Quotes About Intoxication

I knew that by getting behind the wheel of the car and having had something to drink, the responsibility laid on my shoulders.

I take a lull from my CamelBak and choke at its potency. It tastes like bad decisions. It's perfect.

If God invented anything better than drunk sex with a hot girl, he kept it to himself.

Stephen looked sharply round, saw the decanter, smelt to the sloth, and cried, 'Jack, you have debauched my sloth.

he felt the effect of the wine well before his glass was emptied - a very slight swimming in his head, the faint birth of a certain benignity, a willingness to be pleased with his company.

Drunk people, loud people, obvious and angry people, people stammering and stumbling, spilling drinks and scarfing small burned sausages and cheese cubes on toothpicks. They had surrendered all power and direction, they they were yelling and gasping. They strengthened me. I did not want to be that way. I stood calmer, observing them.

to be anonymous and traveling in an interesting place is an intoxication

She wants to drink that man too, and then she can forget forever the cheap wine that you gulp down and that makes you feel drunk, but always leaves you with a headache and an empty space in your soul.

What does drunkenness not accomplish? It unlocks secrets, confirms our hopes, urges the indolent into battle, lifts the burden from anxious minds, teaches new arts.

There is no art without intoxication. But I mean a mad intoxication! Let reason teeter! Delirium!

Whisky making is the art of making poison pleasant

As far as I can see, the history of experimental art in the twentieth century is intimately bound up with the experience of intoxification.

In many instances, however, I would expect such instances of discomfort to draw our attention to the ways in which we have drunk deep from Babylon's cup and are tempted to remain in our stupor.

was already gone for good. "Hello, who is this?" Watson wasn't slurring his words.

What's a drunken man like, fool? Feste: Like a drowned man, a fool, and a madman: one draught above heat makes him a fool; the second mads him; and a third drowns him.

While he was drunk asleep, or in his rage, or in the incestuous pleasure of his bed.

Edward was at the stage of drunkenness in which the ego glows like a coal, and brilliant people become more inspired, but in which dull people, fired by the same inspiration, become only more dull.

For she was clever. It had not been a lie then, that ecstasy which had visited her when she read A Midsummer Night's Dream on top of the railway coach last summer. It had meant something. She had understood something. She was drunk with an intoxicating wine of gladness.

I tell you, to be drunk on alcohol is disgraceful, but to be drunk on water is noble and ecstatic.

Ah, well." He smiled-another one of those devastatingly intoxicating smiles that did unreasonable things to her body temperature and respiration. With a nod and a respectful, "Ma'am," he left her in the middle of the room. Feeling like she'd been hit by a tank.

C'était les grandes vacances, en somme. Au programme, cours de natation avec option bateau ivre. Expirez soufflez, expiez crevez.

At love's most intoxicating moment, I have enough freedom left to want to abandon it, for a moment, to other hands.

Every day I discover even more beautiful things. It is intoxicating me, and I want to paint it all - my head is bursting…

There are days when solitude, for someone my age, is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.