Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
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Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
I was weeping again, drunk on the impossible past.
You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
Gratitude is the wine for the soul. Go on. Get drunk.
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.
About medications that are drunk or applied to wounds it is worth learning from everyone; for people do not discover these by reasoning but by chance, and experts not more than laymen.
Be wild and crazy and drunk with Love, _x000D_ if you are too careful, LOVE will not find you.
Be drunk with LOVE, for Love is all that exists.
I look like a down-and-out drunk who has been picked out of the gutter in the Strand.
You do not explain the tree by telling of the water it has drunk, the minerals it has absorbed, and the sunlight that strengthened it.
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.
No nation was ever drunk when wine was cheap.
Not drunk is he who from the floor - Can rise alone and still drink more; But drunk is They, who prostrate lies, Without the power to drink or rise.
I walk into the clubhouse today and it's like walking into the Mayo Clinic. We have four doctors, three therapists and five trainers. Back when I broke in, we had one trainer who carried a bottle of rubbing alcohol, and by the 7th inning he'd already drunk it.
My doctor tells me I should start slowing it down - but there are more old drunks than there are old doctors so let's all have another round.
I was a little drunk. Not drunk in any positive sense but just enough to be careless.
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked him if he'd been drunk the night before, he would always answer offhandedly, 'Oh, I imagine.' I've always liked that answer. It acknowledges life as a dream.
North Carolina right now is going apeshit in a way no state ever has. Take every crazy, angry idea your drunk, right-wing uncle mumbles at Thanksgiving, turn it into a law, and that’s North Carolina today.
The great event on Calvary . . . is an eternal reminder to a power drunk generation that love is the most durable power in the world, and that it is at bottom the heartbeat of the moral cosmos. Only through achieving this love can you expect to matriculate into the university of eternal life.
I have just been to a city in the West, a city full of poets, a city they have made safe for poets. The whole city is so lovely that you do not have to write it up to make it poetry; it is ready-made for you. But, I don't know - the poetry written in that city might not seem like poetry if read outside of the city. It would be like the jokes made when you were drunk; you have to get drunk again to appreciate them.
It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office.
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