#alcohol

If I have a near-beer, I’m near beer. And if I’m near beer, I’m close to tequila. And if I’m close to tequila, I’m adjacent to cocaine. ↗

— Craig Ferguson

#beer #cocaine #drinking #drugs #tequila

That's what was wrong with drinking too much. You became immune to drunken delights. There was no solace in liquor. Before you got happy, you collapsed. ↗

— Richard Matheson

#alcohol

It did occur to me that the effect of good literature may be as dizzying as that of alcohol. ↗

— Pamela Dean

#reading #alcohol

If I hadn't become a celebrity, I'd probably be an alcoholic. ↗

— Paul Lynde

#become #celebrity #hadn #i #probably

When I drank, I had a very different attitude towards my playing. It was sloppier but I kind of liked it that way. It was like the alcohol was telling my mind what to do. ↗

— Mick Mars

#attitude #different #different attitude #drank #had

Addiction should never be treated as a crime. It has to be treated as a health problem. We do not send alcoholics to jail in this country. Over 500,000 people are in our jails who are nonviolent drug users. ↗

— Ralph Nader

#alcoholics #country #crime #health #health problem

I am a recovering alcoholic. ↗

— Patrick J. Kennedy

#am #i #i am #recovering

Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#anyway #causes #even #fundamental #greed

I don't know of any issues associated with alcohol before flight. ↗

— Ellen Ochoa

#any #associated #before #flight #i

The centuries last passed have also given the taste important extension; the discovery of sugar, and its different preparations, of alcoholic liquors, of wine, ices, vanilla, tea and coffee, have given us flavors hitherto unknown. ↗

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

#also #centuries #coffee #different #discovery