Beer Quotes

"What I like about playing America is you can be pretty sure you're not going to get hit with a full can of beer when you're singing and I really enjoy that!"

Joe Strummer, Musician

"We were sitting on the bus one day and there were 5 of us hanging out. There was only one beer left in the cooler and we actually all took a little cup and split it. It was a pathetic day in a rock and roll when five grown men have to be sitting there sharing a beer"

Zakk Wylde, Musician

"And what makes me happy now has changed as well... Its one thing to play in a bar or at a biker festival, and hear a guy who's been drinking beer all day come up and tell you how good you are. For a long time in your life that will make you happy"

Rick Derringer, Musician

"You know, nobody eats in England. Three or four pints of English beer a night fills you. I can't say I'm very impressed with the food in America. it's all sort of bland. Like turkey sandwiches"

Anne Dudley, Composer

"There's something sexy about a gut. Not a 400-pound beer gut, but a little paunch. I love that"

Sandra Bullock, Actress

"Well, as I understand it, the main supporters are beer companies and the pharmaceutical companies. I'd like them to show me the dead bodies from marijuana. But they can't because there aren't any"

Jack Herer, Activist

"It's mostly Mars Bars and peanuts and cheese and you go to the fridge and there's Red Bull and Beer. It's not like people are holding me down and pouring beer in my face"

Graham Coxon, Musician

"The big compliment came from the beer drinkers who didn't know me. They wouldn't drink or move when I sang. If they had their glasses in mid-air, the glasses wouldn't come down"

Ethel Waters, Musician

"My first commercial was for Miller High Life beer"

Casey Kasem, Actor

"I sat backstage and had a beer with Richard Chamberlain, Paul Newman, and Princess Grace"

Christopher Atkins, Actor

"I have a beer belly"

Christy Turlington, Model

"In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power"

A. J. P. Taylor, Historian

"Beer is the Danish national drink, and the Danish national weakness is another beer"

Clementine Paddleford, Journalist

"A guy is a lump like a doughnut. So, first you gotta get rid of all the stuff his mom did to him. And then you gotta get rid of all that macho crap that they pick up from beer commercials. And then there's my personal favorite, the male ego"

Roseanne Barr, Actress

"Give a man a beer, waste an hour. Teach a man to brew, and waste a lifetime!"

Bill Owen

"When you are on tour in the UK it takes a few hours to get anywhere. A lot of the time you can have a beer, close your eyes for two minutes, and then you are there. In the U.S. it is much more like a road trip as all the cities are so spread apart"

Kelly Jones, Musician

"Life isn't all beer and skittles, but beer and skittles, or something better of the same sort, must form a good part of every Englishman's education"

Thomas Hughes, Lawyer

"For the second straight year, craft beer is the fastest growing segment of the U.S. alcoholic beverage industry. In 2005, craft beer experienced a 9 percent increase in volume, nearly triple that of the growth experienced in the wine and spirits industry"

Sherwood Boehlert, Politician

"I'm gaining weight the right way: I'm drinking beer"

Johnny Damon, Athlete

"I busted out of the place in a hurry and went to a saloon and drank beer and said that for the rest of my life I'd never take a job in a place where you couldn't throw cigarette butts on the floor. I was hooked on this writing for newspapers and magazines"

Jimmy Breslin, Entertainer

"Is it in the best interest of baseball to sell beer in the ninth inning? Probably not. The rule has got to be more clearly defined. And then some process should be set up where the judge is not also the appeals judge"

George Steinbrenner, Businessman

"Yes, sir. I'm a real Southern boy. I got a red neck, white socks, and Blue Ribbon beer"

Billy Carter, Celebrity

"I simply went down there to catch up with an old mate of mine, who owns the place. He's the one who wrote the book on the place, but no, no movie, just a beer"

Bryan Brown, Actor

"I can drink on the job if I want to. I can go on stage with a beer and it's OK. I can say whatever I want. It's a great job to have"

Rodney Carrington, Comedian

"We don't have to go that far to sell our beer because our immediate accounts sell so much. Places that sold 10 cases before, now they're selling 30"

Paul Graham, Scientist

"They drink a lotta beer, do a lotta riding around; I drink a lotta beer, do a lotta riding around"

Larry Brown

"You can do anything with beer that you can do with wine. Beer is great for basting or marinating meat and fish"

Grant Wood, Artist

"Beer is not a good cocktail-party drink, especially in a home where you don't know where the bathroom is"

Billy Carter, Celebrity

"There is no such thing as a bad beer. It's that some taste better than others"

Billy Carter, Celebrity

"Paintings are like a beer, only beer tastes good and it's hard to stop drinking beer"

Billy Carter, Celebrity

"Rugby is great. The players don't wear helmets or padding; they just beat the living daylights out of each other and then go for a beer. I love that"

Joe Theismann, Athlete

"I had this beer brewed just for me. I think its the best I ever tasted. And I've tasted a lot. I think you'll like it too"

Billy Carter, Celebrity

"There are those who love to get dirty and fix things. They drink coffee at dawn, beer after work. And those who stay clean, just appreciate things. At breakfast they have milk and juice at night. There are those who do both, they drink tea"

Gary Snyder, Poet

"I drank beer, and I had a career year"

David Wells, Athlete

"We've had drive-by shootings. I've been spat on, slapped, shot at. One guy tried to stab me with a broken beer bottle. But the way we look at it, if people do the worst they can, we'll still wake up in glory"

Troy Perry, Clergyman

"Very intense first summer out, to be 18 years old and never having gone on a date, never having smoked a cigarette, never had a drink, even a sip of beer, never kissed a girl, all of those things. It made for a fairly intense first year out"

Peter Jurasik, Actor

"You know I love pot, and I love beer, but I am totally sober, just because it completely stopped working for me"

Anthony Kiedis, Musician

"Paul Newman's an old friend of ours out of Cleveland, Ohio. He used to sit around our house. He's the only man I've ever known to drink a case of beer all by himself. That's talent in a way"

Lew Wasserman, Producer

"I'd like us to deliver a little message to all the men still out there who think it's the '50s, and coming home simply means watching television with a beer"

Patricia Richardson, Actress

"If you guys are going to be throwing beer bottles at us, at least make sure they're full"

Dave Mustaine, Musician

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