Getting Sober Quotes

#1. Getting sober is a radically creative act.

Meredith Bell

#2. Drunkenness is the vice of a good constitution or of a bad memory of a constitution so treacherously good that it never bends till it breaks; or of a memory that recollects the pleasures of getting intoxicated, but forgets the pains of getting sober.

Charles Caleb Colton

#3. If you don't like smoking don't even bother getting sober, just stay drunk.

Augusten Burroughs

#4. Getting sober was one of the three pivotal events in my life, along with becoming an actor and having a child. Of the three, finding my sobriety was the hardest thing.

Gary Oldman

#5. What's the Use of Getting Sober (When You Gonna Get Drunk Again)

Louis Jordan

#6. If I can be an example of getting sober, then I can be an example for starting over

Macklemore

#7. We are both disciples of the Louis Jordan song 'What's the Use of Getting Sober (When You're Gonna Get Drunk Again).

C.J. Box

#8. Getting sober just exploded my life. Now I have a much clearer sense of myself and what I can and can't do. I am more successful than I have ever been. I feel very positive where I never did before, and I think that's all a direct result of getting sober.

Jamie Lee Curtis

#9. I just got tired of being sick and tired and feeling down. Unfortunately, you don't realize this until you're getting sober but the reason why you're depressed all the time is it's the drugs that are depressing you.

Steven Adler

#10. Everybody wasn't always wasted. Why is punk rock about getting wasted? Isn't it punk rock to be sober and change the world? I thought it was about challenging capitalism? How are you going to challenge capitalism if you're wasted?

Kathleen Hanna

#11. The human race has not devised any way of dissolving barriers, getting to know the other chap fast, breaking the ice, that is one-tenth as handy and efficient as letting you and the other chap, or chaps, cease to be totally sober at about the same rate in agreeable surroundings.

Kingsley Amis

#12. Being sober for so many years is getting interesting.

Peter O'Toole

#13. I focused on how these people became how they were.

Luther Allison

#14. In the late twentieth century, staying sober has become just as much an addiction as getting wasted.

Dennis Miller

#15. We have a strange anxiety in us; that if we don't interfere then it won't happen. Now that's the root of an enormous amount of trouble.

Alan Watts

#16. It's easier to act in your own accent.

James Nesbitt

#17. Find something that you want to do when you're 60. Find your passion. Your passion, your work, whatever it is that you want to do. Find something that you would do, even if you didn't get paid. Whether it's an art or whether is something that you're passionate about.

Pauly Shore

#18. I think that there are many different ways of getting and staying sober. Like religion, I just don't think that one way is the only way.

Kristen Johnston

#19. Perhaps Court was just an ignorant Scot, but he preferred two things in his surgeons: that they be sober, and that they have lived long enough to have practiced on others before getting to him.

Kresley Cole

#20. Now that I'm sober, I deserve to get laid.

Steven Tyler

#21. For a lot of folks who get sober, the process of getting and staying sober becomes their higher power, and it becomes a religion that sort of consumes a whole lot of them. I just don't think that that's necessary. I think that that can be a side note rather than the story of your life.

Jason Isbell

#22. I think anything that you can't poke fun at is a little too precious.

Annie E. Clark

#23. I very much enjoyed doing 'Law & Order,' playing a killer - that was fun, and they had a family feel around the set, so it was a happy show to do even though the subject matter was quite the opposite.

Carol Burnett

#24. Sam: Do you always say exactly what you're thinking?
AJ: I try to. I like to know where I stand with people, and I figure I owe them the same courtesy. I mean, I'm never rude or hurtful about it, but I don't see any reason to be fake. That's a lot of work

Tamara Ireland Stone

#25. Never the less, at the age of fifteen, having never seen a writer, a poet, a publisher or a magazine editor, and having only the vaguest ideas of procedure, I began working on the profession I had chosen.

Robert E. Howard