from and to never change who I am - I stick to my morals, and I do not let anyone pressure me into doing things that I do not want to.

  Ashley Benson

  Party, Who I Am, Drug

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• Will African-Americans break away from the pack thinking and reject immorality-- because that's the reason the family's breaking apart--alcohol, drugs, infidelity. You have to reject that, and it doesn't seem--and I'm broadly speaking here, but a lot of African-Americans won't reject it

  Bill O'Reilly

  Thinking, Drug, African American

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• There's rumors in the Twittersphere. If I find out that any of my officer is giving out drug and alcohol I send their ass to prison with a snorkel duct-taped to their mouth and me s***ing down that Snorkel

  Ice Cube

  Giving, Drug, Rumor

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• The new Galliano will be even bigger and better... I love working, it's my therapy. I can draw until four in the morning every night and not feel tired... I've come face to face with my demons, medicine and alcohol. I have rebuilt myself again.

  John Galliano

  Morning, Tired, Night

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