Beer Quotes - Page 22

• The most frustrating thing for musicians who want to play stuff from the new album is when everyone goes out to buy a beer.

  Joe Elliott

  Play, Musician, Albums

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• American democracy is the inalienable right to sit on your front porch, in your pyjamas, drinking a can of beer and shouting out 'Where else is this possible?' Which doesn't seem to me to be freedom, really.

  Peter Ustinov

  Drinking, Democracy, Shouting

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• I busted out of the place in a hurry and went to a saloon and drank beer and said that for the rest of my life I'd never take a job in a place where you couldn't throw cigarette butts on the floor. I was hooked on this writing for newspapers and magazines.

  Jimmy Breslin

  Jobs, Writing, Magazines

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• The publishers and others should quit worrying about losing customers to TV. The guy who can sit through a trio of deodorant commercials to look at Flashgun Casey or swallow a flock of beer and loan-shark spiels in order to watch a couple of fourth-rate club fighters rub noses on the ropes is not losing any time from book reading.

  Raymond Chandler

  Couple, Book, Reading

  Raymond Chandler, Tom Hiney, Frank MacShane (2002). “The Raymond Chandler Papers: Selected Letters and Nonfiction, 1909-1959”, p.69, Grove Press

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• On occasions, after drinking a pint of beer at luncheon, there would be a flow into my mind with sudden and unaccountable emotion, sometimes a line or two of verse, sometimes a whole stanza, accompanied, not preceded by a vague notion of the poem which they were destined to form a part of.... I say bubble up because, so far as I could make out, the source of the suggestions thus proffered to the brain was the pit of the stomach.

  A. E. Housman

  Drinking, Two, Mind

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• How many times have you been out for a beer or dinner and people are coming up with business ideas? Everybody wants to think they've got that great business idea.

  Mark Burnett

  Thinking, Ideas, People

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• The beer sold here in the United States is sweet and watery and lacking in taste and overcarbonated and just generally the lamest, wimpiest beer in the entire known world. All the other nations are drinking Ray Charles beer, and we are drinking Barry Manilow.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Sweet, Humorous

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Greatest Hits”, p.18, Ballantine Books

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• I propose to provide proof... that just as always an alcoholic ferment, the yeast of beer, is found where sugar is converted into alcohol and carbonic acid, so always a special ferment, a lactic yeast, is found where sugar is transformed into lactic acid. And, furthermore, when any plastic nitrogenated substance is able to transform sugar into that acid, the reason is that it is a suitable nutrient for the growth of the [lactic] ferment.

  Louis Pasteur

  Alcohol, Growth, Special

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• I've got friends in low places, where the whiskey drowns and the beer chases my blues away.

  Garth Brooks

  Friendship, Whiskey, Lows

  Song: I Got Friends In Low Places

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• My voice? Yeah, well, I used to drink a lot of beer when I was a kid and I sounded like a drunk in a choir. I don't drink anymore.

  Eric Burdon

  Kids, Voice, Drunk

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• I would be in Italy working on a film, longing for something simple - like, God, I would just kill to be sitting at a barbecue having a beer right now.

  Chris O'Donnell

  Simple, Would Be, Sitting

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• I went to about one frat party a year. A year seemed to be enough time for me to forget how much I didn't like frat parties, and my friends would eventually convince me to go to one. Cheap beer, guys looking for a quick hook-up, and girls playing 'dumb' to get in on the hook-up. I just never got into it.

  Danica McKellar

  Girl, Party, Years

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• For the second straight year, craft beer is the fastest growing segment of the U.S. alcoholic beverage industry. In 2005, craft beer experienced a 9 percent increase in volume, nearly triple that of the growth experienced in the wine and spirits industry.

  Sherwood Boehlert

  Wine, Years, Growth

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• I can get along great with the Hispanics. In fact, I sure would like to meet them, even the politicians, maybe in the back room or whatever, have a couple of beers and try to explain. But they need to understand that I enforce the laws. I want to listen to them and hear their problems. I want them to tell me what their problems are.

  Joe Arpaio

  Couple, Law, Trying

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• You've got yoga, I've got beer. You got overpriced, I got weird.

  Billy Joel

  Relationship, Yoga

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• You're like a cold beer, darling, on a long hot summer night.

  Rod Stewart

  Summer, Night, Long

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• I sat at a bar having a beer trying to hold down the stool.

  Waylon Jennings

  Alcohol, Drug, Trying

  Song: Out Of Jail

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• I wanna get drunk 'til I'm off my mind. One bourbon, one scotch, and one beer.

  John Lee Hooker

  Scotch, Drunk, Alcohol

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• Subtract out the impact and the fall is all you get. So here's two beers to remember why and three more to forget.

  Ani DiFranco

  Fall, Two, Impact

  Song: So What

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• Of course I litter the public highway. Every chance I get. After all, it's not the beer cans that are ugly; it's the highway that is ugly.

  Edward Abbey

  Ugly, Chance, Highways

  "The Journey Home: Some Words in Defense of the American West". Book by Edward Abbey ("The Second Rape of the West"), 1977.

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• I find the only thing that really stands up, better than gambling, better than booze, better than women, is reading.

  Mario Puzo

  Reading, Gambling, Booze

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• I asked these Indians: "Do men ever make Chicha?" My question was met with gales of laughter. The women howled. Bent over in hilarity, one replied, "Men can't brew. Chicha made by men would only make gas in the belly. You are a funny man! Beer is women's work."

  Alan D. Eames

  Laughter, Men, Hilarity

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• They can have my beer when they pry it out of my cold, dead hand.

  Ben Schwalb

  Hands, Cold

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• To dispute with a drunkard is to debate with an empty house.

  Publilius Syrus

  House, Debate, Empty

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• It's the same things your whole life. 'Clean up your room!', 'Stand up straight!', 'Pick up your feet!', 'Take it like a man!', 'Be nice to your sister!', 'Don't mix beer and wine, ever!'. Oh yeah, 'Don't drive on the railroad track!'

  Philip Connors

  Nice, Wine, Groundhog Day

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