Drunk Quotes - Page 15

• Through everything I've gone through- and I've been everywhere, at the top of the world, in jail, hung over drunk - I never gave up my dream of winning a gold medal in the Olympics.

  Dan O'Brien

  Dream, Winning, Jail

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• Getting drunk . . . you're in complete control up to a point. It's your choice, every time you take a sip. You have a lot of small choices. It's like . . . I guess it's the difference between suicide and slow capitulation . . .

  Jim Morrison

  Suicide, Differences, Choices

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• I like any reaction I can get with my music. Just anything to get people to think. I mean if you can get a whole room full of drunk, stoned people to actually wake up and think, you're doing something.

  Jim Morrison

  Mean, Thinking, People

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• Whoever thinks he is objective must already be half drunk.

  Lu Xun

  Thinking, Prejudice, Half

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• I was five years old the first time I got drunk.

  Jack London

  Years, Firsts, First Time

  Jack London (2016). “John Barleycorn”, p.11, Xist Publishing

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• Politicians use statistics in the same way that a drunk uses lamp-postsfor support rather than illumination.

  Andrew Lang

  Illumination, Support, Lamps

  1910 Speech. Quoted in Alan L Mackay The Harvest of a Quiet Eye (1977).

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• I don't belong to any club or group. I don't fish, cook, dance, endorse books, sign books, co-sign declarations, eat oysters, get drunk, go to church, go to analysts, or take part in demonstrations.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Book, Oysters, Church

  "Strong Opinions" by Vladimir Nabokov, (p. 18), 1973.

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• It seemed to me that man himself was like a half-emptied bottle of pale ale, which Time had drunk so far, yet stoppled tight for a while, and drifting about in the ocean of circumstances, but destined ere-long to mingle with the surrounding waves, or be spilled amid the sands of a distant shore.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Ocean, Men, Long

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.791, Delphi Classics

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• Women are brilliant. Every woman knows how to do the weirdest thing right out of the bucket. Every woman knows how to do that Hindu head wrap with the towel out of the shower. A typhoon couldn't blow that thing off their heads. Ever try to do that? You look like a drunk Iraqi soldier.

  Tim Allen

  Blow, Soldier, Trying

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• Creationists use facts the same way a drunk uses a lightpost: for support instead of illumination

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Illumination, Support, Use

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• When most people get drunk, they see snakes. But, when snakes get drunk, they see Jake Roberts!

  Jerry Lawler

  Snakes, People, Jake

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• ... Wild Bill had his faults, grievous ones, perhaps ... He would get drunk, gamble, and indulge in the general licentiousness characteristic of the border in the early days, yet even when full of the vile libel of the name of whiskey which was dealt over the bars at exorbitant prices, he was gentle as a child, unless aroused to anger by intended insults. ... He was loyal in his friendship, generous to a fault, and invariably espoused the cause of the weaker against the stronger one in a quarrel.

  Jack Crawford

  Children, Names, Indulge In

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• Nonfiction brought me back to earth and sobered me up whenever it seemed like I'd become too drunk on the lives and loves of imaginary people, but that doesn't mean it was any less thrilling or transporting, although it was often more illuminating.

  Laura Miller

  Life And Love, Mean, People

  "Salon’s What to Read Awards: Top critics choose the best books of 2013". www.salon.com. December 27, 2013.

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• I would like a wine. The purpose of the wine is to get me drunk. A bad wine will get me as drunk as a good wine. I would like the good wine. And since the result is the same no matter which wine I drink, I'd like to pay the bad wine price.

  Steve Martin

  Wine, Purpose, Pay

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• The only person more cynical than a drunk is a reformed drunk.

  James Crumley

  Cynical, Persons

  James Crumley (2016). “The Wrong Case”, p.37, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• Human nature is like a drunk peasant. Lift him into the saddle on one side, over he topples on the other side.

  Martin Luther

  Sides, Human Nature, Saddles

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• The typical computer network isn't like a house with windows, doors, and locks. It's more like a gauze tent encircled by a band of drunk teenagers with lit matches.

  Robert David Steele

  Teenager, Doors, House

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• I mean, why on earth (outside sickness and hangovers) aren't people continually drunk? I want ecstasy of the mind all the time.

  Jack Kerouac

  Hangover, Mean, People

  Jack Kerouac (1999). “Selected Letters, 1957-1969”, Viking Adult

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• The spirit he has shown has been second to none. 
  (on Terry Fenwick's drunk-driving charge)

  Terry Venables

  England, Spirit, Driving

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• I'm pretty drunk and bored with yelling at the stone walls that are your minds.

  Doug Stanhope

  Wall, Yelling, Bored

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• You're born absolutely free except for laws of nature, if you drink you get drunk, that's a law, if you get old you die, that's a law too; if you sit on a tack you will bleed from the ass, these are the only laws that you're born with.

  Doug Stanhope

  Law, Ass, Drink

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• I'm just funnier when I'm drunk. Not falling-down drunk, just drunk enough to lose the self-doubt.

  Doug Stanhope

  Fall, Self, Doubt

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• When you're not 21, it's great to drink because you're not allowed to. You're a rebel: you gotta get a fake I.D., you gotta find a place to drink it, you gotta sneak in drunk. And if you get away with all that, you're laying in bed, your heart's pounding, you got vomit on your chin. You're like, 'I'm a rebel!' And you are. You're cool.

  Greg Fitzsimmons

  Heart, Sneak In, Fake

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• I'd love to be a woman for one day of my life... God... I would be drunk with power.

  Bill Engvall

  One Day, Would Be

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• I swear to you, I am the cheapest drunk on the planet. It takes nothing to get me loopy and doing stupid stuff. Yeah. Some of you like that? Well... like riding an electric floor buffer for a shot of tequila. Did it!

  Bill Engvall

  Stupid, Riding, Stuff

  "Bill Engvall: Here's Your Sign Live". www.imdb.com. 2004.

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