Drank Quotes - Page 6

• There is no bad whiskey. There are only some whiskeys that aren't as good as others.

  Raymond Chandler

  Drinking, Alcohol, Whiskey

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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, Beer

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• I only drank for three years of my life, but I drank enough in those three years to last me the rest of my life... It's a religious thing.

  Marty Robbins

  Religious, Years, Three

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• I acquired that drinker's face before I drank. Drink only confirmed it. The space for it existed in me.

  Marguerite Duras

  Space, Faces, Drink

  Marguerite Duras (2011). “The Lover”, p.9, Pantheon

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• I don't quite recollect how many tumblers of whiskey toddy each man drank after supper; but this I know, that about one o'clock in the morning, the baillie's grown-up son became insensible while attempting the first verse of 'Willie brewed a peck o' maut'; and he having been, for half an hour before, the only other man visible above the mahogany, it occurred to my uncle that it was almost time to think about going.

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Morning, Uncles

  Charles Dickens (2016). “The Pickwick Papers: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.554, Pan Macmillan

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• I always drank, from when it was legal for me to drink. And there was never a time for me when the goal wasn't to get as hammered as I could possibly afford to. I never understood social drinking, that's always seemed to me like kissing your sister.

  Stephen King

  Drinking, Recovery, Kissing

  "The Stephen King interview, uncut and unpublished". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. September 14, 2000.

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• I met my old lover on the street last night. She seemed so glad to see me, I just smiled. Then we talked about some old times and we drank ourselves some beers, still crazy after all these years.

  Paul Simon

  Crazy, Beer, Night

  "Still Crazy After All These Years". Song by Paul Simon, March 26, 1976.

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• There's no reason why a player is done at 33, 34. They train better, they eat better, they drink better. This isn't the old days when everybody sat around and drank beer.

  Bobby Clarke

  Beer, Hockey, Player

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• "I think I know the real reason." "Which is?" "Alcohol in the dust clouds. Goddamn stuff is everywhere. Any lousy species ever invents the telescope and the spectroscope and starts looking in between the stars, what do they find?" He knocked the glass on the table. "Loads of stuff, but much of it alcohol." He drank from the glass. "Humanoids are the galaxy's way of trying to get rid of all that alcohol."

  Iain Banks

  Stars, Real, Thinking

  "Use of Weapons (The Culture, Book 3)". Book by Iain Banks (Chapter IX, p. 148), September 13, 1990.

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• Let's put it this way: I did not get in trouble every time I drank, but every time I got in trouble, I'd been drinking

  Dave Mustaine

  Drinking, Way, Trouble

  Dave Mustaine, Joe Layden (2010). “Mustaine: A Heavy Metal Memoir”, p.34, Harper Collins

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• My first open mic, I drank a full pitcher of beer by myself. I wasn't afraid of being in front of people as much as, Is this funny?

  Doug Stanhope

  Beer, People, Firsts

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Her name was Maude and she drank whisky all day from a fruit jar under the counter.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Names, Jars, Fruit

  Flannery O'Connor (2007). “Wise Blood: A Novel”, p.86, Macmillan

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• He drank his first strong liquor then to calm his shaking hand, and tried to tell himself at last he had become a man.

  Johnny Cash

  Strong, Men, Hands

  Song: Don't Take Your Guns To Town, Album: The Fabulous Johnny Cash, 1959

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• You can't have a Russian household without vodka. It's just something to wash everything down with. I can't remember a time when I didn't drink vodka, either in Russia or here. I don't think there's ever a wrong time to start drinking it. My ancestors drank it, and if I ever have any children, they'll be drinking it.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Children, Drinking, Thinking

  "Gary Shteyngart's Rules for Vodka Drinking" by Ben Detrick, www.esquire.com. August 9, 2010.

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• He drank too much when he could get it, ate too much when it was there, talked too much all the time.

  John Steinbeck

  Too Much

  John Steinbeck (2016). “The Grapes of Wrath”, p.61, Hamilton Books

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• When I was seventeen
  I drank some very good beer
  I drank some very good beer I purchased
  With a fake ID
  My name was Brian McGee
  I stayed up listening to Queen
  When I was seventeen

  Homer

  Queens, Beer, Names

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• I didn't really like the taste of booze. I liked the effect it did on me. But I can't say I savored a glass full of Chablis Chablis 1932. I drank whatever s - - was in front of me and got me buzzed.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Glasses, Taste, Booze

  Source: www.nola.com

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• I never drank anything stronger than beer before I was twelve.

  W. C. Fields

  Drinking, Beer, Stronger

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• By comparing what we know today with what the ancients appear to have known we can guess at the kinds of wine they drank.

  Alec Waugh

  Wine, Today, Kind

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• This country was built on the backs of dudes who drank on buses. What we do honors them.

  Sam Lipsyte

  Country, Honor, Bus

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• And no one drank just one shot of tequila.

  Kristin Hannah

  Tequila, Shots, Just One

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• It was the kind of town that made you feel like Humphrey Bogart: you came in on a bumpy little plane, and, for some mysterious reason, got a private room with a balcony overlooking the town and the harbor; then you sat there and drank until something happened.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Littles, Rooms, Towns

  "The Rum Diary". Book by Hunter S. Thompson, 1998.

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• We drank our coffee the Russian way. That is to say we had vodka before it and vodka afterwards.

  Philip Sington

  Coffee, Way, Vodka

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• Before I met her, I drank and swore without reason... now I have a reason.

  Benny Hill

  Drinking, Reason, Mets

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• Heck, I drank no more than John Wayne or Ward Bond or Spencer Tracy or Alan Ladd or Robert Walker. But it got me into a lot more trouble.

  John Agar

  Drinking, Trouble, Wayne

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