The Arts are not drugs. They are not guaranteed to act when taken. Something as mysterious and capricious as the creative impulse has to be released before they can act. - E.M. Forster
There are people who think they can dance out of slavery. I’m going to do escapist drugs and hop from one party or festival to another. I will dance my out of the harsh realities of Planet Earth - Mark Passio
The arrival of a good clown exercises a more beneficial influence upon the health of a town than twenty asses laden with drugs. - Thomas Sydenham
Here is my final point. About drugs, about alcohol, about pornography and smoking and everything else. What business is it of yours what I do, read, buy, see, say, think, who I fuck, what I take into my body - as long as I do not harm another human being on this planet? - Bill Hicks
love is a drug but is nt all drugs that we do take in. - lexis smigz
Books are readable drugs. - Carla H. Krueger
The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that's making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it? - John Lennon
At one point in my life I was a disappointment. I have popped pills, drugs, cheated, lied, and killed. But, at this moment in my life, I am very successful because not one of those things describes my character. - Stacy Snapp-Killian aka StacyK
Let us be the ones who say we do not accept that a child dies every three seconds simply because he does not have the drugs you and I have. Let us be the ones to say we are not satisfied that your place of birth determines your right for life. Let us be outraged, let us be loud, let us be bold. - Brad Pitt
Doctors pour drugs of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, into patients of whom they know nothing. - Moliere
I don't do drugs. I am drugs. - Salvador Dali
Drugs consumes mind, body and soul but only the weak gets devouerd - Fabian Gustafsson
This will sound strange, and yet I'm sure it was the point: it was a bit like being high. That, for me, anyway, had always been the attraction of drugs, to stop the brutal round of hypercritical thinking, to escape the ravages of an unoccupied mind cannibalizing itself. - Norah Vincent
The majority of the common people do not realize that calling 911 may result in a stressed out armed police officer that has a range of medical issues and is taking potent prescription drugs being sent to out to them. - Steven Magee
Reality is just a crutch for people who can't handle drugs. - Robin McLaurin Williams
Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
Drugs have taught an entire generation of Americans the metric system. - P. J. O'Rourke
I ask of film what most North Americans ask of psychedelic drugs.
If antidepressant drugs are effective, why don't they work for psychiatrists? Year after year, psychiatrists commit suicide at a higher rate than the general population. Are we to believe that they don't take their own drugs, or that the drugs don't have the benefits attributed to them?
The government are tightening up on ID for sales of tobacco and alcohol so I recommend that young people take more drugs. - Robert Clark
But, hey, remember: If things don't work out in your life, you can always just turn to drugs or join the Army. - Jason Christopher Hartley
Reality is a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs. - Lily Tomlin
I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me. - Hunter S. Thompson
I do not need drugs to be a genius, do not take a genius to be human, but I need your smile to be happy. - Charlie Chaplin
I love drugs, but I hate hangovers, and the hatred of the hangover wins by a landslide every time. - Margaret Cho
I don't do drugs: I am drugs. - Salvador Dali
Do hugs, not drugs. Spread love, not legs. Respect, don't judge. Listen more, talk less. Understand, don't assume. Forgive and forget..!! - Aagam Shah
For a permanent solution to easing tension and soothe the rough waters of the world that cause people to go to drugs, drinking, gambling, pornography, overeating, or anything that will give them some temporary relief, you can’t beat the support and encouragement of a friend. - Jonathan Anthony Burkett
If the poets offered us nothing more than another make-believe world, they would be mere sellers of drugs or, at best, sweetmeats. - Robert Lynd
I don't understand why asking people to eat a well-balanced vegetarian diet is considered drastic, while it is medically conservative to cut people open and put them on cholesterol lowering drugs for the rest of their lives. - Dean Ornish
Does not people's preoccupation these days with drugs, alcohol, medication and self deception prove that the truth not only hurts, but it is torture to bear? - James Turner
When prescribing one of the drugs I take, my doctor warned me of a common side effect: exaggerated, intensely vivid dreams. To be honest, I've never really noticed the difference. I've always dreamt big. - Michael J. Fox
If we burn ourselves out with drugs or alcohol, we won't have long to go in this business.
A week after my drugs ran out, I left my bed to perform at the college, deciding at the last minute to skip both the doughnut toss and the march of the headless plush toys. Instead, I just heated up a skillet of plastic soldiers, poured a milkshake over my head and called it a night. - David Sedaris
The most insidous influence on the young is not violence, drugs, drink or sexual perversion, but our pursuit of the trivial and tolerance of the third rate. - Dr. Eric Anderson Headmaster of Eton. .
I do not take drugs, I am drugs.
I used to fear things like not having enough alcohol and drugs, or the money to get them. Now I fear someone holding me down and physically forcing me to take drugs and drink alcohol. I fear that for some reason I wouldn't be allowed or wouldn't be able to read anymore. - Phil Volatile
I'm a reading addict. I can't live without it, like someone who is addicted to drugs. - Hugo Chávez
We are totally opposed to abortion under any circumstances. We are also opposed to abortifacient drugs and chemicals like the Pill and the IUD, and we are also opposed to all forms of birth control with the exception of natural family planning.
I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough. - M. C. Escher
Drugs are a bet with your mind. - Jim Morrison
Stay away from needle drugs. Richard Nixon is the only dope worth shooting. - Abbie Hoffman
I think I have a kind of Tourette's syndrome where if you're not supposed to say something, it becomes very attractive to do so. You're in a rock band – what can't you talk about? God? Okay, here we go. You're supposed to write songs about sex and drugs. Well, no I won't. - Bono
Describing current human mindsets reflecting our ignorance and cowardice and non action-oriented mentality:"I'm going to do nothing but escapist drugs and hop from one party or festival to another. I will dance my way out of the harsh realities of Planet Earth. - Mark Passio
Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them. - Dr. Martin Henry Fischer
If one does die taking these drugs, the death is likely to be very peaceful. Morphia is, after all, the goddess of dreams. - Philip Nitschke
Pugs Not Drugs - Gemma Correll
Each of us has a vulnerability like Edmund's that Satan is eager to exploit. It may be something addictive like drugs or alcohol, or it may be something seemingly harmless and perhaps even good like food, friendship, or work. - Discovery House Publishers
Being in love has the same effect as being on drugs. - Natalie Ansard
I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota. - Fran Lebowitz
Religion is like drugs, it destroys the thinking mind. - George Carlin
In general, it’s not too hard to corrupt an American, mostly a matter of supply to their demand. Supply should be variegated to encourage the Illusion of Choice. Other than that they’re looking for numbness, so be ready to sedate. Drugs, booze, television, shopping, etc… - Geoffrey Wood Grimrack An Infernal Epistolary
I don't do drugs. If I want a rush I just stand up when I'm not expecting it. - Dylan Moran
I’m not even on drugs, I’m just weird. - Alex Gaskarth
Altitude sickness, unregulated drugs and medical gas enabled workers to become drug abusers/addicts - Steven Magee
No drugs here, no manipulation of neurotransmitters that leaves our worldly problems unattended. And no talking cures because explicit insight is not needed. All that is required is courage: the courage to encounter discomfort and stay with it long enough to be changed by it, strengthened. - Jason Dias
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me. - Hunter S. Thompson
I believe that God left certain drugs growing naturally upon our planet to help speed up and facilitate our evolution. - Bill Hicks
Sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll is easy. True christianity…that's rebellion. - Alice Cooper