Inebriating Synonym Quotes & Sayings

This street-this whole town-was so familiar that I looked straight through it, as if it were no longer a place unto itself but merely an opening onto the past. — Adam Haslett

The world of visual perspective is one of unified and homogeneous space. Such a world is alien to the resonating diversity of spoken words. So language was the last art to accept the visual logic of Gutenberg technology, and the first to rebound in the electric age. — Marshall McLuhan

If we lived close to nature in an agricultural society, the seasons as metaphor and fact would continually frame our lives. But the master metaphor of our era does not come from agriculture - it comes from manufacturing. We do not believe that we 'grow' our lives - we believe that we 'make' them. Just listen to how we use the word in everyday speech: we make time, make friends, make meaning, make money, make a living, make love. — Parker J. Palmer

Sailing is necessary, living is not necessary. — Fernando Pessoa

Is that theory true which would have us believe that man is no more than a product of many conditional and environmental factors - — Viktor E. Frankl

Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day. — Robin Hobb

What is this enigmatic impulse that does not allow one to settle down in the achieved, the finished? I think it is a quest for reality. — Czeslaw Milosz