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  • If God dropped acid, would he see people? -- Steven Wright
  • I never did acid, I am just so high anyway. -- Cilla Black
  • If you've never seen an elephant ski, you've never been on acid. -- Eddie Izzard
  • I think I did every drug known to mankind, smoked crack, boozed, dropped acid, you name it. -- Kid Rock
  • Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured. -- Mark Twain
  • I am not a demon. I am a lizard, a shark, a heat-seeking panther. I want to be Bob Denver on acid playing the accordion. -- Nicolas Cage
  • A comparison between the triplets tentatively deduced by these methods with the changes in amino acid sequence produced by mutation shows a fair measure of agreement. -- Francis Crick
  • I went to a doctor and told him I felt normal on acid, that I was a light bulb in a world of moths. That is what the manic state is like. -- Carrie Fisher
  • It seems likely that most if not all the genetic information in any organism is carried by nucleic acid - usually by DNA, although certain small viruses use RNA as their genetic material. -- Francis Crick
  • The meaning of this observation is unclear, but it raises the unfortunate possibility of ambiguous triplets; that is, triplets which may code more than one amino acid. However one would certainly expect such triplets to be in a minority. -- Francis Crick
  • Acid, booze, and ass, needles, guns, and grass, lots of laughs. -- Joni Mitchell
  • Jesus man! You don't look for acid! Acid finds you when *it* thinks you're ready. -- Hunter S. Thompson
  • I'm not regretful about dropping acid, but I could have stopped it a little sooner. -- David Carradine
  • Acid gave me a clinical, unblinking look at madness, and I discovered I wasn't brave enough to be insane. -- Craig Ferguson
  • There are sorrows that are not painful, but are of the nature of some acids, and give piquancy and flavor to life. -- Henry Ward Beecher
  • 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. -- Noel Gallagher
  • It now seems certain that the amino acid sequence of any protein is determined by the sequence of bases in some region of a particular nucleic acid molecule. -- Francis Crick
  • 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
  • Unfortunately it makes the unambiguous determination of triplets by these methods much more difficult than would be the case if there were only one triplet for each amino acid. -- Francis Crick
  • Acid is not for every brain .... Only the healthy, happy, wholesome, handsome, hopeful, humorous, high-velocity should seek these experiences. This elitism is totally self-determined. Unless you are self-confident, self-directed, self-selected, please abstain. -- Timothy Leary
  • 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. -- George Carlin
  • 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. -- Francis Crick
  • A final proof of our ideas can only be obtained by detailed studies on the alterations produced in the amino acid sequence of a protein by mutations of the type discussed here. -- Francis Crick
  • It now seems very likely that many of the 64 triplets, possibly most of them, may code one amino acid or another, and that in general several distinct triplets may code one amino acid. -- Francis Crick
  • 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. -- Roy Ayers
  • I have to confess that a strong contributing factor was that I had just taken what was probably the first acid ever made, given to me by a guy called Johnny Fellows, who had just returned from America. -- Jim Capaldi
  • We frequently define an acid or a base as a substance whose aqueous solution gives, respectively, a higher concentration of hydrogen ion or of hydroxide ion than that furnished by pure water. This is a very one sided definition. -- Gilbert N. Lewis
  • My come-out record, '10 Day,' was the thing people were supposed to hear and figure out 'he's good' or 'he's not good.' 'Acid Rap' is the comeback tape, and it asks way bigger and better questions than, 'Is he good at rapping? -- Chance The Rapper
  • Atom bombs, something's wrong. D.E.A sent to Guam. Acid Trips, big fat chics. Purple Finstone Vitamins.All the needy rich are greedy. I find out you don't need me. Berlin wall starts to fall. I trip out to the wall. Hooray Horrah -- Chester Bennington
  • My come-out record, '10 Day,' was the thing people were supposed to hear and figure out 'he's good' or 'he's not good.' 'Acid Rap' is the comeback tape, and it asks way bigger and better questions than, 'Is he good at rapping?' -- Chance The Rapper
  • With 'Acid Rap,' I allowed myself to be really open-minded and free with who I allowed into my musical space. I wanted to make a cohesive product, but I also just want to make a bunch of dope songs inspired by whatever sounds I liked. -- Chance The Rapper
  • I had a very bad time with acid. I did that classic thing of looking in the mirror by mistake and seeing the devil. But I took it several times, because you always think that next time you might have the wonderful time that everyone else is having. -- Robbie Coltraine
  • The importance of Liking Yourself is a notion that fell heavily out of favor during the coptic, anti-ego frenzy of the Acid Era--but nobody guessed back then that the experiment might churn up this kind of hangover: a whole subculture of frightened illiterates with no faith in anything. -- Hunter S. Thompson
  • Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Heres Tom with the Weather. -- Bill Hicks
  • Memories are like stones, time and distance erode them like acid. -- Ugo Betti
  • Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth. -- D. H. Lawrence
  • When I was a kid, we never heard of smog, ozone depletion, acid rain, green house gasses. -- Dennis Weaver
  • There are three side effects of acid: enhanced long-term memory, decreased short-term memory, and I forget the third. -- Timothy Leary
  • I just think we're living in a time of massive, amazing change, like the Industrial Revolution on acid. -- Kelly Lynch
  • Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent. -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
  • Police arrested two kids yesterday, one was drinking battery acid, the other was eating fireworks. They charged one and let the other one off. -- Tommy Cooper
  • At the time, acid made me consider questions of reality, the difference, as someone said, between words and silence. It also brought back a lot of latent religious feelings in me that I had turned my back on. -- Robert Stone
  • I was on acid and I looked at the trees and I realized that they all came to points, and the little branches came to points, and the houses came to point. I thought, 'Oh! Everything has a point, and if it doesn't, then there's a point to it.' -- Harry Nilsson
  • Reading develops cognitive skills. It trains our minds to think critically and to question what you are told. This is why dictators censor or ban books. It's why it was illegal to teach slaves to read. It's why girls in developing countries have acid thrown in their faces when they walk to school. -- Karin Slaughter
  • Ocean acidification - the excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that is turning the oceans increasingly acid - is a slow but accelerating impact with consequences that will greatly overshadow all the oil spills put together. The warming trend that is CO2-related will overshadow all the oil spills that have ever occurred put together. -- Sylvia Earle
  • Bring down Mike Mann and we can bring down the IPCC, they reckoned. It is a classic technique for the deniers' movement, I have discovered, and I don't mean only those who reject the idea of global warming but those who insist that smoking doesn't cause cancer or that industrial pollution isn't linked to acid rain. -- Michael E. Mann
  • Life has evolved to thrive in environments that are extreme only by our limited human standards: in the boiling battery acid of Yellowstone hot springs, in the cracks of permanent ice sheets, in the cooling waters of nuclear reactors, miles beneath the Earth's crust, in pure salt crystals, and inside the rocks of the dry valleys of Antarctica. -- Jill Tarter
  • History is moving the furniture around in the house of mankind just about everywhere but the U.S.A. Things have changed, except here, where people come and go through the rooms of state, and everything looks shabbier by the day, and lethargy eats away at the upholstery like an acid fog, and the walls reverberate with meaningless oratory. -- James Howard Kunstler
  • There is good evidence that Venus once had liquid water and a much thinner atmosphere, similar to Earth billions of years ago. But today the surface of Venus is dry as a bone, hot enough to melt lead, there are clouds of sulfuric acid that reach a hundred miles high and the air is so thick it's like being 900 meters deep in the ocean. -- Bill Nye
  • It's like 60 Minutes on acid. -- David Byrne
  • P.S. I enjoy acid pops. -- J. K. Rowling
  • Tequila is like acid in a glass. -- Greg Proops
  • Prayer is the acid test of devotion. -- Samuel Chadwick
  • ...robots pencil prescriptions for acid gas sunsets -- Allen Ginsberg
  • Virus particles contain single molecules of nucleic acid. -- Alfred Hershey
  • Throwing acid is wrong... in some people's eyes. -- Jimmy Carr
  • Folic acid deficiency does the same thing as radiation. -- Bruce Ames
  • Just sprinkle a little lime to neutralize the acid. -- Tom DeLay
  • Self-pity is an acid which eats holes in happiness. -- Earl Nightingale
  • Everybody I know fails the acid test of friendship. -- Bill Watterson
  • I don't do acid anymore, so I travel instead. -- Carrie Fisher
  • Housekeeping in common is for women the acid test. -- Andre Maurois
  • All life is nucleic acid; the rest is commentary -- Isaac Asimov
  • Loneliness becomes an acid that eats away at you. -- Haruki Murakami
  • Yes, but personally I was never a big acid head. -- Bill Griffith
  • I could sell used battery acid and make it fly. -- Dan Aykroyd
  • People crave laughter as if it were an essential amino acid. -- Patch Adams
  • Hatred plays the same part in government as acid in chemistry. -- Winston Churchill
  • One amino acid does not a protein make-let alone a being. -- Preston Cloud
  • I was raised a Christian and was a stone-faced acid head. -- Ken Kesey
  • The renunciation of the Gita is the acid test of faith. -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • The gastric laboratory uses its protein ferment under an acid reaction. -- Ivan Pavlov
  • First deal with your own tears; tomorrow do something about acid rain. -- Betty Jane Wylie
  • one can never be sure whether it's good poetry or bad acid -- Charles Bukowski
  • It's hard to stay away from religion when you mess with acid. -- Robert Stone
  • I thought, 'My God, this is like Buddy Guy on acid.' -- Eric Clapton
  • Lies were like acid, corrosive: They could dissolve trust in a heartbeat. -- Rob Thurman
  • If I had half a chance, I'd put acid in the Government's tea. -- George Harrison
  • Because of acid, I now know that butter is way better than margarine. -- Mitch Hedberg
  • Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum. -- Alan Lightman
  • An acid is like a woman: a good one will eat through your pants. -- Mel Gibson
  • Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions. The surest poison is time. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Imagine jumping into a pit of boiling acid. Now multiply that pain times fifty." -Percy -- Rick Riordan
  • Alcohol, acid, cocaine... they were just affairs. When I met heroin it was true love. -- Nikki Sixx
  • Alienation is a form of living death. It is the acid of despair that dissolves society. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • The Vienna Franks are a good example of urban white acid folk revivalism crossed with ska. -- Douglas Coupland
  • The producers probably won't like this, but I always describe her as Peppermint Patty on acid. -- Mindy Cohn
  • For the most part, I try to stay away from high fructose corn syrup and citric acid. -- Nikki Reed
  • To me the acid test was always the crew, and if the crew liked you, you're OK. -- Ann Rutherford
  • Unapologetically smitten with thunderstorms...the thought of rough sex beneath an acid washed moon and hydrated stars... -- Brandi L. Bates
  • Take back your insurance, baby, nothing is guaranteed. Take back your acid rain, let your TV bleed. -- Tom Petty
  • The assumption that what currently exists must necessarily exist is the acid that corrodes all visionary thinking. -- Murray Bookchin
  • Such is the active power of good temperament! Great sweetness of temper neutralizes such vast amounts of acid. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Ah ha!" the Doc screeched suddenly, wheeling around. "The salicylic acid! Maybe it SHOULD have been heated first! -- Clare Havens
  • There's a big difference between somebody who does acid on weekends and somebody who takes downers every day. -- Tommy Rettig
  • Some Harvard guy said that acid would open our minds, pot wouldn't hurt us, and cocaine was benign. -- Chevy Chase
  • In my case I've never not been political, though religion tended to overshadow it in my acid days. -- John Lennon
  • We have work to do if you are not to be a total failure like high-waisted, acid-wash jeans. -- Libba Bray
  • I was typing away while everybody was dropping acid and smoking grass. I was known as my own square. -- Anne Rice
  • Saying sulfates do not cause acid rain is the same as saying that smoking does not cause lung cancer. -- Andrew L. Lewis, Jr.
  • As long as there are slaughterhouses there will be battlefields. A vegetarian diet is the acid test of humanitarianism. -- Leo Tolstoy
  • Ah ha!' the Doc screeched suddenly, wheeling around. ''The salicylic acid! Maybe it SHOULD have been heated first! -- Clare Havens
  • I ran. I ran until my muscles burned and my veins pumped battery acid. Then I ran some more. -- Chuck Palahniuk
  • The acid test of any truth is found in whether it aids victims in their struggle to overcome victimisation. -- James H. Cone
  • We may fairly judge of the commercial prosperity of a country from the amount of sulphuric acid it consumes. -- Justus von Liebig
  • As is known, the sugar molecule as it passes through lactic acid can easily be split by purely chemical means. -- Eduard Buchner
  • And this is something I must accept - even if, like acid on metal, it is slowly corroding me inside. -- Tabitha Suzuma
  • I hope one of my fans has one of your kids shot: and blames it on acid, prozac, and slipknot. -- Immortal Technique
  • The acid test of politics is not what you say at the hustings, but what you actually do in government. -- Margaret Thatcher
  • Can you smell his sweat? That peculiar goatish odor is trans-3-methyl-2 hexenoic acid. Remember it, it's the smell of schizophrenia. -- Thomas Harris
  • My aura is psychedelic, flow non-prehistoric metamorphic boric like acid no hat tricks a classic so park that ass like Jurassic -- Bahamadia
  • Music is music; you can't change rock and say well this is punk rock and this is acid rock or rockabilly. -- Chuck Berry
  • If you have acid in food, you need to sugar it. At a high temperature, the acids are changed to sugar. -- Paul Prudhomme
  • Morning, sunshine." Vlad blinked at her. "Morning, sulfuric acid." "Pardon me?" "Well, isn't it just kinda wrong to call a vampire 'sunshine'? -- Heather Brewer
  • Canada is a country whose main exports are hockey players and cold fronts. Our main imports are baseball players and acid rain. -- Pierre Trudeau
  • Where are you sleeping tonight? Face down in the mud? That's a British tradition: Take acid and fall asleep in some field. -- Thom Yorke
  • Children, for whom suburban life was supposed to make wholesome little Johns and Wendys, became the acid-dropping, classroom-burning hippies of the 1960s. -- Ronald Steel
  • Anger's like a battery that leaks acid right out of meAnd it starts from the heart 'til it reaches my outer me -- Criss Jami
  • Bill Gates'd be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger. -- Steve Jobs
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