Drinking Quotes - Page 19

• My mum did encourage me, perhaps most of all by never discouraging me from anything I wanted to do. If you tell kids not to, they're going to do it in the end anyway. I'd finished all that staying-out-all-night-drinking bit when everybody else came to it. Probably why I don't like alcohol today. I had it all by the age of 10.

  George Harrison

  Kids, Night, Alcohol

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• I frequently counsel people who are getting frustrated about an edit war to think about someone who lives without clean drinking water, without any proper means of education, and how our work might someday help that person. It puts flamewars into some perspective, I think.

  Jimmy Wales

  War, Mean, Thinking

  "Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales Responds". Slashdot readers' questions, slashdot.org. July 28, 2004.

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• Will you stop drinking whiskey? Let me plead with you to do so. And if the sisters would not think it oppressive, I would ask them to not drink quite so much strong tea.

  Brigham Young

  Strong, Thinking, Tea

  Brigham Young (1867). “Journal of Discourses”, p.107

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• I view tea drinking as a destroyer of health, an enfeebler of the frame, an en-genderer of effeminancy and laziness, a debaucher of youth and maker of misery for old age. Thus he makes that miserable progress towards that death which he finds ten or fifteen years sooner than he would have found it if he had made his wife brew beer instead of making tea.

  William Cobbett

  Beer, Views, Years

  "Cottage Economy". Book by William Cobbett, 1821.

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• I'm drinking lots of rum and popping pinks and greys.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Rum, Popping

  Letter to his wife in 1967. "L. Ron Hubbard: Messiah or Madman?". Book by Bent Corydon and Ronald DeWolf, 1987.

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• As a child, I saw this beautiful film, Dracula's Daughter, and it was with Gloria Holden and was a sequel to the original Dracula. It was all about this beautiful daughter of Dracula who was an artist in London, and she felt drinking blood was a curse. It had beautiful, sensitive scenes in it, and that film mesmerized me. It established to me what vampires were—these elegant, tragic, sensitive people. I was really just going with that feeling when writing Interview With the Vampire. I didn't do a lot of research.

  Anne Rice

  Beautiful, Daughter, Children

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• A lot of people that are in the disease of drinking and using can be caught up on the denial aspect of it. I don't have a problem with that. I am very sensitive. I can just feel when things are getting out of control and I go, 'Oh, you have to deal with this. Because you can die.' I've always sort of had that.

  Bobby Lee

  People, Denial, Disease

  "Bobby Lee On Comedy, Survival And Being ‘A Big, Sweaty Ball Of Flesh’". Interview With Greg Archer, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 18, 2013.

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• At first she dreamed of sheep, of going to school, of cats drinking milk. Little by little she dreamed of blue sheep, of going to school in the middle of the woods, of cats drinking milk from golden saucers. And her dreams became increasingly dense and acquired colours that were difficult to dilute into words.

  Clarice Lispector

  Dream, School, Cat

  "Near to the Wild Heart" by Clarice Lispector, (p. 43), 1943.

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• When I left Nashville I went to Texas because that's where I came from, and because I was playing in Texas a lot in different places. And I saw hippies and rednecks drinking beer together and smoking dope together and having a good time together and I knew it was possible to get all groups of people together - long hair, short hair, no hair - and music would bring them together.

  Willie Nelson

  Hippie, Beer, Redneck

  "Willie Nelson: 'If We Made Marijuana Legal, We'd Save a Whole Lotta Money and Lives'" by Michael Hann, www.theguardian.com. May 17, 2012.

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• i keep drinking the ink from my pen and i'm balancing history books up on my head but it all boils down to one quotable phrase if you love something give it away

  Conor Oberst

  Book, Giving, Phrases

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• I go to a meeting every day. I surround myself with people who don't use. I recently got back from Ozzfest and I caught myself in kind of a sticky situation where I was around a lot of people using, drinking and it was kind of - I didn't have the urge to use once, but I just knew I shouldn't have been there.

  Jack Osbourne

  People, Use, Kind

  "Jack Talks About His Addiction and Recovery". MTV.com,

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• The drinking of coffee is an absolute sin! Our Glorious Prophet did not partake of coffee because he knew it dulled the intellect, caused ulcers, hernia and sterility; he understood that coffee was nothing but the Devil's ruse.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Coffee, Devil, Ulcers

  Orhan Pamuk (2011). “My Name Is Red”, p.14, Faber & Faber

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• Discouraging smoking and drinking is a left ideal.

  Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

  Smoking, Discouraging, Ideals

  Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero's remarks in a meeting of the PSOE federal committee whilst tabling a motion to increase tax on alcohol and cigarettes to finance health spending, September 3, 2005.

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• It is far best for the Christian never to see some things, so he will never want them. The old-fashioned Christian who will not have playing cards in his house will never learn to gamble with them. One who never sees, in movies and night clubs or elsewhere, half-clothed girls, drinking, smoking, gambling, petting, making love to many men, is likely to miss being led into that kind of life by these sirens of sin. It is the Devil's game to make people think it necessary for people to "know the ways of the world.

  John R. Rice

  Girl, Christian, Night

  John R. Rice (2000). “The Ruin of a Christian”, p.100, Sword of the Lord Publishers

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• A Christian might drink only ginger ale at the tavern bar, but there he is already on the way to drinking beer and whiskey. The girl who attends a ball but never dances a step, will soon surrender her body to the lustful embrace of every casual male acquaintance as other dancers do.

  John R. Rice

  Girl, Christian, Beer

  John R. Rice (2000). “The Ruin of a Christian”, p.100, Sword of the Lord Publishers

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• The Christian who drinks cannot win his drinking companions to Christ. The girl who dances will never win her dancing boyfriend! You may think to gain favor and influence with the unsaved by joining with them in the lodge, or attending with them the movies, or by smoking or drinking or playing bridge with them, but you cannot! Worldliness means powerlessness! And that means that every Christian who sells out is guilty of the murder of the poor lost souls that go to Hell because he lost his influence.

  John R. Rice

  Girl, Christian, Mean

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• I built a cannon out of ice, and wrapped myself in the funeral carpet which my husbands and wives had woven for me out of their own hair, and one of my wives was my gunner. I came back here, after many adventures, and once, when I'd been drinking, donated the funeral carpet to the national museum. When I was sober again, I asked for it back, but they claimed not to know what I was talking about.

  Kelly Link

  Husband, Adventure, Talking

  Kelly Link, Shelley Jackson (2005). “Magic for Beginners”, p.62, Small Beer Press

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• Drinking beer in a children's playground is an old Soviet tradition.

  Sergei Lukyanenko

  Children, Beer, Tradition

  Sergei Lukyanenko (2013). “The New Watch: (Night Watch 5)”, p.195, Random House

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• I find that I can have no enjoyment in the world but the continual drinking of knowledge. I find there is no worthy pursuit but the idea of doing some good for the world.

  John Keats

  Ideas, World, Pursuit

  John Keats (2002). “Selected Letters”, p.83, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Which are you drinking? The water or the wave?

  John Fowles

  Water, Excellence, Wave

  John Fowles (1968). “The Magus”, Pan

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• There's a romance to danger. There's a romance to drinking, to drugs, to petty crime and to heartbreak and loneliness. All of those things can be used to make the story of our lives better.

  Joey Comeau

  Loneliness, Romance, Drug

  Interview with Adrian Comeau, "I Am Other People" series, www.asofterworld.com.

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• Drinking really cold beer is like slapping yourself in the face with an ice pick.

  Michael Jackson

  Beer, Ice, Faces

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• In more than 20 years of opening beers with guys, I have NEVER seen the Swedish Bikini Team show up. Almost always, the teams that show up in beer drinking situations consist of guys who have been playing league softball and smell like bus seats.

  Dave Barry

  Softball, Team, Beer

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• In matters of great concern, and which must be done, there is no surer argument of a weak mind than irresolution; to be undetermined where the case is so plain, and the necessity so urgent. To be always intending to live a new life, but never to find time to set about it; this is as if a man should put off eating, and drinking, and sleeping, from one day and night to another, till he is starved and destroyed.

  John Tillotson

  Sleep, Night, Men

  John Tillotson (1820). “Twenty Discourses on the Most Important Subjects: Calculated for Every Class of Readers”, p.150

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• The prime minister of Ireland will be celebrating St. Patrick's Day at the White House. So finally the Secret Service agents will have a drinking buddy.

  Conan O'Brien

  White, House, Secret

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