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Quotes About Intoxication

But Christopher obeyed a higher calling: the intoxicating call of green grass and sunshine, the sweet scent of the earth on one of the last days of summer.
~ Sy Montgomery
species from elephants to monkeys purposely eat fermented fruit to get drunk; dolphins were recently discovered sharing a certain toxic puffer fish, gently passing it from one cetacean snout to another, as people would pass a joint, after which the dolphins seem to enter a trancelike state.)
~ Sy Montgomery
I'm still not sure I didn't hallucinate the conversation while overdosing on his pheromones.
~ Sylvia Day
We were together because we were addicted to each other. I was never as intoxicated as I was when we were happy together, and I knew it was the same for him. We were putting ourselves through the wringer for those moments of perfection between us, but they were so tenuous that only our stubbornness, determination and love kept us fighting for them.
~ Sylvia Day
I'm going out, remember?" I prodded. "And I'm going to drink too much, which makes me horny. Don't forget to take your vitamins, ace.
~ Sylvia Day
Must've been some lay for her to be so bent out of shape over it. I couldn't say, he muttered. I don't remember. Were you drunk? No. Jesus. He scrubbed at his face. What the hell did she tell you?
~ Sylvia Day
I began to think vodka was my drink at last. It didn't taste like anything, but it went straight down into my stomach like a sword-swallower's sword and made me feel powerful and god-like.
~ Sylvia Plath
Intoxicated with madness, I'm in love with my sadness.
~ Sylvia Plath
You've been nipping at cook's wine!!
~ Tamora Pierce
But aren't lovers always tempted to find another? You humans are lovers, yes? So you have this awful tendency to reject him who first loved you and follow after the intoxicating scents.
~ Ted Dekker
You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I'm inclined to extravagance.
~ Tennessee Williams
And so tonight we're going to make the lie true, and when that's done, I'll bring the liquor back here and we'll get drunk together, here, tonight, in this place that death has come into...
~ Tennessee Williams
Un soir, l'âme du vin chantait dans les bouteilles»
~ Julio Cortazar
Un soir, l'âme du vin chantait dans les bouteilles»
~ Julio Cortazar
Qué mamúa padre. The Doors of Perception, by Aldley Huxdous. Get yourself a tiny bit of mescalina, brother, the rest is bliss and diarrhoea.
~ Julio Cortazar
Usted se lo buscó, amigazo. –Y usted está borracho, Horacio.
~ Julio Cortazar
una maldita borracha
~ Junot Diaz
Drinking myself blind seemed like the next logical step.
~ Justin Cronin
Se le ocurrió que si la escritura no se hacía de esa manera, en un estado de embriaguez física o espiritual, entonces no valía la pena de ser ejecutada (y la palabra misma le hizo sonreír). Sabía que lo que estaba haciendo jamás podría llegar a ser considerado como una novela por un editor o por un agente literario.
~ Juvenal Acosta
Admiration is a wonderful thing. I like it the same way I like hundred-year-old brandy, and both of them come my way about as frequently. The other similarity is the way it goes to my head,
~ K.J. Parker
And they served me a lot of free drinks. So I drank a little more than I should have, maybe. So some of what happened I don't remember too well. But there was a lot of shouting." "You must have killed somebody," said Smith. "Yes, I think I did," Lord Eyrdway agreed.
~ Kage Baker
Debt can be the most addictive thing in the universe, and it can kill you. You get used to living high off the hog. It was intoxicating.
~ Harvey Weinstein
If you're holding your iPhone, and it's the newest iteration of it, you're like, 'Oh, famous people have my phone. Captains of industry have my phone.' And that can be an intoxicating experience for someone who is going off to college for the first time.
~ Mary H.K. Choi
poesy is the wine of demons...
~ Francis Bacon