Drunk Quotes - Page 13

• Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit.

  Charles Bukowski

  Play, Piano, Instruments

  1979 Title of book.

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• You don't know how to handle anything today, because you have to go to jail to get some press or fall down drunk.

  Liza Minnelli

  Fall, Jail, Today

  The Washington Blade, October 26, 2007.

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• They are preserving the sanctity of marriage, so that two gay men who've been together for twenty-five years can't get married, but a guy can still get drunk in Vegas and marry a hooker at the Elvis chapel! The sanctity of marriage is saved!

  Lea DeLaria

  Gay, Men, Vegas

  "Box Lunch". Comedy album by Lea DeLaria, May 5, 1997.

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• The old shepherd had died, or got drunk, or got rats, or got the sack, or a legacy, or got sane, or chucked it, or got lost, or found, or a wife, or had cut his throat, or hanged himself, or got into Parliament or the peerage anyway, anything had happened to him that can happen to an old shepherd or any other man in the bush, and he wasn't there.

  Henry Lawson

  Cutting, Men, Wife

  Henry Lawson (1984). “A Fantasy of Man: Henry Lawson Complete Works, 1901-1922”

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• For some reason, cats are usually addressed familiarly, though no cat has ever drunk bruderschaft with anyone.

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Cat, Reason

  "The Master and Margarita". Book by Mikhail Bulgakov, Book Two in 'The Extraction of the Master', P/V, 1967.

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• Tabloids invoke freedom of speech, but they're not interested in that, they're just interested in who's shagging whom, who's got drunk. And if you take that pretend, faux moral standpoint, you end up with people in public life being completely boring. Like they've had their genitals removed.

  Jarvis Cocker

  People, Freedom Of Speech, Tabloids

  "Jarvis Cocker answers your questions: 'Go on, then, give us the horrible ones'". Interview with Miranda Sawyer, www.theguardian.com. November 27, 2011.

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• In a few days I'll have lived one score and three days in this vale of tears. On I plod-always bored, often drunk, doing no penance for my faults-rather do I become more tolerant of myself from day to day, hardening my crystal heart with blasphemous humor and shunning only toothpicks, pathos, and poverty as being the three unforgivable things in life.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Heart, Things In Life, Bored

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “Collected Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.475, e-artnow

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• I have drunk of the wine of life at last, I have known the thing best worth knowing, I have been warmed through and through, never to grow quite cold again till the end.

  Edith Wharton

  Wine, Knowing, Lasts

  Edith Wharton (1998). “Beyond the Age of Innocence”

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• Before dinner men meet with great inequality of understanding; and those who are conscious of their inferiority have the modesty not to talk; when they have drunk wine, every man feels himself happy, and loses that modesty, and grows impudent and vociferous; but he is not improved; he is only not sensible of his defects.

  Samuel Johnson

  Wine, Men, Understanding

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1859). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides”, p.64

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• travel never made a bore interesting; it only makes for a well-traveled bore, in the same way coffee makes for a wide-awake drunk. In fact, the more a bore travels, the worse he gets. The only advantage in it for his friends and family is that he isn't home as much.

  Peg Bracken

  Coffee, Home, Interesting

  Peg Bracken (1973). “But I Wouldn't Have Missed it for the World!: The Pleasures and Perils of an Unseasoned Traveler”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age. In writing Dialogues in Limbo, The Last Puritan, and now all these descriptions of the friends of my youth and the young friends of my middle age, I have drunk the pleasure of life more pure, more joyful than it ever was when mingled with all the hidden anxieties and little annoyances of actual living. Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit. And spirit can enter a human being perhaps better in the quiet of old age and dwell there more undisturbed than in the turmoil of adventure.

  George Santayana

  Writing, Adventure, Young Friends

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• Of lunacy,
  Innumerous were the causes; humbled pride,
  Ambition disappointed, riches lost,
  And bodily disease, and sorrow, oft
  By man inflicted on his brother man;
  Sorrow, that, made the reason drunk, and yet
  Left much untasted. So the cup was fill'd.

  Robert Pollok

  Brother, Ambition, Pride

  Robert Pollok, James Robert Boyd (1860). “Pollok's Course of Time”, p.304

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• ... people are growing up in the slack flicker of a pale light which lacks the concentrated burn of a candle flame or oil wick or the bulb of a gooseneck desk lamp: a pale, wavering, oblong shimmer, emitting incessant noise, which is to real knowledge or discourse what the manic or weepy protestations of a drunk are to responsible speech. Drunks do have a way of holding an audience, though, and so does the shimmery ill-focused oblong screen.

  Adrienne Rich

  Growing Up, Real, Flames

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• The Persians are very fond of wine ... It is also their general practice to deliberate upon affairs of weight when they are drunk; and then in the morning, when they are sober, the decision to which they came the night before is put before them by the master of the house in which it was made; and if it is then approved they act on it; if not, they set it aside. Sometimes, however, they are sober at their first deliberations, but in this case they always reconsider the matter under the influence of wine.

  Herodotus

  Morning, Wine, Night

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• More free time means more time to waste. The worker who used to have only a little time in which to get drunk and beat his wife now has time to get drunk, beat his wife - and watch TV.

  Robert M. Hutchins

  Mean, Wife, Watches

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• As a rapper, I don't freestyle. I used to freestyle when I used to get drunk, and it didn't matter.

  Andre Benjamin

  Rapper, Matter, Used

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• Alcoholism, tobacco, drunk driving, these things will always be with us. There's always going to be a certain percentage of any population that is addicted to certain substances.

  Don Winslow

  Population, Substance, Driving

  "A Don Winslow on his amazing new book ‘The Cartel’ and America’s drug war". Interview with Drew Mcweeny, uproxx.com. July 01, 2015.

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• I tend to wear a coat more for the fact that I worry if I'm going to get drunk, I'm going to get pickpocketed. And a coat goes over your pockets so it's harder for someone to get their hand in and steal your phone or wallet out of your pocket. It's an unnecessary level of thinking that may lessen the enjoyment you have out of life.

  Jon Richardson

  Thinking, Phones, Hands

  Source: www.digitalspy.com

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• [In my bio] is no drunk driving, there's no DUI's, there's no possession of cocaine, none of that stuff so you know, I don't know if that's good or bad. Everybody loves dirty laundry.

  Jeff Dunham

  Dirty, Dui, Stuff

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• There seems to be a peculiar and particular tie between men who have been drunk together.

  Alice Thomas Ellis

  Drinking, Men, Ties

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• An avidity for more is built into the love of movies. Something else is built in: you have to be open to the idea of getting drunk on movies. (Being able to talk about movies with someone -- to share the giddy high excitement you feel -- is enough for a friendship.

  Pauline Kael

  Ideas, Able, Excitement

  Pauline Kael (1991). “Movie love: complete reviews 1988-1991”, E P Dutton

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• There are plenty of alcoholics who can be magnificent when drunk: it does not make them any less alcoholic.

  Ingrid Bengis

  Doe, Magnificent, Alcoholism

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• Now some people when they sit down to write and nothing special comes, no good ideas, are so frightened that they drink a lot of strong coffee to hurry them up, or smoke packages of cigarettes, or take drugs or get drunk. They do not know that ideas come slowly, and that the more clear, tranquil and unstimulated you are, the slower the ideas come, but the better they are.

  Brenda Ueland

  Strong, Coffee, Writing

  Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• Sage advice? If you're drunk, stay away from the phone. You can't get the answering machine message back.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Phones, Advice, Machines

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• Who were my mentors in poetry and literature? This is a matter of opinion. Some see in my books the influences of authors whose names, in my ignorance, I have not even heard, while others see the influences of poets whose names I have heard but whose writings I have not read. And what is my opinion? From whom did I receive nurture? Not every man remembers the name of the cow which supplied him with each drop of milk he has drunk.

  Shmuel Yosef Agnon

  Book, Writing, Ignorance

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