Drinking Quotes - Page 21

• My dad drank pretty heavily, and he never missed a day of work in his life. So I never looked at drinking as a serious problem, but drugs to me are a serious problem. I think it's a generational thing. I think older people don't feel as uncomfortable around drinkers as they do around dopers.

  Alex Trebek

  Dad, Thinking, People

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• The kids accepted my drinking as a part of life. Not a particularly pernicious part. I didn't beat up on them. Basically I don't think I was so different from a lot of dads who have three or four martinis when they get in from work, wine with dinner and so on.

  Stephen King

  Dad, Kids, Wine

  "Part two of the full Stephen King interview". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. September 14, 2000.

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• I could never stop drugs, I could never stop drinking, until I received my spiritual awakening.

  Mike Tyson

  Spiritual, Drug, Awakening

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• It's hard for me to play seated theaters because people tend to sit down and get a little bit complacent, so it's less energy. It's just very dry and dead. People start to feel like they're watching a movie. The environment when they walk into it, it's not standing room only, smoking and drinking and rock 'n' roll. So it's a little bit dangerous to do that.

  Jack White

  Play, Rocks, People

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• I gave up drinking once -- it was the worst afternoon of my entire life.

  Humphrey Bogart

  Afternoon, Worst, Gave Up

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• You put three girls in a house, and all of a sudden before you know it, youre talking about boys and drinking whiskey, and things go down and you get deep real quick.

  Katie Aselton

  Girl, Real, Boys

  "Black Rock Down at Sundance". Interview with Jenni Miller, www.gq.com. January 23, 2012.

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• Liquor is such a nice substitute for facing adult life.

  Dorothy B. Hughes

  Nice, Adults, Liquor

  Dorothy B. Hughes (2017). “In a Lonely Place”, p.102, New York Review of Books

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• There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
  [Fr., Il y a plus de vieux ivrongnes qu'il y a de vieux medecins.]

  Francois Rabelais

  Physicians, Plus, Drunkards

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• As the moths around a taper,
  As the bees around a rose,
  As the gnats around a vapour,
  So the spirits group and close
  Round about a holy childhood, as if drinking its repose.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Gnats, Rose, Childhood

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1853). “Poems”, p.151

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• Soft drinks: The gooey, bubbly sea drowning our American children.

  Marlene Dietrich

  Children, Sea, Soft Drinks

  Marlene Dietrich (2012). “Marlene Dietrich's ABC: Wit, Wisdom, & Recipes”, p.111, Open Road Media

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• To drink in the spirit of a place you should be not only alone but unhurried.

  George Santayana

  Spirit, Drink, Should

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• For the short-lived bloom and contracted span of brief and wretched life is fast fleeting away! While we are drinking and calling for garlands, ointments, and women, old age steals swiftly on with noiseless step.

  Juvenal

  Age, Fleeting, Calling

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• These Germans seem an odd race, a mixture of clay and spirit - what with their beer-drinking and smoking, and their slow, stolid ways, you would think them perfectly earth; but ethereal fire is all the while working in them, and bursing out in most unexpected jets of poetry and sentiment, like blossoms on a cactus.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Beer, Thinking, Fire

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• it is only on posters and in advertisement pages that Americans have those chubby cheeks, expanding smiles, smooth looks, and faces flushed with well-being. In fact, almost all are at odds with themselves; drink offers a remedy for this inner malady of which boredom is the most usual sign: as drinking is accepted by society, it does not appear as a sign of their [Americans'] inability to adapt themselves; it is rather the adapted form of inadaptability.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Odds, Boredom, Inability

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• Alcohol is an allergy of the body and an obsession of the mind.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Alcohol, Mind, Allergies

  Rita Mae Brown (2011). “Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual”, p.31, Bantam

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• I have been tight as a tick! Fried as a mink! Stiff as a goat!

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Goats, Tick, Mink

  Tallulah Bankhead (1952). “Tallulah: My Autobiography”, p.92, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The Irish sometimes make and keep a vow against whiskey; these vows are usually limited to a short time.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Whiskey, Sometimes, Vow

  Maria Edgeworth (1848). “Castle Rackrent. An essay on Irish bulls. An essay on the noble science of self-justification. Ennui. The dun”, p.28

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• if a man be discreet enough to take to hard drinking in his youth, before his general emptiness is ascertained, his friends invariably credit him with a host of shining qualities which, we are given to understand, lie balked and frustrated by his one unfortunate weakness.

  Agnes Repplier

  Lying, Men, Shining

  Agnes Repplier (1891). “Points of View”, Boston Houghton, Mifflin 1893.

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• It is claimed that the United States gets the cleanest and purest tea in the market, and certainly it is too good to warrant the nervous apprehension which strains and dilutes it into nothingness. The English do not strain their tea in the fervid fashion we do. They like to see a few leaves dawdling about the cup. They like to know what they are drinking.

  Agnes Repplier

  Fashion, Tea, United States

  Agnes Repplier (1932). “To Think of Tea!”

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• New York was the only city I knew in the world where you could be desperately lonely at nine in the morning, crossing the street for a bagel at Gristede's, and find that seven hours later you were drinking Irish coffee at P.J. Clarke's with all the friends you had inherited along the way.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Lonely, Morning, New York

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• People these days are thinking less and drinking more.

  Eartha Kitt

  Thinking, People, These Days

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• I would start drinking something terrible if I were in a situation where I was surrounded by lies or quiet or secrets. It's just not a real life.

  Angelina Jolie

  Real, Lying, Secret

  "Angelina Jolie Gets Conservative in The Good Shepherd". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. December 18, 2006.

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• When people ask me why are you singing a drinking song if you don't drink anymore, because when I did drink I drank enough to sing drinking songs for the rest of my life!

  Brantley Gilbert

  Song, People, Singing

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• There seems to be a peculiar and particular tie between men who have been drunk together.

  Alice Thomas Ellis

  Men, Ties, Drunk

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• I represent nine sovereign Sioux tribes. In South Dakota, some of the tribes are in the most remote, rural areas of the country. They lack essential infrastructure. Some communities don't even have clean drinking water.

  Stephanie Herseth Sandlin

  Country, Water, Community

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