Raymond Carver Drinking Quotes

#1. Well how can a holy, just, righteous God allow sin into His presence?

Josh McDowell

#2. I do not think he [Reagan] put names and faces together but for a small group of people. There were a few, perhaps half a dozen reporters, that Reagan recognized, including my colleague Lou Cannon, and some from television and the wire services. The rest of us were faces.

David E. Hoffman

#3. Drinking's funny. When I look back on it, all of our important decisions have been figured out when we were drinking. Even when we talked about having to cut back on drinking, we'd be sitting at the kitchen table or out at the picnic table with a six-pack or whiskey.

Raymond Carver

#4. I don't have kids, a mortgage, or a car. That has let me hold out for the jobs I want to do, and to sit in a cold room in the winter with fingerless gloves, writing.

Alice Lowe

#5. Beauties" by Anton Chekhov, "The Doll's House" by Katherine Mansfield, "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" by J. D. Salinger, "Brownies" or "Drinking Coffee Elsewhere" both by ZZ Packer, "In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried" by Amy Hempel, "Fat" by Raymond Carver, "Indian Camp

Gabrielle Zevin

#6. was something truly sexy about a man astride a huge beast, controlling it with a squeeze of his tightly wrapped thighs.

Raquel Lyon

#7. I think women are used to stepping up and getting the job done when you need to.

Ann Dowd

#8. I just want you to know who I am.

John Rzeznik

#9. I wanted to acknowledge my U.S. heritage and to belong to it more closely. Having said that, I am certainly British by formation and education and readily think of London as home. I had never lived in the U.S. till 2007.

Jamie Bamber

#10. At sixty a man has passed most of the reefs and whirlpools ... That man has awakened to a new youth ... Ergo, he is young.

George Luks

#11. The strength of a nation lies in the homes of its people.

Abraham Lincoln

#12. In a way, I had a very good and normal childhood. I had loving and caring parents. But I had a lot of quirks or problems when I was growing up. I had phobias and obsessions.

Elyn Saks

#13. I always considered myself a minor writer. My province is small, and I try to explore it very, very thoroughly.

Leonard Cohen

#14. We pose only those questions whose answers are the pre-given conditions of the questions themselves.

Alain Badiou

#15. . A terrible battle between two wolves. One wolf is bad - pride, jealousy, greed. The other wolf is good - kindness, hope, truth. The child asks, 'Who will win?' The grandfather answers simply, 'The one you feed.

Tristan Bancks

#16. If the nature of the world is revealed to man through religion, then gardens, as places for contemplation, should symbolise the perfection of nature.

Tom Turner