Acid Quotes - Page 12

• Rock and Roll adolescent hoodlums storm the streets of all nations. They rush into the Louvre and throw acid in the Mona Lisa's face.

  William S. Burroughs

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Storm

  William S. Burroughs (2007). “Naked Lunch: The Restored Text”, p.38, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• You can cruise the world's millions of omega-3 Web sites without encountering any reflections about where these prized fatty acids are coming from and at what social or environmental cost. For some people, what goes into their bodies has become an overriding obsession. Perhaps we are witnessing a successor to the Me Generation--namely, the Don't Care About the Rest of the World as Long as I Have a Spa and Some Omega-3 Fatty Acids Generation. Let's call it the Omega-3 Generation for short. Or is that thought just too depressing?

  Charles Clover

  Depressing, Reflection, Fatty Acids

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• We have work to do if you are not to be a total failure like high-waisted, acid-wash jeans.

  Libba Bray

  Jeans, Ifs

  Libba Bray (2011). “Beauty Queens”, p.96, Scholastic Inc.

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• I am fussy, about my diet and straining my voice. I know, sounds a bit over the top. But I'm not as bad as I used to be. These days I don't drink alcohol for five days before a show - very dehydrating for the vocal cords, and all that acid reflux. I used to ban it for a fortnight. Nightmare.

  Katherine Jenkins

  Voice, Alcohol, Sound

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

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• When you use it in cooked foods, it changes [the Tabasco flavor] a little bit; it loses a little bit of the bright acid that you love on it, but you get that more cooked heat and chile flavor down.

  Mario Batali

  Flavor, Littles, Use

  Source: www.popsugar.com

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• Under Thatcher, who ruled us with an iron rod, great art was made. Amazing designers and musicians. Acid house was born. Very colourful and progressive.

  Noel Gallagher

  Art, Iron, House

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• Talk—half-talk, phrases that had no need to be finished, abstractions, Chinese bells played on with cotton-tipped sticks, mock orange blossoms painted on porcelain. The muffled, close, half-talk of soft-fleshed women. The men she had embraced, and the women, all washing against the resonance of my memory. Sound within sound, scene within scene, woman within woman—like acid revealing an invisible script. One woman within another eternally, in a far-reaching procession, shattering my mind into fragments, into quarter tones which no orchestral baton can ever make whole again.

  Anais Nin

  Memories, Men, Orange

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• The concept of emotional or spiritual survival has an honorable history, but it does invite self-indulgence. In my own case, the worst I ever survived was severe personal and political confusion, the temptation to various sorts of craziness and a couple of bad acid trips. It felt pretty horrendous at the time, and some of it was even dangerous, but Auschwitz it wasn't.

  Ellen Willis

  Spiritual, Couple, Emotional

  Ellen Willis (2012). “Beginning to See the Light: Sex, Hope, and Rock-And-Roll”, p.78, U of Minnesota Press

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• If you have a little sensibility or a heart, you have all the reason to be depressed once in a while. But the depression is like a motor for creation. I need a little bit of depression, a bit of acid in my stomach, to be able to create. When I'm happy, I just want to dance.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Heart, Needs, Want

  "Confessions of Miss Mischief". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. March 28, 2008.

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• No one would suggest that we can adequately investigate what makes something an acid, or what makes something aluminum, by bringing our pretheoretical intuitions about these things into reflective equilibrium by way of armchair theorising.

  Hilary Kornblith

  Intuition, Aluminum, Way

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I played a lesbian reporter in 1964, who was incarcerated, and ended the series as a 75-year-old woman. And then, I was a witch blinded by acid who became the Supreme, and took my mother's energy and life, so that I could live and she would die. And then, I was conjoined twins. And then, I played a heroin addict.

  Sarah Paulson

  Mother, Years, Energy

  Source: collider.com

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• So this Zealot comes to my door, all glazed eyes and clean reproductive organs, asking me if I ever think about God. So I tell him I killed God. I tracked God down like a rabid dog, hacked off his legs with a hedge trimmer, raped him with a corncob, and boiled off his corpse in an acid bath. So he pulls an alternating-current taser on me and tells me that only the Official Serbian Church of Tesla can save my polyphase intrinsic electric field, known to non-engineers as "the soul." So I hit him. What would you do?

  Warren Ellis

  Dog, Eye, Thinking

  "Transmetropolitan. God Riding Shotgun (issue #6)". Comic book by Warren Ellis,

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• Belief in one's identity as a poet or writer prior to the acid test of publication is as naive and harmless as the youthful belief in one's immortality... and the inevitable disillusionment is just as painful.

  Dan Simmons

  Identity, Tests, Belief

  Dan Simmons (2014). “The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion”, p.231, Spectra

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• A cap of good acid costs $5, and for that you can hear the Universal Symphony, with God singing solo and the Holy Ghost on drums.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Symphony, Singing, Dollars

  "The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time".

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• I was typing away while everybody was dropping acid and smoking grass. I was known as my own square.

  Anne Rice

  Dropping Acid, Squares, Smoking

  "Other Incarnations Of the Vampire Author". Interview with Stewart Kellerman, www.nytimes.com. November 7, 1988.

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• In my case I've never not been political, though religion tended to overshadow it in my acid days.

  John Lennon

  Political, Cases

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• Music is music; you can't change rock and say well this is punk rock and this is acid rock or rockabilly.

  Chuck Berry

  Rocks, Punk, Music Is

  Source: archives.nbclearn.com

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• Like all businesses ACID has its ups and downs. There are actually seasons when business will pick up such as Christmas time and carnival time. There are other times when business will run very slow.

  St. Lucia

  Running, Christmas Time, Carnivals

  Source: arcthemagazine.com

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• And this is something I must accept - even if, like acid on metal, it is slowly corroding me inside.

  Tabitha Suzuma

  Accepting, Metals, Ifs

  Tabitha Suzuma (2012). “Forbidden”, p.202, Simon and Schuster

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• She spilled rice on my knee, and she smiled. I wanted her to spill a thousand things on me, lava, acid, bricks, anything, and smile each time

  Ann Brashares

  Smile, Knees, Lava

  Ann Brashares (2010). “My Name is Memory”, p.62, Penguin

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• You must have had such a great childhood with a man like that for your father. (Delphine) Yeah. All puppy dogs and rainbows and those weird furry people with padded coat hangers on their heads that look like space aliens on acid. (Jericho)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Dog, Father, Men

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• No one appreciates a professional anymore. Everyone's a mystic. Which is why I take drunk Jim over acid Jim - the argument all roads eventually lead to.

  Dan Bejar

  Appreciate, Drunk, Argument

  "Destroyer" by Matt LeMay, pitchfork.com. June 12, 2006.

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• I don't get tired, because every time a woman doesn't die or doesn't get beaten or doesn't get raped or doesn't get honor-killed or doesn't get acid-burned, it's a huge victory.

  Eve Ensler

  Tired, Honor, Victory

  "Eve Ensler on “good” bodies and bad politics". Interview with Andi Zeisler, www.motherjones.com. November/December, 2004.

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• One can say, looking at the papers in this symposium, that the elucidation of the genetic code is indeed a great achievement. It is, in a sense, the key to molecular biology because it shows how the great polymer languages, the nucleic acid language and the protein language, are linked together.

  Francis Crick

  Keys, Dna, Achievement

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• It turns out that President Obama has acid reflux. He had a sore throat, went to the hospital, and they diagnosed it as acid reflux. Talk about irony -- it's not covered by Obamacare.

  David Letterman

  Obamacare, President, Irony

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