#sober

All the mistakes I've ever made in my life have been when I've been drunk. I haven't made hardly any mistakes sober, ever, ever. ↗

— Tracey Emin

#been #drunk #ever #hardly #haven

If you like to read, sometimes it's interesting just to go and see what the reality is, of the word, of the seedy or not so seedy fiction writer, the drunk or sober poet... Sometimes you can go looking for illumination. ↗

— Harold Brodkey

#fiction #fiction writer #go #illumination #interesting

I got sober. I stopped killing myself with alcohol. I began to think: 'Wait a minute - if I can stop doing this, what are the possibilities?' And slowly it dawned on me that it was maybe worth the risk. ↗

— Craig Ferguson

#began #dawned #doing #got #i

I remember talking to someone early on after I was sober about how I suddenly felt awkward at parties. They said, 'Well, you're supposed to. Everyone feels awkward at parties.' It's an appropriate feeling to feel. ↗

— Craig Ferguson

#after #appropriate #awkward #early #everyone

I think I'm better than I was in my younger days, because I'm exploring deep lyrical material, and I've been sober for a while now. ↗

— Glenn Hughes

#been #better #days #deep #exploring

You know, in the beginning when your first payroll comes up and you have to borrow money to meet the payroll, you lose sleep the night before, and you say to yourself real fast, 'Well, maybe I should keep working a couple more years. It's sobering. ↗

— Bill Kurtis

#beginning #borrow #comes #couple #fast

What, when drunk, one sees in other women, one sees in Garbo sober. ↗

— Kenneth Tynan

#garbo #other #sees #sober #women

A sobering thought: what if, at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential? ↗

— Jane Wagner

#full #i #i am #living #moment

The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#drunk #men #sober #some #some men

Money, again, has often been a cause of the delusion of the multitudes. Sober nations have all at once become desperate gamblers, and risked almost their existence upon the turn of a piece of paper. ↗

— Charles Mackay

#almost #become #been #cause #delusion