Edna Ferber Quotes

Whiskey will always be a part of my life.

You know what my drink is? Jack Daniel's. Yes, that is a wild man drink. That should come with bail money, you know what I'm saying? Because on Jack, you don't know where you're going to end up, but you know when you get there, you won't be wearing any pants.

The only reason people go to bars is to get drunk and have sex. To me, bars are what hell is like.

The one conclusion I have reached is that whiskey is a great leveler. You might be a hotshot advertising executive or a lowly foundry worker, but if you cannot hold your drink, you are just a drunkard.

There's nothing better for hosting a show than a bunch of people daytime-whiskey drunk.

A scotch buzz is the best buzz in the world.

Everyone feels like they would love to be a really cool bartender in a really cool bar, but you're still surrounded by people who want to destroy themselves with alcohol. When you look at it that way, it's not that much fun.

I didn't go to bars much. One drunken asshole was all I could handle and that was me. I wrote. I don't remember a lot of it.

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

Nothing is so musical as the sound of pouring bourbon for the first drink on a Sunday morning. Not Bach or Schubert or any of those masters.

I'd go to a more civil party just to socialize, and I didn't know what to do with myself. So I drank a shot of tequila. And then I drank another one. I probably had four or five shots. I was like, "Tequila! It wakes you right up!" But no.

Sure I eat what I advertise. Sure I eat Wheaties for breakfast. A good bowl of Wheaties with bourbon can't be beat.

I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.

I have never known anyone from Texas, no matter how far they go or what they do, who isn't proud of being from Texas.

Only one way to cover a story like this, and make that a double, bartender, please.

I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking: I could well wish courtesy would invent some other custom of entertainment.

I have often thought that the aim of port is to give you a good and durable hangover, so that during the next day you should be reminded of the splendid occasion the night before.

I drink for comradeship, and when I drink for comradeship, I don't bother to keep count.

Texas is a great state. It's the 'Old Man River' of states. No matter who runs it or what happens to it politically, it just keeps rolling along!

There is drinking in lots of the songs because there is drinking in life. Drinking stimulates the imagination.

If I was drunk, I wouldn’t be here at all. And really, this is pretty good for four White Russians.” “White what?” I almost sat down but was afraid the chair might dematerialize beneath me. “It’s a drink,” he said. “You’d think I wouldn’t be into something named that—you know, considering my own personal experience with Russians. But they’re surprisingly delicious. The drinks, not real Russians.

God created whiskey to keep the Irish from taking over the world.

Mostly, Texas women are tough in some very fundamental ways. Not unfeminine, nor necessarily unladylike, just tough!

I'm very open about the fact that I'm a big fan of day drinking. I also love cooking. I cook all day, and I have to have something in my hand while I'm doing that.

Booze takes a lot of time and effort if you're going to do a good job with it.