Acid Quotes - Page 2

LSD...reinforc ed my sense of what was important-creat ing great things instead of making money, putting things back into the stream of history and of human consciousness as much as I could.

Prayer is the acid test of devotion.

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.

A lot of people... are afraid of pictures which have visible emotions in them. They feel calmer in front of pictures which are placid.

Yes, but personally I was never a big acid head.

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.

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

I just think we're living in a time of massive, amazing change, like the Industrial Revolution on acid.

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.

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

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

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

Everybody I know fails the acid test of friendship.

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.

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

Students of the psychedelic realm know that one's expectations are a powerful determinant of the direction, content, and outcome of the experience. So, we should say at the outset that the experiences recounted here were preceded by careful preparation, where the trip was presented as a learning experience and a process of self-discovery. They all took place in safe, supportive environments. They generally did not fit the stereotypical model of teenagers dropping acid at a rock concert, looking for awesome visuals and good vibes.

Such is the active power of good temperament! Great sweetness of temper neutralizes such vast amounts of acid.

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.

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

Loneliness becomes an acid that eats away at you.

In this atmosphere I soon became interested in nucleic acids.

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

The trans fatty acids (found in animal products and cooked oils) are a factor in breast cancer.

Who we can be begins with our molecular blueprints - a series of alien codes penned in invisibly small strings of acids - well before we have anything to do with it. We are a product of our inaccessible, microscopic history.

If acids win - you lose!