Quotes About Liquor Stores

“We know, for instance, that there is a direct, inverse relationship between frequency of family meals and social problems. Bluntly stated, members of families who eat together regularly are statistically less likely to stick up liquor stores, blow up meth labs, give birth to crack babies, commit suicide, or make donkey porn. If Little Timmy had just had more meatloaf, he might not have grown up to fill chest freezers with Cub Scout parts.”

— Anthony Bourdain

“Oh, that most helpless and shameful of times in the life of my people, the time from dawn until the liquor stores open up!”

— Venedikt Yerofeyev

“A certain amount of looting, particularly of liquor stores was reported.”

— George R. Stewart

“Around this world will I be enough?
From the liquor stores, to the train stop floors, your filthy room, your drama blues
I am nothing if I'm not with you.”

— Sara Quin

“Through the windshield I
saw the mark of these
ghettos-the abundance of
beauty shops, churches,
liquor stores, and
crumbling housing-and I
felt the old fear. Through
the windshield I saw the
rain coming down in
sheets.”

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“I like to change liquor stores frequently because the clerks got to know your habits if you went in night and day and bought huge quantities. I could feel them wondering why I wasn't dead yet and it made me uncomfortable. They probably weren't thinking any such thing, but then a man gets paranoid when he has 300 hangovers a year.”

— Charles Bukowski

“All roads lead past shooting ranges, liquor stores, and gay bars. Wanderlust is part of the American Spirit.”

— Andrew Smith

“Should alcoholics go to liquor stores?”

— Ally Carter

“Life, as the signs in the liquor stores say, is too short to drink bad wine. And summer is too short to read bad books.”

— David Frum

“These growth hormones, where can I get a bunch of them? Is there some way that, with electricity, you could stimulate your own growth hormones? Plug yourself in for five minutes, there'd be a little jolt, but you'd get used to it. It wouldn't be bad at all; in fact, you'd get to enjoy it, probably. Then away you'd go, and youth wouldn't be wasted on the young anymore. You'd be 25, with a 95-year-old mind. Granddad would start breaking into liquor stores and staying out late. Hope we have it soon!”

— David Lynch

“My wife says, and I agree with her, that what would be really great for Maine would be to legalize dope completely and set up dope stores the way that there are state-run liquor stores. You could get your Acapulco gold or your whatever it happened to be - your Augusta gold or your Bangor gold. And people would come from all the other states to buy it, and there could be a state tax on it. Then everybody in Maine could have a Cadillac.”

— Stephen King

“Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in Heaven.”

— P. J. O'Rourke