Colin Falconer (Colin Bowles) Quotes

I’ve drunk French champagne in a speakeasy and water out of a horse trough in Poland, and the thing that matters is not what I’m drinking but who I’m drinking with.

Colin Falconer

• Water
• Drinking
• Champagne
• Poland
• Trough

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• I grew up in a house my parents built together on a mountain in Tennessee. When we moved in, the walls were still going up, we didn't have hot water, and we turned it into an amazing adventure.

  

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• I would prefer to live forever in perfect health, but if I must at some time leave this life, I would like to do so ensconced on a chaise longue, perfumed, wearing a velvet robe and pearl earrings, with a flute of champagne beside me and having just discovered the answer to the last problem in a British cryptic crossword.

  

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• All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

  

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• Thank you to the readers of the 'Huffington Post' for voting me the 'Hottest Freshman' of the 111th Congress. It's about time politicians from Illinois were known for something other than bad haircuts or having the ability to walk on water.

  

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• I know now that I began writing in a country where the word 'woman' and the word 'poet' were almost magnetically opposed. One word was used to invoke collective nurture, the other to sketch out self-reflective individualism. Both states were necessary - that much the culture conceded - but they were oil and water and could not be mixed.

  

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• It is critical that parents and other trusted adults initiate conversations with kids about underage drinking well in advance of the first time they are faced with a decision regarding alcohol.

  

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• To an observer situated on the moon or on one of the planets, the most noticeable feature on the surface of our globe would no doubt be the large areas covered by oceanic water. The sunlit face of the earth would appear to shine by the light diffused back into space from the land and water-covered areas.

  

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• I just finished touring, and I'm on a detox thing. It's a heavy detox, so nothing in my belly except water, salt, and cayenne pepper.

  

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• 'It's a little Anxious,' he said to himself, 'to be a Very Small Animal Entirely Surrounded by Water.'

  

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• What's drinking?A mere pause from thinking!

  

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• Swimming upon water teaches men how birds do upon the air.

  

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• If you don't drink 56 bottles of water a week, scientists say you should take a garden hose at the end of the week and shove it up your ass.

  

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• To me, being grown-up meant smoking cigarettes, drinking cocktails, and dressing up in high heels and glamourous outfits.

  

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• This is suicidal... our home is the biosphere. That's a very thin layer of air, water and land where all life exists. It's fixed, it can't grow, and yet we cling to this idea that the economy can grow forever. And it must. Well, it can't.

  

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• I inhaled Dickens as a kid, and I've always been fascinated by the Victorians. So many ridiculous objects they had! They created things like mustache cups, so you wouldn't wet your mustache when you were drinking tea. And eyebrow combs. What's happened to all the eyebrow combs? Marvelous things.

  

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• I'm not much of a water skier, my legs are too skinny for that, so I just try to tube and have fun, just ride.

  

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• You can tirelessly keep on reading the same author, revere, admire, praise him, exalt him to the skies, know and recite each of his sentences by heart, and yet remain completely unaffected by him, as if he had never demanded anything of you and not said anything at all.

  

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• Thinking of the sun makes my heart beat faster - too fast! What darkness! From this night winter begins.

  

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• When it comes to writing musicals, you write the best piece you can. Then, its destiny is in the hands of the actors and the director.

  

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• They always said on TV you could do anything you wanted, but here I was trying to do something and it wasn't working. I would never be able to do it.

  

  Ned Vizzini
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• You have to be forward-moving and able to balance a lot of things at the same time. I attribute a lot of that to the Marine Corps and Juilliard both.

  

  Adam Driver
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• I’ve drunk French champagne in a speakeasy and water out of a horse trough in Poland, and the thing that matters is not what I’m drinking but who I’m drinking with.

  

  Colin Falconer
  • Water
  • Drinking
  • Champagne