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Quotes About Drinkers

Thirteen thousand nucleotides upstream of the beginning of the lactase gene is a region that controls its activity, and a mutation in that distant control center accounts for the vast majority of milk drinkers.
~ Adam Rutherford
Food critic and writer Waverley Root described the common American near beer as "such a wishy-washy, thin, ill-tasting, discouraging sort of slop that it might have been dreamed up by a Puritan Machiavelli with the intent of disgusting drinkers with genuine beer forever."[21]
~ Waverly Root
Mongolians are epic drinkers and carousers, and in this respect, they are extremely congenial to my own way of thinking.
~ Lawrence Osborne
As I stirred I was thinking that if she was hoping for any cooperation from Wolfe it was too bad she had asked for gin, since in his book all gin drinkers were barbarians.
~ Rex Stout
After the last swallow, the glass walls, deprived of humidity, decompose rather quickly, obliging drinkers to order another round immediately.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
I know people say that we are a load of beer drinkers but we are far more professional these days. These critics should come and have a go at playing darts if they think it is so easy.
~ Adrian Lewis
As an ardent temperance advocate, he was extremely uncomfortable around drinkers—perhaps one reason why he seldom visited the oil fields.
~ Ron Chernow
The wicked are great drinkers of water; As the flood proved once for all.
~ Alexandre Dumas
They're professionals at this in Russia, so no matter how many Jell-O shots or Jager shooters you might have downed at college mixers, no matter how good a drinker you might think you are, don't forget that the Russians - any Russian - can drink you under the table.
~ Anthony Bourdain
There's always a wine bully. The one person who did read the 'Wine Spectator,' who tells you what to drink and why the '97 is better than the '98. I want to punch the wine bully in the face. I want to make sure this generation of wine drinkers isn't elitist and snotty. I want it to be about family and bringing people together.
~ Gary Vaynerchuk
My image lends itself a little bit more to the modern fan, sometimes more toward the kids, and I guess more toward the wine drinkers... I mean, I have my own wine, and fans love to pull for people they relate to.
~ Jeff Gordon
Consuming alcohol in public is allowed in France, which means drinkers overflow onto the sidewalk, especially on the Montmartre stretch. But it rarely gets out of control.
~ Elaine Sciolino
What had shaped his vision of her? It had been the thoughts of the blood drinkers who had gathered around her council table.
~ Anne Rice
Afternoon drinkers shifted in the gloom as if they sensed new blood.
~ Sara Sheridan
One result of the tea boycott was that Americans very quickly became coffee drinkers.
~ Mark Kurlansky
orange juice a day (though those results may have been due to other healthy habits of the juice drinkers). And many of the cancer-fighting limonoids (see below) are also present in the juice. But compared to the whole fruit, orange
~ Jonny Bowden
So they bring our poor Andreas into the vestry, and unfortunately he's no longer capable of speech, all he can do is reach for the left inside pocket of his jacket where he has the money he owes the little creditress, and he says: 'Miss Thérèse!' - and he sighs once, and he dies. May God grant us all, all of us drinkers, such a good and easy death!
~ Joseph Roth
Atticus said naming people after Confederate generals made slow steady drinkers.
~ Harper Lee
The coffee shop is a great New York institution, but it has terrible coffee. And the more traditional coffee shops are trying to catch up with more sophisticated coffee drinkers.
~ Adam Gopnik
It was eight in the morning, a time when drinkers are trying either to forget who they are or remember where they live.
~ Terry Pratchett
Watchmen were quiet drinkers on the whole. They just went from vertical to horizontal with the minimum amount of fuss, without starting major fights, and without damaging the fixtures overmuch
~ Terry Pratchett
Or he was simply pretending—like many drinkers, he liked to think each new day drew a line under the day before.
~ Ian Mcewan
China traditionally has been a tea-drinking country but we turned them into coffee drinkers.
~ Howard Schultz
Male novelists were granted a 'social tradition' in which to operate, Didion discovered 'hard drinkers, bad livers, wives, wars, big fish, Africa, Paris, no second acts.
~ Tracy Daugherty