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Sermon Quotations Archive

Quotations regarding 'Liquor'

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They liked me so long as the liquor flowed at my house, but I haven't seen any of them around lately.
Bud Abbott, American Actor (1897-1974)
We got more provisions for our whiskey than the same money, which we paid for the liquor, would have bought; so after all it proved a very profitable investment.
Buffalo Bill, American Celebrity (1846-1917)
Some of the food in Liquor is food I've really eaten filtered through a veil of fiction.
Poppy Z. Brite, American Author (1967-  )
I've certainly learned a great deal from my husband, though, and could never have written a book like Liquor without him and the people he introduces me to and the stories he brings home.
Poppy Z. Brite, American Author (1967-  )
This is the point being missed by readers who lament Liquor's lack of hot sex scenes, probably because they aren't old enough to understand that a passionate relationship could be about anything other than sex.
Poppy Z. Brite, American Author (1967-  )
When I sell liquor, it's called bootlegging; when my patrons serve it on Lake Shore Drive, it's called hospitality.
Al Capone, American Criminal (1899-1947)
Liquor prohibition led to the rise of organized crime in America, and drug prohibition has led to the rise of the gang problems we have now.
Drew Carey, American Actor (1961-  )
Drugs were pretty easy to quit taking. I was never addicted to anything to begin with. But then, liquor - I had to wait about another six years before I finally got around to quitting that. I'm sure glad I did.
Alex Chilton, American Musician (1950-  )
The horrid mystery hanging over us in this house gets into my head like liquor, and makes me wild.
Wilkie Collins, English Novelist (1824-1889)
I went downtown as a lawyer and then I worked in a liquor store at night, as I had done all through law school. And so when I got to the point where I could give up the night job, I joined the political club.
David Dinkins, American Politician (1927-  )
There are only two real ways to get ahead today - sell liquor or drink it.
W. C. Fields, American Comedian (1880-1946)
Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.
Oliver Goldsmith, Irish Poet (1730-1774)
Having grown up in Oklahoma when it was one of the last states which prohibited liquor, I grew up with War On Drugs, where every teenager knew who the bootleggers were.
Tony Hillerman, American Author (1925-  )
I use the term bar-room to represent every means for the sale and traffic in liquor, and I earnestly appeal to the people to put an end to the traffic, no matter under what name or guise it may be carried on.
Thomas Jordan Jarvis, American Politician (1836-1915)
Yes, it is worse than thrown away, because every fair minded man must admit that the expenditure of this sum of money in the county for intoxicating liquor creates lawlessness, makes criminals, wrecks homes and brings trouble to innocent women and children.
Thomas Jordan Jarvis, American Politician (1836-1915)
Because people see violence on the movie screen, they're not going to go out and hold up a liquor store and kill somebody. It really doesn't correlate.
Dean Koontz, American Author (1945-  )
The only character I ever remember actually creating in a flash of inspiration was George Liquor. God planted that in my head in an instant.
John Kricfalusi, Canadian Artist (1955-  )
George Liquor is really the richest character I have. I'm amazed there aren't 365 episodes about him on TV already.
John Kricfalusi, Canadian Artist (1955-  )
Each of us needs something - food, liquor, pot, whatever - to help us survive. Dracula needs blood.
Frank Langella, American Actor (1940-  )
Iraq now says that it will, after all, destroy its missiles. President Bush said, 'Please, I used to pull the same trick. There'd be an intervention, I'd make a big show of pouring out the liquor and then there was a case under the floorboards.'
Bill Maher, Comedian (1956-  )
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