#drugs

Look, lady, I’m not going to bullshit you. I need to smoke enough crack cocaine to communicate with aliens. Give me all the money you got! ↗

— Ismael Galvan

#drugs #communication

Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with your self esteem. ↗

— Kurt Cobain

#respect

The fact that war is the word we use for almost everything—on terrorism, drugs, even poverty—has certainly helped to desensitize us to its invocation; if we wage wars on everything, how bad can they be? ↗

— Glenn Greenwald

#iraq-war #poverty #terrorism #united-states #war

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

#irony #irony

There are no differences but differences of degree between different degrees of difference and no difference. ↗

— William James

#hallucinogenic-drugs #mysticism #nitrous-oxide #paranormal #mysticism

For people on social assistance, the loss of free dental care, prescription drugs and subsidized housing can greatly outweigh additional income from working. We've all heard the stories. ↗

— Kim Campbell

#assistance #care #dental #free #greatly

And because of these programs like Medicare, Medicare prescription drugs, Social Security, we now have the healthiest and wealthiest group of senior citizens that the world has ever seen. This is a continuing commitment to that. ↗

— James T. Walsh

#citizens #commitment #continuing #ever #group

Gately can't even imagine what it would be like to be a sober and drug-free biker. It's like what would be the point. He imagines these people polishing the hell out of their leather and like playing a lot of really precise pool. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#alcoholics-anonymous #bikers #drugs #recovery #sobriety

I'd just killed some of the best riders in the world - and I was clean. I'd taken nothing - no EPO, no cortisone, no testosterone, no painkillers, no caffeine. I had justified to myself that I was a great rider without drugs - yet perversely given myself the green light to dope again. I'd proved what I could do clean - how much more could I do if I was doped? ↗

— David Millar

#drugs #inspirational #pain #self #success

To me, God is like this happy bus driver... He’s like, driving a tour bus, okay? The tour bus is our life, only he doesn’t tell us the sights. He lets us pick them ourselves, see, and later we sort of find out where we’ve been and what it all meanns. ↗

— Jerry Stahl

#god #life