Quotes About Intoxication

I think a guy who's had just the right amount of booze can sing the blues a hell of a lot better than a guy who is stone sober.

The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happiness in his own effort and the intoxication of the power and physical balance he derives from it, the day when he lets considerations of vanity or interest take over, on this day his ideal will die.

I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record.

the glass of wine I've drunk is beginning to take a few corners off the world...

it gets a little tiresome when you're so high you go to the movies and look up at the marquee and think the starting times are the ticket prices. I mean, I remember standing there going, 'Ten-fifteen? What kind of price is ten dollars and fifteen cents?' It's a hassle." "Yeah, one time I was putting gas in my car and thought the number of gallons was the price. I even got into an argument with the cashier. It was hilarious.

I didn't think she'd drunk enough to get to the crying stage, but maybe it doesn't take as many when your emotions are a little raw in the first place.

His friends, drunk to the point of speaking in tongues, were asleep.

Firewater brings out the real brownness of this buffalo.

They were both good friends and heavy drinkers, a combination hard to beat.

The High Street was full of farmers, cows, and other animals, the majority of the former well on the road to intoxication. It is, of course, extremely painful to see a man in such a condition, but when such a person in endeavouring to count a perpetually moving drove of pigs, the onlooker's pain is sensibly diminished.

I could see exactly what must have happened. Insert a liberal dose of mixed spirits in a normally abstemious man, and he becomes a force. He does not stand around, twiddling his fingers and stammering. He acts. I

Like most people who have made a defiant and dramatic gesture and then have leisure to reflect, he was oppressed by a feeling that he had gone considerably farther than was prudent. Samson, as he heard the pillars of the temple begin to crack, must have felt the same. Gestures are all very well while the intoxication lasts. The trouble is that it lasts such a very little while.

My love, suddenly your hip is the curve of the wineglass filled to the brim, your breast is the cluster, your hair the light of alcohol, your nipples, the grapes your navel pure seal stamped on your barrel of a belly, and your love the cascade of unquenchable wine, the brightness that falls on my senses, the earthen splendor of life.

That, apparentlu, was what happened when one fell in love. One's brains were sucked away, or turned gelatinous.

I love the slow, warming sensation of my body going numb when I drink.

The way to see the world was to see it drunk. Everything was created to be seen drunk.

Men could be drunk with pride, with passion, or with power. They could be drunken with hatred, or with the lust of gain.

Doing a life study while drunk and in the process of being seduced is never a formula for quality art.

He hated it when she had too much to drink and tried to hide it, acting the perfect lady—but Harlen could always tell by the precise diction, the slow movements, and the way she got all sloppy and tried to hug him.

Drunken life, dreamy death.

Through the ingenuousness of her age beamed an ardent mind, a mind not of the women but of the poet; she did not please, she intoxicated.

When I have one martini, I feel bigger, wiser, taller. When I have a second, I feel superlative. When I have more, there's no holding me.

liquor teaches you to confuse the means with the end

If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.