505 quotes found
“If you were to ask me if I'd ever had the bad luck to miss my daily cocktail, I'd have to say that I doubt it; where certain things are concerned, I plan ahead.”
“Cover your glass in France or Germany --even worse, in England - and in the voice of someone who has personally affronted, your host will ask why you're not drinking. 'Oh, I just don't feel like it...”
“To a drinker the sensation is real and pure and akin to something spiritual: you seek; in the bottle, you find.”
“The most dangerous drink is gin. You have to be really, really careful with that. And you also have to be 45, female and sitting on the stairs. Because gin isn't really a drink, it's more a mascara...”
“You know that movie, where the little boy says 'I see dead people'?The Sixth Sense.Well, I see them all the time, and I'm getting tired of it. That's what's ruined my mood. Here it is, almost Chris...”
“I feel like today should be a perfect Meatball day... Let's just get wastey-pants!”
“Ive created a new drink! I'm calling it the Piata Colada! Its sweet and tasty, but when you wake up the next morning your head feels like its been hitten with a stick.”
“Alcohol, I had learned, was an eloquent if somewhat inaccurate interpreter. I had placed my trust that December night in glass after glass of it, eager not for drink but for a bit of talk. ”
“The devil lives in a double-shot", Roman explains himself obscurely. "I got a great worm inside. Gnaws and gnaws. Every day I drown him and every day he gnaws. Help me drown the worm, fellas.”
“My first incident drinking alcohol occurred after a 2-month period in which I stole wine coolers and beers from my parents and hid them in different places around my room. I was 14 years old, in ei...”
“It's meant I will act like less of an asshole, but feel much more like one.”
“I mulled over what he had told me as I savored the Scotch. Not bad, really like a beer thats been in a brawl.”
“Curse you, cheap beer. Must find miso in tiny packet.”
“I took a breath. Pictured the bed waiting for me upstairs. Then retreated to the lobbybar alone and ordered an ice-cold gin martini, a small signal to myself that my work was done. I held the glass...”
“We want ecstasy as a way of life, not a liver-poisoning alcoholiday from it.”
“A drink centers me but I usually make myself wait until at least 9:00 PM for that. Or 8:00 PM. Whichever comes first.”
“People, heed my warning: That stuff is Specials Olympics in a pint glass. You think they are harmless and not very strong, and the next thing you know it is an hour later and you are in the bathroo...”
“The best thing is the combined effect of nicotine with alcohol, greater than the sum of the two parts.”
“Sam took another sip of the pruno. It went down smoother this time, possibly because he no longer had feeling in his extremities.”
“A late arrival had the impression of lots of loud people unnecessarily grouped within a smoke-blue space between two mirrors gorged with reflections. Because, I suppose, Cynthia wished to be the yo...”
