Bacchanalian Quotes & Sayings

If you are ignorant, you certainly can get into some interesting arguments. — Herbert V. Prochnow

In soaps, people come back from the dead all the time, to the point where death is just a bus stop. — Anthony Geary

Wars begin when you will, but they do not end when you please. — Niccolo Machiavelli

There is a miracle called Friendship
that dwells within the heart
and you don't know how it happens
or when it even starts.

But the happiness it brings you
always gives a special lift
and you realize that Friendship
is God's most precious gift. — Jean Kyler McManus

Carry out your literary dream, no matter how unlikely it may seem ... — Terry A. O'Neal

I was lucky enough to get to see guys like Bugs Henderson, Jimmy Wallace, all those great Texas blues players. — Dimebag Darrell

Jaweh is clearly not a Nature-God. He does not die and come to life each year as a true Corn-king should. He may give wine and fertility, but must not be worshipped with Bacchanalian or aphrodisiac rites. — C.S. Lewis

In other times, I could stand here and give this kind of exposition on the beliefs of the Democratic Party and that would be enough. But today that is not enough. People want more. — Barbara Jordan

There are rumors about the depraved and perverted practices of the pulchritudinous protestant puritan plutocratic penis-people priesthood, of shadowy bacchanalian polyamorous practices ... I suspect, to be blunt, someone was blackmailing him. — Charles Stross

No vivacious Bacchanalian flame leaped out of the pressed grape of Monsieur Defarge: but, a smouldering fire that burnt in the dark lay hidden in the dregs of it. — Charles Dickens

Our righteousness" - never mind our sins! - "is like filthy rags" (Isa. 64:6 NKJV; — Michael S. Horton

So I must be locked up, where I can be safely irresponsible, where I can do no harm. — John Williams

The true is thus the bacchanalian whirl in which no member is not drunken; and because each, as soon as it detaches itself, dissolves immediately - the whirl is just as much transparent and simple repose. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The stars in their courses were fighting against Weston. — C.S. Lewis

Hang care!' exclaimed he. 'This is, a delicious evening; the wine has a finer relish here than in the house, and the song is more exciting and melodious under the tranquil sky than in the close room, where sound is stifled. Come, let us have a bacchanalian chant - let us, with old Sir Toby, make the welkin dance, and rouse the night-owl with a catch. I am right merry. Pass the bottle, and tune your voices - a catch, a catch! The lights will be here anon.'

("The Haunted House Of Paddington") — Charles Ollier

Your innocence is on at such a rakish angle it gives you quite an air of iniquity. — Christopher Fry

Once more they had left their own time for another age. The age of Bellman, the bacchanalian 18th-century poet. — Henning Mankell

There is, however, only one idea of duty which has been universally accepted by all mankind, of all ages and sects and countries, and that has been summed up in a Sanskrit aphorism thus: "Do not injure any being; not injuring any being is virtue, injuring any being is sin." — Swami Vivekananda

To answer the question, though: I didn't always want to direct. I just liked the idea of it. If a friend was making a short and needed someone who knew screen direction, I would jump in. It would be horrible, but it led to a short, then another, and another. It was like student films. — Ben Affleck

They're the salt of the earth, those girls. They don't sit each night and compare notes on groups, criticising lyrics, asking if it's valid. They just play the record ... yeah, and maybe they dance. I love them. I love them dearly — David Bowie

I'm having trouble dealing with society."
"What aspect of society?"
"The whole thing. — Brandon Stanton