Being Intoxicated Quotes

#1. It's like being intoxicated with inertia, drunk but with no enjoyment in the drinking or in the drunkenness.

Fernando Pessoa

#2. I succeeded in bewitching a fair number and in being intoxicated with my mistakes.

Jean Cocteau

#3. Its a fact of being in love that we often pay no attention whatsoever to the substance of what a lover says, while being intoxicated to ecstasy by the way it's said. I was in love with her eyes, but I didn't read them. I loved her voice, but I didn't really hear the fear & the anguish in it.

Gregory David Roberts

#4. Admiration and love are like being intoxicated with champagne; judgment and friendship are like being enlivened.

Samuel Johnson

#5. You could make a film about being intoxicated only when you're riding motorcycles, but really when you're in an enclosed space safely, you can.

Colin Hanks

#6. The Greeks distinguished between good and bad behavior, language that enhanced or diminished persons. Being intoxicated with scientism, we fail to recognize that the seemingly technical terms used to identify psychiatric illnesses and interventions are simply dyphemisms and euphemisms.

Thomas Szasz

#7. It seems Korean women are enjoying a passive and fragile status, intoxicated by appearance. Not only feminism, but any serious discourse ends up being swept away by popular culture in Korea.

Kim Hyesoon

#8. Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you'll start to see a big difference in your life.

Yoko Ono

#9. And when you start talking about the practicality of winning a race like that - you've got to remember we're not talking about winning 51 percent of the vote. We're talking about winning 36, 37, 38 percent of the vote.

Hamilton Jordan

#10. Only God Himself could keep me from you, love.

Shiloh Walker

#11. A small man intoxicated by being allowed to run around with the big aggressive powerful boys after so many years as a corduroy-clad peacenik.

George Galloway

#12. As I am sure you know, when people say 'It's my pleasure,' they usually mean something along the lines of, 'There's nothing on Earth I would rather do less.' [ ... ]

Lemony Snicket

#13. Without a movement pressing for change, there's little hope. We've got to work the political system to make this happen fast. The physics and chemistry are daunting. The resources on the other side are very large.

Bill McKibben

#14. She didn't give in to pity. That woman - girl, really - had survived a monster intent on destroying everything she was. She deserved a fucking medal for courage, not pity.

Nalini Singh

#15. I grew up in Wahpeton, N.D., and I didn't leave until I was 18, and I've kept going back.

Louise Erdrich

#16. Not knowing how mant troops Jenkins truly had, Johnson refused to surrender "unless forced to do so by an exhibition of your boasted strength."
Jenkins fought for more than five hours before pulling back.

Clint Johnson

#17. In my own experience as president of Brazil I observed first hand many of the trends that Nam identifies in this book, but he describes them in a way that is as original as it is delightful to read. All those who have power-or want it-should read this book.

Fernando Henrique Cardoso

#18. It's easiest to write songs when I'm either really in love or really mad at a guy. It's just always best when I'm feeling superemotional.

Avril Lavigne

#19. Struggling writer' e un pleonasm, cuz a writer is always struggling.

Teodor Burnar