Alcoholics Quotes

There`s an uncanny thing that chemically happens to you when you`re in the chronic stages of alcoholic drinking. I have been able, on occasions, to have two bottles of vodka and still be up talking to people. That got very frightening. By nature I`m an isolationalist, so my boozing was at home, thank you. I was not a goer-outer. I mean, I didn`t drink for the taste and I didn`t want to be social. Someone once described alcoholics as egomaniacs with low self-esteem. Perfect definition.

I hated Hollywood. It`s a town without pity. I know of no other place in the world where so many people suffer from nervous breakdowns, where there are so many alcoholics, neurotics, and so much unhappiness.

I remember seeing that movie with Nicolas Cage and whoever, where they`re both alcoholics and she`s a prostitute, and they`re... built!

Those years on the golf course as a caddie, boy, those people were something. They were vulgar, some were alcoholics, racist, they were very difficult people to deal with. A lot of them didn`t have a sense of humor.

(in 1976, reflecting on his fellow former child stars) Compare us to your high school graduating class. You`ll discover there is always a percentage of successes, and those who fall by the wayside to become alcoholics, dopers, or just plain losers. Sure there are the Bobby Driscolls - the tragedies - but don`t forget the others: Elizabeth Taylor, Hayley Mills, Natalie Wood, Gene Reynolds--who`s a successful producer--and so many others.

My admiration for the phenomenon of Alcoholics Anonymous is boundless.

Like many alcoholics, I was a staggering woman in a chic apartment, sick and utterly disgusting.

In the wake of my spiritual experience there came a vision of a society of alcoholics, each identifying with and transmitting his experience to the next -- chain style. If each sufferer were to carry the news of the scientific hopelessness of alcoholism to each new prospect, he might be able to lay every newcomer wide open to a transforming spiritual experience. This concept proved to be the foundation of such success as Alcoholics Anonymous has since achieved.

The Teen Challenge ministry was born out of those humble early days of ministry. It now includes over 500 drug and alcohol rehab centers around the world, even in Muslim countries. These include homes for girls and women addicts and alcoholics, all which are reaching many.

Instead of warning pregnant women not to drink, I think female alcoholics should be told not to fuck