#alcohol

It did occur to me that the effect of good literature may be as dizzying as that of alcohol. ↗

— Pamela Dean

#reading #alcohol

If I hadn't become a celebrity, I'd probably be an alcoholic. ↗

— Paul Lynde

#become #celebrity #hadn #i #probably

When I drank, I had a very different attitude towards my playing. It was sloppier but I kind of liked it that way. It was like the alcohol was telling my mind what to do. ↗

— Mick Mars

#attitude #different #different attitude #drank #had

Addiction should never be treated as a crime. It has to be treated as a health problem. We do not send alcoholics to jail in this country. Over 500,000 people are in our jails who are nonviolent drug users. ↗

— Ralph Nader

#alcoholics #country #crime #health #health problem

There are hundreds of millions of gun owners in this country, and not one of them will have an accident today. The only misuse of guns comes in environments where there are drugs, alcohol, bad parents, and undisciplined children. Period. ↗

— Ted Nugent

#alcohol #bad #children #comes #country

I drank for about 25 years getting over the loss of my father and I took the anger out on myself. I did a good job at beating myself up at sometimes. I don't drink anymore but my alcoholic head occasionally says different. 'Nil By Mouth' was a love letter to my father because I needed to resolve some issues in order to be able to forgive him. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#about #alcoholic #anger #anymore #beating

There are some fine books and essays about that. Lewis Hyde has written about alcoholism and poets and the role that society gives its writers - encouraging them to die. ↗

— Sharon Olds

#alcoholism #books #die #encouraging #essays

The centuries last passed have also given the taste important extension; the discovery of sugar, and its different preparations, of alcoholic liquors, of wine, ices, vanilla, tea and coffee, have given us flavors hitherto unknown. ↗

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

#also #centuries #coffee #different #discovery

Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy. ↗

— Frank Sinatra

#bible #enemy #love #man #may

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering. ↗

— Steven Soderbergh

#always #like #lying #recovering #you