Out of the blue, Paul reported feeling bouts of calm euphoria, a mystical sense of all's-right-with-his-life-and-the-universe, a bright future in sight.... I knew well the state of vigorous calm he meant, a frequent visitor throughout my own life. [p. 290] - Diane Ackerman ... there was little to choose between Jews and Catholics. The Jews had holidays that turned up out of the blue and the Catholics had children in much the same way. - Alan Bennett But falling in love is always a pretty crazy thing. It might appear out of the blue and just grab you. Who knowsmaybe even tomorrow. - Haruki Murakami I didn't start running because somebody asked me to become a runner. Just like I didn't become a novelist because someone asked me to. One day, out of the blue, I wanted to write a novel. And one day, out of the blue, I started to run-simply because I wanted to. I've always done whatever I felt like doing in life. People may try to stop me, and convince me I'm wrong, b...

And that is how Goodwin problems were always fixed. Fix them on the surface but don't go to the root, always ignoring the elephant in the room. I think that morning was when I realized I'd grown up with an elephant in every room of my life. It was practically our family pet. - Cecelia Ahern And that is how the problems were always fixed. Fix them on the surface but don't go to the root, always ignoring the elephant in the room. I think that morning was when I realized I'd grown up with an elephant in every room. It was practically our family pet. - Cecelia Ahern Daemon was the pissy pink elephant in the room with a bad attitude - Jennifer L Armentrout Patriarchy is like the elephant in the room that we don't talk about, but how could it not affect the planet radically when it's the superstructure of human society. - Ani Difranco The elephant in the room is my limp penis. - Jarod Kintz Race in this country is still the elephant in the room that no one wants...

Two best friends traveled from the Burdekin in North Queensland sometime in the 1960s and walked into the Union and fell in love with Grace. Tom finch was the smarter talker of the two and won first round, marrying her before his name came up in the lottery sending him to Vietnam on a tour of duty. He never returned. The heartbroken, patient one, Bill Mackee, grieved a best friend and married the love of his life, adopting the twins when they were four years old. - Melina Marchetta ... I thought that because my father was military, I was, too... I'd treated my life there... like a tour of duty, and... the only reason I was leaving was that my year was up. - Leah Stewart

The enemy? His sense of duty was no less than yours, I deem. You wonder what his name is, where he came from. And if he was really evil at heart. What lies or threats led him on this long march from home. If he would not rather have stayed there in peace. War will make corpses of us all. - J R R Tolkien Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner. - Joseph Addison He feared that principle, active principle, had been wanting; that they had never been properly taught to govern their inclinations and tempers by that sense of duty which can alone suffice. They had been instructed theoretically in their religion, but never required to bring it into daily practice. - Jane Austen Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself. - Simone De Beauvoir My mother's studies stopped with the third year of p...

Never forgive, never forget. Do it once and do it right. You reap what you sow. Plans go to hell as soon as the first shot is fired. Protect and serve. Never off duty. - Lee Child Law enforcement officers are never 'off duty.' They are dedicated public servants who are sworn to protect public safety at any time and place that the peace is threatened. They need all the help that they can get. - Barbara Boxer What is the death of a soldier even off duty of an occupying army walking in an occupied territory against the death of a little boy screaming in terror in his father's arms Where is the equivalence - Linda Grant

Getting out of jury duty is easy. The trick is to say you're prejudiced against all races. - Dan Castellaneta When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty. - Norm Crosby Getting out of jury duty is easy. The trick is to say you're prejudiced against all races. - Homer Raise your hand if you had no idea you'd see so much nudity in one week of jury duty. Twelve hands flew straight into the air. And unbelievably, Payton laughed. - Julie James To escape jury duty in England, wear a bowler hat and carry a copy of the Daily telegraph. - John Mortimer Well I was on the jury duty on the Deauville Film Festival, a few years ago. - Liam Neeson Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don't draft people; it's not jury duty. - P J Orourke I got put on jury duty, which is where I learned how to write. - David O Russell The great thing about our system of democracy...

He has no right to his life when his duty calls him to resign it. Other men are bound... to deprive him of life or liberty, if that should appear in any case to be indispensably necessary to prevent a greater evil. - William Godwin We make mistakes, we have our faults, and God knows some of us have more than our share, but when danger threatens and duty calls, we go smiling to our own funeral. - James Larkin

People aren't as stupid as the politicians think. More and more of us are laughing off our 'civic duty' to vote, rejecting the role of compulsory constituent. - Bob Black Paying tax should be framed as a glorious civic duty worthy of gratitude - not a punishment for making money. - Alain De Botton Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty. - Norman Douglas The reason the government sells the census as your ticket to getting goodies - rather than as your civic duty - is that distributing goodies is now all the government does. - Tom G Palmer

Since Stark had come back from the Otherworld, he'd been too weak and out of it to do much more than eat, sleep, and play computer games with Seoras, which was actually a super weird sight, it was like high school meets Braveheart meets Call of Duty. - P C Cast Absoballylutely top hole, wot. A and B the C of D I'd say... Above and Beyond the Call of Duty. - Brian Jacques I just got my phone back yesterday. My mom had it for two days. I was supposed to read a book and I really wanted to play Call Of Duty. - Chloe Moretz I beat Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 in one day. - Chloe Moretz What I have appreciated about the 'Call of Duty' games is the scale of production. It's not an indie game. It's not trying to be an indie game. But I've genuinely been pretty consistently blown away by, wow, what an effort has gone into this. - Trent Reznor I got to do something I never do, which is go to Starbucks and read 'The New York Times' until 7 a.m. I took m...

If there is anything I can do, I'll help. Don't get excited. It's not because of you. For the child. If it wasn't for her and the flare, I'd throw your dumb ass out of this window." "What does the flare as to do with it?" "I don't want it to be attributed to a loss of control on my part. When I thorw you out of the window, I want there to beno doubt the act was deliberate. - Ilona Andrews never underestimate your dumbness!! - Jim Benton Ethan Wyeth: I hope you're thirsty." Gideon Wyeth:"Why?" Ethan: "Cause your dumb and ugly, but I can do something about thirsty. - Orson Scott Card THERE'S NO MONKEY BUSINESS ABOUT THIS ELECTION,' he told the voters. 'IF YOU'RE ENOUGH OF AN ASSHOLE TO VOTE FOR NIXON, YOUR DUMB VOTE WILL BE COUNTEDJUST LIKE ANYBODY ELSE! - John Irving I'll never forget you. I'll never forget your voice or your face or your dumb jokes. And i'll never forget your love. - Je...

So if there is something on the planet that is worth living for, I'd better not miss it, because once you're dead, it's too late for regrets, and if you die by mistake, that is really, really dumb. - Muriel Barbery I always said you have to be really smart or really dumb to play this game well. I just don't know where I fit in. - Beth Daniel Hollywood has the idea that movies have to be dumb. But especially movies for or about teenagers have to be really dumb! - Joseph Gordonlevitt None of us are really dumb and none of us are really smart. We're in the middle. - Daniel Johns Now that, would be a really dumb ass thing to do. - Jayne Ann Krentz We have to confront the very scary fact that the president is a moron. He's really dumb. - Aaron Mcgruder I'm really, really dumb about describing wine, but I like wine that's full-bodied and dry. - Esai Morales If your leg is in a cast, it's really dumb to sit in front of your computer doing unnecessar...

She raises her brows at Thomas and Carmel. "How do you want to room? The two of you and the two of us? Or boys in one, girls in the other?" "Boys in one," I say quickly. "Right. Back in a minute." Jestine gets up to make the arrangements, leaving me with my gaping friends. "Where'd that come from?" Carmel asks. "Where'd what come from?" As usual, playing dumb gets me nowhere. - Kendare Blake I went to about one frat party a year. A year seemed to be enough time for me to forget how much I didn't like frat parties, and my friends would eventually convince me to go to one. Cheap beer, guys looking for a quick hook-up, and girls playing 'dumb' to get in on the hook-up. I just never got into it. - Danica Mckellar

I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde. - Dolly Parton I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information. - Bill Watterson

I'm stupid, I'm ugly, I'm dumb, I smell. Did I mention I'm stupid? - Eminem I'm smart enough to know that I'm dumb. - Richard P Feynman He makes me change, he makes me want to dance round him, bewilder him, dazzle him, dumbfound him. He' so slow, so unimaginative, so lifeless. Like zinc white. I see it's a sort of tyranny he has over me. He forces me to be changeable, to act. To show off. The hateful tyranny of weak people. G.P. said it once. The ordinary man is the curse of civilization. - John Fowles I'm dumb," the first one said, their footsteps receding, "not stupid". - T M Goeglein I'm Dumbledore's man through and through. - J K Rowling I like your sister. A lot." I look at him dumbly. He looks at me, lowers his voice to say, "I like you. - Sophie Jordan I'm dumbfounded, but nothing surprises me in this game. - Francis Lee I wish he hadn't gone and cut his hair. He looks about eight years old. His...

I heard of a man who says words so beautifully that if he only speaks their name women give themselves to him. If I am dumb beside your body while silence blossoms like tumors on our lips it is because I hear a man climb stairs and clear his throat outside our door. - Leonard Cohen I may not be smart enough to do everything, but I am dumb enough to try anything. - Geoff Johns I am dumb when it comes to learning dance steps. - Mia Kirshner

Now what good would that have done? They wouldn't know they'd asked a dumb question, but I didn't want to insult them, either. So when they'd ask if I'd read all those books, I'd say, 'Hell, no. Who wants a library full of books you've already read? - Harlan Ellison There are naive questions, tedious questions, ill-phrased questions, questions put after inadequate self-criticism. But every question is a cry to understand the world. There is no such thing as a dumb question. - Carl Sagan It's a dumb question, because I don't look at things as a black director, just as a director, so ask me as a director first and we can segue into the colour thing later. - Antoine Fuqua To the dumb question, why me? The cosmos barely bothers to return the reply: 'Why not.' - Christopher Hitchens Newspapermen ask dumb questions. They look up at the sun and ask if it is shining. - Sonny Liston

It's a wise person, I guess, who knows he's dumb, and an honest person who knows he's a liar. And it's a dumb person, I guess, whose convinced he's wise...-Bob Slocum - Joseph Heller People think it's funny when a dumb person can't do things the same way they can. - Daniel Keyes I don't believe in elitism. I don't think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I am the audience. - Quentin Tarantino

Don't hurt him. (Geary) Do you think I came all the way over here to hurt him? If I'd wanted him hurt, I'd have left him to Tweedle Dumb and Dumber. (ZT) - Sherrilyn Kenyon When the first big paycheque with 'Dumb And Dumber' hit, I went: 'Gosh, I wonder if this will affect my performance. Will I do a take and think, was that worth $7 million?' But that never happened. If anything, it made me rebel against that thing when people who get rich start playing it safe. - Jim Carrey I know there are people, if I go into a market or a city for the first time, there are people that are there that just want to see the famous person, or the guy from 'Dumb and Dumber' or whatever movie they liked. And that's fine, it gets them in the door, but then it's my job to give them something different. - Jeff Daniels I've always thought those guys are really funny. And I love Dumb and Dumber, Kingpin and Mary. - David Zucker

Indeed he seemed to her sometimes made differently from other people, born blind, deaf, and dumb, to the ordinary things, but to the extraordinary things, with an eye like an eagle's. - Virginia Woolf You might almost say, that this strange uncompromisedness in him involved a sort of unintelegence; for in his numerous trades, he did not seem to work so much by reason or instinct, or simply because he had been tuitored into it, or by any intermixture of all of these , even or uneven; but merely by a kind of deaf and dumb , sponteneous literal process. - Herman Melville Watch me when people say deaf and dumb, or deaf mute, and I give them a look like you might get if you called Denzel Washington the wrong name. - Marlee Matlin I use the grotesque the way I do because people are deaf and dumb and need help to see and hear. - Flannery O Connor You'd have to be blind, deaf, and dumb not to know what you're getting yourself into, so if there's blame, blame yourself. - D...

When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through. - Jesse Jackson The two waiters inside the cafe knew that theo ld man was a little drunk, and while he was a good client they knew that if he became too drunk he would leave without paying, so they kept watch on him. Last week he tried to commit suicide," one waiter said. Why?" He was in despair." What about?" Nothing." How do you know it was nothing." He has plenty of money. - Ernest Hemingway I'm too drunk to recall much of what I've said. Which, come to think of it, is probably just as well, judging by the way people who are normally quite sensible dissolve into gibbering, rude, opinionated and bombastic idiots once the alcohol molecules in their bloom-stream outnumber the neutrons, or whatever. Luckily, one only notices this if one stays sober oneself, so the solution is as pleasant (at the time, at least) as it is obviou...

Do you miss Wales?" Tessa inquired. Will shrugged lightly. "What's to miss? Sheep and singing," he said. "And the ridiculous language. Fe hoffwn i fod mor feddw, fyddai ddim yn cofio fy enw." "What does that mean?" "It means 'I wish to get so drunk I no longer remember my own name,' Quite useful. - Cassandra Clare I had never, ever drunk beer in high school, and by the time I got to Tech we were having these parties out in the cotton fields and getting so drunk. I was the champion beer drinker; suddenly I was pouring it down my throat... Insane! Insane! - Bob Livingston The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year's Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you're married to. - P J Orourke Kissing a rose is a dumb thing to do not just from the rose's point of view. But it's a start like driving off a cliff's probably a finish. In beween you'...

When I'm drunk with feeling and nature is drinking from my lips and we reflect each other in our atmospheres, then my words come effortlessly and my fingers go into labor...day or night. - Brandi L Bates You okay? Anton asks, looking at me like he's trying to figure out if I'm drunk. His plans depend on me. I look as blank as possible and hope that it freaks him out. No point in my being the only miserable one. - Holly Black I think computers ought to have a key called I'M DRUNK, and when you push it, it prevents you from sending email for twelve hours. I've got another one: a key called FUCK OFF. You press it every time your computer does something annoying -- in turn this would somehow force your computer to experience pain. And if you pushed SHIFT/FUCK OFF, you'd end up with FUCK OFF AND DIE, the computer equivalent of a razor being raked across your nipples. - Douglas Coupland Don't think I'm talking nonsense because I'm drunk. I'm not a ...

And I sat there getting drunker and drunker and more in love and more in love. - Donald Barthelme Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk. - Ambrose Bierce Getting drunk was good. I decided that I would always like getting drunk. It took away the obvious and maybe if you could get away from the obvious often enough, you wouldn't become so obvious yourself. - Charles Bukowski Want to talk third wave feminism, you could cite Ariel Levy and the idea that women have internalized male oppression. Going to spring break at Fort Lauderdale, getting drunk, and flashing your breasts isn't an act of personal empowerment. It's you, so fashioned and programmed by the construct of patriarchal society that you no longer know what's best for yourself. A damsel too dumb to even know she's in distress. - Chuck Palahniuk Me, I'd prefer to have a good reputation rather than getting press for being scandalous, getting drunk in pub...

What's the difference between bulimics and anorexics?" I ask. "Anorexics are anorexics all the time," she says, "I'm only bulimic when I'm throwing up." Wow. She sounds just like my dad! "I'm only an alcoholic when I get drunk." There are all kinds of addicts, I guess. We all have pain. And we all look for ways to make the pain go away. Penelope gorges on her pain and then throws it up and flushes it away. My dad drinks his pain away. (107) - Sherman Alexie I can't believe he didn't have the dignity and presence of mind just to get drunk and pass out in some gutter," said Jace. "I must say, I'm disappointed in the little fellow. - Cassandra Clare Im's offspring stare at stars and make clocks that calculate useless happenings like the angle of a hawk's claws as it strikes its prey. They demonstrate their contraptions and everyone marvels. My children get drunk, confuse a herd of cows with an enemy regimen...

I am the person who is a mother against drunk driver. - Tracey Gold After the crash happened, I was so humiliated and embarrassed. I thought of Mothers Against Drunk Drivers, that they must hate me. - Tracey Gold You died in your sleep? Drunk driver? Cancer,huh? World war? Well...yeah those deaths are great and all,but wait till I tell you what happened to me. Yeah...that's right...I said kraken. - Colleen Houck Stop a drunk driver and you stop a murderereven if he hasn't killed anyone yet. In all the alternate universes, the odds are he's already killedand will kill again. - Jarod Kintz A drunk driver is very dangerous. So is a drunk backseat driver if he's persuasive. - Demetri Martin

A desperate plea to the Trinity is not something you can just apologize for in the morning -Drunk Dialing the Divine - Amber Koneval Pamela Anderson : 'He called and called, leaving about twenty messages, just drunk dialing. One of them was him singing his version of the Oscar Mayer theme song: "My baloney has a first name, it's L-A-R-G-E. My baloney has a second name, it's P-E-N-I-S. I like to use it every day and if you ask me why, I'll saaay, 'Cuz my Large Penis has a way with P-U-S-S-Y today!" Actually that was the message that got me interested. - Tommy Lee Isn't there a danger with Tweeting, like drunk dialing? Isn't there a drunk Tweeting danger? - Julianna Margulies

I say 'no' to drugs. Whenever someone asks me for some of my drugs I say, 'no. - Rodney Dangerfield I couldn't say no to jobs and I couldn't say no to drugs. I'd get high from a movie, I'd be somebody else because I didn't particularly like me, so long as I had a script in my hand, I was okay. As soon as the movie was over, I didn't know what to do. - Brion James Just say no to drugs! - Nancy Reagan

No one wants to go back to a situation where, if you have a pre-existing medical condition, you, you can be deprived of coverage. No one wants to go back to a situation where, if you get seriously ill, you can get thrown off your insurance. Seniors don't want to go back to paying more for their prescription drugs. - David Axelrod Our health care system is the finest in the world, but we still have too many uninsured Americans, too high prices for prescription drugs, and too many frivolous lawsuits driving our physicians out of state or out of business. - Judy Biggert For people on social assistance, the loss of free dental care, prescription drugs and subsidized housing can greatly outweigh additional income from working. We've all heard the stories. - Kim Campbell I can't wait to be that age and hanging out with a bunch of people hanging out all day playing golf and going to the beach, all my own age. We'd be laughing and having a good time and getting loopy on our...

We need to make sure parents and coaches are aware of the dangers an on the look-out for the warning signs. Performance enhancing drugs are too damaging to young people for parents and coaches to not be involved. - Chuck Grassley I'm on performance enhancing drugs, so I may cause drowsiness. - Jay London

I say 'no' to drugs. Whenever someone asks me for some of my drugs I say, 'no. - Rodney Dangerfield I couldn't say no to jobs and I couldn't say no to drugs. I'd get high from a movie, I'd be somebody else because I didn't particularly like me, so long as I had a script in my hand, I was okay. As soon as the movie was over, I didn't know what to do. - Brion James Just say no to drugs! - Nancy Reagan

This time, there were no drugs involved. The hours were completely normal daytime hours. I think we were able to appreciate the interplay, where before we had taken it for granted. - Lindsey Buckingham I'm very serious about no alcohol, no drugs. Life is too beautiful. - Jim Carrey When at the typewriter I am no longer where I site but am away across the mountains, in ancient cities or on the Great Plains among the buffalo. Often I think of what pitiful fools are those who use mind-altering drugs to seek feelings they do not have, each drug taking a little more from what they have of mind, leaving them a little less. Give the brain encouragement from study, from thinking, from visualizing, and no drugs are needed. - Louis L Amour Our government's got a war on drugs. That's certainly better then no drugs at all. - Kurt Vonnegut You know, 20 years... the films of television when it started, the literature, radio in communist countries, they're clean as a whistle; the...

Madam Speaker, it is time to halt illegal entry into this country. It is time to halt the flow of illegal drugs and weapons into this great Nation, and it is time to secure our borders. - Marsha Blackburn We must send the message that if you use illegal drugs, you will pay the ultimate price by not playing an entire season. And if you get caught again, you will be banished for life. - Jim Bunning Not TV or illegal drugs but the automobile has been the chief destroyer of American communities. - Jane Jacobs So at the end of the day, our number 1 goal, our top priority, is to motivate American youngsters to reject the abuse of illegal drugs, tobacco and alcohol. All three of them are illegal behaviors. - Barry Mccaffrey In fact, street gangs are the primary distributor of illegal drugs in the United States. - Dave Reichert The original PATRIOT Act greatly increased our nation's ability to share intelligence information, made better use of technology, and provided terrorism inves...

We don't do drugs, drink or use profanity. Instead we instill morals and values in my boys by raising them with a love of God and a love and respect for themselves and all people. I believe they will have a chance. - Anita Baker I don't do drugs. I am drugs. - Salvador Dali Myrnin turned away to pick up his Ben Franklin spectacles, balanced them on his nose, and looked over them to say, Don't do drugs. I feel I ought to say that. - Rachel Caine I don't drink. I don't do drugs. - Casper Van Dien Don't do drugs, don't have unprotected sex, don't be violent. Leave that to me. - Eminem I don't do drugs anymore... than, say, the average touring funk band. - Bill Hicks I don't have to say 'Rap it up' every two seconds, or 'Don't do drugs' every two seconds. They know they're not supposed to use drugs, and they know they're supposed to put a condom on. - Curtis Jackson It's one of the reasons I don't do drugs....

Aaron Sorkin was completely unable to understand the actual psychology of Mark or of Facebook. He can't conceive of a world where social status or getting laid or, for that matter, doing drugs, is not the most important thing. - Marc Andreessen We never could have performed live for an hour and a half every week if we were doing drugs. - Chevy Chase I use as high SPF as I can get, and I live under a hat like a mushroom all the time. Someone said they're worried about their kids getting older and doing drugs, and I got this look of horror on my face and thought, 'What if my girls don't wear hats?' But at 13 months old, they could say 'hat.' - Marcia Cross I stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started. - Dave Grohl In the '70s, everybody was doing drugs, so long as you showed up and did your work, they'd use you until you died. - Brion James Everyone reaches their point in time where either they die or...

I can't say enough about how I'm against drugs. Be smart, think about it, look at what it does to people, look at how much you have to experience in life and be courageous enough to do everything you want to without that chemical help. - Erika Christensen I loved when Bush came out and said, 'We are losing the war against drugs.' You know what that implies? There's a war being fought, and the people on drugs are winning it. - Bill Hicks I think it talks about that there needs to be some proactive attack against drugs infiltrating our culture. - Joe Morton Drugs are the enemies of ambition and hope - and when we fight against drugs we are fighting for the future. - Bob Riley

Caring for our children and making sure they do not get addicted to drugs is all of our responsibility. - Joe Baca What good is talking if neither of you are really committed? If one of you had an affair or got addicted to drugs or was abusive, simply talking about it wouldn;t take the hurt away; or fix the trust that's been lost. In the end, marriage comes down to actions. I think people talk too much about the things that bother them, instead of actually doing the little things that keep a marriage strong. - Nicholas Sparks I'm a reading addict. I can't live without it, like someone who is addicted to drugs. - Hugo Chavez There is only one reason why men become addicted to drugs - they are weak men. Only strong men are cured, and they cure themselves. - Martin Henry Fischer For a lot of kids, the Boys and Girls Club is really a sanctuary, an oasis of sanity and safety for them because their home life is so tragic. Some of these kids have only one parent, and that one...

No one wants to go back to a situation where, if you have a pre-existing medical condition, you, you can be deprived of coverage. No one wants to go back to a situation where, if you get seriously ill, you can get thrown off your insurance. Seniors don't want to go back to paying more for their prescription drugs. - David Axelrod Our health care system is the finest in the world, but we still have too many uninsured Americans, too high prices for prescription drugs, and too many frivolous lawsuits driving our physicians out of state or out of business. - Judy Biggert On January 1, 2006, Medicare will begin to offer a prescription drug benefit, and for the first time, it will place an emphasis on preventive care and early treatment of disease. - Michael Burgess For people on social assistance, the loss of free dental care, prescription drugs and subsidized housing can greatly outweigh additional income from working. We've all heard the stories. - Kim Campbell Pharmaceutical...

This time, there were no drugs involved. The hours were completely normal daytime hours. I think we were able to appreciate the interplay, where before we had taken it for granted. - Lindsey Buckingham I'm very serious about no alcohol, no drugs. Life is too beautiful. - Jim Carrey When at the typewriter I am no longer where I site but am away across the mountains, in ancient cities or on the Great Plains among the buffalo. Often I think of what pitiful fools are those who use mind-altering drugs to seek feelings they do not have, each drug taking a little more from what they have of mind, leaving them a little less. Give the brain encouragement from study, from thinking, from visualizing, and no drugs are needed. - Louis L Amour It drops us into a vigorous current, a constant state of misguided control. The doomed generation takes a final step forward, ignoring all the signs that state the obvious, and leaps into a trip no drug known to man could ever encompass. - Hunter S Th...

Madam Speaker, it is time to halt illegal entry into this country. It is time to halt the flow of illegal drugs and weapons into this great Nation, and it is time to secure our borders. - Marsha Blackburn We must send the message that if you use illegal drugs, you will pay the ultimate price by not playing an entire season. And if you get caught again, you will be banished for life. - Jim Bunning Roland could not understand why anyone would want cocaine or any other illegal drug, for that matter, in a world where such a powerful one as sugar was so plentiful and cheap. - Stephen King Illegal drug use runs contrary to the image of health depicted by cycling. Distributors of these drugs must be prosecuted more harshly as they are ciminals. - Bernard Hinault Not TV or illegal drugs but the automobile has been the chief destroyer of American communities. - Jane Jacobs So at the end of the day, our number 1 goal, our top priority, is to motivate American youngsters to reject the abuse...

Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence. - Milton Friedman Casual drug users should be taken out and shot. - Daryl Gates My stance has always been that there's no place in our sport for drug users. I've always said it's a ban for life if you come up positive. I stand by that. - Maurice Greene The general population still thinks HIV is something that came in the 80s and went away, or that it only affects the gay population or intravenous drug users. - Annie Lennox There has never been a 'war on drugs'! In our history we can only see an ongoing conflict amongst various drug users and producers. In ancient Mexico the use of alcohol was punishable by death, while the ritualistic use of mescaline was highly worshipped. In 17th century Russia, tobac...

People use drugs, legal and illegal, because their lives are intolerably painful or dull. They hate their work and find no rest in their leisure. They are estranged from their families and their neighbors. It should tell us something that in healthy societies drug use is celebrative, convivial, and occasional, whereas among us it is lonely, shameful, and addictive. We need drugs, apparently, because we have lost each other. (pg. 61, "Racism and the Economy") - Wendell Berry Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. - Rudyard Kipling When Stevie and I joined the band, we were in the midst of breaking up, as were John and Christine. By the time Rumours was being recorded, things got worse in terms of psychology and drug use. It was a large exercise in denial - in order for me to get work done. - Lindsey Buckingham Ginny yelled through her megaphone as we worked, telling us to view the trash we picked up as a gathering of all the souls we affected with ou...