Acid Quotes
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acid allows you to walk through the door to an alternate reality, but most people have no idea how to walk back through.
— Robert M. Pirsig in Lila : An Inquiry into Morals (1991)
One misses the hiss of acid.
Christopher Charles Herbert Lehmann-Haupt— 1984 On Gore Vidal's biography Lincoln (1984). In the NewYork Times, 30 May.
The silver-haired, pipe-smoking northerner was a consummate British politician: tenacious, shrewd, manipulative, a blend of homespun tastes, acid wit and pragmatic, often shifting policies?the symbol of an emerging middle-class Briton. McGonagall
Robert D(ennis) McFadden— 1995 Of Harold Wilson. In the NewYork Times, 25 May.
We wish to suggest a structure for the salt of deoxyribose nucleic acid (DNA).
— 1953 First sentence of the paper describing the structure of DNA, with Francis Crick. Nature, 25 Apr.
First deal with your own tears; tomorrow do something about acid rain.
BettyJane Wylie— Successfully Single (1986)
"If I forgot some stuff, please excuse me; I ate the brown acid at Woodstock '69 and can scarcely remember my own name."
brandon boyd— In his "Thanks" for the MV album
It's like 60 Minutes on acid.
David Byrne— In the self-interview on Stop Making Sense
People have told me it's like Touched by an Angel on acid. I think that's a good description.
caroline dhavernas— On Wonderfalls in "Caroline Dhavernas works magic" by Olivia Barker at USA Today (9 March 2004)
Alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine are weak dilutions. The surest poison is time.
ralph waldo emerson— Poetry and Imagination
I'd like to imagine I won't end up in hell, but I think I've done too much acid and listened to too much death metal to sit on a cloud next to God with angels floating above my head.
dave grohl— Maxim Magazine (January 2008)
His legions of stoned admirers probably really thought he took a hundred hits of acid before sitting down to write. But the craftsmanship those close to him saw as he agonized over his words spoke to how much went into making it look like a breeze.
william mckeen— Chapter 17, Homecoming, p. 324
I was appalled that the San Francisco ethic didn't mushroom and envelope the whole world into this loving community of acid freaks. I was very naive.
grace slick— As quoted in The Routledge Dictionary of Quotations (1987) edited by Robert Andrews
All hearts confess the saints elect,Who, twain in faith, in love agree,And melt not in an acid sectThe Christian pearl of charity!
john greenleaf whittier— Snow Bound, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
All life is nucleic acid; the rest is commentary
Isaac Asimov— "The Relativity of Wrong" (1988) - "Beginning with Bone" (May, 1987)
I wish him the best, I really do. I just think he and Microsoft are a bit narrow. He'd be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger.
steve jobs— On Bill Gates as quoted in "Creating Jobs" in The New York Times (12 January 1997)
With a wracking head and literally my whole body shaking as with ague I write this and tell you I have just this afternoon early finished Clavicembalisticum... The closing 4 pages are so cataclysmic and catastrophic as anything I've ever done the harmony bites like nitric acid the counterpoint grinds like the mills of God...
kaikhosru shapurji sorabji— Letter to his friend the Scots composer Erik Chisholm (1904-65) upon completion of Opus clavicembalisticum, 1930; quoted by pianist John Ogdon.
Some springs are acid, as at Lyncestus and in Italy in the Velian country, at Teano in Campania, and in many other places. These when used in drinks have the power of breaking up stones in the bladder, which form in the human body.
vitruvius— Chapter III, Sec. 17
Fezzik: Why are you wearing a mask? Were you burned by acid or something like that? Man in Black: Oh, no, it's just they're terribly comfortable, I think everyone will be wearing them in the future.
— The Princess Bride (film), written by William Goldman (1987)
I was appalled that the San Francisco ethic didn't mushroom and envelope the whole world into this loving community of acid freaks. I was very naive.
— Grace Slick, as quoted in The Routledge Dictionary of Quotations (1987) edited by Robert Andrews
When the stress burns my brain just like acid raindrops, Mary Jane is the only thing that makes the pain stop.
— People Under the Stairs, "Acid Raindrops".
If God dropped acid, would he see people ?
— Attributed to George Carlin in The Friars Club Encyclopedia of Jokes: Over 2,000 One-Liners, Straight Lines, Stories, Gags, Roasts, Ribs, and Put-Downs (2009) by H. Aaron Cohl and Barry Dougherty, p. 145; also attributed to Steven Wright, in The Things I Wish They'd Told Me. As I Was Growing Up (2010) by David Rankin, p. 97
I wish him the best, I really do. I just think he and Microsoft are a bit narrow. He'd be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger.
— Steve Jobs on Bill Gates as quoted in "Creating Jobs" in The New York Times (12 January 1997).
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.
— Francis Crick, in The Realm of Science, Volume 18, Touchstone Publishing Company, 1972, p.171
Critical (i.e., separating) methods apply only to the world-as-nature. It would be easier to break up a theme of Beethoven with dissecting knife or acid than to break up the soul by methods of abstract thought . Nature-knowledge and man-knowledge have neither ways nor aims in common.
oswald spengler— Oswald Spengler, Decline of the West, Volume 1, C. Atkinson, trans., p. 300
Some springs are acid, as at Lyncestus and in Italy in the Velian country, at Teano in Campania, and in many other places. These when used in drinks have the power of breaking up stones in the bladder, which form in the human body.
— Chapter III, Sec. 17 (Book VII)
'I haven't been into acid much', a boy lying next to me says, 'just about a hundred trips or so.'
— Comment by an anonymous member
— du Plessix Gray 1973
Memories are like flagstones, time and distance work upon them like drops of acid.
— Ugo Betti, Delitto all’isola delle Capre, 1946, as translated by Henry Reed, 1961.
The Electric Kool-Aid acid Test
— 1968 Title of book.
