Quotes of: Intoxication Keyword

Not wine, men intoxicate themselves; not vice, men entice themselves.

Chinese

Alannah took a step back. “Brennus, are you intoxicated?” “I am King Brennus. I do not become intoxicated. I am intoxicating.” Alannah let out another giggle. “This is not like you. How much have you had?” Brennus leaned his shoulder agai...

Blood of the Sorcerer

Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places. 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 ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I could have blamed it on the intoxication of youth. Others might find fault on just intoxication. My parents would say that it was an act of plain stupidity. Reality would point out that it was Thursday night at college and the youth are prone to er...

Lost in the Sky

What is important is not getting intoxicated with a good feeling or getting intoxicated even with an insight. These take many forms in our practice. We go through times of great release, where there has been physical holding for what feels like forev...

Sharon Salzberg

It's chemical, fancying him is purely chemical. It's intoxicating - the frisson, the attraction - it's intoxicating because it's purely chemical. But you'll just have to remember the wedding ring - divorcees don't wear wedding rings. This guy has his...

Chances

If you can't fuck me while I read, fuck off.

The Paris Review Book: of Heartbreak, Madness, Sex, Love, Betrayal, Outsiders, Intoxication, War, Whimsy, Horrors, God, Death, Dinner, Baseball, Travels, ... Else in the World Since 1953

Alcohol does not a change a person’s fundamental value system. People’s personalities when intoxicated, even though somewhat altered, still bear some relationship to who they are when sober. When you are drunk you may behave in ways that are sill...

Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men

Money, celebrity and power can be very intoxicating.

Corey Hart

Beauty is often worse than wine; intoxicating both the holder and beholder.

John Zimmerman

Youth is an intoxication without wine, someone says. Life is an intoxication. The only sober man is the melancholiac, who, disenchanted, looks at life, sees it as it really is, and cuts his throat. If this be so, I want to be very drunk. The great th...

Journal of a Disappointed Man

Melanie Hamilton: So, you've got my husband intoxicated again, Captain Butler. Well, bring him in! Tom - Yankee Captain: I'm sorry, Mrs. Wilkes. Your husband's under arrest. Melanie Hamilton: If you arrest all the men who get intoxicated in Atlanta, ...

Gone with the Wind

Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.

Aldous Huxley

The roar of the crowd has always been the sweetest music. It's intoxicating.

Vin Scully

Power intoxicates men. It is never voluntarily surrendered. It must be taken from them.

James F. Byrnes

I will admit, it's so intoxicating working with Steve Carrell. Creatively and professionally.

Amy Ryan

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

Even the moon cannot escape your intoxicating charms...

Virginia Alison

Power always and everywhere had had a pernicious, corrupting effect upon men. It "converts a good man in private life to a tyrant in office." It acts upon men like drink: it "is known to be intoxicating in its nature"—"too intoxicating and liable t...

The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

In Miss Catherine Middleton we have the faintest, intoxicating glimmer of a New Age Cinderella story.

Hamish Bowles

I want to feel intoxicated from inhaling the scent of you.

Unrequited