Quotes About Intoxicants

#1. A bookshop is powder-magazine, a dynamite-shed, a drugstore of poisons, a bar of intoxicants, a den of opiates, an island of sirens.

John Cowper Powys

#2. I don't do intoxicants on tour too often. It slows me down mentally, and it feels like killing brain cells.

Chaz Bundick

#3. Books possess an ounce-of-weight to minute-of-entertainment ratio that compares quite favorably to intoxicants.

Jon Krakauer

#4. Marijuana is quite possibly the finest of intoxicants. It has been scientifically proven, for decades, to be much less harmful to the body than alcohol when used on a regular basis (Google "Science").

Nick Offerman

#5. Narrative is one of the best intoxicants or tranquilisers.

A.S. Byatt

#6. He who runs may see that opium and such other intoxicants and narcotics stupefy a man's soul and reduce him to a level lower than that of beasts.

Mahatma Gandhi

#7. One of the first signs of a self-destructing aboriginal culture always seems to be an increase in the use of drugs and intoxicants,

David Weber

#8. The bikku should not rest content until mental intoxicants are fully extinct.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#9. All my favorite establishments were either overly crowded or pathetically empty. People either sipped fine vintages in celebration or gulped intoxicants of who cares what kind, drowning themselves in a lack of moderation, raising a glass to lower inhibitions, imbibing spirits to raise their own.

Monique Truong

#10. DANCER ELIAS GARRICK

"NEVER THE SIDEKICK, ALWAYS THE HERO. I'LL SEE YOU IN THE SLIPSTREAM.

Karen Marie Moning

#11. I'm from East Texas, yes.

Margo Martindale

#12. And for a little while he lay still, breathing lightly as if he expected total repose would restore everything to its normal and unquestionable state.

Franz Kafka

#13. From all that I heard, and overheard, fate was a grim reaper, never kind, with little respect for who was loved and needed.

V.C. Andrews

#14. We can identify with Frodo and Sam, setting off not knowing quite where they are going and what they are to do.

Timothy Radcliffe

#15. Sniffing glue is a homeless nonbeliever's prayer.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#16. But I did like looking at her. It was harder now, knowing all the ways she sucked, but she was still gorgeous.

Joshua Ferris

#17. By most accounts, Aristide is the most popular figure in Haiti.

Noam Chomsky

#18. It's harder and harder to make a well-done romantic comedy these days because the conventions have been so played out.

Dana Fox

#19. The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Thomas Carlyle

#20. Being a doctor he didn't want for choices, but also being a doctor he understood the fragility of bone and sinew that encompassed the even more fragile organ of the heart. He envisioned Therese's as being wound in intricate, tight, vinelike veins that he would slowly make sense of and unravel.

Tara Lynn Masih