Alcoholics Quotes · Page 4

I don't like the word 'alcoholic'. I like to think of myself as an advanced drinker.

— Chelsea Handler

Like many alcoholics, I was a staggering woman in a chic apartment, sick and utterly disgusting.

— Mercedes McCambridge

“An alcoholic is dependent on alcohol. Alcohol is dependent on the bottle.”

— Tamerlan Kuzgov

Alcoholics are utterly dear one minute, but there is also a blanket hatred with which you cannot reason.

— Sheila Hancock

Note to self-give serious thought to becoming an alcoholic.

— Jill Shalvis

Talk of fighting Tyson is a little premature. I'm an addict and an alcoholic

— Michael Dokes

I am a vegetarian as well as a passionate anti-alcoholic, because I can thus make better use of my brain.

— Thomas A. Edison

“I'm not an alcoholic, I am freedom fighter against the teetotal taliban.”

— Al Murray

Delirium tremens in a drunk alcoholic are an unmistakable symptom, but those intoxicated with theories are easily mistaken for geniuses.

— Samael Aun Weor

When I was a practicing alcoholic, I was unbelievable. One side effect was immense suspicion: I'd come off tour like Inspector Clouseau…

— Ozzy Osbourne

If you measure your happiness by the amount of liquid you have in your glass, you are either a cliché or an…

— Caprice Crane

When I finally embraced abstinence it was because of the simple urge to work a longer day. Thus, without joining Alcoholics Anonymous,…

— Clive James

The only thing I'm addicted to is winning. This bootleg cult, arrogantly referred to as Alcoholics Anonymous, reports a 5 percent success…

— Charlie Sheen

Managers are to information as alcoholics are to booze. They consume enormous amounts, constantly crave more, but have great difficulty in digesting…

— Robert Heller

It is useless for alcoholics to worry about the future, for there will soon be no future for them to worry about.

— Vikrant Parsai

If you're unlucky enough not to have alcoholic parents, it takes you a whole lifetime of intoxication to overcome the dead weight…

— Emile M. Cioran

My mother was a professional sick person; she took a lot of pain pills. There are many people like that. It's just…

— Jim Carrey

I hated Hollywood. It’s a town without pity. Only success counts. I know of no other place in the world where so…

— Grace Kelly

I started drinking when I was like 15, and by the time I was 19 everybody knew I was an alcoholic. So…

— Felipe Esparza

“Meetings are the Hail Marys of alcoholics. You can do or almost do anything, feel anything, commit any number of non-sober atrocities,…

— Augusten Burroughs

What's the difference between bulimics and anorexics?" I ask. "Anorexics are anorexics all the time," she says, "I'm only bulimic when I'm…

— Sherman Alexie

It must never be forgotten that the purpose of Alcoholics Anonymous is to sober up alcoholics. There is no religious or spiritual…

— Bill W

The alcohol was awful. I was a terrible alcoholic. I mean, people used to ask how much drugs I did. I said,…

— Dennis Hopper

I wasn't involved in anything. I wasn't out - you know, I know I wasn't in ACT UP. I wasn't with Larry…

— Elton John

I think the warning labels on alcoholic beverages are too bland. They should be more vivid. Here are a few I would…

— George Carlin

The idea that the creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time. ...…

— Stephen King

It takes a lot of time to be a good junkie or alcoholic - you spend hours getting the necessary supplies, then…

— Joshua Mohr

“AA purports to be open to anyone, as it is stated in Tradition Tree, "The only requirement for AA membership is a…

— Chris Prentiss

“The reason the program is so successful is because alcoholics help other alcoholics. I've never met a Normie (our lingo for a…

— Anthony Kiedis

To limit yourself to a label of "alcoholic" is masochistic and false if you have awakened a deeper spiritual identity within and…

— Deepak Chopra

I really needed to dramatize and clarify that Rachel was taking strides towards her own healing and her own sobriety - and…

— Erin Cressida Wilson

My self . . . is a dramatic ensemble. Here a prophetic ancestor makes his appearance. Here a brutal hero shouts. Here…

— Paul Klee

Alcohol is a very patient drug. It will wait for the alcoholic to pick it up one more time.

— Mercedes McCambridge

I just wrote one song at a time. Kinda like an alcoholic. One day at a time.

— Neil Young

College seems like a pretty expensive way to become an alcoholic.

— Natasha Leggero

I suppose if I gave myself the chance I could be an alcoholic.

— Sylvia Plath

Montreal's not a city. It's a Disney World for alcoholics.

— Mike Wilmot

I had a 10-year heroin habit and kicked that. Then I became an alcoholic. I drank two fifth's a day.

— Stan Getz

When you live in an alcoholic family or an abusive family, you tiptoe, you don't want to step on any mines.

— Glenn Beck

I don't cook... I don't know how to clean... there's may be a good chance I'm an alcoholic.

— Chelsea Handler