Amphetamines Quote by Larry Clark

Drugs made me feel more normal.

— Carrie Fisher

Part of what was in the ether all around me growing up, until I was between 19 and 20, was a terrible, debilitating stutter.…

— Tim Gunn

I tried heroin. I shot up in high school, but I just thought it was so dreary: puking and nodding.

— John Waters

Using drugs didn't help me to play, all it did was to hang me up for about fifteen years.

— Joe Pass

After half an hour the drug hit me like a sensuous tidal wave. I turned into a tactile temptress and wanted to stroke the…

— Boy George

I was always being told to calm down, to chill out, to slow down. I was a bad toddler, I was a bad child,…

— Michelle Zauner

Yoga gave me the ability to calm down.

— Christy Turlington

“It was a myth you couldn't function on opiates: shooting up was one thing but for someone like me-jumping at pigeons beating from the…

— Donna Tartt

Drugs age you after mental excitement. Lethargy then. Why? Reaction. A lifetime in a night. Gradually changes your character.

— James Joyce

When I was a child I accidentally made a chemical bomb. I also ate my grandfather's heart pills. I got my stomach pumped for…

— Brittany Howard

I haven't found a drug yet that can get you anywhere near as high as a sitting at a desk writing, trying to imagine…

— Hunter S. Thompson

In general I was a good kid. It usually took a lot to make me mad. But once I reached the boiling point, I…

— Benjamin Carson