Winslow Homer Quotes

I gave up drinking lots of whiskey and began to practice yoga and meditation. As a result I am not dead.

Stop drinking was the best thing I've done in my entire life. I'm so happy I did that.

I quit drinking, and I figure if I go to ten Yankee games this year without drinking I'll save $32,000.

I sobered up and I got to thinking, girl, you ain't much fun since I quit drinking.

So I cut out all the drinkin' and hangin' out and stuff like that early on.

March is the month God created to show people who don't drink what a hangover is like.

I'm used to going into the studio and smoking and drinking until three in the morning. But I can't drink as much because I'm breastfeeding. See this glass of wine? Before, I'd have, like, four of them. Now, one is good. Oh, and I quit smoking. . . I've exorcised a lot of my demons, but I'm still working on myself. I think I'll be a work in progress for the rest of my life.

I think it just has to do with getting older and getting better at what it was I was doing, and that I could take something small and kind of take my time with it. I think actually what that has to do with is I quit drinking. Before that I told myself I could only drink if I was - if I was writing, I had to be drinking. So I was on a timer, because eventually you get too drunk to write.

Well from a personal perspective, quitting drinking is a decision I felt good about.

I quit drinking every night, at 1:30 A.M.

I decided to stop drinking with creeps. I decided to drink only with friends. I've lost 30 pounds.

It's been about a week without alcohol of any kind. I'm enjoying my new, clean-living lifestyle.

Alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, may produce all the effects of drunkenness.

"What's so unpleasant about being drunk?" "Ask a glass of water."

I'm afraid that we all make mistakes. One of the things that defines our character is how we handle mistakes. If we lie about having made a mistake, then it can't be corrected and it festers. On the other hand, if we give up just because we made a mistake, even a big mistake, none of us would get far in life.

I'd like to help you, but you don't drink.

A man cannot make him laugh; but that's no marvel; he drinks no wine.... If I had a thousand sons, the first human principle I would teach them should be, to forswear thin potations and to addict themselves to sack.

The giving up of personality traits, well-established patterns of behavior, ideologies, and even whole life styles...these are major forms of giving up that are required if one is to travel very far on the journey of life.

I'm 12 years sober, so I don't have beer! When I used to drink I really liked Bass Ale!

Once you stop drinking and smoking and stuff, it really gets on your nerves, all that nonsense going on.

the reward for total abstinence from alcohol seems, illogically enough, to be the capacity for becoming intoxicated without it.

I stopped drinking almost immediately after I had ready access to liquor, when I got to college. It almost immediately lost its appeal for me.

Drop your shrink and stop your drinkin', crunchy granola's neat.

I believe in what I do. I mean, I don't go out - I don't have the clothes or drink anymore, I don't do drugs or any of that. I used to. But I got very ready to get me out of the house.