Acid Quotes - Page 3

• Life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves.

  Bill Hicks

  Funny, Dream, Revolutionary Ideas

  "Bill Hicks: Sane Man". Documentary, Comedy, 1989.

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• Acid wasn't getting a whole lot of bad press at the time, and as I saw the whole bad-press thing happen, I became aware that the government had done a whole lie on all the other benign drugs as well. It became clear to me that the government wanted no real drug education.

  Tommy Rettig

  Real, Lying, Government

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• There's a big difference between somebody who does acid on weekends and somebody who takes downers every day.

  Tommy Rettig

  Weekend, Differences, Doe

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• What I really remember is that people camped out everywhere, and the fact everybody expected it might turn into a big nightmare with all sorts of hassles because back in those days everybody was smoking pot and taking acid.

  Johnny Ramistella

  People, Smoking, Might

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• If you've never seen an elephant ski, then you've never been on acid.

  Eddie Izzard

  Funny, Elephants, Comedy

  "Eddie Izzard: Definite Article". Documentary, Comedy, 1996.

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• Saying sulfates do not cause acid rain is the same as saying that smoking does not cause lung cancer.

  Andrew L. Lewis, Jr.

  Cancer, Rain, Smoking

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• Every other movie is one of those action things. I mean, 'Lost in Space'? A bunch of good actors running around shooting at special effects on a soundstage? I took my kids to see that and felt like I was on an acid trip.

  Tom Berenger

  Running, Travel, Mean

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't like alcohol, but I still like to mess around with other stuff occasionally. I think it's important I take mushrooms and acid. They're certainly not addictive, so I can't rule that out.

  Evan Dando

  Thinking, Mushrooms, Alcohol

  "I can't completely let go of drugs - and I don't want to" by Mat Snow, www.theguardian.com. August 23, 2006.

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• I propose to provide proof... that just as always an alcoholic ferment, the yeast of beer, is found where sugar is converted into alcohol and carbonic acid, so always a special ferment, a lactic yeast, is found where sugar is transformed into lactic acid. And, furthermore, when any plastic nitrogenated substance is able to transform sugar into that acid, the reason is that it is a suitable nutrient for the growth of the [lactic] ferment.

  Louis Pasteur

  Beer, Alcohol, Growth

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• Loneliness becomes an acid that eats away at you.

  Haruki Murakami

  Loneliness

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “1Q84:”, p.33, Random House

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• Venice is like doing acid. If you can't take it with you after you either come down or move away, you were never really there in the first place.

  Anne Alexander

  Moving, Venice, Firsts

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• In the Sixties people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird, people take Prozac to make it normal.

  Damon Albarn

  Life, People, Addiction

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• I don't do acid anymore, so I travel instead.

  Carrie Fisher

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The acid test of any truth is found in whether it aids victims in their struggle to overcome victimisation.

  James H. Cone

  Struggle, Overcoming, Tests

  James H. Cone (1984). “For My People: Black Theology and the Black Church”, p.151, Orbis Books

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• An acid is like a woman: a good one will eat through your pants.

  Mel Gibson

  Pants

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• Its like if you take acid, it burns out brain cells and they dont regrow. Rock is like that-it has killed beautiful people musically, physically and mentally.

  Marc Bolan

  Beautiful, Rocks, Cells

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• Lies were like acid, corrosive: They could dissolve trust in a heartbeat.

  Rob Thurman

  Lying, Heartbeat

  Rob Thurman (2011). “Nightlife”, p.47, Penguin UK

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• It’s hard to stay away from religion when you mess with acid.

  Robert Stone

  Mess, Hard

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• Alienation is a form of living death. It is the acid of despair that dissolves society.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Despair, Form, Alienation

  Martin Luther King, Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1989). “The trumpet of conscience”, HarperCollins

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• You always come back to earth with a thump at some stage. Life has it's ups and downs; the acid test is how you handle the downs.

  Michael Owen

  Earth, Tests, Stage

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• Hatred plays the same part in government as acid in chemistry.

  Winston Churchill

  Government, Play, Hatred

  Sir Winston Churchill (1931). “The world crisis”

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• I thought, 'My God, this is like Buddy Guy on acid.'

  Eric Clapton

  Guy, Buddy

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• One amino acid does not a protein make-let alone a being.

  Preston Cloud

  Life, Science, Doe

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• When Americans are called on to innovate, that's what we do - whether it's making more fuel-efficient cars or more fuel-efficient appliances, or making sure that we are putting in place the kinds of equipment that prevents harm to the ozone layer and eliminates acid rain. At every one of these steps, there have been folks who have said it can't be done. There have been naysayers who said this is going to destroy jobs and destroy industry. And it doesn't happen because once we have a clear target to meet, we typically meet it. And we find the best ways to do it.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Rain, Ozone

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• Take back your insurance, baby, nothing is guaranteed. Take back your acid rain, let your TV bleed.

  Tom Petty

  Baby, Rain, Politics

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