Acid Quotes

Reading any piece of writing aloud is an acid test, particularly when it comes to dialogue. There were writers I'd always admired who suddenly rang false when I spoke their words in our living room.

Self-pity is an acid which eats holes in happiness.

I think I did every drug known to mankind, smoked crack, boozed, dropped acid, you name it.

You always come back to earth with a thump at some stage. Life has it's ups and downs; the acid test is how you handle the downs.

Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.

The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.

Honesty is not necessarily interesting. I don't want to hear about your dreams or your acid trips, probably unless you make them really interesting.

Everybody I know fails the acid test of friendship.

I'm still the same person I've always been.

one can never be sure whether it's good poetry or bad acid

Some Harvard guy said that acid would open our minds, pot wouldn't hurt us, and cocaine was benign.

I'm not regretful about dropping acid, but I could have stopped it a little sooner.

How is the base sequence, divided into codons? There is nothing in the backbone of the nucleic acid, which is perfectly regular, to show us how to group the bases into codons.

We know that acid rain has had no significant environmental effect on trees or forests in the United States... It is based on popular myths and half-baked theories.

Jesus man! You don't look for acid! Acid finds you when it thinks you're ready.

But after a while you learn to cope with things like seeing your dead grandmother crawling up your leg with a knife in her teeth. Most acid fanciers can handle this sort of thing.

With 'Black Swan,' the ballerina saga flips its tiara and goes on a hallucinatory bender, a scary acid trip where transfiguration and disfiguration meet.

Throwing acid is wrong... in some people's eyes.

Once I slapped a rapper with mace, Then I spit acid in his face, after he rinsed his eyes, no wait... I actually grew five times my size, grabbed Ma$e by the thigh and slapped a rapper with him.

There's a big difference between somebody who does acid on weekends and somebody who takes downers every day.

The evidence that folic acid reduces the risk of heart disease is pretty strong. [...] And fruits and vegetables are a major source of folic acid.

Loneliness becomes an acid that eats away at you.

Bill Gates'd be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger.

You can't reduce lactic acid, but you can increase your tolerance to it. I do this through running or cycling, but it's a good idea to match your training bout to the type of dance you do.

I thought, 'My God, this is like Buddy Guy on acid.'

This seems highly likely, especially as it has been shown that in several systems mutations affecting the same amino acid are extremely near together on the genetic map.

In this atmosphere I soon became interested in nucleic acids.

Genuine sorrows are very tranquil in appearance in the deep bed they have dug for themselves. But, seeming to slumber, they corrode the soul like that frightful acid which penetrates crystal.

The gastric laboratory uses its protein ferment under an acid reaction.

The first line (of I Am The Walrus) was written on one acid trip one weekend. The second line was written on the next acid trip the next weekend, and it was filled in after I met Yoko.

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.

Alienation is a form of living death. It is the acid of despair that dissolves society.

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.

If you have acid in food, you need to sugar it. At a high temperature, the acids are changed to sugar.

As it is she will probably turn out to be one of these acid-faced virgins that sit behind little desks in public libraries and stamp dates in books.

The best way to get acid out of your body is to wash it out. The best way to wash it out is to provide plenty of water to do the job

People are always defining and re-defining music. My style of playing has been characterized as smooth jazz and acid jazz. I listen as I play; I'm not caught up in defining the type of music I play.

Tomatoes and squash never fail to reach maturity. You can spray them with acid, beat them with sticks and burn them; they love it.

Organic compounds exist in which a hydrogen atom, joined to the carbon, acquires acid properties as a result of the proximity of certain functional groupings.

Wit, after all, is a mighty tart, pungent ingredient, and much too acid for some stomachs; but honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting.

Someone who smiles too much with you can sometime frown too much with you at your back.

If it weren't for acid, you might not have an IPod, and you definitely would not have some of the best music in your IPod.

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

Romans park their cars the way I would park if I had just spilled a beaker of hydrochloric acid on my lap.

You know, if a drug has anything going for it at all, it should be self-limiting. It should tell you when you've had enough. Acid and peyote were that way for me.

Morning, sunshine." Vlad blinked at her. "Morning, sulfuric acid." "Pardon me?" "Well, isn't it just kinda wrong to call a vampire 'sunshine'?

One amino acid does not a protein make-let alone a being.

Imagine jumping into a pit of boiling acid. Now multiply that pain times fifty." -Percy

If acids win - you lose!

Take back your insurance, baby, nothing is guaranteed. Take back your acid rain, let your TV bleed.