“Alcohol has its own well-know defects as a medication for depression but no one has ever suggested - ask any doctor -… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Basically I got an insight into what it really was through Alcoholics Anonymous. One day the switchboard lit up and I saw… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
“It was like a Russian party, Arkady thought. People got drunk, recklessly confessed their love, spilled their festering dislike, had hysterics, marched… — Martin Cruz Smith Copy Share Image
Men can intoxicate themselves with ideas as effectually as with alcohol or with bang and produce, be dint of serious thinking, mental… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
If I were to select a jack-booted group of fascists who are perhaps as large a danger to American society as I… — John Dingell Copy Share Image
Each campus should absolutely investigate the use of alcohol, the prevalence of alcohol, and its role in sexual assault. We know that… — Kirsten Gillibrand Copy Share Image
I want to be a bloated alcoholic. That's my goal - it is, I'm serious, because there is no other disease that… — Dom Irrera Copy Share Image
Drug prohibition has caused gang warfare and other violent crimes by raising the prices of drugs so much that vicious criminals enter… — Michael Badnarik Copy Share Image
I will never have a sip of alcohol and get behind the wheel again. Regardless if I'm 300% sure that I just… — Dak Prescott Copy Share Image
Rationally speaking, blaming one's behavior on alcohol or drugs is like blaming the ladder by which you descended into a pit, or… — Graham Joyce Copy Share Image
Every person in the AA program who's successful is living proof that he or she does have power over addictive drugs and… — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
Beer and other forms of alcohol will do you no good. Their use will be expensive, will dull your conscience, and could… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
I became alcoholic at around age of 13 or 14. I was full-blown. Every day we would hide the alcohol, stealing from… — Reginald Arvizu Copy Share Image
Experimenting with drugs, drinking, doing this just enough to be accepted as one of the crowd, but I hated drugs, and I… — Gloria Gaynor Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn't fool… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Pubs are, disturbingly, where I hatch most of my best idea-sculptures: possibly it's something to do with the disinhibiting effects of alcohol,… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
Mankind does not drink alcohol because there are breweries, distilleries, and vineyards; men brew beer, distill spirits, and grow grapes because of… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Our current drug crisis is a tragedy born of a phony system of classification. For reasons that are little more than accidents… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
I think your alcohol intake has to change. You know, usually a big person feels they can drink anything they want to… — Mike Ditka Copy Share Image
My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
For 14 years, I'd been on medication for the pinched nerve, the arthritis, the muscle spasms in my neck, and I'd lost… — Betty Ford Copy Share Image
There was a period in my life when alcohol was a good friend. Then there came a point when I realized that… — Adrian Dunbar Copy Share Image
“I have never seen anyone drink like he did. To say he drank with a vengeance is almost understating it: it was… — Yudhanjaya Wijeratne Copy Share Image
“An alcohol-free wedding reception is like masturbating for an hour without reaching orgasm. It’s fun at the beginning, but after a while… — Johnny Shaw Copy Share Image
I'm sure there have been a lot of boys I've chased over the years that has been fueled by alcohol and stupidity.… — Noel Wells Copy Share Image
It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There… — Shirley Chisholm Copy Share Image
I got sober. I stopped killing myself with alcohol. I began to think: 'Wait a minute - if I can stop doing… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
I'm a great self-doubter. I constantly need to prove myself to myself. I've never run to heroin or alcohol to hide that.… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
Whether I or anyone else accepted the concept of alcoholism as a disease didn't matter; what mattered was that when treated as… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
time stood still. I fell into that beloved space that writers fall into, the reason most write, as it's better than drugs… — Meg O'Brien Copy Share Image
'Comfy,' that's one of the worst words! I just picture a woman feeling bad, with a big bottle of alcohol, really puffy.… — Christian Louboutin Copy Share Image
“With the smell of beer I try to get the smell of death off me. And only the smell of death will… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
I don't abuse my body - I don't drink much alcohol, don't smoke and never have - but that's the same of… — Morten Harket Copy Share Image