Intoxication And Sobriety Quotes & Sayings

In the movie, you have to decide as an actor how you are going to give a character presence. You can't really move, walk, and talk like yourself. This creates something so you have to find something "other". — Mark Strong

He was not looking forward to breaking the law. He was straight now. He'd matured. Crime no longer excited him.
What?' Ronald said.
I didn't say anything.'
You're breathing heavy. — Jennifer Crusie

Upon occasion we should go as far as intoxication ... Drink washes cares away, stirs the mind from its lowest depths ... But in liberty moderation is wholesome, and so it is in wine ... We ought not indulge too often, for fear the mind contract a bad habit, yet it is right to draw it toward elation and release and to banish dull sobriety for a little. — Seneca The Younger

What are reason and sobriety without the knowledge of intoxication? — Hermann Hesse

If one cannot gain recognition for
anything else, he can rest well with the assurance that he is "good," which in most cases equates with "right". Were it not for an evil to rail against he might just as well never have been born. Yes, evil is the great savior and sustainer of those who
condemn it most. — Anton Szandor LaVey

Beware the deadly fumes of that insane elation Which rises from the cup of mad impiety, And go, get drunk with that divine intoxication Which is more sober far than all sobriety. — William Rounseville Alger

The most efficient way to use military power is to disrupt emerging powers before they can become even marginally threatening. — George Friedman

Money is behind every war," Au-nak continued. "Religion is but an excuse. Or perhaps a justification." "There's a difference?" the ardent said, obviously taking offense at Au-nak's tone. "Of course," Au-nak said. "An excuse is what you make after the deed is done, while a justification is what you offer before." "I would say an excuse is something you claim, but do not believe, Nak-ali." Hatham was using the high form of Au-nak's name. "While a justification is something you actually believe. — Brandon Sanderson

Some knowledge is a fish," she muttered. "Some is a serpent. — Alexander McCall Smith

The mother of useful arts is necessity; that of the fine arts is luxury. For father the former has intellect; the latter genius, which itself is a kind of luxury. — Arthur Schopenhauer

O, how glorious would it be to set my heel upon the Pole and turn myself 360 degrees in a second! — Joseph Banks

That which is the Real Self of Man is the Divine Spark sent forth from the Sacred Flame. — William Walker Atkinson

He's holding my hand! A boy is holding my hand! This is happening! I should let go. I should blush and act shy. Like a girl from the movies. But that's not what I do. I hold on. — G. Willow Wilson

O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! - Cassio (Act II, Scene iii) — William Shakespeare