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Quotes About Drinks

I would rather decline two drinks than one German adjective.
~ Mark Twain
To his horror, Melrose saw that these were name tags she was now pinning to the Attaboys' clothing and that the other guests were wearing them. To his double horror, he saw her hand closing on his lapel. He shoved it away. Her smile-mask cracked. "But everyone's wearing them just to make it easier." "I'd much rather make it harder." He walked off toward the drinks.
~ Martha Grimes
By 12.30, Giles had consumed five gin-rickies, four gin-and-tonics, three gin-and-its, two gin-and-bitters, and one gin.
~ Martin Amis
Applause is a constant thing in AA. It's how we buy drinks for each other.
~ Augusten Burroughs
Applause is a constant thing in AA. It's how we buy drinks for each other.
~ Augusten Burroughs
Then they will have drinks and a meal and talk about the grace of God and how everything happens for a reason. God's grace is a pretty cool concept. It stays intact every time it's not you.
~ Stephen King
Time seemed to have stretched and become meaningless anyway, its passage blurred by endless drinks and meandering conversations.
~ Jojo Moyes
Fancy a friendly beer with an exhausted corporate wage slave?
~ Jojo Moyes
Very nice lady served us drinks in hotel and was followed in by a cat. We all crooned at it. Alan [Rickman] to cat ( very low and meaning it ): 'Fuck off.' The nice lady didn't turn a hair. The cat looked slightly embarrassed but stayed.
~ Emma Thompson
I don't drink hot beverages.
~ Gary Cohn
midwesterners love two liters of soda, always two liters, and you pour them into big red plastic Solo cups, always).
~ Gillian Flynn
I'm just a bad writer who drinks too much and falls in love with girls
~ Graham Greene
There wasn't enough gratitude in the world for a server who kept drinks coming at a time like this.
~ Jennifer Crusie
That's what they call the pub. Your pub is your local, and we have a local. And you have to go. It's the law.
~ Maureen Johnson
After the revolution, almost all the activities one associated with being out in public—seeing movies, listening to music, sharing drinks or a meal with friends—shifted to private homes. It was refreshing to go out once in a while, even to such a desultory event.
~ Azar Nafisi
We drilled our drinks onto the checkered-tile floor. And for that moment, at least, I felt like the luckiest man alive.
~ Barack Obama
The waitress came and put the drinks on the table. Murakami drained his in a single draught. Yukiko followed suit. "Ii yo," Murakami growled. Good. Yukiko set her glass down with practiced delicacy. Murakami looked at her. She returned the look, something almost theatrically nonchalant in her expression. The look went on for a long moment. Then he grinned and grabbed her hand.
~ Barry Eisler
In football, there were drinks available everywhere you looked. On a golf tournament, you could find one free anywhere you wanted it. In tennis and NBA basketball, everybody had a hospitality suite, and so you could go there and load up if you wanted to.
~ Pat Summerall
I saw my parents as model grown-ups, and their manner, their silence, informed my sense of what adulthood looked and felt like. Grown-ups behaved rationally and calmly. Grown-ups worked during the day and came home at night and sat down for drinks and passed the evening quietly.
~ Caroline Knapp
I'm one of those passengers who arrives at the airport five or six hours early so I can throw back a few drinks and muster up the courage to board the plane. Apparently I'm not alone because I've never been in an empty airport bar. I don't care what time you get there. Even at 8:00 a.m. you have to fight your way to the bar. At that hour, everyone drinks Bloody Marys so no one can tell it's booze- at least until they fall off their chair.
~ Bob Newhart
They picked up their drinks and found a table near the window. "Run it through for me," he said. "Run what?" "Go back. You picked up the pictures. Josh handed them to you. Did you look at them right away?" Grace's eyes went up and to the right. She tried to remember the details. "No.
~ Harlan Coben
Kat sighed, rose, and nodded to the bartender, a guy named Pete who looked like a character actor who always played the Irish bartender—which is what, in fact, he was. Pete nodded back, indicating that he'd put the drinks on Kat's tab. "Who
~ Harlan Coben
At college - I went to Yale, and everybody's very smart, and everybody has their thing that makes them special, and people at Yale would pretend they didn't recognize me. Only after they'd had a couple of drinks would they start singing the 'Life Goes On' theme song.
~ Kellie Martin
I'm 24, so I'll go out and, yeah, have a few drinks and dance - I love to dance - and have a good time, but I like to do other things, too. I like going to the beach and reading and hiking.
~ Josie Loren