Scotch Drinker Quotes

#1. Jimmy used to drink liquor. Now he's running for president and he drinks Scotch, and I've never trusted a Scotch-drinker.

Billy Carter

#2. Oliver: Fear is the natural state of anything that dies.

Rachel Caine

#3. The whole idea of the suburbs was to create these family-friendly places where people could flock and have more control over their existences, and keep things very controlled and placid and keep outside forces at bay.

Josh Hamilton

#4. I think there's something about being absolutely at the height of intensity at almost every moment of one's job that makes it a lot easier if you don't have time to think much, just sort of barrel through the next crisis.

Cherry Jones

#5. Composition is frozen improvisation.

Igor Stravinsky

#6. I'd always loved writing, in the same way that I'd loved painting. I wouldn't have seen it as a career.

Robyn Davidson

#7. The individual artist is a medium for making representational and deeply meaningful symbols of the community's collective consciousness, whether they are symbols of the community's religion, love, hurt, power, hate, hope, dream, fables, foibles or on and on and on.

Inga Muscio

#8. I was a drinker, so I went through the scotches. Before single malts hit, there were really cheap scotches, because nobody was paying attention to them. Then by the time they started jacking those prices up, I moved on to vodka.

Lewis Black

#9. Persevere. Nothing worthwhile is easy.

Barack Obama

#10. One of the things the tyrant most cunningly engineers is the gross over-simplification of language, because propaganda requires that the minds of the collective respond primitively to slogans of incitement.

Geoffrey Hill

#11. I'm sick of being sick, but I would be sicker of being dead.

Ben Tolosa

#12. It is not only arrogant, but it is profligate, for a man to disregard the world's opinion of himself.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#13. And then I realized that my sister was trying to LIVE a romance novel.
Man, that takes courage and imagination. Well, it also took some degree of mental illness, too, but I was suddenly happy for her.
And a little scared. Well, a lot scared.

Sherman Alexie

#14. There is a quiet about the life of a farmer, and the hope of a serene old age, that no other business or profession can promise.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#15. Ignoring is what you are supposed to do with bullies, so they get bored and leave you alone. But the problem in school is that they don't get bored, because whatever else there is to do is more boring still.

Paul Murray

#16. It is imperative that you know that your activities on earth must have to it some divine purpose.

Sunday Adelaja

#17. Happy he who forgets what cannot be changed.

Anne-Marie O'Connor