Top 100 A Drug Quotes
#1. A friend gave me a drug for attention deficit disorder, because he's afflicted, but I'm not. So what happened to me is I suddenly had an extra-long attention span. People would tell me a story, and it would end, and I'd get all mad. "Come on, man, there has to be more to that story."
Mitch Hedberg
#2. If the job requires a drug test, make sure the urine you smuggle in belongs to a human. Dog pee isn't going to fool anyone, and collecting it will not be as easy as you think.
Gina Covarrubias
#3. I'm always amazed when I hear people saying; That George Bush, he's a great leader. And I wonder, where can one find a drug that would make one so delusional?
Lewis Black
#4. I want to make a drug. I want the science to be more than imaginary, where I think, 'We're learning these fundamental principles, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.' I think we are doing that, but I want to do something really practical. I want to actually, in my lifetime, help people.
Bonnie Bassler
#5. [DMT] raises all the questions in a hurry. It's so intense and so oriented toward the other and the visual and the hallucinogenic that it isn't really like a drug. It's more like an event that you ran into. You just came around a corner and there was the unspeakable.
Terence McKenna
#6. Sorrow and frustration have their power. The world is moved by people with great discontents. Happiness is a drug. It can make men blind and deaf and insensible to reality. There are times when only sorrow can give to sorrow.
Winifred Holtby
#7. You are like a drug to me. Dangerous. Addicting. I can't get enough of you." He brought our hands above water and kissed one of my hands, linked with his. "But I want more, more than just a night, more than just a few touches. And I have a feeling that once we cross that line, you will run away.
Whitney Barbetti
#8. One way of assessing the toxicity of a drug is how do you feel the next day?
Terence McKenna
#9. Deadlines are like a drug for me. I hate and need them.
Todd Strasser
#10. I don't ask myself, "Well, does God exist or does God not exist?" I choose to believe that God exists, and therefore I can say, "God, I can't do this by myself. Help me not to take a drink today. Help me not to take a drug today." And that works fine for me.
Stephen King
#11. A drug is a substance which, if injected into a rabbit, produces a paper.
Otto Loewi
#12. No one wakes up one day and decides they want to become a drug dealer or they want to be a stick-up kid. Those decisions are made after a series of events have happened in one's life.
Michael K. Williams
#13. It's not a drug problem, until you run out of money. Until then it's just drugs.
Artie Lange
#14. No, I'm not a drug addict, and neither is my husband. If that were so, you'd get a lot less work out of me. It would show in the performances and in the work.
Whitney Houston
#15. Every inch of Neverfell seemed to be throbbing with life. Everything was new, and new was a drug.
Frances Hardinge
#16. I suppose fear is like a drug. A little bit isn't that bad, but you can get addicted to the consumption and distribution of it.
Stephen Colbert
#17. Well, I'm like a drug addict, I'm always saying I'm going to stop, and then I don't, what I've said consistently is that I hope I know when to stop: when it starts to get repetitive.
Stephen King
#18. Avoiding me, Quen downed a swallow of wine. "Trent is a fine young man," he said, watching the remaining wine swirl.
"Yes ... " I drawled, cautiously. "If you can call a drug lord and outlawed-medicine manufacturer a fine young man.
Kim Harrison
#19. One of the things you learn, after years of dealing with drug people, is that everything is serious. You can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug - especially when it's waving a razor-sharp hunting knife in your eyes.
Hunter S. Thompson
#20. I haven't found a drug yet that can get you anywhere near as high as a sitting at a desk writing, trying to imagine a story no matter how bizarre it is, [or] going out and getting into the weirdness of reality and doing a little time on the Proud Highway.
Hunter S. Thompson
#21. America didn't have a drug problem before it passed drug laws.
L. Neil Smith
#22. The song Venus de Milo, the whole subject of it is Love is a drug.
Tom Verlaine
#23. The heat of his sweet breath mixing with hers, his scent filling her lungs, was like a drug made from concentrated sin.
Mimi Jean Pamfiloff
#24. I am a physician. I keep a drug-shop of lies. I give relief, consolation. Can one console and relieve without lying? ... Only women and doctors know how necessary and how helpful lies are to men.
Anatole France
#25. Exhibitionism is like a drug. Hooked in adolescence I was now taking doses so massive they would have killed a novice.
Quentin Crisp
#26. If Placebo was a drug, they would no doubt be pure heroin - dangerous, mysterious and totally addictive.
Brian Molko
#27. Hardin is like a drug; each time I take the tiniest bit of him, I crave more and more. He consumes my thoughts and invades my dreams.
Anna Todd
#28. Music is like a drug, but there are no rehabilitation centres.
Morrissey
#29. Love is a drug. You can get addicted to it. And it will change your life forever.
Debasish Mridha
#30. I wanted to be a visual artist because I grew up around a lot of painters and photographers and had a very artistic upbringing. And I fantasized about being a drug-dealer when I was a kid. I thought it would be a good opportunity; I knew that the market would be strong. Is that bizarre?
Jared Leto
#31. All experience is a drug experience. Whether it's mediated by our own [endogenous] drugs, or whether it's mediated by substances that we ingest that are found in plants, cognition, consciousness, the working of the brain, it's all a chemically mediated process. Life itself is a drug experience.
Dennis McKenna
#32. The illegality of cannabis is outrageous, an impediment to full utilization of a drug which helps produce the serenity and insight, sensitivity and fellowship so desperately needed in this increasingly mad and dangerous world.
Carl Sagan
#33. Let me be clear about this. I don't have a drug problem. I have a police problem.
Keith Richards
#34. Reason I know, is only a drug, and, as such, its effects are never permanent. But, like the juice of the poppy, it often gives a temporary relief.
Hope Mirrlees
#35. I'm not a drug person. I don't like drugs. I went to college in London, so it was kind of the curriculum there. I got it out of my system really young.
Lake Bell
#36. I wondered if I was like a drug addict going through withdrawal. I had all the symptoms, my physical dependence on Lila showing its ugly self.
My depression and anxiety spiked, and I craved her more than I ever had before. I needed her.
K.I. Lynn
#37. It's a pity I flew only once. A space flight is like a drug - once you experience it, you can't think of anything else.
Gherman Titov
#38. An alcoholic will steal your wallet and lie to you. A drug addict will steal your wallet and then help you look for it.
David Sheff
#39. As time goes on and the horrors pile up, the mind seems to secrete a sort of self-protecting ignorance which needs a harder and harder shock to pierce it, just as the body will become immunised to a drug and require bigger and bigger doses.
George Orwell
#40. You come to know the aches and vanities and tastes and intrigues of an entire neighborhood at a drug store.
Paul Engle
#41. He was a drug, and she needed a fix, a huge fix.
A very lengthy fix.
V. Theia
#42. I wonder if one can view risk like a drug, beneficial to the organism in the proper dose. Too much or too little may be harmful ...
Tom Hornbein
#43. And they are like a drug, one needs them oftener and oftener and has to make them more and more exciting - until at last one's imagination won't work at all.
Dodie Smith
#44. Sleep is like a drug," he explained. "Take too much at a time and it makes you dopey. You lose time, vitality and opportunities.
Robin S. Sharma
#45. If a drug failed as often and had as many side effects as western marriage, the FDA probably would not approve it.
Ron Davison
#46. Well ironically my last three roles have all been a mother. One was a Canadian film where the baby was taken away because she is a drug addict, in Irish Jam I play a mother to a four year old. I think in the future I'll be able to handle the role with a lot more depth.
Anna Friel
#47. For all of life's discontents, according to the pharmaceutical industry, there is a drug and you should take it. Then for the side effects of that drug, then there's another drug, and so on. So we're all taking more drugs, and more expensive drugs.
Marcia Angell
#48. If you have a drug problem, you should be sent to a doctor, not a jail cell.
Sam Branson
#49. The rush of sexual attraction can act like a drug and blur our capacity for clear thinking. This can lead us to distance ourselves from our friends or even abandon our life plan for someone who couldn't otherwise be relied on to water our plants and feed our cat.
Harriet Lerner
#50. Before I do a play I say that I hope it's going to be for as short a time as possible but, once you do it, it is a paradoxical pleasure. One evening out of two there are five minutes of a miracle and for those five minutes you want to do it again and again. It's like a drug.
Isabelle Huppert
#51. If you go to the FDA with a drug that's only meant to treat 50 people, and it's a 95 percent cure rate, you'll get your drug approved.
Leroy Hood
#52. suppose there was some medical procedure that will provide some modest health benefit but is extremely painful. However, the procedure is administered with a drug that does not prevent the pain but instead erases all memory of the event. Would you be willing to undertake this procedure?
Richard H. Thaler
#53. He's a drug, an addictive one, and I'm not sure it's a habit I can kick. All it took was one hit. One strong, euphoric hit and I was hooked.
J.M. Darhower
#54. Various species of animals react differently to the same drug. Not only do the variations in the metabolism of a drug make it difficult to extrapolate results of animal experiments to man but they create a serious obstacle to the development of new therapeutic drugs.
Bernard Brodie
#55. My throat tightened, but I held back the tears and reminded myself that withdrawing from a woman is no different than kicking a drug; you feel shaky and you want it, but eventually the need passes, and you feel restored.
Keith Ablow
#56. The public properly relies upon FDA classification of drugs as nonprescription as a reflection of the agency's judgment regarding the safety and proper use of a drug without a doctor's prescription.
Loretta Lynch
#58. I'd heard a Catholic nun on TV once saying that bearing suffering was the route to grace. I remembered Fluff saying: If there's a God he's addicted to faith. Because without evil there's no need for faith. I can't get excited about a God who's divinity depends on a drug habit.
Glen Duncan
#60. It seems that what I really want is a drug that will increase my consciousness of others, not myself.
Jerzy Kosinski
#61. A werewolf tossed me against a giant packing crate while I was trying to rescue a frightened young girl who'd been kidnapped by an evil witch and a drug lord.
Patricia Briggs
#63. People just like to be on camera. There's a huge desire to be in front of the camera, and once there, people will say and do almost anything. It's sort of a drug, and I think people get addicted to it.
Steve Carell
#64. Motivation is a drug: a cure when it is in effect and poison when it is off effect.
Ben Tolosa
#66. Your culture has become sophisticated, like a computer, or a drug that you take for a headache. You can use it, but you cannot explain how it works. Certainly not to girls who stack up their firewood against the side of the house.
Chris Cleave
#67. I've never taken drugs - if you take a drug of your choice, you get some ecstatic feeling.
Michael Caine
#68. Acapulco in the sunset seems like a balm; it enters the blood like a drug after one inhalation of the scent of flowers, one glimpse of the bay iridescent like silk, the sunset like the inside of a shell, so much like the flesh of Venus.
Anais Nin
#69. Women can accept the fact that a man is a rotter, a swindler, a drug taker, a confirmed liar, and a general swine, without batting an eyelash, and without its impairing their affection for the brute in the least. Women are wonderful realists.
Agatha Christie
#70. Love is a drug but is nt all drugs that we do take in.
Lexis Smigz
#71. Resentment is like a drug. Once you pick it up, it will only get worse and worse until you surrender and do the work to let it go.
Samantha Leahy
#72. If you say a modern celebrity is an adulterer, a pervert and a drug addict, all it means is that you've read his autobiography.
P. J. O'Rourke
#73. Ecstasy is a drug so powerful, it makes white people think they can dance.
Lenny Henry
#74. One of the many downsides to being a drug addict is never really knowing if the stuff is real.
Rebecca McNutt
#75. Why would you take a drug that is guaranteed to kill you in forty years? One reason, right? It's the only thing that will stop you dying tomorrow.
Sharon Moalem
#76. Your scent is like a drug to me like my own personal brand of heroin.
Stephenie Meyer
#77. When you use the steroids, you use them for a long time. When you use the steroids for a long time, you have a problem. It's a drug and it's not good for the sport.
Anderson Silva
#78. I'm such a tease and you're such a flirt Routines and schedules A drug that'll kill you
Thom Yorke
#79. Anyone who doubts that caffeine is a drug should read some of the prose composed under its influence.
Anne Fadiman
#80. Things I didn't expect to do my senior year:
Become a drug dealer.
Become my mother.
Find and lose the love of my life.
Leah Raeder
#81. I had a drug problem. I'd go to parties, take a leak, and there was cocaine right there. I was 25 when it started, rich, famous, and retired.
Sugar Ray Leonard
#82. Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#83. This Snow Crash thing
is it a virus, a drug, or a religion?"
Juanita shrugs. "What's the difference?
Neal Stephenson
#85. I have a bad habit of picking up books about drugs, but that's better than having a drug habit, I think.
Andrew VanWyngarden
#86. I've had plenty of friends tell me that their first time doing stand-up, they do well, and then they tank for a while after that. Kind of like the first time you do a drug, you're like, "Huh! This is pretty darn good," and then you spend all your money trying to get the same high.
Jim Gaffigan
#87. Power is sweet; it is a drug, the desire for which increases with a habit.
Bertrand Russell
#88. We have to be cautious when we interpret animal behaviors, especially when we want a behavior to mean something in particular. Wanting is a drug, a hallucinogen.
Rebecca Skloot
#91. People who are lazy may smoke pot and remain lazy. That is aging the person finding a drug to help one create the vegetable style the person wants, as the person cannot live in the real world.
Steven Machat
#92. Well I have a drug history and a public drinking problem and I am not the healthiest guy. So they just ran that I died of a drug overdose.
Artie Lange
#93. You can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug, especially when its waving a razor sharp hunting knife in your eye.
Hunter S. Thompson
#94. So, now I've been to see a drug counselor who told me I need to lay off the drugs and talk about my feelings, and a shrink who heard what I had to say and immediately put me on drugs.
Libba Bray
#95. Colombia is in a risky position. They've got a peace process that's going nowhere, and a drug production problem that's skyrocketing.
Barry McCaffrey
#96. To impute our recovery to medicine, and to carry our view no further, is to rob God of His honor, and is saying in effect that He has parted with the keys of life and death, and, by giving to a drug the power to heal us, has placed our lives out of His own reach.
William Cowper
#97. About 15 years ago I went though a period of a year or so when I just couldn't find anything good. My wife noticed I was having trouble reading menus. I bought some cheap reading glasses in a drug store. I got home and suddenly all these books that weren't good were good.
Richard Russo
#98. He's like a drug, Toreth thought, as Warrick broke the kiss and stood up. Except that no drugs were that good. If he could bottle it and sell it, he'd be a billionaire.
Manna Francis
#99. Skepticism was a drug for him. Life's vicissitudes had taught him never to be caught without it. A most useful drug, it magically invigorated his heart, transforming opprobrium into piety and ignominy into tolerance.
Juan Filloy
#100. I used to have a drug problem, now I make enough money.
David Lee Roth
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