“I often say fame is kind of like a drug or like sugar: when it's controlling you it doesn't feel good at all.” FeelsKindDrugFameFeel GoodSugar Author:K. D. Lang
“Penning an advice column for the literary website The Rumpus, [Strayed] worked anonymously, using the pen name Sugar, replying to letters from readings suffering everything from loveless marriages to abusive, drug-addicted brothers to disfiguring illnesses. The result: intimate, in-depth essays that not only took the letter writer's life into account but also Strayed's. Collected in a book, they make for riveting, emotionally charged reading (translation: be prepared to bawl) that leaves you significantly wiser for the experience. . . . Moving. . . . compassionate.” BookMovingSufferingReadingNamesResultsAdviceBrotherDrugLettersAccountsPreparedDepthIllnessIntimatePensCompassionateSugarWiserBe PreparedEssaysTranslationsWebsiteColumnsAbusiveLovelessReplyingLoveless Marriage Author:Leigh Newman
“When you take a drug to treat high blood pressure or diabetes, you have an objective test to measure blood pressure and the amount of sugar in the blood. It is straight-forward. With autism, you are looking for changes in behavior.” BloodAmountDrugBehaviorTestsTreatsPressureObjectivesSugarAutismDiabetesBlood PressureHigh Blood Pressure Author:Temple Grandin
“The worst drug of today is not smack or pot - it's refined sugar.” TodayWorstFoodDrugCookingCulinaryPotSugarRefinedSmack Author:George Hamilton
“Innumerable entirely new compounds have been produced in the last century. The artificial dye-stuffs, prepared from materials occurring in coal-tar, make the natural colours blush. Saccharin, which is hundreds of times sweeter than sugar, is a purely artificial substance. New explosives, drugs, alloys, photographic substances, essences, scents, solvents, and detergents are being poured out in a continuous stream.” Has BeensLastsScienceStuffNaturalCenturyMaterialsDrugEssencePreparedSubstanceStreamsColourSugarArtificialScentCoalCompoundsExplosives Book:Matter and energy Source: Matter and energy
“Well, coffee is my drug of choice, generally, with a little bit of Pepsi here and there, if I need more sugar. But yeah, if I could do intravenous coffee, I would. But I guess that's pretty standard.” IfsNeedsWellsLittlesChoicesBitsDrugLittle BitStandardsYeahCoffeeIf I CouldSugarHere And TherePepsi Author:Larry Wall
“There's one white powder which is by far the most lethal known, it's called sugar. . . . The Caribbean back in the 18th century was a soft drug producer: sugar, rum, tobacco, chocolate. And in order to do it, they had to enslave Africans.” OrderWhiteKnownCenturyDrugProducersChocolateSugarTobaccoPowderCaribbean18th CenturyRum Author:Noam Chomsky
“We live in a society running from pain through alcohol, through too much exercise, through sugar, through drugs - as opposed to realizing that these things come up because they are lessons. It's a way to wake you up.” WayRunningPainRealizingToo MuchExerciseLessonsDrugCome UpAlcoholSugarWakes You Author:Mariel Hemingway