Famous Quotes & Sayings

Diana Gabaldon

Not for the first time, I reflected that intimacy and romance are not synonymous.

Diana Gabaldon

Oh, aye, Sassenach. I am your master . . . and you're mine. Seems I canna possess your soul without losing my own.

Jane Austen

She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.

Burt Reynolds

Women are my drugs and alcohol. When I'm involved with one woman, I'm involved with one woman. Period. But between romances, I am carnivorous.

Booth Tarkington

Youth cannot imagine romance apart from youth.

David Guterson

There's a certain nostalgia and romance in a place you left.

Carolyn Porco

Cassini is different -- it's a mission of enormous scope and is being conducted in grand style. It is much more sophisticated than Voyager, ... I can't say it's got that flavor of romance, though. Voyager was very romantic. Cassini is spectacular.

Caroline B. Cooney

I'll take you to Mickey D's," said Sean. "I'll buy you a hamburger." Annie was not thrilled. Sean's offer did not compare to offers made in other centuries. "And fries," Sean said. "And a vanilla milkshake." Annie remained unthrilled. "Okay, okay. You can have a Big Mac." Romance in my century, she thought, is pitiful.

Billy Strayhorn

Romance is mush, stifling those who strive.

Arthur Rimbaud

Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!

Sandy Miller

We're looking at moving out of the mental health (program) piece at the high school and offering a more comprehensive social work, which will be working with the parents as well as doing all the counseling for the drug and alcohol abuse.

Augusten Burroughs

I realized I could really become hooked on these happy pills. They gave me a glorious feeling of general well-being and didn't make me fat, like alcohol. I wondered if there was any harm in being addicted to only these.

Busta Rhymes

Buy a nickel bag, smoke a little lye, get high tonight, get high tonight.

National Institute

The craving that an alcoholic feels for alcohol can be as strong as the need for food or water, ... An alcoholic will continue to drink despite serious family, health, or legal problems.

David Gill

Sgt. Vick was an honorable man, but heroes are people and people make mistakes. Sgt. Vick had a lapse of judgment to allow himself to get to a .20 blood alcohol level.

David Strickland

I would never have discovered alcohol.

Pete Smith

We believe that these people would just contact these girls. They would look for a wayward girl on the street, possibly down and out. They would play into those insecurities. They would bring them back to this residence, ply them with alcohol ? and then eventually bring them in and train them in the craft of prostitution.

Noel Wells

I'm sure there have been a lot of boys I've chased over the years that has been fueled by alcohol and stupidity. But that's kind of how things happen - sometimes you have to do something really stupid, and sometimes it works out, and sometimes you fall flat on your face.

David Icke

Former US president, drug baron and pedophile, George Herbert Walker Bush, incidentally, is mentioned more than any other person in my experience in relation to shape-shifting.

Barry Diller

If you have too many epiphanies, you're on some kind of drug.

Dennis McKenna

All experience is a drug experience. Whether it's mediated by our own [endogenous] drugs, or whether it's mediated by substances that we ingest that are found in plants, cognition, consciousness, the working of the brain, it's all a chemically mediated process. Life itself is a drug experience.

Dennis Brown

Drugs have played no significant factor in my life.

Al Franken

The Medicare Part D prescription drug bill, which might be the most corrupt piece of legislation in history, was a huge giveaway of taxpayer funds to the big pharmaceutical companies.

Bill Hicks

How dare you have wino tell me not to do drugs.

Bill Hicks

That's why I always recommend a psychedelic experience because it makes you realize that all you've learned is in fact just learned and not necessarily the truth.

Bill Hicks

not all drugs are good.. some of them are great

Jan Brewer

And you know, it's not just illegal immigration. Terrorists can come across. They're devastating our ranchers down in southern Arizona - drop houses, kidnapping, automobile accidents, extortion, drugs, the spill-over with the drug cartels. We're facing all of it.