“Claire: It's alright. It is possible to deliver a breach baby. I may have to reach inside and guide it out. Jenny: Alright. But, you'll be fetching me a good stiff dram before we start. Claire: In that case, the baby will likely be drunk, too. Jenny: Then he'll come into the world a true Scot.”— Toni Graphia, imdb.com
“Jamie: I need a whisky. Claire: You've had enough. You need liquids. Water or broth. Jamie: Whisky's a liquid, no? Claire: No.”— Joy Blake, Jamie Fraser, Sam Heughan, imdb.com
“There was a kind of intoxication in being lord of a visible world (albeit a miniature one) and determining the flow of its events.”— H. P. Lovecraft, hplovecraft.com
“One sip of this will bathe the drooping spirits in delight, beyond the bliss of dreams.”— John Milton, amazon.com
“For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com
“And I sat there getting drunker and drunker and more in love and more in love.”— Donald Barthelme, amazon.com
“For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com
“How readily our thoughts swarm upon a new object, lifting it a little way, as ants carry a blade of straw so feverishly, and then leave it.”— Virginia Woolf, bartleby.com