Alcoholics Quotes - Page 15

• I'm ombibulous. I drink every known alcoholic drink and enjoy them all.

  H. L. Mencken

  Drink, Enjoy, Known

  4 Copy quote

• I'm not an alcoholic, I am freedom fighter against the teetotal taliban.

  Al Murray

  Fighter, Taliban, Freedom Fighter

  17 Copy quote

• The biggest truth to face now - what is probably making me unfunny now for the remainder of my life - is that I don't think people give a damn whether the planet goes or not. It seems to me as if everyone is living as members of Alcoholics Anonymous do, day by day. And a few more days will be enough. I know of very few people who are dreaming of a world for their grandchildren.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Dream, Grandchildren, Thinking

  Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “A Man Without a Country”, p.70, Seven Stories Press

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Katagiri Roshi says: "Poor artists. They suffer very much. They finish a masterpiece and they are not satisfied. They want to go on and do another." Yes, but it's better to go on and do another if you have the urge than to start drinking and become alcoholic or eat a pound of good fudge and get fat.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Drinking, Artist, Suffering

  Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.52, Shambhala Publications

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• The alcohol was awful. I was a terrible alcoholic. I mean, people used to ask how much drugs I did. I said, 'I only do drugs so I can drink more'. I was doing the coke so I could drink more. I mean, I don't know any other reason. I'd start drinking in the morning. I'd drink all day long.

  Dennis Hopper

  Morning, Drinking, Mean

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

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Most journalists are broken down alcoholics.

  James Purdy

  Broken, Journalist, Broken Down

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Publishers seem to be in an alcoholic haze most of the time. Well, the publishers have no idea what a writer is.

  James Purdy

  Ideas, Haze, Wells

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I always say, "Never give your lead character an infant. Make them a recovering alcoholic, or the victim of a horrible violent crime because you can really never truly recover from that." It's a story pitfall.

  Julie Plec

  Character, Giving, Pitfalls

  Source: collider.com

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• If I want to read S.J. Perelman's Chicken Inspector No. 23 for the third time instead of some anguished, politically correct saga of a girl growing up in a trailer park in Kingman, Arizona, with an alcoholic mother who makes her straighten her naturally curly hair and won't let her date a Navajo boy or pursue her goal of becoming (naturally) a writer, I will. And I will laugh like a lunatic while doing it.

  Mel White

  Girl, Mother, Growing Up

  4 Copy quote

• Drinking rum before 10 am makes you a pirate, not an alcoholic.

  Granger Smith

  Drinking, Pirate, Rum

  17 Copy quote

• Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

  Zig Ziglar

  Recovery, Alcoholics Anonymous, Aa Meeting

  23 Copy quote

• Government doesn't work. You work, I work, Federal Express works, Microsoft works, the Salvation Army works, Alcoholics Anonymous works, but government doesn't.

  Harry Browne

  Army, Government, Microsoft

  8 Copy quote

• I was court-ordered to Alcoholics Anonymous on television. Pretty much blows the hell out of the second A, wouldn't you say?

  Paula Poundstone

  Blow, Television, Hell

  11 Copy quote

• I had a 10-year heroin habit and kicked that. Then I became an alcoholic. I drank two fifth's a day.

  Stan Getz

  Years, Two, Habit

  Source: blankonblank.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Friend of mine just told me he used to be a bad alcoholic. I calmed him down. Told him he was a good alcoholic just a horrible drinker.

  Bob Saget

  Used, Horrible, Drinkers

  Twitter post from Dec 01, 2012

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I placed myself in amongst the animal kingdom so that I would be able to confront myself actually. It did not start out as the intention to serve and protect the lives of the innocent within the animal kingdom. I wanted to test myself, to see if I was able to overcome the dire situation that I was headed toward. By this of course I mention the fact that I was an alcoholic and drug addict before I left to live in the wild.

  Timothy Treadwell

  Animal, Drug, Overcoming

  "Steve Irwin - Interview With Timothy Treadwell - the Grizzly Man". Interview with Steve Irwin, desteni.org. June 1, 2007.

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• In my earliest of years, my mother was a huge force in my life. She was for all intents and purposes, a single parent. My father had abandoned us. He was an alcoholic and a physical abuser. My mother lived through that tyranny and made her living as a domestic worker. She was uneducated but she brought high principles and decent values into our existence, and she set lofty goals for herself and for her children. We were forever inspired by her strength and by her resistance to racism and to fascism.

  Harry Belafonte

  Mother, Children, Father

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Have you ever known an alcoholic, a cigarette smoker, or a heroin user to be rational when it came to alcohol, cigarettes, or heroin? Of course not. And there is NO such thing as a rational - or ethical - meat, dairy, egg and honey-eater when it comes to animal issues and whether humans should be enslaving, murdering and eating animals, or using them as test subjects, clothing and entertainment.

  Gary Yourofsky

  Animal, Eggs, Issues

  Source: www.all-creatures.org

  46 Copy quote

  Show source

• It takes a lot of time to be a good junkie or alcoholic - you spend hours getting the necessary supplies, then imbibing, then recovering, rinse and repeat. That's like eighteen hours of a day. And assuming you get out of that lifestyle before it macerates your heart, you have that Junkie Tunnel Vision, except now you get to use it for something positive: you know how to work tirelessly for one thing. Instead of using that tunnel vision to get high, I use it to make art.

  Joshua Mohr

  Art, Tunnels, Vision

  Source: therumpus.net

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• We were looking for someone who could get the film [Filth] made at that kind of level, with the finance we wanted, and we spoke to a lot of people. When I met James [McAvoy] in the Soho Hotel with Jon Baird, the director, he looked about ten years old. I thought there's no way he's going to be a forty-year-old divorced alcoholic cop. I thought, really lovely guy, I'll let him and John talk and see if they get on.

  Irvine Welsh

  Years, People, Guy

  Source: thequietus.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I've been a makeup artist since I was 12 and it was always a dream of mine back them to have my own line. I would spend hours every night recreating looks I saw in my mother's Cosmo magazines and it was my escape. When you come from a poor background and a family full of alcoholics, you don't fully understand what that means when you're a little kid. I found art and makeup, it changed my life.

  Jeffree Star

  Mother, Dream, Art

  Source: logicalharmony.net

  47 Copy quote

  Show source

• If we were a culture of high-risk alcoholics, and suddenly we had Jack Daniels piped into our houses, we would be feeding that fire. Social networking, and the internet as a whole, seems to have simply landed in an extremely fertile place in an extremely fertile time in history, when we all have these narcissistic tendencies anyway - you can go further back into the self-esteem movement, and Dr. Spock, and the 'everybody gets a ribbon at the track meet' sort of thing, which preceded the internet - and then you drop the internet into the middle of this, and we've all gone haywire.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Self Esteem, Fire, Track

  Source: www.dinnerpartydownload.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think God is back, I think there is a huge amount of spiritual interest in the country. And I think the bishops are supportive of it because they see people's lives being changed. They see the difference. I see people who've been in prison, whose lives have been messed up, who've been alcoholics, who've been drug addicts, set free and contributing to society.

  Nicky Gumbel

  Spiritual, Country, Thinking

  Source: www.theguardian.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I know one gay ex-Mormon who is a talented, self-destructive alcoholic. Whenever he is drunk and going on a tear, we are back to the Mormon Church and his being thrown out of the Mormon Church and growing up with this sense of being evil.

  Andrew Solomon

  Growing Up, Gay, Self

  Source: andrewsolomon.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I feel that people who haven't read my books and haven't heard me lecture - who don't in fact know what my work is about - have been very hard on me. There is an expression in Alcoholics Anonymous called "contempt prior to investigation." I feel many people practice contempt prior to investigation.

  Marianne Williamson

  Book, Expression, Practice

  Source: scottlondon.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source