I Have to Prepare a Speech on Alcoholism & Need Attention Getter & a Thesis Statement?
Question by DINA r: i have to prepare a speech on alcoholism & need attention getter & a thesis statement?
i also need a clincher to connect with attention getter
Best answer:
Answer by There
I’ll try to help you, but what points are you trying to make about alcoholism?
Answer by miamiwings
·
“It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts.”
Chisholm, Shirley Anita
“It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.”
Cocteau, Jean ·
“If an addict who has been completely cured starts smoking again he no longer experiences the discomfort of his first addiction. There exists, therefore, outside alkaloids and habit, a sense for opium, an intangible habit which lives on, despite the recasting of the organism. The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.”
Cocteau, Jean “My case is a species of madness, only that it is a derangement of the Volition, and not of the intellectual faculties.”
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor ·
“In this country, don’t forget, a habit is no damn private hell. There’s no solitary confinement outside of jail. A habit is hell for those you love. And in this country it’s the worst kind of hell for those who love you.”
Holiday, Billie ·
Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.
Seneca
Drunkenness is temporary suicide.
Bertrand Russell
Even though a number of people have tried, no one has ever found a way to drink for a living.
Jean Kerr
A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into.
Thomas Fuller
A few years back I was more a candidate for skid row bum than an Emmy. If I hadn’t stopped [drinking], I’d be playing handball with John Belushi right now.
John Larroquette
Alcohol doesn’t console, it doesn’t fill up anyone’s psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn’t comfort man. On the contrary, it encourages him in his folly, it transports him to the supreme regions where he is master of his own destiny.
Marguerite Duras
Know better? Leave your own answer in the comments!