Drug Quotes

• People tend to think of breakthroughs in medicine as a new drug, a laser, or a high-tech surgical procedure. They often have a hard time believing that the simple choices that we make in our lifestyle. What we eat, how we respond to stress, whether or not we smoke cigarettes, how much exercise we get, and the quality of our relationships and support can be as powerful as drugs and surgery. And they often are.

  

  Dean Ornish
  • Powerful
  • Lifestyle
  • Procedure

• The tempt for greatness is the biggest drug in the world.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • World
  • Drug
  • Tempt

• Staring at the world through the bottom of a glass, all I see is a man who's fading fast.

  

  Merle Haggard
  • World
  • Men
  • Alcohol

• I want a new drug, one that won't make me sick. One that won't make me crash my car, or make my head three feet thick.

  

  Hugh Anthony Cregg III Clover
  • Car
  • Sick
  • Head

• It has become much more difficult to smuggle dangerous substances across our borders over the past three years, and this is creating real problems for drug traffickers.

  

  John Walters
  • Real
  • Past
  • Drug

• I grew up in them streets, like everyone else but instead of pushin' drugs, I pushed knowledge of self

  

  Lawrence "Kris" Parker Boogie Down Productions
  • Self
  • Streets
  • Grew

• I don't need drugs to make weird music.

  

  Keith Matthew Thornton
  • Music
  • Weird
  • Needs

• I have never taken performance-enhancing drugs in my life and I never will. Over the course of my career I have taken hundreds of drugs tests and every single one has been negative.

  

  Mo Farah
  • Life
  • Taken
  • Careers

• Guns are always the best method for a private suicide. They are more stylish looking than single-edged razor blades and natural gas has got so expensive. Drugs are too chancy. You might miscalculate the dosage and just have a good time.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Time
  • Good
  • Single

• I remember seeing the full Daft Punk pyramid show in 2007. I went alone, drove up in my Honda Fit, bought a ticket off a scalper for $150, got on the floor, and had the best time of my life. I didn't have a drink, no drugs. But I was high out of my mind. It changed my life.

  

  Sonny John Moore
  • Mind
  • Remember
  • Drink

• It's just human nature - isn't it? - to be more attracted to something that's taboo. If someone tells you not to smoke, you wanna smoke. If they say, 'Don't do drugs,' you wanna do drugs. That's why I've always thought that the best way to stop people taking drugs is to legalise the fucking things. It would take people about five seconds to realise that being an addict is a terribly unattractive and pathetic way to be, whereas at the moment it still has that kind of rebel cool vibe to it, y'know?

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • People
  • Kind
  • Rebel

• I was hungry and went out for a bite, ran into a chum with a bottle of rum and we wound up drinking all night.

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • Up
  • Night
  • Drinking

• And we used to do a lot of drugs and get very drunk on very cheap wine.

  

  Santiago Durango Big Black
  • Wine
  • Drunk
  • Used

• If even one new drug of the stature of penicillin or digitalis has been unjustifiably banished to a company's back shelf because of exceedingly stringent regulatory requirements, that event will have harmed more people than all the toxicity that has occurred in the history of modern drug development.

  

  William Wardell
  • Company
  • Liberty
  • Development

• It was stumbling on to really the bible of the blues, you know, and a very powerful drug to be introduced to us and I absorbed it totally, and it changed my complete outlook on music.

  

  Eric Clapton Blind Faith
  • Powerful
  • Changed
  • Outlook

• I'd always thought that if I could get sober and stay sober, I would be able to have a career making music. My drug and alcohol addiction was the one thing holding me back. I had finally gotten the tools to stay sober, and it was just a matter of writing the songs.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Career

• Let me be clear about this. I don't have a drug problem. I have a police problem.

  

  Keith Richards The Rolling Stones
  • Police
  • Drug

• Warfarin is the drug the medical community loves to hate.

  

  Eric Topol
  • Hate
  • Community
  • Drug

• Sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll... take out the drugs and you've got more time for the other two.

  

  Steven Tyler Aerosmith
  • Time
  • Sex
  • Rock N Roll

• The work is different in the sense that I haven't had to travel round the world raising money, or work from the genesis of the project. But the collaboration feels clear always, it's sort of my drug, I'm in it for the conversation. The conversation's the most important part of it.

  

  Tilda Swinton
  • World
  • Different
  • Important

• When you're in the military, especially if you serve, you leave in this heightened world of having adrenaline course through you, all the time. You get addicted to that because adrenaline is essentially a drug.

  

  Jill Flint
  • World
  • Military
  • Adrenaline

• I was a cop in the Las Vegas Police Department in 1957. I was very young when I joined. But then I became a federal narcotics agent after that, in Vegas, and that propelled me into my future to fight the drug traffickers.

  

  Joe Arpaio
  • Future
  • Police
  • Vegas

• I heard that your brain stops growing when you start doing drugs. Let's see, I guess that makes me 19.

  

  Steven Tyler Aerosmith
  • Growing
  • Brain
  • Heard

• Often young black people are looking towards the alternative economies. They are looking towards the drug economy.... the economies that are going to that apparently will produce some kind of material gain for them.

  

  Angela Davis
  • People
  • Black
  • Black People

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