Quotes About Intoxicated

The wind funnelled down the covered platform, jostling the passengers and tearing at their clothes. A woman's scarf whipped by overhead, somersaulting as if intoxicated by the sudden taste of freedom.

Ho cominciato con l'aspettare le donne, e il denaro, bevendo. E poi all'improvviso mi sono accorto di aver consumato la mia vita ad attendere, e sono intossicato a morte

With each passing day, I allowed myself to become a little more intoxicated by limitless possibilities which seemed sometimes to roll in with the fog, murmur suggestions that would have made me run yelling from them had I been anywhere [other than San Francisco], then leave me to cope with that special brand of terror bestowed by sweet and sour tastes of freedom.

risky launches are. As if intoxicated by their own sense of self-confidence, they plunge ahead, often committing many of the same mistakes that have doomed countless launches before them. They end up adding to the dismal failure statistics.

Travelling is a fool's paradise. We owe to our first journeys the discovery that place is nothing. At home I dream that at Naples, at Rome, I can be intoxicated with beauty, and lose my sadness. I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern Fact, the sad self, unrelenting identical that I fled from.

I want to let myself go, to glide over the charming greased surface, to be bewitched and intoxicated. And I'm no longer afraid of waking up. Let this world take me, Let this Paris squeeze me to death, so long as it first caresses me and carries me in its arms.

She would tell me parts of her story, but they never added up, and, intoxicated, I probed no further. I was grateful that Moira Orfei was endless, and that she never told me the true story of her difficult life.

Our postman. He flies in our mail." "He's drunk." "Massively," Dimitri agreed, "It is night, after all.

Was there such a thing as a world of romance and adventure somewhere? Where there women whose beauty intoxicated? Was there such a thing as love that devoured one like a flame?

Not once they have become inoculated with creeds of this description,' sneered the chief super. 'They become intoxicated, Sir Daynes. They become tipsy with the most dangerous brand of aggrandizing delusion – political idealism. It means nothing for them to kill, and a triumph for them to die. We know these people. You had better let us handle them.

No, my lord. I merely thought it unwise for you to visit the Duke of Massingale and request his granddaughter's hand in marriage while intoxicated." Reeves replaced the stopper on the decanter and carried it back to the sideboard. "His Lordship would not appreciate such a display.

Human reason is like a drunken man on horseback; set it up on one side, and it tumbles over on the other

She's half mad and three parts drunk.

And Celia, once she began, talked in a line no straighter than a sloppy drunk could have walked.

between 321 and 300 B.C., recommended that ambassadors use cryptanalysis to obtain intelligence: "If there is no possibility of carrying on any such conversation (conversation with the people regarding their loyalty), he [the envoy] may try to gather such information by observing the talk of beggars, intoxicated and insane persons, or of persons babbling in sleep, or by observing the signs made in places of pilgrimage and temples, or by deciphering paintings or secret writings.

Adam was created, as it were, intoxicated with rejoicing toward God and was delighted also with all the other creatures.

A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.

He was so drunk that he would have stubbornly denied that he was.

I have never understood why an intoxicated man feels the climax of insult is to hurl at you your name. Perhaps because he knows it is the one charge you cannot deny. But invariably before you escape, as though assured the words will cover your retreat with shame, he throws at you your full title.

drunk right now, Amfortas suspected, or high on amphetamine,

Jenks, deep into his honey drunk, gyrated wildly.

He'd given her his word—when he was soused and under duress from needing to tup her—but still his

He'd given her his word—when he was soused and under duress from needing to tup her—but still his word.

She smiles lightly, cheerfully, and I smile, and the earth-intoxicated, cheerful, light- is floating...