Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Paul Evans

Roses can grow in slums just as weeds can grow around mansions.

Russell Banks

It was strange to stand there in front of the mirror and see myself like I was my own best friend, a kid wanted to hang with forever. This was a boy I could travel to the seacoasts with, a boy I'd like to meet up with in foreign cities like Calcutta and London and Brazil, a boy I could trust who also had a good sense of humor and liked smoked oysters from a can and good weed and the occasional 40 ounces of malt. If I was going to be alone for the rest of my life this was the person I wanted to be alone with.

Russell Brand

We all need something to help us unwind at the end of the day. You might have a glass of wine, or a joint, or a big delicious blob of heroin to silence your silly brainbox of its witterings but there has to be some form of punctuation, or life just seems utterly relentless.

Rick James

I'm in love with mary jane. she's my main thing. she makes me feel alright. she makes my heart sing. and when I'm feeling low, she comes as no suprise. turns me on with her love, takes me to paradiiiiise do you love me mary jane, yeah now do you think you love me mary jane don't you play no game....

William Zinsser

Fighting clutter is like fighting weeds-the writer is always slightly behind,

William S. Burroughs

Junk is not, like alcohol or weed, a means to increased enjoyment of life. Junk is not a kick. It is a way of life.

Woody Harrelson

I do smoke, but I don't go through all this trouble just because I want to make my drug of choice legal. It's about personal freedom. We should have the right in this country to do what we want, if we don't hurt anybody. Seventy-two million people in this country have smoked pot. Eighteen to 20 million in the last year. These people should not be treated as criminals.

William Morris

The wind is not helpless for any man's need, Nor falleth the rain but for thistle and weed.

William J. Clinton

I experimented with marijuana a time or two.

Richard J. Needham

Power is a drug on which the politicians are hooked. They buy it from the voters, using the voters' own money.

Russell Brand

When I first became famous in the United Kingdom it was helpful because it meant there wasn't a spite of 'this bloke's a drug addict,' 'this bloke f**ks all these women' because I was just making jokes about all those things already, so it made me some kind of incorruptible indefatigable, indestructible force.

Russell Brand

If you're a drug addict, often you're stealing - I've gotten done for shoplifting a few times.

Russell Brand

If you're a drug addict, then you've always got drugs, so you're a criminal. So you're gonna get into problems.

Russell Brand

The way I've been with drink and drugs suggests I have a tendency to get addicted to things.

Russell Brand

I'm a recovering drug addict, so it's not a subject that I take lightly, but I do agree that the criminalization of narcotics is the deliberate inhibition of human consciousness.

William S. Burroughs

I certainly wouldn't advocate anyone using drugs on a regular or habitual basis.

William S. Burroughs

Junk is the ideal product... the ultimate merchandise. No sales talk necessary. The client will crawl through a sewer and beg to buy.

Sarah Silverman

I am diagnosed with not having enough insanely-addictive drugs coursing through my body.

Rob Sheffield

Every mix tape tells a story. Put them together, and they add up to the story of life.

Rob Halford

For us Rock and Roll Fantasy Camp is bigger than the music. It is very much an experience that brings a lot of skills and discoveries about yourself together. In that respect, it also enables you to learn that being in a band is a lot tougher than sitting around and playing guitar in your bedroom.

Richard O'Brien

However, there's three reasons for doing things in this particular world. One is love, one is prestige and the other's money. If you get all three together, that's fine.

Richard Wright

there are times when life's ends are so raveled that reason and sense cry out that we stop and gather them together again before we can proceed

Russell Brand

The right to free speech is important but it isn't as important as 'we're all human beings together, let's find solutions together.'

Rose McGowan

Why are women still this underclass? If we all banded together...

Umberto Eco

I seem to know all the cliches, but not how to put them together in a believable way. Or else these stories are terrible and grandiose precisely because all the cliches intertwine in an unrealistic way and you can't disentangle them. But when you actually live a cliche, it feels brand new, and you are unashamed.

Tre Cool

Life is like breakfast: you just mix all ingredients 'cause in your stomach it will all come together.

Rick Riordan

Together we made our way down to the street level. Neither of us said a word. The music was awful--Neil Diamond or something. I should've made that part of my gift form the gods: better elevator tunes.