Quotes About Alcohol

Writing is a lonely job unless you're a drinker, in which case you always have a friend within reach.

I thought, 'I don't really drink that much.' But when you stop completely it is a shocker. You realise that a glass here, going to a function there, they all tot up.

If I did all the stuff I've been accused of - or credited with - there's no way I could make all this music. I'd be drinking myself into the grave.

Alcohol is the gift of any narration, and any writer thrills to the thwop of a corkscrew being pulled.

because when he gets really drunk he can't really handle stairs, or at least you have a lot of warning when he does.

Nadie que esté bajo la influencia de la bebida sabe guardar un secreto: esto es indiscutible.

Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life

I think the warning labels on alcoholic beverages are too bland. They should be more vivid. Here is one I would suggest: Alcohol will turn you into the same asshole your father was.

One tequila, two tequila, three tequila, floor.

One time he was so hungover he had to consult a cottage cheese carton to determine the approximate date.

We lived in a flat that you could pretty much fit in my current kitchen. No wonder people drink! I can't understand why they don't throw themselves off the balconies.

It's funny how all of this has worked out - I wasn't popular in high school, but now every drunken guy in the United States wants to be my pal. They all want to buy me a shot, and pretty soon I'm throwing up.

You can't drink too many otherwise you can't see what you're throwing at.

Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.

All he cares about is going out there with his Jack Daniels bottle. Nothing has changed. That's kind of sad. If David was doing better than he used to be, then that would be different. But it was a joke and he made it that way.

Boredom and booze--cause and effect.

Sometimes, drunk, I ruminate on the state of my liver, and think of all the cirrhotics I have watched turn yellow and die. They either bleed out, raving, coughing up and drowning in blood from ruptured esophageal veins, or, in coma, they slip away, slip blissfully away down the yellow-brick ammonia-scented road to oblivion.

Ever trying to get us to behave, he banned all alcohol from the green room and was exasperated one evening when, ten minutes before the show, we all had to be extracted from the pub next door.

No matter what your DNA says, a good diet, regular exercise, not smoking, limiting alcohol, and some other surprising lifestyle decisions, can change that destiny.

The air smelled like a mélange of everyone's perfume and hair products, with a slight undertone of booze.

I don't even drink! I can't stand the taste of alcohol. Every New Year's Eve I try one drink and every time it makes me feel sick. So I don't touch booze - I'm always the designated driver.

One time I had too many Heinekens and I googled myself and realized that that was a very, very bad combination.

I never really had stage nerves but I did have had trouble getting up to the right energy level. For a long time I drank. I drank up until 1982 and then I gave up alcohol.