Amanda Peet Quotes

I drink for the honorable purpose of getting bagged.

Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.

Any time I'm in a moving thing, like an airplane, I'm usually asleep before we even get on our way.

The only time I can't sleep is on a plane, when I am literally keeping it in the air with my brain.

I hate flying, airports and the whole rigmarole - queuing up, security and lost luggage.

Truth comes out in wine.

The idea of flying in general does not appeal to me. I can barely understand why people want to fly at all, other than that it's occasionally necessary.

Beer makes you feel the way you ought to feel without beer.

I used to hate flying. I would sit there, rigid, convinced that if I relaxed, the plane would drop out of the sky.

A single glass of champagne imparts a feeling of exhilaration. The nerves are braced: the imagination is agreeably stirred; the wits become more nimble. A bottle produces the opposite effect.

I can be a bit of a nervous flyer.

I'm not a good flyer. Because I do it so much, I think the odds of something going wrong are not in my favour.

I hate flying. The first time I flew with my wife, Najat, was the first time I'd ever flown in my life, and that was just a short flight to Turkey. I spent the whole time with my shirt pulled over my head. Then I got used to it.

I was a nervous flyer before, but now I've gotten used to it.

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

Whiskey claims to itself alone the exclusive office of sot-making.

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.

I'm one of those passengers who arrives at the airport five or six hours early so I can throw back a few drinks and muster up the courage to board the plane. Apparently I'm not alone because I've never been in an empty airport bar. I don't care what time you get there. Even at 8:00 a.m. you have to fight your way to the bar. At that hour, everyone drinks Bloody Marys so no one can tell it's booze- at least until they fall off their chair.

O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!" - Cassio (Act II, Scene iii)

Here's how you know that you're really drunk: when you get into a taxi cab and you think the fare is the time.

Booze is the greatest of all equalizers. Rich drunks and poor drunks both pass out the same way.

I clearly had one drink too many and I am deeply embarrassed about the things I said.

Macduff: What three things does drink especially provoke? Porter: Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep, and urine.

I was somewhat drunk with what I had done. And I am always one to prefer being sober.

That's the beauty of alcohol. If you don't remember it, it didn't happen.