#alcohol

To a drinker the sensation is real and pure and akin to something spiritual: you seek; in the bottle, you find. ↗

— Caroline Knapp

#alcoholism #drinking #love

It was like a Russian party, Arkady thought. People got drunk, recklessly confessed their love, spilled their festering dislike, had hysterics, marched out, were dragged back in and revived with brandy. It wasn't a French salon. ↗

— Martin Cruz Smith

#brandy #drunkenness #party #russia #love

I would say 95% of the time, because you just can't remember your lines if you're drinking alcohol. I would say about 95% of the time it was grape juice or this fake wine, which was horrible. ↗

— Thomas Haden Church

#alcohol #because #drinking #fake #grape

My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#after #alcohol #also #before #between

But in my college years it got to the point where my friends and I didn't do anything without consuming a massive amount of alcohol before we went anywhere or did anything, and you know that. ↗

— Jim Coleman

#amount #anything #anywhere #before #college

Today, if you're not an alcoholic, you're nobody. ↗

— Dick Van Dyke

#nobody #today #you

The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent in a hitherto virgin soil. ↗

— Simone Weil

#becomes #diseases #hitherto #like #more

I'm not drunk, just a little stoned. ↗

— Gerard Way

#drugs #drunkenness #alcohol

I work very hard to keep on an even keel as far as alcohol is concerned. ↗

— Trisha Goddard

#as far as #concerned #even #far #hard

But there is no withdrawal, but with tobacco there is terrible withdrawal, it is almost impossible for a lot of people. I did , I went cold turkey, they never had any patches in those days but grass was not difficult, alcohol not difficult, but tobacco - oh my god. ↗

— Larry Hagman

#almost #any #cold #days #did