Drinking Quotes - Page 28

• There's a romance to danger. There's a romance to drinking, to drugs, to petty crime and to heartbreak and loneliness. All of those things can be used to make the story of our lives better.

  Joey Comeau

  Loneliness, Romance, Drug

  Interview with Adrian Comeau, "I Am Other People" series, www.asofterworld.com.

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• Drinking really cold beer is like slapping yourself in the face with an ice pick.

  Michael Jackson

  Beer, Ice, Faces

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• The prime minister of Ireland will be celebrating St. Patrick's Day at the White House. So finally the Secret Service agents will have a drinking buddy.

  Conan O'Brien

  White, House, Secret

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• Ted Cruz could be president of the United States. If you thought the Secret Service was drinking before

  David Letterman

  Secret, President, United States

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• Drinking champagne after making love is like taking a bath in chilled pearls.

  Anistatia R. Miller

  Love Is, Making Love, Pearls

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• Baseball didn't really get into my blood until I knocked off that hitting streak. Getting a daily hit became more important to me than eating, drinking or sleeping.

  Joe DiMaggio

  Baseball, Sleep, Yankees

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• The conventional wisdom is often wrong. Crime didn't keep soaring in the 1990s, money alone doesn't win elections, and - surprise - drinking eight glasses of water a day has never actually been shown to do a thing for your health. Conventional wisdom is often shoddily formed and devilishly difficult to see through, but it can be done.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Pain, Winning, Glasses

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• I need the anesthetic qualities of the local fire water.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Fire, Water, Quality

  "Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown", www.cnn.com. July 5, 2014.

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• For their own good, vegetarians should never be allowed near fine beers and ales. It will only make them loud and belligerent, and they lack the physical strength and aggressive nature to back up any drunken assertions.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Beer, Ale, Vegetarian

  Anthony Bourdain (2010). “The Nasty Bits: Collected Cuts, Useable Trim, Scraps and Bones”, p.88, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Unlicensed hooch from a stranger in a parking lot. Good idea? Yes, of course it is.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Ideas, Stranger, Parking

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• This is the dream of all the world. The dream is to live in Granada. You know, work in the morning, have a one-hour in the afternoon, at night go out and have that life. You know. Go out and see your friends and eat tapa and drink red wine and be in a beautiful place.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Beautiful, Dream, Morning

  "Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown", www.cnn.com. May 26, 2014.

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• There are only three things worthwhile -- fighting, drinking, and making love.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Fighting, Making Love, Three

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1916). “Vain Oblations”

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• It's been about a week without alcohol of any kind. I'm enjoying my new, clean-living lifestyle.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Alcohol, Kind, Week

  "Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown", www.cnn.com. February 25, 2015.

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• I believe - to the best of my recollection, anyway - that I soon made the classic error of moving from margaritas to actual shots of straight tequila. It does make it easier to meet new people.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Believe, Moving, Errors

  "Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown", www.cnn.com. September 29, 2013.

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• Even on the Serengeti, it ain't a barbecue if there ain't some kind of beer.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Beer, Kind, Barbecue

  "Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown", www.cnn.com. October 26, 2014.

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• Drinking alcohol takes you into a lower state of mind. If you drink a lot of it, things get very fuzzy and they are not very sharp or defined. This brings you into a lower state of attention.

  Frederick Lenz

  Alcohol, Mind, Attention

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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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• A major cause of the Roman Empire's decline, after six centuries of world dominance was its replacement of stone aqueducts by lead pipes for the transport and supply of drinking water. Roman engineers, the best in the world, turned their fellow citizens into cripples. Today our own "best and brightest," with the best of intentions, achieve the same end through childhood vaccination programmes yielding the modern scourges of hyperactivity, learning disabilities, autism, appetite disorders, and impulsive violence.

  Harris L Coulter

  Aqueducts, Autism, Water

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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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• You know a little drink now and then never hurt nobody, but when you can't git started without asking the bottle, you in trouble.

  Alice Walker

  Hurt, Bottles, Asking

  Alice Walker (2003). “The third life of Grange Copeland: Meridian ; The color purple”

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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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