This is interesting. Researchers have found that people who drive drunk are more dangerous on the road than drivers who are high on marijuana. Don't get too excited. It's mostly because the drivers using marijuana are just sitting in the Taco Bell drive-through.
I sit here drunk now. I am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any other that I have gotten from there to here without committing murder or being murdered; without having ended up in the madhouse. as I drink alone again tonight my soul despite all the past agony thanks all the gods who were not there for me then.
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.
High school sucked. It was a universal truth, and whoever said these were supposed to be the best years of your life was probably drunk or delusional.
One should always be drunk. That's all that matters. . . But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.
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.
My wedding will be a great party where I can get drunk and have a good time.
You know the stories of a woman saying to Churchill, 'Sir, you're drunk,' and he said to her, 'And you're ugly, but in the morning I'll be sober. ' I was really excited to do that scene, but I did get slapped.
My grandpa could go days, weeks, even months without a drink but if he took that first drink, he couldn't stop. Once, when I was twelve, my mom and I were driving and we saw my grandpa staggering drunk down the street. I asked if we should stop and help him. My mom sadly shook her head and kept driving.
What's so unpleasant about being drunk?" "Ask a glass of water!
We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.
And Christ says of that which is blessed, which is offered, received, eaten and drunk: This is My body; this is My blood.
That which hath made them drunk hath made me bold; What hath quenched them hath given me fire.
One time when I was visiting The Vatican I got the Pope really drunk, and then while he was sleeping I put his hand in the holy water.
As a child I was a good boy. Even if I wasn't playing tennis I don't think I'd have done things like smoking or getting drunk. I'm lucky I never liked the taste of alcohol - I know, I'm Scottish so what's wrong with me? - but I never even liked the smell of the stuff. It's the same with smoking, it never appealed to me. I guess I missed out on my Kevin-The-Teenager phase.
Go to bed, you fool," Calcifer said sleepily. "You're drunk. " "Who, me?" said Howl. "I assure you, my friends, I am cone sold stober. " He got up and stalked upstairs, feeling for the wall as if he thought it might escape him unless he kept in touch with it. His bedroom door did escape him.
If somebody told me, "Not a good idea," I would've said, "No, it's probably a good idea if you get drunk with me. " I would've flipped it around on them. There was no way you could tell me anything. I wasn't listening to any type of reason.
Burns had his faults, his frailties. He was intensely human. Still, I would rather appear at the "Judgment Seat" drunk, and be able to say that I was the author of "A man's a man for 'a that," than to be perfectly sober and admit that I had lived and died a Scotch Presbyterian.
It's okay saying sorry, but when you are drunk you say what you really feel.
I think the Birmingham accent has a lot to do with that, it certainly doesn't help you when you're trying to put a point across. We also set ourselves up for it sometimes by getting drunk and doing stupid things, but I thought that was what rock 'n' roll was all about.