Quotes About Alcohol

It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required.

My first go at drinking did not go so well. I ended up getting sick in front of everybody. You know that Ginuwine song 'Pony'? It was playing at the party while I was getting sick. My entire senior year, everyone sang that around me. For a year. I would like that erased from my memory.

Did you interrogate him?" "I prefer to give a man some whiskey, then let him debrief himself.

She found a bottle of vodka and some Rose's sweetened lime juice, filled the shaker with ice, added six jiggers of vodka and two of lime juice. She put ice cubes in two martini glasses and swirled them around, then shook the shaker until her hands hurt from the cold. She dumped the ice from the now-frosted glasses and strained the pale, green liquid into them. "Tie

At lunch he invariably downed a bottle of champagne, or brandy if he was in a different mood, and by afternoon he was almost invariably drunk.

corn sweetener is to the republic of fat what corn whiskey was to the alcoholic republic.

We used to be the drunkest nation in the world; now we are the fattest nation in the world.

In 1820, the average amount an individual drank in one day was more than three times the average today.119

All day I was surrounded by earnest men with furrowed brows who read Balzac in the mail-room. The more jovial ones delivered double entendres with a wry, jaded air, not coming out from behind their desks. Sex was something other people did. Sometimes the writers swept in with an exotic air, smelling faintly of alcohol, flushed and distracted. If they noticed you the first time, they would forget the next time they came in.

No amount of liquor could make him forget the things he yearned to erase from his mind—

There are gods in Alabama: Jack Daniel's, high school quarterbacks, trucks, big tits, and also Jesus.

That was the last time she was allowed back at the Bennigan's. From then on, she started drinking at the T.G.I. Friday's.

Indians have a big problem with alcohol and drugs. I grew up with an admiration for their culture and was sensitive to their problems.

If we were going to look at how pharmalogical drugs influence crime, we should probably look at alcohol.

Sometimes people go into my business because they like to drink, which - that's insane.

The English are very indulgent to episodes of alcoholic insanity.

According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the first use of alcohol typically begins at age 12.

Previously it had appeared to be simply curious about her but now it reared up on its hind legs again and let out a hoarse and awful roar that chilled Liv's blood. Dear God I'm about to be eaten by a blue alien teddy bear, she thought wildly as it came toward her. What the hell are they going to put on my tombstone? Here lies Liv, Without a care She died from the bite Of a teddy bear. Okay, so maybe she wasn't completely sober yet but she was completely terrified.

She discovered what most writers insist is true nowadays, which is that they can only write for three hours a day at the most, so what else is there to do but drink?

howling on the tile bathroom floor. Sunrise bleeding in her white dress waited just behind Jacaranda's next drink. Her next drink would always be waiting for her, languishing away.

30% of fatal road accidents are due to alcohol; therefore 70% are due to people who don't drink!...

Water...That fishy liquid that makes Pastis cloudy!

Claro que diré que escribir es una necesidad fatal: si es fatal, tantas veces, el placer del alcohol o de cualquier alcaloide, siendo elementos venidos del exterior, ¿Cómo no va a ser fatal el placer de la vanidad cuya materia prima la extraemos de nuestras entrañas?

Vivir, amigo, es irnos muriendo de a poquito, con aguardiente o sin él.