Quotes of Heroin - somelinesforyou

“ Historians are to nationalism what poppy-growers in Pakistan are to heroin-addicts: we supply the essential raw material for the market. ”

- E. J. Hobsbawm

“ You know, it's cigarettes that killed Garcia. Everyone thinks it's heroin, but it wasn't. It was cigarettes. ”

- John Mellencamp

“ It did not feel like something that was going to take over my life and destroy it. It felt like a subtle flower instead of a manipulative demon. That's the mystery of heroin. ”

- Corey Feldman

“ If Placebo was a drug, they would no doubt be pure heroin - dangerous, mysterious and totally addictive. ”

- Brian Molko

“ I could deal with Pokemon if I smoked a couple of grams of blacktar heroin. ”

- Robert Downey Jr.

“ It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts. ”

- Shirley Chisholm

“ The whole LSD, STP, marijuana, heroin, hashish, prescription cough medicine crowd suffers from the "Watchtower" itch: you gotta be with us, man, or you're out, you're dead. This pitch is a continual and seeming MUST with those who use the stuff… ”

- Charles Bukowski

“ The one thing that did stand out in my memory was the fact that he had a well documented association with Heroin. Growing up with a somewhat myopic view of the world, I could not understand how it was that people could put a drug user on such a high pedestal ”

- Chet Baker

“ There are a lot of bands using self-abuse as a marketing gimmick. Metal music has been ambushed by a fashionable West Coast wasted look-you know, the red bandanna and the heroin needle sticking out of your arm. I think that's disgusting. ”

- Bruce Dickinson

“ I think I'd make a better president than George Bush. I'll tell you what, George Bush and Dick Cheney have been to jail more times than I have, and I used to shoot heroin, now what does that tell you? ”

- Dave Mustaine
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