A Quote by Gertrude Stein

I was somewhat drunk with what I had done. And I am always one to prefer being sober.

Gertrude Stein

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Gertrude Stein
American - Novelist
February 3, 1874 - July 27, 1946

There's the really angry drunk, who's just annoying to be around. I prefer the drunk who falls all over the place and is being completely inappropriate. Or the super-loud, happy drunk, which is evidentially what I am.

Aaron Paul

Playing a drunk doesn't mean being a drunk, only bad actors try to be drunk. A real drunk tries to be sober, he wants another drink. How a character hides their feelings tells us who they are, no one shows their feelings except bad actors.

Martin Landau

A lady came up to me one day and said 'Sir! You are drunk', to which I replied 'I am drunk today madam, and tomorrow I shall be sober but you will still be ugly.

Winston Churchill

If an important decision is to be made, they [the Persians] discuss the question when they are drunk, and the following day the master of the house where the discussion was held submits their decision for reconsideration when they are sober. If they still approve it, it is adopted; if not, it is abandoned. Conversely, any decision they make when they are sober, is reconsidered afterwards when they are drunk.

Herodotus

Sometimes I write drunk and revise sober, and sometimes I write sober and revise drunk. But you have to have both elements in creation — the Apollonian and the Dionysian, or spontaneity and restraint, emotion and discipline.

Peter De Vries

Alone, I am drunk on my thoughts; in company, I am sober again.

Mason Cooley

Never Forget what someone says to you when they are drunk. Because Drunk words are Sober Thoughts

Wiz Khalifa

I prefer being totally sober myself.

Aziz Ansari

It's always difficult to make conversation with a drunk, and there's no denying it, the sober are at a disadvantage with him.

W. Somerset Maugham

I'd always thought that if I could get sober and stay sober, I would be able to have a career making music. My drug and alcohol addiction was the one thing holding me back. I had finally gotten the tools to stay sober, and it was just a matter of writing the songs.

Macklemore

Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

Ernest Hemingway

When I played drunks I had to remain sober because I didn't know how to play them when I was drunk.

Richard Burton

Being sober on a bus is, like, totally different than being drunk on a bus.

Ozzy Osbourne

If a man go into the London Docks sober without means of getting drunk, and comes out of one of the cellars very drunk wherein are a million gallons of wine, I think that would be reasonable evidence that he had stolen some of the wine in that cellar, though you could not prove that any wine was stolen, or any wine was missed.