Stephen King Quotes

Holiday drinking in my family happens about as often as Sarah Palin is spotted reading the 'New York Times.' Neither of my parents are big drinkers, probably because they each had a parent that was.

Drinking habits were very prevalent among men, and were not in any way disgraceful, unless excessive.

Beer. Now there's a temporary solution.

I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principle, so he won't let himself get snotty about it.

I received the same kind of question many times. Do I drink? Of course I do. I do what all others do.

Drinking is in reality an occupation which employs a considerable portion of the time of many people; and to conduct it in the most rational and agreeable manner is one of the great arts of living.

Drinking more often brings out the best in the good than the worst in the bad.

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

I find drinking really helps.

I do partake in a couple of drinks now and again, but I've never drank to feel alive.

Temperate men drink the most, because they drink the longest.

We have a drinking game in Australia, it's called drinking.

I've come to realize that making it your life's work to be different than your parents is not only hard to do, it's a dumb idea. Not everything we found fault with was necessarily wrong; we were right, for example, to resent, as kids, being told when to go to bed. We'd be equally wrong, as parents, to let our kids stay up all night. To throw out all the tools of parenting just because our parents used them would be like making yourself speak English without using ten letters of the alphabet; it's hard to do.

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.

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

I think we all like to see ourselves as good dads, but there's also that fear, 'Oh, I don't want to be like my father,' or, 'I hope my kid doesn't turn out like me.' You know, I have those feelings too. So the key is optimism.

You can't have a Russian household without vodka. It's just something to wash everything down with. I can't remember a time when I didn't drink vodka, either in Russia or here. I don't think there's ever a wrong time to start drinking it. My ancestors drank it, and if I ever have any children, they'll be drinking it.

My friends drink everywhere. They even drink at the laundromat. I tried drinking at the laundromat, and I thought I was in a submarine, navigating the Sea of White Panties with my Spanish-speaking crew. I was like, "Mrs. Sanchez, set the coordinates to Permanent Press! Give me some quarters and another drink! This place is starting to look like a laundromat."

For example, parents who talk a lot to their children have kids with better language skills, parents who spank have children who grow up to be violent, parents who are neither too authoritarian or too lenient have children who are well-adjusted, and so on.

Drinking is the soldier's pleasure.

No nation is drunken where wine is cheap.

There cannot be good living where there is not good drinking.

I don't have a kid, but I think that I would be a good father, especially if my baby liked to go out drinking.

I didn't push any of my kids into golf, and they played golf because they wanted to.