“I do sing about drinking, but it's in a party way. I don't sing about drinking in a drowning-my-sorrows way, like in George Jones's "If Drinking Don't Kill Me (Her Memory Will)."” IfsWayMemoriesPartySorrowDrinkingKill MeDrowningGeorge Jones Author:Kenny Chesney
“I don't really drink before a show. That's my only drinking rule. Especially with today's cell-phone cameras, there's no win to it.” ShowsTodayWinningDrinkCamerasDrinkingPhonesCellsCell Phone Author:Kenny Chesney
“There is an idea that you can take the spiritual teachings of a religion outside of a religion and practice them; these ideas are brought forward. That appears to be easy. You can say, "Oh, well. I don't have to bother about not eating pork, and not drinking wine, and all you have to do is read the beautiful poetry of Rumi and talk about wine, women and song. Or something like that." This kind of attitude. This is the antipode of the other attitude which says Islam is nothing but throwing bombs, it has nothing to do with internal or inward purification.” WellsKindIdeasBeautifulSpiritualSongEasyAttitudePracticeTeachingEatingWineDrinkingIslamBotherBombsInternalsThrowingInwardPorkPurificationOh WellDrinking WineSpiritual TeachingBeautiful PoetryAntipodes Author:Seyyed Hossein Nasr
“When the movies first started, audiences were dumbstruck to see actresses walking around in evening gowns. They'd never seen anything like that. They wanted to be like those actors and actresses, so the movies informed their behavior. A lot of people started drinking martinis and smoking cigarettes because they felt it was cool.” PeopleFirstsWantedActorsFeltAudienceWalkingBehaviorDrinkingActressesEveningSmokingCigaretteGownsMartiniSmoking CigarettesActors And ActressesEvening Gowns Author:Bette Midler
“Phil [Wood] was very passionate. Very committed. He felt very blessed that the people that cared about him and took him aside... if he was out of line or drinking too much, being too surly.” PeopleIfsFeltLinesToo MuchBlessedDrinkingPassionateCommittedWoodsSurlyDrinking Too Much Author:Jon Gordon
“If I started drinking again, there would be a lot of people bringing me pot because I can't handle alcohol. I just am not a good drinker. I get a little alcohol in me and I start trying to change the world, and that's not good. A lot of people are the same way. So that's why I don't drink anymore.” PeopleIfsWorldWayTryingLittlesI CanWould BeDrinkDrinkingAlcoholHandleChanging The WorldPotBecause I CanDrinkersTrying To Change Author:Willie Nelson
“The movies that I do are in love with cinema, and I try to show that I am in love with cinema. I want them to be, in other ways, drinking from other sources.” WayWantTryingShowsSourceDrinkingCinema Author:Guillermo del Toro
“Sleep is critical to me... at least eight or nine hours a night. I start to slow down my body and my mind at least 30 minutes before I get into bed. I don't watch any disturbing or invigorating TV at night. I also get energy from meditation practice and from eating healthy fresh food, only one cup of espresso in the morning, and not drinking too much.” MindBodyNightEnergyHoursSleepWatchesPracticeMorningToo MuchMeditationMinutesTvsHealthyBedEatingDrinkingEightCriticalNineCupsSlow DownDisturbingMeditation PracticeInvigoratingEspressoFresh FoodEating HealthyDrinking Too Much Author:Jane Fonda
“Some of us have such incredible things that can keep us from acting. We have the luxury of drinking such good wine, and having such good information at our fingertips. I can look up anything on my computer. And I can call any friend at the drop of a hat on my cell phone. And I can have beautiful clothing and great food in a world where people are being tortured. I have some responsibility for that.” PeopleWorldLooksI CanBeautifulActingResponsibilityInformationComputerWineDrinkingIncrediblesPhonesLuxuryCellsLook UpHatsClothingsCell PhoneFingertipsGood WineGreat FoodGood Information Author:Dar Williams
“When I became an adult, I had absolutely nothing against drinking alcohol. Many of my friends drank. I would often make wine and offer it, but I never sat down and drank it myself. That affect my religious practice.” ReligiousPracticeOffersMy FriendsAdultsDown AndWineDrinkingAlcoholSatDrankAbsolutely NothingDrinking AlcoholReligious Practices Author:David C. Driskell
“When I first arrived to Congress in 1975, I would spend several hours every week with Republicans - having lunch, drinking a beer. But by the time I left last year, that was a rarity. Every moment of free time is eaten up by fundraising. And the advent of all these groups that can threaten passage of this or that with an avalanche of money or a primary opponent has poisoned our politics.” MomentsHoursWeekRepublicanDrinkingBeerAdventRarity Author:Tom Harkin
“My first attempt at real music was when I was 13. My first signed band was when I was 21; that failed. I got another deal at 26; that failed, and then I was broke. I imagine trying to handle this head-trip of an experience when I was younger - it would have just turned into too much, probably.We all go through ups and downs with drinking, and In think it would have probably been a lot worse had I experienced that before.” ThinkingTryingRealImagineDrinkingBrokeUps & Downs Author:Aaron Bruno
“The only thing worse for smoking than drinking is quitting drinking. Because then it's the only thing you can do.” DrinkingQuittingSmokingQuit Drinking Author:Jay McInerney
“Here's what I think: the best author photo ever taken is the author photo of you holding your extra-large engulfing rabbit and looking straight at the camera. I never hope to have one so good. The only way I guess it could be any more literary is if the rabbit were smoking a Gauloise and drinking a tiny cup of coffee.” ThinkingTakenDrinkingCoffeeSmokingCoffee Cup Author:Patricia Lockwood
“The "natural" instincts when someone is going through a breakup are counterintuitive to healing. For instance, many people stop eating or eat very unhealthy, and if your body is not fed the necessary nutrients during this trying time, it's extremely difficult for you to heal emotionally. So, first things first, force yourself to eat, even if that entails drinking green smoothies so you're getting nutrients in your body.” PeopleTryingDifficultNaturalHealingEatingDrinkingInstinctHealBreakup Author:Amy Chan
“Tequila is my drink. It is my favorite alcohol, my favorite liquor because, you know, it's a stimulant and not a depressant. If I go to a party and everyone's been drinking and I don't have time to really "catch up" - I'm not trying to get drunk but I want to feel good - I drink tequila.” TryingPartyDrinkDrinkingMy FavoriteAlcoholFeel GoodDrunkLiquorTequila Author:Mike Colter
“I think it just has to do with getting older and getting better at what it was I was doing, and that I could take something small and kind of take my time with it. I think actually what that has to do with is I quit drinking. Before that I told myself I could only drink if I was - if I was writing, I had to be drinking. So I was on a timer, because eventually you get too drunk to write.” ThinkingWritingKindDrinkDrinkingQuittingDrunkGet BetterGetting OldGetting OlderI QuitQuit Drinking Author:David Sedaris
“I love wine, I love wine reps, I love everything about the drinking world. In fact, as a recovering alcoholic, I adore the drinking world. I can't participate in it any longer and the only thing I don't like are people who don't listen to the words that are coming out of someone else's mouth. Which is why I try very hard to listen to the words that are coming out of someone's mouth.” PeopleWorldTryingWineDrinkingAdore Author:Andrew Zimmern
“I started drinking in my late teen years and continued through college and into the early years of my career. I had a lot of missed opportunities because of not being able to handle my liquor, things like bad shows. But mostly what precipitated it was how it was contributing to my mental health breaking down. Alcohol and depression don't mix very well as I'm sure you know, it makes everything worse. I hit a point where I knew that if I kept drinking it wouldn't go very well.” OpportunityCollegeMental HealthDrinkingAlcoholBreaking DownLiquorMissed Opportunity Author:Marissa Nadler
“I think when you're drinking you don't have the clarity to think about things. It's not easy to talk about obviously but I think quitting drinking was one of the most important decisions I've ever made for myself. It's not easy, especially when I'm touring and everyone is partying and I'm backstage playing Scrabble or drawing in my notebook because I'm a total nerd now.” ThinkingImportantEasyDecisionPartyDrinkingQuittingClarityNerdNotebookQuit Drinking Author:Marissa Nadler
“In Sharia, nobody will be able to sell pork publicly. Nobody will be drinking alcohol. Pornography will be banned. Gambling will be banned. In terms of the economy, the wealth which is not tangible, either good or deficit, things like insurance, pension, stocks, shares, etc., they will be prohibited because you're supposed to deal with things, which are goods, which you can see, which you can trade with.” TermWealthEconomyShareTradeDrinkingAlcoholPornographyPension Author:Anjem Choudary
“We warn our children and grandchildren about peer pressure. We want them to say no to the vices of the world: drinking, drugs, and other destructive behaviors. But as we move from childhood to adulthood, we find the peer pressure changes. Daniel 3:2 notes "the satraps, the administrators, the governors, the counselors, the treasurers, the judges, the magistrates, and all the officials of the provinces" were there. I'm sure more than one of them thought they needed to keep their job with all of its benefits. Not much has changed in two-and-a-half millennia.” WorldChildrenMovingChildhoodChangedJudgingDrugBehaviorOur ChildrenDrinkingAdulthoodGrandchildrenPeer PressureChildren And Grandchildren Author:O. S. Hawkins
“The reality is that living digitally rewires our brains for perpetual motion, shallow surface thinking, and compulsive/addictive behaviors. Because our world is only going to become more tech-driven with each passing day, unless we find ways to counterbalance these detrimental effects, we'll remain spiritual babes, drinking milk for the rest of our lives instead of the solid food God has for us.” ThinkingWorldRealitySpiritualBrainBehaviorDrinkingShallow Author:Tricia Rhodes
“A woman needs her privacy while drinking a dirty Belvedere martini on the rocks with a splash of Tabasco.” DrinkingDirtyPrivacyMartini Author:Lake Bell
“Drinking and taking drugs. I think there was also a sort of druggie or trance-like nature to the way that I used sex as a child.” ThinkingChildrenDrugDrinking Author:Claire Dederer
“Drinking and drugging make it so your reality flies away from you. Your body and your mind are not present. I loved that feeling as a kid. For me, the strongest way to have that feeling was love and sex. Not only did I enjoy it - that feeling of being transported - but because I was so boy-identified, first as a tomboy and then as a girl who liked to sleep with boys.” MindFeelingsRealityKidsGirlEnjoySleepBoysDrinkingFly Away Author:Claire Dederer
“I'm going to keep drinking on stage. I have a pretty healthy relationship with alcohol. I know how far to go and when to stop.” HealthyDrinkingAlcohol Author:Matt Berninger
“Writers often have a 'drunk' that is different than anyone else's. That's why it's so insidious and so damning. First of all, because they can write when they're drinking - or they think they can. A lot of writers will tell me - and this is the latest one I've heard - you drink while you're thinking about what to write, but when you actually write, you sober up.” ThinkingWritingDifferentDrinkDrinkingSober Author:Debra Winger
“I'll look through a script, and if there's a lot of night shooting I tend not to want to do it. If there's huge party scenes and I'll go through a few pages and say "Well, at least I'm not in this," then the last page my character walks in and says something, I say, "Uh oh, that's going to be three days on the set sitting around drinking coffee at the craft-service table." Unless it's a great part. All in all if it's a great part you'll do it and I'll say, "Well, I'm gonna be on the set for three days."” CharacterNightPartySceneDrinkingCoffee Author:Fred Willard
“I don't think it's something that people would ask a man. Some people make a huge deal out of the fact that I sing about drinking all the time, but I don't think of it as singing about drinking. It's singing about emotions, and sometimes that centers around drinking. To me, I'm writing about things that I'm going through that mean something to me, but some people just reduce it to: "She must drink all the time." But if a guy sings about that sort of thing, no one really looks twice.” PeopleThinkingMenWritingMeanSometimesGuyEmotionDrinkSingingDrinking Author:Lydia Loveless
“I was just staying home and getting stoned and drinking. It was a pretty rough period. I think that's kind of the whole theme of Indestructible Machine, how when you have social anxiety, you can sort of convince yourself that you've gotten over it by drinking a bottle of whiskey, but once you sober up you're still terrified of everything. Hence you're treating your body like it will never die. I think I have gotten better, just from touring so much, but I still definitely have the skittish nature.” ThinkingKindHomeAnxietyDrinkingConvinceOver ItRoughSoberWhiskeySocial Anxiety Author:Lydia Loveless
“I never had the idea of moving to Paris and becoming something. I liked the idea of living in Paris because it seemed to have so many parts of life I really enjoyed. The people there seemed to prize literature and art, food and drinking, a more hedonistic way of living. My ambition was to be cosmopolitan. I grew up in the suburbs. I went to college in Maine. I had a dream in my head that if you wanted to be the most urbane, living-life-to-the-fullest kind of person, Paris was the place to be.” PeopleKindArtDreamMovingLiteratureCollegeAmbitionDrinkingPrizeMy AmbitionI Had A Dream Author:Rosecrans Baldwin
“Sociopaths are not inhibited by the notion that it's wrong to be addicted, or wrong to buy illegal drugs. Also, drinking or taking drugs can be a lot of fun, and even if it's not, it can dull that painful boredom for a while. So can certain other things, like taking risks, and particularly if you take a risk-averse person and you can manipulate him or her into taking risks, that's really fun.” FunRiskDrugDrinkingPainfulBoredomManipulateTaking RisksSociopath Author:Martha Stout
“I write songs by sitting around in bars, so drinking songs are a little obvious. It's surprising that I don't write entirely drinking songs, since I am, in fact, drinking while writing the song. Drinking and love are the two principal sources of pleasure outside of music. There's only so many sources of pleasure, really. That's about it. Well, there are other arts as well. But none of them are as pleasurable as music, on a physical level.” WritingArtSongPleasureDrinkingObvious Author:Stephin Merritt
“Drink water, drink tea. I find that if I drink tea I can make myself think that it's something special, because you know how you just really want a glass of wine at the end of the day? So sometimes I can really want a glass of wine but talk myself into believing that tea is as nice, and that's one thing to do to be nice to your skin. Actually, two things: you're not have the wine and you're drinking water. Also just working out. All the things you do to be healthy in your life help your skin.” ThinkingBelieveSometimesHelpingWaterNiceSpecialDrinkHealthySkinsWineDrinkingWork OutTeaBeing NiceDrinking WaterWine GlassDrink Water Author:Jennifer Garner
“I don't know if enjoy is the right word for alcohol. I like to drink, but I don't like enforced social drinking. When I don't wanna drink, I don't wanna drink. I haven't had a desire to drink for four months. When I think of the taste of it, no desire. The trouble is the wines I love I can barely afford, which is a great method to cut down on your drinking: Drink only what you can't afford.” ThinkingDesireEnjoyCuttingTroubleDrinkWineDrinkingAlcohol Author:Nick Tosches
“I think the tendency with parents is to make your kid not unlike the next kid but to overprotect and say, "My way's better than whatever you've got in mind." But by the time that tie's over that shoulder and they're drinking that obligatory brewski with the boys, it's like, Man, who are you people?” PeopleThinkingMenMindKidsParentBoysDrinking Author:Nick Tosches
“Méret's Oppenheim art was aesthetically beautiful. Drinking champagne and eating a cherry off some tits, this is no big deal really.” ArtBeautifulEatingDrinking Author:Rebecca Horn
“Fashion, at modern time, was actually a way for women to go out in the world. There was one painting of a woman sitting at a café, drinking a beer by herself and kind of pretending to read but really watching people, that sort of thing. It fascinated me.” PeopleWorldKindModernFashionPaintingDrinkingBeerPretending Author:Kim Gordon
“Doctors are taught in medical school that people ususally underreport their alcohol and drug use, so we genreal double the amount we're told. Don't be insulted if your doctor asks follow-up questions about yout drinking. We're trying to be diligent so we don't miss an alcohol or drug disorfer that could be amenable to treatment.” PeopleTryingSchoolMissingDrugDrinkingAlcoholMedicalInsultedMedical School Author:Danielle Ofri
“I just love to play music. I enjoy it more than anything. I enjoy it more than drinking with my friends in the pub. I'd much prefer to be playing live and playing the piano - playing is one of the most enjoyable things I do and I live for it. So it's very rare that I'd not be up for it. I'm very lucky to have something that I love so much; I don't know what I'd do without it.” EnjoyLuckyDrinkingEnjoyable Author:Tom Odell
“Originally I had a fear of rejection at the auditions, which is a lack of self-confidence ultimately. Now I have a production company and when you can look behind the scenes at the casting process, you know it's not about rejection. It might have been the most amazing performance ever, but if the person is too tall, too short, too brown, too white, has blond hair or whatever it is, then not getting the gig may have nothing to do with the performance. You have to learn to treat auditioning as matter-of-factly as drinking a glass of water.” WaterSceneDrinkingRejectionToo ShortMost Amazing Author:Kurt Yaeger
“For 13 years I have been teaching my daughter and talking to her to have faith in her God, to have faith in her family, to trust herself, to be in control and in charge of her body. Same thing for my son. Hopefully, you keep that in mind as you make decisions in life, whether it's consent, whether it's drinking, whether it's running naked across the quad in college, whatever it is!” MindRunningDecisionTeachingCollegeSonDaughterDrinkingHopefullyMy DaughterMy SonHave Faith Author:Chris Harrison
“The drinking was getting way out of control. I just didn't recognize myself anymore. I didn't know what I was doing or where I was. I always had to have some drinks with me in my bag. Just waking up shaking and then having Bloody Marys on your own, first thing in the morning-I started to feel really pathetic about it. So I was like, "I can't live like this." It was just this really awful feeling of becoming a totally different person and not being able to control it at all. Then I tried to not drink, but that didn't work. So I figured I should just go to rehab.” DifferentFeelingsDrinkWake UpDrinkingBloodyPatheticShaking Author:Lara Stone
“With this job, always traveling on the plane and everything, I thought it would be really difficult to quit drinking on my own because you're always in situations where it's acceptable to have drinks. So I decided right after a show that I was going to go into treatment. I Googled a bunch of places, and I found this place that I went to in Cape Town, South Africa, called Stepping Stones. I stayed there for a month. It was really difficult-lots of talking and crying.” DifficultSituationCryDrinkDrinkingQuittingSouth AfricaQuit Drinking Author:Lara Stone
“Stop drinking was the best thing I've done in my entire life. I'm so happy I did that.” DoneDrinking Author:Lara Stone
“I eat for a living, so working out is definitely part of my job, the same way that the eating, tasting, and drinking is. I try to keep up a consistent workout routine, but I'm not the kind of person who goes to the gym every day and does the same routine.” TryingKindEatingDrinkingWork OutConsistentGymWorkout Author:Gail Simmons
“I was a barfly, so going to work and acting and rehearsing and then going and sitting in a bar and drinking and then going home was sort of my lifestyle. And there was none of that out here in the '70s when I was lucky enough to get movies, and nobody else that I knew was working in movies at that point. I didn't really have a lot of movie friends.” EnoughHomeActingLuckyDrinkingLifestyleGoing To WorkGoing Home Author:John Heard
“Stories about sensitive issues like sex, drugs or sexual assault, suicide and teen drinking, are often censored because people just don't want to talk about those things. It's not that these things don't happen, but when they're shared in a fictional setting, for some reason they make some people uncomfortable.” PeopleReasonDrugSuicideDrinkingUncomfortableSensitive Author:Jay Asher
“When I have a cocktail, I love a vodka and cranberry. But when I was a kid my mother was really against drinking, because it was so bad for your skin. She'd say, "Stephanie, it's much better to wash your face with vodka."” KidsMotherSkinsDrinkingYour FaceVodka Author:Stephanie Seymour