Diana Gabaldon Quotes

I'm probably going to deliver my baby in these [4-inch YSL heels] ... I went to the doctor yesterday and he said, 'You're gonna need to get out of those heels!'

Give me a bowl of wine. I have not that alacrity of spirit Nor cheer of mind that I was wont to have.

The hangover became a part of the day as well allowed-for as the Spanish siesta.

There is nothing so perfect as pinball and a pint at 11 a.m.

I think when somebody goes to the movies and they spend their money and they take the girl out, the family, they want to have a good time. You don't always want to be hit over the head with history or how bad society is.

My doctor was like, 'Any questions?' And I was like, 'Yes! When can I drink please?!' I just want a margarita.

Wine is a grand thing," I said. "It makes you forget all the bad.

Don't judge the past by the standards of today. It won't work. They're incompatible.

Pour me something tall and strong, make it a Hurricane before I go insane. It's only half past twelve but I don't care, it's 5 O'clock somewhere.

Every year my boss used to give me a bottle of expensive brandy because I'd told him that my doctor suggested a drink once in a while. This year my boss gave me the name of a new doctor.

Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same.

I have no warm up exercises, other than to take an occasional drink.

I have a question. Do you guys think it's OK to drink while you're pregnant if you're planning on giving the baby up for adoption?

Let us settle down to the serious business of getting drunk.

Night and gin and music-the right setting for peeling off the thin clinging layers of bullshit and finding one's way down closer to the essential self.

I usually need a can of beer to prime me.

There's a long tradition of teen comedies where the kids are getting drunk on beer and whatever else, so smoking a joint to me is no worse than having a beer. So, if someone has a problem with it, I'll just tell them to relax.

A bottle of wine was good company.

If I didn't know better, I'd think you were trying to get me drunk," I said to Ranger. "Not drunk," Ranger said. "Just relaxed and naked.

I like the odd glass of wine, a coffee and a cigarette. As you get older you can't see the wrinkles

I can drink like a fish, or at least, someone born with fetal alcohol syndrome.

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.

I work for three or four hours a day, in the late morning and early afternoon. Then I go out for a walk and come back in time for a large gin and tonic.

A man may surely be allowed to take a glass of wine by his own fireside.