505 quotes found
“Because the world all twisted up and wrong, like distorted glass, only came back into focus if you looked at it through the bottom of a bottle.”
“My problem was not only drinking; it was selfishness. The booze was leading me to put myself ahead of others, especially my family. I loved Laura and the girls too much to let that happen. Faith sh...”
“Day drinking with a broken heart is like selling loose Cuban cigars like Newports, tryna leave the country without passports, and putting yourself in a situation you cant handle.”
“According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the first use of alcohol typically begins at age 12.”
“Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.”
“Kids are going to try drugs and alcohol that's part of society. ”
“Alcohol, tobacco, and pharmaceutical drugs are legal, but they can hurt a lot of people.”
“But you can count the dead bodies from alcohol, tobacco, and legal pharmaceuticals by the millions.”
“Hi, this is Ganymede, cup-bearer to Zeus, and when I'm out buying wine for the Lord of the Skies, I always buckle up!”
“I looked at mother with adoration in my own eyes, and when she had taken the kerosene lamp and had gone away, and when we boys were all again curled quietly like sleeping puppies in the bed, I crie...”
“Think champagne, drink champagne!”
“Texting and phone calls, fireworks, blends, caf au lait, and music. Yesterday's television. Work and beer. The neighbor's dog, or those strange flowers, the way it smells at Maisen. Those ordinary ...”
“That's the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and i...”
“Its a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking people.”
“I began to think vodka was my drink at last. It didnt taste like anything, but it went straight down into my stomach like a sword swallowers sword and made me feel powerful and godlike.”
“I don't have a drinking problem 'Cept when I can't get a drink.”
“I think I need a drink.''Almost everybody does only they don't know it.”
“One more drink and I'll be under the host.”
“Frankly, I was horrified by life, at what a man had to do simply in order to eat, sleep, and keep himself clothed. So I stayed in bed and drank. When you drank the world was still out there, but fo...”
“Fill with mingled cream and amber, I will drain that glass again.Such hilarious visions clamber Through the chamber of my brain Quaintest thoughts queerest fancies Come to life and fade away;What ...”
