There was nothing glorious about the life of a drinker or the life of a writer.
There is only one absinthe drinker, and that's the man who painted this idiotic picture.
China traditionally has been a tea-drinking country but we turned them into coffee drinkers.
I am too much of a control freak to be a drinker.
No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.
I'm a Yogi and a tea drinker, and having a gun is the last thing that one would expect of me as a human being.
A drinker does not exist. Whatever they say, it is just the drink talking
I'm not a heavy drinker, I can sometimes go for hours without touching a drop.
The coffee shop is a great New York institution, but it has terrible coffee. And the more traditional coffee shops are trying to catch up with more sophisticated coffee drinkers.
What good in being a solitary, secret drinker? We're all drunkards together - let's leave it at that.
With the money I spend on alcohol, I could support a family of four, assuming they are all heavy drinkers.
My uncle's a big drinker. In fact, he just got a liver transplant. They replaced it with a bottle of whiskey.
One of the best descriptions of the type of writer I am was given by Tom Paulin, who described himself as a 'binge' writer - like a binge drinker. I go on binges.
I have always taken care of my body; I'm not a drinker, I've never smoked. And I've always exercised. That's all you have to do.
Writing is a lonely job unless you're a drinker, in which case you always have a friend within reach.
To a drinker the sensation is real and pure and akin to something spiritual: you seek; in the bottle, you find.
Or he was simply pretending—like many drinkers, he liked to think each new day drew a line under the day before.
Whether the family goes on a spiritual basis or not, the alcoholic member has to if he would recover. The others must be convinced of his new status beyond the shadow of a doubt. Seeing is believing to most families who have lived with a drinker.
The big compliment came from the beer drinkers who didn't know me. They wouldn't drink or move when I sang. If they had their glasses in mid-air, the glasses wouldn't come down.
I suspect it may be like the difference between a drinker and an alcoholic; the one merely reads books, the other needs books to make it through the day." (Interview with blog, September 2010)
When we did that kind of stuff our only rule was... Well, we didn't have any rules, really, but my rule, because I was the drinker of the group, was not at any time of the day before the night we're working.