Drinking Quotes - Page 31

• Come quickly, I'm drinking stars.

  Dom Perignon

  Stars, Wine

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• In the cafe bathroom drinking free tap water
  Thinking; "Damn, I should've been a better father to my daughter"

  Slug

  Daughter, Father, Thinking

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• In a country where half a million die every year only for drinking polluted water, it is more necessary for us to do something for them.

  Imran Khan

  Country, Years, Water

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• Men fed upon carnage, and drinking strong drinks, have all an impoisoned and acrid blood which drives them mad in a hundred different ways.

  Voltaire

  Strong, Men, Blood

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• The English seem to think drinking wine is like committing adultery, something you do rarely and abroad.

  William Nicholson

  Wine, Thinking, Adultery

  William Nicholson (2014). “Motherland: A Novel”, p.198, Simon and Schuster

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• Can you support the expense of a husband, hussy, in gaming, drinking and whoring? Have you money enough to carry on the daily quarrels of man and wife about who shall squander most?

  John Gay

  Husband, Men, Wife

  John Gay (1782). “The Beggar's Opera”, p.12

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• All the damnable degrees Of drinking have you staggered through.

  John Webster

  Degrees

  1612 The White Devil, act 1, sc.1.

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• I used to work at a health food store. I got fired for drinking straight Bosco on the job.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Jobs, Humor

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• As a fairly innocent teenager, growing up in a village in Wales, I just thought, "God, I would like to go and hang about Soho and write great poetry and try to avoid drinking myself to death."

  Andrew Davies

  Growing Up, Teenager, Writing

  Source: collider.com

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• Politicizing of kids starts with pregnancy, of course. You shouldn't be drinking wine. You can't be smoking, either. The poor woman is poked and prodded and touched and obsessed over.

  Sam Mendes

  Pregnancy, Wine, Kids

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. June 2, 2009.

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• My mother was a very absent mother. She was going out, she was drinking a lot, she liked to have fun. It's fine with me. I have no bitterness about it. When I was 3, she went to America for months. I never had any problems with that. I even liked it.

  Sophie Calle

  Mother, Fun, America

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Reality doesn't have any preconceived ideas. You've got to learn how to smoke the cigarette, not act smoking the cigarette. You need to drink the drink, not act drinking the drink. You've got to do things and not show them.

  James Dean

  Reality, Ideas, Smoking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A person can attack that bottle of vodka and drink it like it's a bottle of cold water. Two of my wife's girlfriends died from drinking. They weren't big pill-takers; they were drinkers. So it can't be so simple as to slide away, like Marilyn Monroe.

  William Eggleston

  Girlfriend, Simple, Two

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I do, but I don't like doing that. I would do it out of hate or anger. I would do it because some- one was pushing my buttons, but really I don't want to break my back in some European city while everyone else is drinking espresso. I only do it because someone refused to pay for the shipping, or something like that. I don't want to let a whole city of people down.

  Josh Smith

  Hate, Espresso, Cities

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Paris was incredible. Everything about it for me, from spending hours eating, drinking and talking to walking through the streets...at that time I hadn't seen that sort of political passion in the youth, and I got to experience that first hand.

  Kate Hudson

  Passion, Hands, Talking

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• I try not to "perform." I try to come on stage and be myself, to sing the way I would in a room by myself, to interact with the audience the way I would relate to them if we were in my kitchen drinking tea and making up silly songs. Maybe the way to get past the fear of being ourselves is simply to try it more often.

  Bobby McFerrin

  Song, Silly, Past

  "Sing Your Prayers: An Interview With Bobby McFerrin". Omega Institute Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 11, 2012.

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• Its a bit cloudy in London but people are already drinking out on the streets- God Bless the pubs.

  Guillermo del Toro

  People, London, God Bless

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• In doing zazen it is desirable to have a quiet room. You should be temperate in eating and drinking, forsaking all delusive relationships. Setting everything aside, think of neither good nor evil, right nor wrong. Thus having stopped the various functions of your mind, five up even the idea of becoming a Buddha.

  Dogen

  Thinking, Ideas, Evil

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• All the contact I have had with politics has left me feeling as though I had been drinking out of spitoons.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Feelings, Contact, Left

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• Drinking can not be sacramentalised except in religions which set no store on decorum. The worship of Dionysos or the Celtic god of beer was a loud and disorderly affair.

  Aldous Huxley

  Beer, Worship, Affair

  Aldous Huxley (2002). “Complete Essays: 1939-1956”, Ivan R Dee

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• Learn to ignore everything anyone (including myself) has ever told you about wine protocol. Sometimes win drinking, like spontaneous sex on the kitchen table, is far more satisfying when you toss out all the rules.

  Bob Blumer

  Sex, Wine, Winning

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• Drinking makes a person lose his inhibitions and give exhibitions

  Nancy Astor

  Giving, Exhibitions, Persons

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• If people are not smoking, they'll probably be drinking more.

  Michael Bloomberg

  People, Smoking, Ifs

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• There are rituals not structures for being a poet, drinking too much, taking too many drugs, being a lady chaser, having your nervous breakdown, being irresponsible about money.

  Diane Wakoski

  Drug, Too Much, Nervous

  Diane Wakoski (1988). “Emerald Ice: Selected Poems, 1962-1987”, p.162, David R. Godine Publisher

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• When I'm walking around, I'm usually drinking pop, so I can't have a mask on. That's why I couldn't be a surgeon.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Mask, Pops, I Can

  "Chuck Klosterman's greatest fears". Interview with Josh Modell, www.avclub.com. October 27, 2009.

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