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Quotes About Booze

Of course it was the alcohol," said Teresa. "That's the whole point of alcohol.
~ Tim Dorsey
The City went to me in a LANDSLIDE, and you know why? Because all it wants is decent television, a bit of spare change for booze, and a blowjob every Saturday night.
~ Warren Ellis
You booze, you cruise, you lose.
~ Author Unknown
In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti.
~ James Thurber
I think a guy who's had just the right amount of booze can sing the blues a hell of a lot better than a guy who is stone sober.
~ Charlie Rich
The only action on the street was booze and hot cunt.
~ Oscar Zeta Acosta
The air smelt of booze, sweat and cheap perfume - redolent of sex and danger. There was a kind of frontier recklessness about the atmosphere, Bond thought, and recognised its allure.
~ William Boyd
A] generation ago ... the thing to do was to get married at twenty-one and go to work immediately, regardless of one's equipment or inclination or aptitude. But now they grow up into the convention that youth, that being under thirty years of age, is a protracted sophomore course without lectures, in which one must spend one's entire time dressed like a caricature, drinking homemade booze and pawing at the opposite sex in the intervals of being arrested by traffic policeman.
~ William Faulkner
We didn't write it at the time. We took notes, as journalists did in those days, by committing quotes to memory, then making our excuses and heading for the bathroom, where we'd scribble into our notebooks before the booze set in.
~ Lesley-Ann Jones
price of a drink, for dang
~ William W. Johnstone
He stalked back to the enormous moth, but it wouldn't return him to Elfhame until he went to a nearby general store, glamoured leaves into money to buy it an entire six-pack of lager, and then poured the booze into a frothing puddle on the ground for the creature to lap at.
~ Holly Black
It depends on various things like if the promoters want to have a break so they can sell more T-shirts and booze, then they ask if we can do an interval. I personally prefer not to do that. Once you get onstage, I like to stay there.
~ Chris Squire
Myron fell silent, his mind seemingly drifting away on some sea of secret sorrow, buoyed by booze and painkillers.
~ Unknown
The Bradleys bookend their weekends by balancing these booze-filled habits with a running habit and a church habit on Sundays.
~ Unknown
Answer my question, Dresden,' Nicodemus growled. 'What is that?' 'A precaution against getting stuck in deep snow,' I said. 'He's training to be a Saint Bernard.' 'Excuse me?' Nicodemus said. I mimed covering one of Mouse's ears with my hand and stage-whispered, 'Don't tell him that they don't actually carry kegs of booze on their collars. Break his little heart.
~ Jim Butcher
She brought the brandy bottle and a glass to the table. She had read books in which characters had sat down with a fifth of booze and a heavy load of despair, determined to use the former to wash away the latter. Sometimes it worked for them, so maybe it would work for her. If brandy could improve her state of mind even marginally, she was prepared to drink the whole damn bottle.
~ Dean Koontz
without a basic good glass of beer, properly drawn and presented, a saloon was merely a booze trough. And
~ Ivan Doig
Dreamforce turns out to be a four-day orgy worthy of Caligula, a triumph of vulgarity and wasteful spending, with free booze and endless shrimp cocktail and a rate of STD transmission that probably rivals Fleet Week.
~ Unknown
It's pure Black Label. It's about violence and booze. That's all it is. There is no plan.
~ Zakk Wylde
It was, he knew, a sign of End of Days. Ruth refusing booze.
~ Louise Penny
a time of education, and not all of it in a classroom. It was a time to experiment. To grab life. To consume at random, like the first time at a buffet. And then to stagger to a stop, overstuffed and nauseous. And sometimes unable to pay the bill. They got the drugs, the booze, the random sex and the consequences out of their system. And began to make more thoughtful choices. But some never quite managed to push away from the buffet.
~ Louise Penny
Montreal, boasted its share of piles, built by the Scottish robber barons, of railway, booze and banking money. They were held together with hubris, a short-term binder at best since many of them had long ago been torn down or donated to McGill University, which needed another Victorian monstrosity like it needed the Ebola virus.
~ Louise Penny
They drummed you out of Hollywood, so you come crawling back to Broadway. But Broadway doesn't go for booze and dope. Now get out of my way, I've got a man waiting for me.
~ Jacqueline Susann
Booze makes you loud. It's written on the label: "Alcohol percent by volume."
~ Unknown