Drunk Quotes - Page 38

• Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Inspiring, Fear, Simple

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “Three Novels: Tender is the Night; The Beautiful and Damned; Thi”, p.112, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm not a drunk anymore, but since they cut out my tongue, I sound drunk.

  Eddie Van Halen

  Cutting, Sound, Tongue

  "Edward Van Halen Is Alive" by David Curcurito, www.esquire.com. May 2012.

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• A drunk driver is very dangerous. So is a drunk backseat driver if he's persuasive.

  Demetri Martin

  Persuasive, Dangerous, Backseat Drivers

  "Comedy Central Presents/ Demetri Martin". www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• Bill Clinton sitting on Air Force One getting his hair cut while people around the country cooled their heels and waited for him, became a metaphor for a populist president who had gotten drunk with the perks of his own power and was sort of, you know, not sensitive to what people wanted.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Country, Cutting, Hair

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• My doctor tells me I should start slowing it down - but there are more old drunks than there are old doctors so let's all have another round.

  Willie Nelson

  Doctors, Should, Rounds

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• I have a responsibility, and it's something that I did wrong, and if I could personally apologize to every single person that has lost a loved one from drunk driving I would.

  Nicole Richie

  Responsibility, Apologizing, Driving

  "Madden, Pregnancy Made Richie Change Her Ways". Interview with Diane Sawyer, abcnews.go.com. August 2, 2007.

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• Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators.

  Will Rogers

  Inspiration, Political Will, Aliens

  Daily Telegram number 2678 on March 06, 1935. "Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Roosevelt years, 1933-1935". Book edited by Steven Gragert and James Smallwood, 2008.

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• There's a joke in economics about the drunk who loses his keys in the street but only looks for them under the lightposts. When asked why, he says, 'because that's where the light is.' That's the problem with the deficit.

  Christina Romer

  Light, Keys, Looks

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• If the world were a bar, America would currently be the angry drunk waving around a loaded gun. Yeah, the other people in the bar may be afraid of him, but they sure as hell don't respect him.

  Wil Wheaton

  Respect, Gun, America

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

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• Pull a string, a puppet moves ... each man must realize that it can all disappear very quickly: the cat, the woman, the job, the front tire, the bed, the walls, the room; all our necessities including love, rest on foundations of sand - and any given cause, no matter how unrelated: the death of a boy in Hong Kong or a blizzard in Omaha ... can serve as your undoing. all your chinaware crashing to the kitchen floor, your girl will enter and you'll be standing, drunk, in the center of it and she'll ask: my god, what's the matter? and you'll answer: I don't know, I don't know.

  Charles Bukowski

  Girl, Jobs, Wall

  Charles Bukowski, “Pull A String, A Puppet Moves”

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• When I am introduced as someone from New Orleans, people sometimes say: "I'm so sorry." New Orleans. I'm so sorry. That's not the way it was before,not the way it's supposed to be. When people find out you're from New Orleans, they're supposed to tell you about how they got drunk there once, or fell in love there, or first heard the music there that changed their lives. At worst people would say: "I've always wanted to go there." But now, it's just: "I'm sorry." Man, that kills me. That just kills me.

  Chris Rose

  Sorry, Men, New Orleans

  Chris Rose (2015). “1 Dead in Attic: After Katrina”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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• Lessee...he'd gone off after the funeral and gotten drunk. No, not drunk, another word, ended with "er." Drunker. that was it.

  Terry Pratchett

  Funeral, Gone

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• whats here a cup closed in my true loves hand poisin i see hath been his timeless end. oh churl drunk all and left no friendly drop to help me after. i will kiss thy lips some poisin doth hang on them, to help me die with a restorative. thy lips are warm. yea noise then ill be brief oh happy dagger this is thy sheath. there rust and let me die.

  William Shakespeare

  Kissing, Hands, Friendly

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• With wine, poetry, or virtue as you choose. But get drunk.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Wine, Virtue, You Choose

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• Daytime television, you can tell who’s watching by the three kinds of commercials. Either it’s clinics for drying out drunks. Or it’s law firms who want to settle injury suits. Or it’s schools offering mail-order vocational degrees to make you a bookkeeper. A private detective. Or a locksmith. If you’re watching daytime television, this is your new demographic. You’re a drunk. Or a cripple. Or an idiot.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  School, Offering, Order

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• My lips got lost on the way to the kiss - that's how drunk I was.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Kissing, Way

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• He looked into the crowd for approval, saw his mother and father. He waved and they waved back. Smiles and Indian teeth. They were both drunk. Everything familiar and welcome. Everything beautiful.

  Sherman Alexie

  Beautiful, Mother, Father

  Sherman Alexie (2013). “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven”, p.107, Open Road Media

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• While he was drunk asleep, or in his rage, or in the incestuous pleasure of his bed.

  William Shakespeare

  Bed, Rage, Pleasure

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Richard Farmer, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.381

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• He wanted all to lie in an ecstasy of peace; I wanted all to sparkle and dance in a glorious jubilee. I said his heaven would be only half alive; and he said mine would be drunk: I said I should fall asleep in his; and he said he could not breathe in mine.

  Emily Bronte

  Lying, Fall, Heaven

  Emily Bronte “Wuthering Heights”, Lulu.com

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• And so tonight we're going to make the lie true, and when that's done, I'll bring the liquor back here and we'll get drunk together, here, tonight, in this place that death has come into...

  Tennessee Williams

  Lying, Together, Tonight

  Tennessee Williams (2004). “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof”, p.173, New Directions Publishing

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• Everyone danced -- sweaty bodies packed tight, drunk with sound.

  Holly Black

  Sound, Body

  Holly Black (2012). “Tithe”, p.146, Simon and Schuster

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• Keith was just bringing the glass to his lips when Adrian said, "Mmm. O positive, my favorite." Keith sprayed out the wine he'd just drunk and promptly started coughing. I was relieved that none got on me. jill burst into giggles, and Clarence stared at his glass wonderingly. "Is it? I thought it was a cabernet sauvignon." "So it is," said Adrian, straight-faced. "My mistake.

  Richelle Mead

  Mistake, Wine, Glasses

  Richelle Mead (2011). “Bloodlines”, p.113, Penguin

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• After all, it was never Darnay he quoted, only Sydney, drunk and wrecked and dissipated. Sydney, who died for love.

  Cassandra Clare

  Died, Sydney

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Prince”, p.173, Simon and Schuster

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• Let us have wine and woman, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda water the day after. Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; The best of life is but intoxication: Glory, the grape, love, gold, in these are sunk The hopes of all men, and of every nation; Without their sap, how branchless were the trunk Of life's strange tree, so fruitful on occasion: But to return--Get very drunk; and when You wake with head-ache, you shall see what then.

  Lord Byron

  Laughter, Wine, Men

  'Don Juan' (1819-24) canto 2, st. 179

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• I can do this, I tell myself firmly. I can be attracted to him. It's just a matter of self control and possibly also getting very drunk. So I lift my glass and take several huge gulps. I can feel the bubbles surging into my head, singing happily "I'm going to be a millionaire's wife! I'm going to be a millionaire's wife!" And when I look back at Tarquin, he already looks a bit more attractive. Alcohol is obviously going to be the key to our marital status.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Glasses, Self, Keys

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