Alkies Quotes & Sayings

My mind. What is it? What am I making of it? What am I using it for? Is it empty of thought? Isolated and torn loose from those around it? Melted into flesh and blended with it, so that it shares its urges? — Marcus Aurelius

When I went to high school, an all-boys' school, a Catholic school, I tried out for football, and I didn't make it. It was the first time, athletically, that I was knocked down. — Mike Krzyzewski

I beg Osama to stop warring. He is a Muslim, and Islam means peace. Nobody wins in a war ... I wish I were tapped in the problem about Iraq. I knew Saddam enough that I could have talked him into surrendering. But it's too late. — Imelda Marcos

An experiment is never a failure solely because it fails to achieve predicted results. — Robert M. Pirsig

Our debt is out of control. What was a fiscal challenge is now a fiscal crisis. We cannot deny it; instead we must, as Americans, confront it responsibly. And that is exactly what Republicans pledge to do. — Paul Ryan

The organization is a way for people to find us and deal with us and know how we operate. — Mitchell Baker

People love the good not much less than the beautiful, and the happy as well, or even just the living, for the world of it all, and heart's home. — Annie Dillard

Hemingway and Fitzgerald didn't drink because they were creative, alienated, or morally weak. They drank because it's what alkies are wired up to do. Creative people probably do run a greater risk of alcoholism and addiction than those in some other jobs, but so what? We all look pretty much the same when we're puking in the gutter. — Stephen King

My contention is that as long as you have other faculties-the emotional, psychological, intuitive faculties-you haven't lost yourself or even diminished yourself. Don't be ashamed when you're physically limited or dysfunctional; don't think that you're any less because of your condition. In fact, I feel I am even more myself than I was before I got this illness because I have been able to transcend many of the psychological and emotional limitations I had before I developed ALS. — Morrie Schwartz.

People always ask me for my secret. There isn't one. You've just got to keep a level head and stay away from greed, which is the worst thing that can happen to a successful person. — Dennis Washington

I get miserable if I don't eat. — Margot Robbie

She was not looking at a girl in the mirror. She was looking at a machine. — Marissa Meyer

Sober alkies are often asked: When did you hit rock bottom? but a more informed question might be: How many times did you hit rock bottom? — Craig Ferguson

Time must be slowed to a crawl to make sense of any scene of true chaos - to show the flurry of human action and reaction going off like multiple strings of firecrackers, all at once. Every — Joe Hill

The long days are no happier than the short ones. — Philip James Bailey

You ever hear guys with small cocks talk about sex? Can't talk about it enough. They even got poems. They'll say, 'It's not the motion of the ocean, it's the boat of the lotion.' I've even heard variants ... , it's not the tree or the size, it's the axe that you wax.' It's a whole sub-genre of poetry now that's taught in many of our finer institutions. — Norm MacDonald

Generally speaking, the more money that's involved in anything, the more people are expecting and hoping that it's not going to fail. — Chris Pine