Ray Lewis knifed through those offensive linemen like a sucker-punch switchblade slicing between the ribs of some inebriated trash-talking punk outside a sports bar.

— Dennis Miller

Floundering Inebriated quotations

Inebriate of air am I, And debauchee of dew, Reeling, through endless summer days, From inns of molten blue.

There is something terribly wrong with a culture inebriated by noise and gregariousness.

A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.

The poet speaks adequately only when he speaks somewhat wildly.

.. not with intellect alone, but with intellect inebriated by nectar.

That means I can drive a flock of sheep through the town centre, drink for free in no less than 64 pubs and get a lift home with the police when I become inebriated. What more could you want?

Every moderate drinker could abandon the intoxicating cup if he would;

every inebriate would if he could.

Tea - the cups that cheer but not inebriate.

A sophisticated rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.

Someone who is elated with wine speaks the truth on all subjects, even without meaning to. In the same way, anyone who is inebriated with the spirit of penitence will never be able to tell lies.

Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa around, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in

In summer moonlight, she was dangerously, inebriatingly magnified.

I get drunk writing words. I don't drink or do drugs, but I get so carried away with writing that I get inebriated from it.

My band and music are so intense they scare me, and I'm not afraid of anything.

We love our music with everything we got and deliver the most inebriating fun concerts on earth every night.

[Tar water] is of a nature so mild and benign and proportioned to the human constitution, as to warm without heating, to cheer but not inebriate.

I'm not talking to anyone, I'm delivering a monologue. It's the inebriated man's prerogative.

While alcohol ... continues to wreak havoc in America, supported by a $6 billion-a-year alcohol industry advertising campaign extolling the joy of inebriation, the far less harmful drug of marijuana remains illegal and continues to ruin people's lives - only if they are caught possessing and convicted of that crime.

shadows of love, inebriations of love, foretastes of love, trickles of love, but never yet the one true love.

I never met Barry Crump, but I was in an audience once for a play once.

There was a drunken man at the back of the auditorium that was shouting during a performance of a one man play, and it turned out later on that was Barry Crump and he was in a state of inebriation.

A bibliomaniac is one to whom books are like bottles of whiskey to the inebriate, to whom anything that is between covers has an intoxicating savor.

Nothing lulls and inebriates like money;

when you have a lot, the world seems a better place than it actually is.

All that shimmers on the surface of the world, all that we call interesting, is the fruit of ignorance and inebriation.

An inebriated elderly gentleman in the last depths of shabbiness.

.. played the calm and virtuous old men.

It was just inebriating what Midland was all about then.

Soul of Christ, sanctify me. Body of Christ, save me. Blood of Christ, inebriate me. Water from the side of Christ, wash me. Passion of Christ, strengthen me. O good Jesus, hear me. Within Thy wounds hide me. Permit me not to be separated from Thee. From the wicked foe defend me. At the hour of my death call me. And bid me come to Thee. That with Thy saints I may praise Thee For ever and ever. Amen.

Snow is all right while it is snowing;

it is like inebriation because it is very pleasing when it is coming, but very unpleasing when it is going.

It's amazing when you get to a certain age, and you talk about sleep in the same way you spoke about getting inebriated... I got eight hours last night. It was fantastic!

One night in Tokyo we watched two Japanese businessmen saying good-night to each other after what had clearly been a long night of drinking, a major participant sport in Japan. These men were totally snockered, having reached the stage of inebriation wherein every air molecule that struck caused them to wobble slightly, but they still managed to behave more formally than Americans do at funerals.

A comforting acquaintance, hope, a contagious thing like spring, inebriating like lager.

I don't like the stigma that comes with being called a poet .

. . So I call what I'm doing an improvisational adventure or an inebriational travelogue.

LOVE: Deception of the flesh and damage to the spirit.

Disease of the soul, atrophy of the brain, weakening of the heart, corruption of the senses, poetic lies from which one gets ferociously inebriated two or three times a day in order to consume this precious but stupid life more quickly. And yet I would prefer to die of love. Its the only swindler, after Judas, that can kill with a kiss.

Most customers, by the time the musicians reach the second set, are to some extent inebriated. They don't care what you play anyway.

To wipe off the froth of falsehood from the foaming lips of inebriated virtue, when fresh from the sexless orgies of morality and reeling from the delirious riot of religion, may doubtless be a charitable office.

Prosperity inebriates men, so that they take delights in their own merits.

Death is just a new beginning…at least in my religion.

And extreme inebriation seriously helps. (Syn)