ALL IMAGES IN THE ISM PORTFOLIO ARE PRINTED 80 X 40 INCHES. - Anonymous quotes under info. tab were overheard @ group meetings.

"All things truly wicked start from innocence." Ernest Hemingway

“We know our friend is like a boy whistling in the dark to keep up his spirits. He fools himself. ” BB p. 269

"As a child my mum told me to watch my drinking, it runs in the family." Anonymous

"I was only an occasional drinker, but any occasion would suffice." Anonymous

“A good orthodox drunk, I knelt every morning at the porcelain altar.” Anonymous

"I felt the terror, the bewilderment, the torment and the pain."  Anonymous

“Throughout it all, I still remember."  Anonymous

“It provokes the desire but it takes away the performance...” William Shakespeare

“Don't you know there ain't no devil, it's just god when he's drunk.” Tom Waits

“If I have a near-beer, I’m near beer. And if I’m near beer, I’m close to tequila. And if I’m close to tequila, I’m adjacent to cocaine.” Craig Ferguson.

88,000 alcohol related deaths in the United States each year. (N.C.C.D.P.H.P.)

"Relationships were an addiction. But at the same time I was shy. Alcohol allowed me to cross the border." Anonymous

"I only have two triggers; one is being alone, the other is being in the company of others." Anonymous

“I drink to make other people more interesting.” Hemingway, Ernest

"I'll drink if something good happens. I'll drink if something bad happens. I'll drink if nothing is happening." Anonymous

“Drugs and alcohol are not my problem, reality is my problem, drugs and alcohol are my solution.” Russell Brand

“Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.” — Seneca the Younger

“It’s hard to over emphasize the 'not drinking' part of the program.” Anonymous

"Consequences won't keep a man sober." Anonymous

"Always do sober what you said you'd do when you were drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut!” — Ernest Hemingway

“It’s a tragedy that jails are full of addicts who cannot behave in society.” Anonymous

"Jail was an education; I knew I was right where I was supposed to be." Anonymous

“Drunkenness is temporary suicide.” Bertrand Russell

“We have been taught that freedom is the freedom to pursue our petty, trivial desires. Real freedom is freedom from our petty, trivial desires.” Russell Brand

“Your disease will wait, linger, and stalk you... however long it takes.  Then it will pounce.  It will chew you up and spit you out.”  Anonymous

“Drinking cuts out the sunlight of the spirit.”  Anonymous

"Alcohol just stopped working." Anonymous

“As we became subjects of King Alcohol, shivering denizens of his mad realm, the chilling vapor that is loneliness settled down. It thickened, ever becoming blacker.” Big Book p. 151

"The unpleasantness you are feeling is probably a signal that you are in the right place."  Anonymous

“I’m told that you don’t have to believe in order for it to work.” Niels Bohr

“Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.” Desmond Tutu

"To someone who has been drinking all of their life, sobriety is an altered state." Anonymous

“Staying sober is a radically rebellious and creative process.”  Anonymous

“Give light and people will find the way.” Ella Baker

“Religion is for people who're afraid of going to hell. Spirituality is for those who've already been there.” Vine Deloria Jr