Quotes About Alcohol

They used to say it was bad for Indians to drink, but it's bad for anybody. When they drink they lose their cool, a lot of us. Like when we played with Sonny Boy, I would never get paid, you know. He would drink up all the money.

I was hit by a car when I was 13, and the rumour was immediately that I had been playing chicken with the car with my best friend Kenny in front of the Nutmeg Pantry, which was the only shop in Sharon. In fact, the guy who hit me was inebriated.

You can't drink on an eight hour flight, pass out, and then go onstage... well you can, but then you're Spandau Ballet.

I know he was definitely beaten by her. I saw it many times. But we had a different way of dealing with her. He'd let her have more and more booze until she passed out.

escape is the byword—forwards, backwards, or sideways—into alcohol, busyness, good works, passivity, fantasy, or even madness. For the reality of the present and the immediate future seem even more frightening today

I can't die until the government finds a safe place to bury my liver

The combination of exhaustion, anxiety, alcohol, and drugs had the inevitable effect: I had a nervous collapse and spent the next several days in the psychiatric ward of an East Coast hospital, drugged on Thorazine yet happy that no one could get to me.

It was the perfect social drug. Unlike morphine, cocaine did not require a hypodermic, and was easy to take in situ, snorted from the knuckles or off nail files; chewing gum masked the teeth-grinding side-effect, and afterwards, alcohol calmed the sleep-depriving frenzy.

I had tasted American beer. Only a country that had once prohibited alcohol could have produced a beer that tasted like fortified mineral water.

I had a second drink to wipe out the raw taste of the first.

The only time I ever enjoyed ironing was the day I accidentally got gin in the steam iron.

Here's the breakdown: alcohol dehydrates you and stimulates acid reflux. Then, when you sing on dry, irritated vocal folds, your folds swell. When your folds swell, they cause hoarseness, which makes you feel like you have to push harder to get a sound out.

Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.

Vodka does not ease back pain. But it does get your mind off it.

Extra-dirty vodka Martinis - they're so easy to drink! I should really just drink olive juice; it'd be safer.

It sucks, but no Long Islands or margaritas when you drink. It has to be straight vodka.

I don't like to play anywhere with a banner for Carlsberg or vodka or whatever. I'm not a drinker myself, and I don't like feeling like I'm working for the liquor companies.

Vodka is much easier on your system than dark whisky and stuff.

I am fussy, about my diet and straining my voice. I know, sounds a bit over the top. But I'm not as bad as I used to be. These days I don't drink alcohol for five days before a show - very dehydrating for the vocal cords, and all that acid reflux. I used to ban it for a fortnight. Nightmare.

I have Scottish genes: my grandfather was Scottish. My father was a voracious drinker. So, drinking came naturally to me.

Here's the facts: We've got to have I.D. to go vote, you have to show an I.D. to buy alcohol, you have got to show an I.D. need to buy tobacco, and you have to show and have a driver's license to drive.

Really, can anyone drink several martinis at lunch?

I feel like girls are always fighting guys off at bars, always. Usually girls don't really have to do anything except be there. And if alcohol is involved, you're gonna get hit on. No matter what.

I stopped drinking alcohol, which probably was the biggest change. I used to be a very big beer drinker. Being from England, that's a very common thing.