Pills famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I think I've always had a certain amount of skepticism of this whole 'shut up and smile' theory. I haven't ever swallowed that pill so easily, although I tried.
-- Amber Heard -
You can't play chess if you're groggy from pills.
-- Anatoly Karpov -
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.
-- Augusten Burroughs -
I bet the pill is harder to get than drugs--which shows how screwed up this world really is!
-- Beatrice Sparks -
Homeopathy pills are, after all, empty little sugar pills which seem to work, and so they embody [..] how we can be misled into thinking that any intervention is more effective than it really is.
-- Ben Goldacre -
The answer isn't another pill. The answer is spinach
-- Bill Maher -
Patriarchy, routinely blamed for everything, produced the birth control pill, which did more to free contemporary women than feminism itself.
-- Camille Paglia -
I went [to Hobby Lobby] this morning and bought the cutest little wicker basket to hold all my morning-after pills.
-- Cecily Strong -
Many people are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed; they chew the bitter pill which they would not even know to be bitter if they had the sense to swallow it whole in a cup of patience and water.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
All that Swinging Sixties. It didn’t do anyone any good, did it? Easy sex and the Pill. Marriages were ruined. I never did approve. I never really enjoyed the sex.
-- Christine Keeler -
Penicillin was as liberating for gay sex as the pill had been for straight sex.
-- Christopher Bram -
As we're bombarded daily with new ads for pills, diets and ab-doers, we have to protect our wallets and our time.
-- Dan John -
If someone offered you a pill that would make you permanently happy, you would be well advised to run fast and run far. Emotion is a compass that tells us what to do, and a compass that perpetually stuck on north is worthless.
-- Daniel Gilbert -
There's information about everything from poetry to pills, from picture frames to pyramids, and from pudding to psychology--and that's just in the P aisle, which we're walking down right now.
-- Daniel Handler -
Lies are like sleeping pills. You should only use them when you absolutely have to. They spoil everything if you make a habit of them.
-- Daniel Quinn -
I don't know why I feel so crazy...I feel like I'm going through a stargate. Maybe it's the diet pills. Maybe it's Buddha.
-- Dawn French -
I want pills called September 10. You take one and your mind feels like the 11th never happened.
-- Douglas Coupland -
A pill that the present moment is daily bread to thousands.
-- Douglas William Jerrold -
I would like television to produce some itching pills rather than this endless outpouring of tranquilizers..
-- Edward R. Murrow -
Lots of people there seemed to be in denial, in absolute denial, of death - everybody's pretending that death doesn't happen in L.A.; if you do enough exercise and take enough wheatgrass and have your pill every day, you might not die.
-- Emily Mortimer -
With every pill we have prescribed for us we should also be given a creative prayer, a suggested way to correct our destructive patterns of thought.
-- Ernest Holmes -
If I feel in need of sleep, I just open a book or turn on the television. Both are better than any sleeping pill.
-- Ethel Merman -
The methods used to take human lives, such as abortion, the pill, the ring, etc., amounts to genocide. I believe that legal abortion is legal murder...
-- Fannie Lou Hamer -
I knew exactly what I was doing. You can't accidentally take a whole bottle of pills.
-- Fantasia Barrino -
The truth is that it’s not about the weight. It’s never been about the weight. When a pill is discovered that allows people to eat whatever they want and not gain weight, the feelings and situations they turned to food to avoid will still be there and they will find other more inventive ways to numb themselves.
-- Geneen Roth -
The bigger the headache, the bigger the pill.
-- George Clinton -
There is no pill, no drug, that can do for you what one hour of exercise can.
-- Greg LeMond -
I'm addicted to Altoids. I call them 'acting pills.'
-- Harrison Ford -
Protestant women may take the pill. Roman Catholic women must keep taking The Tablet.
-- Irene Thomas -
If you want to have great sex, find a partner who really turns you on. Pills are merely props, and props can turn out to be a big drag.
-- Jackie Collins -
Engineers are behind the cars we drive, the pills we pop and the way we power our homes.
-- James Dyson -
I give you bitter pills, in a sugar coating. The pills are harmless - the poison's in the sugar
-- James St. James -
For to love, loveless, is a bitter pill:But to be loved, unloving, bitterer still.
-- Jan Struther -
Whether by pill or invasive surgery, abortion is never good for women.
-- Janet Parshall -
I am like a doctor. I have written a prescription to help the patient. If the patient doesn't want all the pills I've recommended, that's up to him. But I must warn that next time I will have to come as a surgeon with a knife.
-- Javier Perez de Cuellar -
I am not accustomed to take my wine in pills.
-- Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin -
I told my doctor I get very tired when I go on a diet, so he gave me pep pills. Know what happened? I ate faster.
-- Joe E. Lewis -
We're more effective than birth control pills.
-- Johnny Carson -
The downsides of globalization are indeed painful, ... But taking the bigger pills against its ills is superior to living inside a sterile bubble.
-- Joseph Estrada -
I don't need a diet pill. I need something that gives you an electric shock when you reach for food.
-- Joy Behar -
No matter how lovesick a woman is, she shouldn't take the first pill that comes along.
-- Joyce Brothers -
We are totally opposed to abortion under any circumstances. We are also opposed to abortifacient drugs and chemicals like the pill and the IUD, and we are also opposed to all forms of birth control with the exception of natural family planning (the rhythm method)
-- Judie Brown -
I've got drinks piling up on my desk and a stack of pills I haven't even opened yet!
-- Karen Walker -
I have an irregular heartbeat, so that means a fair amount of medication - and I have blood pressure pills, too, but no vitamins or supplements.
-- Maeve Binchy -
It would be a service to mankind if the pill were available in slot machines and the cigarette were placed on prescription.
-- Malcolm Potts -
It is in the interests of society to put the Pill into slot machines and to place cigarettes on prescription.
-- Malcolm Potts -
I was armed to the teeth with a pitiful little Smith & Wesson's seven-shooter, which carried a ball like a homopathic pill, and it took the whole seven to make a dose for an adult. But I thought it was grand. It appeared to me to be a dangerous weapon. It had only one fault - you could not hit anything with it.
-- Mark Twain -
When you want genuine music -- music that will come right home to you like a bad quarter, suffuse your system like strychnine whisky, go right through you like Brandreth's pills, ramify your whole constitution like the measles, and break out on your hide like the pin-feather pimples on a picked goose, -- when you want all this, just smash your piano, and invoke the glory-beaming banjo!
-- Mark Twain -
What is dangerous about tranquillizers is that whatever peace of mind they bring is a packaged peace of mind. Where you buy a pill and buy peace of mind with it, you get conditioned to cheap solutions instead of deep ones.
-- Max Lerner -
Take your patience pill ...You can be joyous, but you can't be a jackass.
-- Michael Nutter -
I get freaked out by pills. Everyone I know is always like, "I'm just going to take a Valium or an Ambien on the plane." But I can't do any of that stuff - it scares me.
-- Natalie Portman -
I'm an advocate for gay marriage. I have more gay friends than Carter has pills.
-- Patti Stanger -
The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster When you take your pill it's like a mine disaster. I think of all the people lost inside you.
-- Richard Brautigan -
I took desperate measures to lose weight and did terrible things to myself. I went from diet pills to thirty laxatives a day to throwing up.
-- Richard Simmons -
If anyone doubts the influence of drug company ads on patients and physicians - consider all those wasted billions of dollars for a pill that sells for more than six times as much as another drug that does the same thing, made by the same company.
-- Robert Bazell -
Some fell by laudanum, and some by steel, and death in ambush lay in every pill.
-- Samuel Garth -
I don’t know if cortisone is good for you or not. But to take a shot every other ball game is more than I wanted to do and to walk around with a constant upset stomach because of the pills and to be high half the time during a ball game because you’re taking painkillers, I don’t want to have to do that.
-- Sandy Koufax -
Take a stress pill and think things over-- HAL in 2001
-- Stanley Kubrick -
When I hit my 20s, I took a chill pill and relaxed because throughout my teens I was churning out an album a year. It was a treadmill of work then recording, promoting and touring.
-- Vanessa Mae -
I sometimes think that being widowed is God's way of telling you to come off the Pill.
-- Victoria Wood -
Looking down on it from the helicopter, with a bottle of Jack in my left hand, a bag of pills in my right hand, and a blond head bobbing up and doen in my lap, I felt like the king of the world.
-- Vince Neil -
What though I cannot meet my bills? What though I suffer toothache's ills? What though I swallow countless pills?
-- W. S. Gilbert -
Criticism is a painful pill to swallow, but it always makes you better.
-- Wes Fesler -
Most students of nature sooner or later pass through a process of writing off a large percentage of their supposed capital of knowledge as a merely illusory asset. As we trace more accurately certain familiar sequences of phenomena we begin to realize how closely these sequences, or laws , as we call them, are hemmed round by still other laws of which we can form no notion. With myself this writing off of illusory assets has gone rather far and the cobweb of supposed knowledge has been pinched (as some one has phrased) into a particularly small pill.
-- William Crookes -
Scientists say they're getting closer to developing a pill to replace exercising. Americans heard this and said that it better come in cool ranch flavor.
-- Conan O'Brien -
When it comes to popping pills, probably 90 percent bad. And people say they're not addictive - I still have yearnings for them. Especially after a few pints. I don't think you ever lose the yearning for them.
-- Damien Dempsey -
As pills that are outwardly fair, gilt, and rolled in sugar, but within are full of bitterness, even so lustful pleasure is no sooner hatched but remorse is at hand, ready to supplant her.
-- Daniel Cawdry -
No pills, not even aspirin, and certainly no supplements ever enter my mouth - everything I need comes from my fish and vegetarian diet, which incorporates many different kinds of fruit and vegetables every week.
-- David H. Murdock -
I stopped going out and taking pills and I started hanging out and learning about flat eleven chords.
-- Jamie Lidell -
My mother had to justify the fact that she had heart pills.
-- Patrik Sinkewitz -
The Press is not our daily bread but our daily sugar pill.
-- T.S. Mathews -
Some people, when desperate, retreat to pills or hard liquor. I nap.
-- Brock Clarke -
I look at ANWR (Artic National Wildlife Refuge) as a poison pill in the energy bill.
-- Ben Nelson -
When I was saving pills to kill myself, I thought there was no hope. I thought my life was over because I was a homosexual.
-- Cleve Jones -
You can't fix stupid. There's not a pill you can take, or a class you can go to.
-- Ron White -
Privatization is a bitter pill but it is a pill that will cure.
-- Frederick Chiluba -
If you have time-release pills, you could have time-release expanding cheesecakes.
-- Homaro Cantu