“But God favors drunks, small children, and the cataclysmically stoned;” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I knew how it was with drunks. They ran out of generosity, even for themselves. — Ross MacDonald Copy Share Image
This is the big reason most humorists fail. Drunks don't read books. — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
“From behind one of the doors there came a vociferous argument going on between two drunks of indeterminate gender.” — Christa Faust Copy Share Image
My family was a bunch of drunks. When I was six I came up missing, they put my picture on a bottle… — Rodney Dangerfield Copy Share Image
When cars honk and hoot and drunks squeeze out of car windows and scream, you can be sure that football is in… — Craig Brown Copy Share Image
bringing up children was]like living with a bunch of drunks...you really have to be on your toes all the time. — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
“It is not the wine that makes us drunk, but the one who brings it and fills the glass.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
Personality must be accepted for what it is. You mustn't mind that a poet is a drunk, rather that drunks are not… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Meanwhile the 3 a.m. drunks of the world would lay in their beds, trying in vain to sleep, and deserving that rest,… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“In Russia, drunks are our kindest people. Our kindest people are also the most drunk.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
Things got so bad that when I went shopping for a house, some people would refuse to open the door if they… — Edward G. Robinson Copy Share Image
The sad fact is that the vast majority of drunks stay drunks. There's a small minority of us who reach that fork… — John Larroquette Copy Share Image
I fell down in Hyde Park with a friend who'd had a hip operation, and neither of us could get up again.… — Ava Gardner Copy Share Image
“...and of course if Andrew Keene had been on the downhill side of the Standpipe, he would have exited the world in… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“I was gazing back in the direction of Wales, watching the Prudence clone, when I noticed a couple of drunks lurching in… — Iain Sinclair Copy Share Image
“Ivy League bumblers and drunks who had once pulled the levers of secret gov't in an age of high anxiety...These were the… — Henry Bromell Copy Share Image
We were playing, not for the drunks, but for the musicians, because it was more intellectually challenging. We needed somewhere to put… — Ronnie Hawkins Copy Share Image
“Come, drunks and drug-takers; come perverts unnerved! Receive the laurel, given, though late, on merit; to whom and wherever deserved. Parochial punks,… — Louise Bogan Copy Share Image
“Admit it: you live in a straitjacket called society that’s chillingly adroit at forcing you to behave. You do what’s expected, right?… — Dave Franklin Copy Share Image
“They loved him, or loved the thought of him, what they thought he was: a man who could easily have had a… — Donal Ryan Copy Share Image
It drains the bars and cafes after hours, concentrates the wicked and the guilty along its chipped Formica counter, and thrums with… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“From Hester’s bedroom—even though the door was closed—we could hear her breathing; Hester’s breathing, when she’d been drinking, was something between a… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“These guys had names for every conceivable drinking situation. They liked to have a little eye-opener to get themselves going in the… — G.M. Ford Copy Share Image
... people are growing up in the slack flicker of a pale light which lacks the concentrated burn of a candle flame… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“All drunks, particularly those who grew up in alcoholic homes, have that same sense of angst and trepidation, one that has no… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
“A guy I worked with and I talked it over about what you do with drunks. His dad was a reformed drunk.… — Glen Cook Copy Share Image
“There is the staircase, there is the sun. There is the kitchen, the plate with toast and strawberry jam, your subterfuge, your… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I believe all drunks go to heaven, because they've been through hell on Earth. — Liza Minnelli Copy Share Image
As a work of art, it reminds me of a long conversation between two drunks — Clive James Copy Share Image