“The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.”
Aristotle
“I nearly shot a young girl who had a handgun in her hand and was intoxicated, shooting wildly into the darkness. She was terrified and I was terrified.”
Rob Levy
“Public intoxication will get you arrested, but private intoxication makes you an alcoholic.”
Amber Nicole Limbaugh
“Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.”
“The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.”
Cyril Connolly
“Not wine... men intoxicate themselves; Not vice... men entice themselves.”
William Shakespeare
“To be a teacher was to be a student anew, to relive the intoxication of insight, and to be a prophet, to sketch the world down to its very foundation — not simply to tease sight from blindness, but to demand that another see.”
R. Scott Bakker