Showed Blood Alcohol

Famous quotes containing the words showed, blood and/or alcohol:

    “His delights
    Were dolphin-like, they showed his back above
    The element they lived in.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “His white head hung out like a carpet bag
    and his crotch turned blue as a blood blister,
    and Godfather death, as it is written,
    put a finger on his back
    for the big blackout,
    the big no.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “The sacrifice to Legba was completed; the Master of the Crossroads had taken the loas’ mysterious routes back to his native Guinea.
    Meanwhile, the feast continued. The peasants were forgetting their misery: dance and alcohol numbed them, carrying away their shipwrecked conscience in the unreal and shady regions where the savage madness of the African gods lay waiting.”
    —Jacques Roumain (1907–1945)