Certain kinds of clichés are the narcotics of the middle class. — John Clellon Holmes Copy Share Image
Schoolteachers seemed determined to persuade me that 'classic' is a synonym for 'narcotic'. — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
I've jammed enough things up my own ass just trying to come on any amphetamine based narcotic. — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
Pride is a powerful narcotic, but it doesn't do much for the auto-immune system. — Stuart Stevens Copy Share Image
With intellectuals, moral thought is often less a tonic that quickens ethical action than a narcotic that deadens it. — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
Work is the best of narcotics, providing the patient be strong enough to take it. I dread idleness as if it were… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The effect of the consolations of religion may be compared to that of a narcotic. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The first narcotics bust in history is Jehovah busting Adam and Eve for eating of the fruit of the tree of knowledge. — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
The last four secretaries of defense have pointed out that defense spending creates jobs. So do pornography, prostitution, and narcotics. — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
Our goal is to increase awareness about non-narcotic pain control options available before, during, and after surgical procedures that are so effective… — Kristi Funk Copy Share Image
Self pity is easily the most destructive of the non-pharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
Legalize hemp and allow women to grow it and make food, clothing and housing for pennies from it and legalize marijuana too.… — Roseanne Barr Copy Share Image
That's the trouble with playing a cutting-edge narcotics detective - you've got to wear what's topical at the moment. My kids tease… — Clark Johnson Copy Share Image
A club there is of smokers--dare you come To that close, clouded, hot, narcotic room? When, midnight past, the very candles seem… — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
"Drugs" are not necessarily narcotics. The narcotic is one type of drug and coffee is a drug... booze is a drug... many… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“It wasn't so much all the sex that robbed me of my moral bearings, but all the narcotics. I must say, there's… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
None these organizations [terrorists] could continue operating without the narcotics networks, human-trafficking and oil smuggling. Addressing it requires a truly creative global… — Ashraf Ghani Copy Share Image
As I spoke with scientists about the way fat behaves, I couldn't resist drawing an analogy to the realm of narcotics. If… — Michael Moss Copy Share Image
The profession of magician, is one of the most perilous and arduous specializations of the imagination. On the one hand there is… — William Bolitho Copy Share Image
Pity is one of the noblest emotions available to human beings; self-pity is possibly the most ignoble . . . . [It]… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
Politics is work. Hiphop is music. The idea that hiphop, because it makes the body feel good to move to it and… — John H. McWhorter Copy Share Image
Narcotics have been systematically scapegoated and demonized. The idea that anyone can use drugs and escape a horrible fate is ananathema to… — Gus Van Sant Copy Share Image
I feel that any form of so called psychotherapy is strongly contraindicated for addicts. The question Why did you start using narcotics… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
The value of a story isn't that it just has a narcotic effect. It's that it awakens something in you that makes… — Will Smith Copy Share Image
No-knock police raids destroy Americans' right to privacy and safety. People's lives are being ruined or ended as a result of unsubstantiated… — James Bovard Copy Share Image
“The use of drugs is not an effective means of facilitating real escape. It merely gives that erroneous and illusive impression. Well,… — H.M. Forester Copy Share Image
A dead language is not only one no longer spoken or written, it is unyielding language content to admire its own paralysis.… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Pot is to narcotics what herpes is to social diseases; it doesn't count cos it's not really dangerous and it's too easy… — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image