There’s an air of mystery around the Masons, but the reality is that they’re mostly a bunch of veterans getting drunk in a lodge that they’ve built to look like a temple. It’s just a bunch of guys trying to get away from their wives.
There’s a joke in economics about the drunk who loses his keys in the street but only looks for them under the lightposts. When asked why, he says, ‘because that’s where the light is.’ That’s the problem with the deficit.
I fell down in Hyde Park with a friend who’d had a hip operation, and neither of us could get up again. People must have thought we were a couple of drunks rolling around and walked on by.
Don’t you know there ain’t no devil, it’s just god when he’s drunk.
Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately and gives you a lift… The hangover comes the day after.
The fact that a player is very short of time is, to my mind, as little to be considered an excuse as, for instance, the statement of the law-breaker that he was drunk at the time he committed the crime.
If you’re stumbling out of a bar, and people tweet about it, well, don’t be dumb. If you’re going to get falling-down drunk, stay at home – which I did a lot of.
Life on the road can get a little one-dimensional. I didn’t want to reach 40 and have to say all I’d done was look out the window of a tour bus and get drunk.
I try to make myself, and subsequently the audience, as uncomfortable as possible, whether it’s completely desecrating a song they thought was one thing, or getting too drunk to really do a very good job.
‘Would I mind if someone wrote a sequel to one of my books?’ I asked myself, and I decided that I wouldn’t, providing that the writer was respectful, had read my book first, and wasn’t drunk when doing it.
I loved Jack Ford. I got him in his later days, and he was a total tyrant and a total autocrat and an Irish drunk. But I had a great time.
Bill Clinton sitting on Air Force One getting his hair cut while people around the country cooled their heels and waited for him, became a metaphor for a populist president who had gotten drunk with the perks of his own power and was sort of, you know, not sensitive to what people wanted.
I don’t want to be one of those people who falls out of cabs drunk. But I don’t want to be known as some boring girl who just sits at home and doesn’t do anything.
When cars honk and hoot and drunks squeeze out of car windows and scream, you can be sure that football is in the air.
I began imagining scenes in public which some drunk would come up to me and slap me in the face. Nothing like that ever happened, but I often wonder if I would have turned the other cheek.
I’m not a fan of reality shows, but I am a fan of people who use their brains and skills and hard work to outsmart people, not to steal someone’s man or get drunk on TV.
My primary school teacher once poured a bottle of curdled school milk forcefully down my throat. Then I threw it up all over her suede shoes. I’d rather have drunk from the spittoon in Barney’s barber shop.
Come, for my part I will have only those glorious, manly pleasures of being very drunk, and very slovenly.
I used to think if I didn’t have a drink it was going to be a rubbish night, so I’d drink purely to get drunk.
Yeah, that came out of a reading. It was great. It’s such a fun crew to be with, and we all went out the night before and that really encouraged us to go out and get drunk.
I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principle, so he won’t let himself get snotty about it.
The best audience is intelligent, well-educated and a little drunk.
Clubs are so lame. Nobody even dances at these clubs. They stand around and get drunk and they schmooze. There is no enjoyment factor.
My folks were drunks, and I had a rough childhood – really rough – in fact, rougher than I thought about.
When I played drunks I had to remain sober because I didn’t know how to play them when I was drunk.
Everyone’s drunk on the term ‘blog.’
The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
Yeah, I know, some people are against drunk driving, and I call those people ‘the cops.’ But you know, sometimes, you’ve just got no choice; those kids gotta get to school!
When you’re drunk, you always think you’re not. If you even drink at all don’t get behind the wheel.
He uses statistics like a drunk uses lamp-posts, more for support than illumination.
I don’t drink. I choose to be sober now. I have drunk over the last six years, but I just don’t want to be that person anymore.
Through everything I’ve gone through- and I’ve been everywhere, at the top of the world, in jail, hung over drunk – I never gave up my dream of winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
I know I have eaten more good food, drunk more beer and fine wine, had more friends, and seen more of the world than most men ever will.
The last thing I stole was a box of Coca Cola from a parked truck in Adelaide. I was nice and drunk. It was New Year’s Eve. And that was about 28 years ago.
I once literally had a casting director ask my agent, ‘Can she play anything other than a drunk?’
I knew how it was with drunks. They ran out of generosity, even for themselves.
Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane… There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.
I hate crowds of people pretending to be happy on one night of the year, where they get drunk and obnoxious by the end of the night.
It’s not name dropping, but not many people can say, like me, that they spent the day with the likes of Francis Bacon or that boring drunk Dylan Thomas. You don’t forget things like that.
On a Friday night in 1983, I was in a taxi in New York riding home from dinner with friends. A drunk driver ran a red light and hit the cab, and I was thrown toward the glass partition. I tried to duck, but my face hit the glass, and the impact fractured my cheekbone, my eye socket, my collarbone and several ribs.
A man is never drunk if he can lay on the floor without holding on.
Heckles always vary. I mean, some people are just drunk, and it’s nonsense, or, you know, some people just want to just repeat something I’ve said or add their own two cents about an opinion, but because of the nature of what I do and who I am, like, I also get the racist stuff, which is hard.
Social topics may hit too close to home for people, but then again, if you pull a heartstring, then that’s what country music is. It’s not just songs about getting drunk and leaving your girl.
So, after awhile, you can only get so much happiness from a guy who’s drunk come up and tell you you’re great.
I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.
An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.
I am very good at keeping secrets, except when I am drunk, when I will tell you absolutely anything.
I don’t drink and haven’t since I was younger so trying to remember what it feels like and act drunk was fun.
I attended a very small junior high and specially in the end that became a disaster. The principal was pretty senile and a drunk, so the children more or less runned the school.
When I played drunks I had to remain sober because I didn’t know how to play them when I was drunk.
The intense perfumes of the wild herbs as we trod them underfoot made us feel almost drunk.
I’ve been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.
Discover the times when you’re most creative – mornings, nights, afternoons – and clear the time to work then. Many writers find the mornings are best, and the afternoons are only good for editorial corrections, or getting the washing done. Others can only work through the night, drunk.
My dad was the town drunk. Most of the time that’s not so bad; but New York City?
Don’t be getting sloppy drunk and telling them dirty jokes.
It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk; get drunk without stopping! On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.
The sky was falling down on me and I spent most of the time drunk. It was the only way I could handle it.
I’m like the drunk in the bar who wants just one more for the road.
I met Jack Bruce, one of my heroes, in a studio while doing some recording. England had just beat Scotland in a big football match and I saw Jack trying to break into this refrigerator in the lounge, drunk out of his brain, and I didn’t know what to say.
Being sober on a bus is, like, totally different than being drunk on a bus.
I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principle, so he won’t let himself get snotty about it.
‘My country, right or wrong’ is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying ‘My mother, drunk or sober.’
I’m not drunk onstage, although I’ve done that a couple of times when I was younger. It’s partly just the way I talk – I talk like somebody in a rocking chair. I’m your 150-year-old grandmother.
