A bee rose up from a sun-filled paper cup, off to make slum honey from some diet root beer it had found inside. - Nicholson Baker He felt around desperately for a weapon. What did he have? Diapers? Cookies? Oh, why hadn't they given him a sword? He was the stupid warrior, wasn't he? His fingers dug in the leather bag and closed around the root beer can. Root beer! He yanked out the can shaking it with all his might. "Attack! Attack!" he yelled. - Suzanne Collins When my time is up, I want to cross a River Styx of pure root beer. - Jilly Page 30 - Dean Koontz

We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us. - Charles Bukowski People care about my personal life. But really I'm dorky! I drink beer and go to football games. And ya know, sit in my house in a t-shirt on the weekends and play with my dog! - Sophia Bush Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day. - George Carlin Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer. - Arnold Schwarzenegger I just did an interview where I was asked whether I drink beer or whisky, and I was sad to reveal that I'm pounding spring water. - Brad Delson What else is there to do in college except drink beer or slit one's wrists? - Bret Easton Ellis We've got horse property and there's other stuff to do. Like, four wheel driving, we barbeque, drink beers, sit around and play guitars and have a merry ...

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

Nanny Ogg could see the future in the froth on a beer mug. It invariably showed that she was going to enjoy a refreshing drink which she almost certainly was not going to pay for. - Terry Pratchett Out of nowhere, Valek appeared before me, yelling in my ear, shaking my shoulders. Stupidly, belatedly, I realized he was the drunk. Who else but Valek could win a fight against four large men when armed only with a beer mug? - Maria V Snyder

I'm an old-fashioned guy... I want to be an old man with a beer belly sitting on a porch, looking at a lake or something. - Johnny Depp The Middle Ages hangs over history's belt like a beer belly. It is too late now for aerobic dancing or cottage cheese lunches to reduce the Middle Ages. History will have to wear size 48 shorts forever. - Tom Robbins I have a beer belly. - Christy Turlington