“Drinking’s funny. When I look back on it, all of our important decisions have been figured out when we were drinking. Even when we talked about having to cut back on drinking, we’d be sitting at the kitchen table or out at the picnic table with a six-pack or whiskey.”
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (1981)
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American short story author and poet 1938–1988Related quotes
“My body is such that I remain sane even after drinking all my buddies under the table.”
Gennady Yanayev (1937–2010) USSR politician
Denying if alcohol effects any of his decision. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/politics-obituaries/8060046/Gennady-Yanayev.html
“I don't have a drinking problem ‘cept when I can't get a drink.”
Tom Waits (1949) American singer-songwriter and actor
"Bad Liver and a Broken Heart", Small Change (1976).
Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist
Source: The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes
“I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.”
Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 33.
Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes
Simon to Clary, pg. 217
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Ashes (2008)
Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Aboard the Presidential train during the journey to Fulton, Missouri (March 4, 1946); quoted in Conflict and Crisis by Robert Donovan, University of Missouri Press (1996), p. 190 ISBN 082621066X
Post-war years (1945–1955)