Whisky Quotes - Page 4

• Whisky making is the art of making poison pleasant

  Samuel Johnson

  Art, Poison, Pleasant

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• From the early days of the telegraph, to be a telegrapher was a job, and there weren't many of those folks. They could recognize each other's style by their dots and dashes. They called that the "fist." St. George, they have a fist. You taste something from St. George, even across categories - the gin, the whisky - it tastes like something from St. George. It's the same as going to a great bar: You get the soul of the person making it.

  Adam Rogers

  Soul, Style, Gin

  "I Went Drinking With the Author of “Proof,” This New Book on the Science of Booze". Interview With Alex Park, www.motherjones.com. May 28, 2014.

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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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• When you want genuine music -- music that will come right home to you like a bad quarter, suffuse your system like strychnine whisky, go right through you like Brandreth's pills, ramify your whole constitution like the measles, and break out on your hide like the pin-feather pimples on a picked goose, -- when you want all this, just smash your piano, and invoke the glory-beaming banjo!

  Mark Twain

  Home, Piano, Want

  Mark Twain (1979). “Early Tales and Sketches 1864-1869”, p.235, Univ of California Press

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• The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it. It happens to be a fact that nearly every writer of fiction in the world drinks more whisky than is good for him. He does it to give himself faith hope and courage. A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul and that I am sure is why he does it.

  Roald Dahl

  Giving, Soul, Fool

  Roald Dahl (2009). “Boy: Tales of Childhood”, p.166, Penguin

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• How do men act on a sinking ship? Do they hold each other? Do they pass around the whisky? Do they cry?

  Sebastian Junger

  Men, Ships, Cry

  Sebastian Junger (2010). “The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea”, p.9, HarperCollins UK

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• Catnip is vodka and whisky to most cats.

  Carl Van Vechten

  Cat, Vodka

  Carl Van Vechten (1996). “The Tiger in the House”, p.17, Courier Corporation

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• I was playing birthday parties. House-rent parties where they used to sell whisky during prohibition.

  Thelonious Monk

  Party, House, Prohibition

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• The Virgin brand is not a product like Coca-Cola or Famous Grouse whisky. it's an attitude and a way of life to many. That attitude is about giving customers a better time and better value in a fun way that embraces life and seeks to give the customers something new.

  Richard Branson

  Fun, Attitude, Giving

  "There is no such thing as failure". Interview with Alexander Gorlach and Thore Barfuss, www.theeuropean-magazine.com. May 6, 2013.

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• There are no violent gangs fighting over aspirin territories. There are no violent gangs fighting over whisky territories or computer territories or anything else that's legal. There are only criminal gangs fighting over territories covering drugs, gambling, prostitution, and other victimless crimes. Making a non-violent activity a crime creates a black market, which attracts criminals and gangs, which turns what was once a relatively harmless activity affecting a small group of people into a widespread epidemic of drug use and gang warfare.

  Harry Browne

  Fighting, Drug Use, Epidemics

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• The anthropologist must relinquish his comfortable position in the long chair on the veranda of the missionary compound, Government station, or planter's bungalow, where, armed with pencil and notebook and at times with a whisky and soda, he has been accustomed to collect statements from informants.... He must go out into the villages, and see the natives at work in gardens, on the beach, in the jungle; he must sail with them to distant sandbanks and to foreign tribes.

  Bronislaw Malinowski

  Notebook, Beach, Garden

  Myth in Primitive Psychology ch. 5 (1926)

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• I remember that first week at the Whisky and the gigs we (The Buffalo Springfield) did with the Byrds, We could really smoke ! That band never got on record as bad, and as hard as we were. Live we sounded like the Rolling Stones.

  Stephen Stills

  Music, Rolling, Band

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• Chris Hillman (of the Byrds) recounts...'What happened to the Buffulo Springfield at the Whisky was similar to what happened to us at Ciro's...everybody wanted to be there. It became the place to be...a great gig.'

  Johnny Rogan

  Gigs, Whiskey, Wanted

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• Johnny Rivers...returned to L.A. to accept a lucrative offer from Elmer Valentine to open at his lavish new nightclub based upon the popular European discotheque concept. Johnny Rivers at the Whisky A Go-Go turned Hollywood upside down. His first Imperial album, "Johnny Rivers At The Whisky A Go-Go," (produced by Lou Adler) was high in the charts for 45 weeks in 1964.

  Glenn A. Baker

  Valentine, Rivers, Hollywood

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• When LOVE played the still hipper Whisky A Go-Go, further west along Sunset, Arthur Lee claims they 'started the whole hippy thing' in tandem with an in-crowd of freaks led by aging beatnik sculptor Vito Paulekas. It was Vito, Carl Franzoni, Sue, Beatle Bob, Bryan Maclean and me...people would come to Ben Frank's to hang out with us after we played shows.

  Barney Hoskyns

  Sunset, People, Crowds

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• After the week at the Fillmore we flew down to L.A. to hang out and pick up whatever gigs we could. We did a gig in Santa Barbara on July 1st and then the next night we opened for Sam & Dave at the Whisky.

  Mitch Mitchell

  Night, July, Santa Barbara

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• It feels great to wake up feeling healthy, awake and alert. I love waking up in the morning, taking a
  deep breath, reading the newspaper and going to the gym - as opposed to carrying a hangover right
  until lunch. That's horrible. It is nice to let off steam once in a while, but I find myself less involved with
  people in that sense. I like staying at home, reading a book, having a chat with my wife, a quiet dinner
  and going to bed early. I don't want to drink half a bottle of whisky and look 50 the next day. I have
  become an anti-drinking, anti-smoking agent.

  Saif Ali Khan

  Morning, Nice, Reading

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• Sometimes all you need is to climb a simple hill, to spend time staring at an empty horizon, to jump into a cold river or sleep under the stars, or perhaps share a whisky at a small country inn in order to remind yourself what matters most to you in life.

  Alastair Humphreys

  Country, Stars, Sleep

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• Sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whisky and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind but falling in love and not getting arrested.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Falling In Love, Fun, Sleep

  FaceBook post by Hunter S. Thompson from Sep 17, 2014

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• I just did an interview where I was asked whether I drink beer or whisky, and I was sad to reveal that I'm pounding spring water.

  Brad Delson

  Spring, Beer, Water

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• Walking up to the Whisky some guys said to me 'the Scene is dead. Stop wearing makeup faggot!' All I could do was smile and think about the BVB Army and the legions of dedicated fans BVB has. I will wear my warpaint proudly, thank you very much! Seriously love you all.

  Jinxx

  Love You, Army, Makeup

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• I enjoy hitting a batsman more than getting him out. I like to see blood on the pitch. And I've been training on whisky.

  Jeff Thomson

  Blood, Training, Hitting

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• I like the Whisky old an the women young

  Errol Flynn

  Beer, Young

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• It is not cheerful for a girl to discover within twenty-four hours of her wedding that her husband is a hopeless drunkard, and to see him die of delirium tremens within six weeks. An experience so vivid, like lightning must blast something in a woman's conception of life. Because one man's kisses reeked of whisky the kisses of all male humanity were anathema.

  William John Locke

  Girl, Husband, Kissing

  William John Locke (2012). “Septimus”, p.13, tredition

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• The landscape, like Los Angeles itself, is transitional. Impermanence haunts the city, with its mushroom industries--the aircraft perpetually becoming obsolete, the oil which must one day be exhausted, the movies which fill America's theatres for six months and are forgotten. Many of its houses--especially the grander ones--have a curiously disturbing atmosphere, a kind of psychological dankness which smells of anxiety, overdrafts, uneasy lust, whisky, divorce and lies.

  Christopher Isherwood

  Lying, Divorce, Cities

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