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  • Making a television show is not like making Coca-Cola or Bacardi rum. The human element in our business prevents us from finding a successful formula every time.

    Desi Arnaz (1994). “A Book”
  • The only traditions of the Royal Navy are rum, sodomy and the lash.

  • Only, in Haiti, I realized, is it possible to drink rum and haggle with a god.

    Haiti   Drink   Rum  
  • I'm the most unromantic lump of Northern suet. Yes, a woman did accost me once in South Shields, but she had a face like Red Rum.

    Shields   Red   Faces  
    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • You was talkin' out of yer head last night, too," chortles Davy. "No one's gonna fancy me. I'm gonna be ugly and no on'es gonna fancyme!" he mimics, mincing about the hammock. "You are such a rum cove, Jacky, for thinkin' such things when yer just about beat t' death! Fancy me? Fancy me? Jacky, no one's gonna fancy us, we're all gonna end up lookin' like Snag!" "Which is how a salty dog sailor's supposed to look," says Willy with a firm nod. "And you're halfway there, Jack-o!" crows Tink. Ah, the sweet comfort of friends.

    Sweet   Dog   Night  
  • I toyed with the idea of what it might be like to live with some species of heatstroke that maybe didn't go away all that quickly. He's a pirate, which is about rum, sodomy and the lash, isn't it? So, to be able to keep things like that in my head, when I'm going to do a film for Disney, I'd been through the ringer. That was like infiltrating the enemy camp. I wasn't able to stop smiling.

    Ideas   Pirate   Enemy  
    "Johnny Depp on His Varied Career, Jack Sparrow, and “Torturing” Leonardo DiCaprio". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 6, 2016.
  • I changed my mind. I don’t want to be an inveshtigative journalist anymore. I want to be a professional rum drinker.” “There are people who do that,” Duff said. He’d barely sipped his rum. “Really? What do you call them?” “Alcoholics.

    People   Mind   Want  
  • New York means many different things to me. It certainly means cheesecake, more species of cheesecake than I ever knew existed: rum, orange, hazelnut, chocolate marble, Italian, Boston, and of course, New York.

    New York   Mean   Italian  
  • The Sugar Frosted Nutsack is dizzyingly brilliant. Mark Leyner is a hyperkinetic shaman, who flies the banner of rum and candy and writes like a one-eyed feral bandit. His new book is supremely original, delirious and synapse-shattering.

    Book   Writing   Sugar  
  • Red Rum is the greatest thing on four legs since Pegasus.

    Horse   Pegasus   Legs  
  • I had a werewolf morning. Awoke with a rum hangover, imagined blood on the walls, and prayed to god it was mine.

    Morning   Wall   Hangover  
  • I've been sober now for 18 years. With all the drugs, psychedelics and narcotics I did, I was [really] an alcoholic. Honestly, I only used to do cocaine so I could sober up and drink more. My last five years of drinking was a nightmare. I was drinking a half-gallon of rum with a fifth of rum on the side, in case I ran out, 28 beers a day, and three grams of cocaine just to keep me moving around. And I thought I was doing fine because I wasn't crawling around drunk on the floor.

    Drinking   Moving   Beer  
    "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • I don't know what the future holds. Anything is possible.

    Benign   Rum   Knows  
  • A very little boy stood upon a heap of gravel for the honour of Rum Alley. He was throwing stones at howling urchins from Devil's Row, who were circling madly about the heap and pelting him. His infantile countenance was livid with the fury of battle. His small body was writhing in the delivery of oaths.

    Book   Boys   Devil  
    Stephen Crane (2005). “Maggie: A Girl of the Streets & Other Stories”, p.1, Wordsworth Editions
  • I was working with real artists [in the Rum Diary], and that's difficult to do and very rare, in this industry, ironically.

    Real   Artist   Diaries  
    "Amber Heard the Rum Diary Interview". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 27, 2011.
  • On our honeymoon we talked and talked. We stayed in a beachfront villa, and we drank rum and lemonade and talked so much that I never even noticed what color the sea was. Whenever I need to stop and remind myself how much I once loved Andrew, I only need to think about this. That the ocean covers seven tenths of the earth's surface, and yet my husband could make me not notice it.

    Chris Cleave (2012). “Chris Cleave Ebook Boxed Set: Little Bee, Incendiary, Gold”, p.48, Simon and Schuster
  • There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.

    'Don Juan' (1819-24) canto 2, st. 34
  • The Rum Turn Tugger is a terrible bore: When you let him in, then he wants to be out; He's always on the wrong side of every door, And as soon as he's at home, then he'd like to get about.

    Home   Doors   Want  
    T.S. Eliot (2011). “The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.195, Faber & Faber
  • Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash.

    In Sir Peter Gretton Former Naval Person (1968) ch. 1
  • Among the expected glories of the Constitution, next to the abolition of Slavery was that of Rum.

  • Rum, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers.

    Food   Cooking   Madness  
    Ambrose Bierce (2004). “The Devil's Dictionaries: The Best of the Devil's Dictionary and the American Heretic's Dictionary”, p.41, See Sharp Press
  • Sugar, rum and tobacco are commodities which are nowhere necessaries of life, which are become objects of almost universal consumption, and which are therefore extremely proper subjects of taxation.

    Adam Smith (1843). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations With a Life of the Author: Also a View of the Doctrine of Smith, Compared with that of the French Economists, with a Method of Facilitating the Study of His Works, from the French of M. Jariner”, p.399
  • The first time I played the Masters, I was so nervous I drank a bottle of rum before I teed off. I shot the happiest 83 of my life.

    Dirty   Golf   Gold  
  • The literate man is a sucker for propaganda...You cannot propagandize a native. You can sell him rum and trinkets, but you cannot sell him ideas.

    Men   Ideas   Propaganda  
    Herbert Marshall Mcluhan (2010). “Understanding Me: Lectures and Interviews”, p.270, McClelland & Stewart
  • [The Rum Diary] is a prestigious movie and it's got a great, talented cast, so they wanted to make sure they had the right person for the role, but it was a torturous process. It was painful.

    Diaries   Roles   Painful  
    "Amber Heard the Rum Diary Interview". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 27, 2011.
  • I'm drinking lots of rum and popping pinks and greys.

    Drinking   Rum   Popping  
    Letter to his wife in 1967. "L. Ron Hubbard: Messiah or Madman?". Book by Bent Corydon and Ronald DeWolf, 1987.
  • Alcoholism, the opium habit and tobaccoism are a trio of poison habits which have been weighty handicaps to human progress during the last three centuries. In the United States, the subtle spell of opium has been broken by restrictive legislation; the grip of the rum demon has been loosened by the Prohibition Amendment to the Constitution, but the tobacco habit still maintains its strangle-hold and more than one hundred million victims of tobaccoism daily burn incense to the smoke god.

    John Harvey Kellogg (1922). “Tobaccoism;: Or, How Tobacco Kills,”
  • I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?

    Slavery   Sugar   Pity  
    William Cowper (1858). “Works of Cowper and Thomson”, p.122
  • There are such a lot of things that have no place in summer and autumn and spring. Everything that’s a little shy and a little rum. Some kinds of night animals and people that don’t fit in with others and that nobody really believes in. They keep out of the way all the year. And then when everything’s quiet and white and the nights are long and most people are asleep—then they appear.

    Summer   Spring   Believe  
    Tove Jansson (2014). “Moominland Midwinter”, p.40, Macmillan
  • What a benefit would the American government, not yet relieved of its extreme need, render to itself, and to every city, village and hamlet in the States, if it would tax whiskey and rum almost to the point of prohibition! Was it Bonaparte who said that he found vices very good patriots? "He got five millions from the love of brandy, and he should be glad to know which of the virtues would pay him as much." Tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will cheerfully carry the load of armies, if you choose to make them pay high for such joy as they give and such harm as they do.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.438, Harvard University Press
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