Inevitably, the flood of literary pornography loosed on us is dulling our reactions of surprise or shock. Its writers are forced to… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
What is it in absinthe that makes it a separate cult? The effects of its abuse are totally distinct from those of… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
I drink mate every day during training camp, and just in general. It's packed full of vitamins and nutrients and a lot… — Chris Algieri Copy Share Image
I like to write early in the morning, like, 5 a.m. If I'm really on my game, I don't have any coffee… — Travis Morrison Copy Share Image
Success: a marvelous stimulant, bubbling with inspiration and incitement. But for all except the few who are strong and steadfast, there lurks… — Samuel Hopkins Adams Copy Share Image
A sense of power is the most intoxicating stimulant a mortal can enjoy. — Ellen Swallow Richards Copy Share Image
Formulae are the anaesthetics of thought, not its stimulants and to make any one think is far better worth while than cramming… — Percival Lowell Copy Share Image
For 50 years bike racers have been taking stimulants. Obviously we can do without them in a race, but then we will… — Jacques Anquetil Copy Share Image
Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realised joy could be. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We are close to dead. There are faces and bodies like gorged maggots on the dance floor, on the highway, in the… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Every desire bears its death in its very gratification. Curiosity languishes under repeated stimulants, and novelties cease to excite and surprise, until… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
All that the world most needs today, is combined in the most seductive manner in his art, — the three great stimulants… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The Japanese, if I understand them, are masters of the unsaid and the unstated, of subtlety and ambiguity, all of which constitute… — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic - in short, the closest thing to a genuine… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
“Poetry is no more a narcotic than a stimulant; it is a universal bittersweet mixture for all possible household emergencies and its… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
Next to happiness, perhaps enmity is the most healthful stimulant of the human mind. — Margaret Oliphant Copy Share Image
That the American, by temperament, worked to excess, was true; work and whiskey were his stimulants; work was a form of vice;… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Undervaluations caused by neglect or prejudice may persist for an inconveniently long time, and the same applies to inflated prices caused by… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
People do not get tired out from working where work is intelligently handled. Work, if it is interesting, is a stimulant. It's… — George Matthew Adams Copy Share Image
Nearly all the Escapists in the long past have managed their own budget and their social relations so unsuccessfully that I wouldn't… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Whatever I do, I do with the greatest love that I have in me. Try this, and you will see that you… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
“Seen at Liberty University: "I hope the Rapture happens before my student loans are due.” — Kevin Roose Copy Share Image
If you eliminate wheat from your diet, you're no longer hungry between meals because you've cut out the appetite stimulant, and consequently… — William Davis Copy Share Image
