Best Shooting Up Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Memoir and Letters

“The vicissitudes of life resemble one of those gilded balls seen in a fountain. Thrown up by the force of the water, it flies up and down - now at the top, catching the rays of the sun, now cast into the depths, then again shooting up, sometimes so high that it escapes altogether, and falls to the ground.”

Life Sometimes Fall Force Water Sun Balls Depth Casts Shooting Thrown Rays Fountain Up And Down Catching Ups & Downs Vicissitudes Gilded Shooting Up

Author:Lady Randolph Churchill

“I find myself applying the addict's impulse to how I cruise. I don't look at the ass. If I see a hot guy walking towards me I look at his arm, and if he has a vein I fantasize about shooting up with him.”

Ifs Looks Guy Arms Walking Hot Ass Shooting Impulse Veins Addict Cruise Hot Guy Shooting Up

Author:Kevin Sessums

“I think a lot of America turned to art and culture after Sept. 11. I know the sales of bibles went shooting up, but so did the sales of poetry. I think in a crisis one looks to one's culture, partially to give validation to why one would want that culture to survive.”

Thinking Knows Want Giving Looks Art America Culture Crisis Shooting Validation Sept 11 Art And Culture Shooting Up

Author:Art Spiegelman

“I used to find myself goofed out in the street on drugs. And I had such a bad problem with addiction at the time that I didn't mind. I was dealing cocaine and shooting up a lot of cocaine. And that's not a good space to be in.”

Mind Problem Used Space Streets Drug Addiction Shooting Cocaine Shooting Up

Author:Will Self

“Any idiot, especially one who is prepared to die, who has a gun, can start shooting up people.”

People Dies Gun Prepared Shooting Idiot Shooting Up

Author:Bernie Sanders

“Very few people actually saw Andy's films like Chelsea Girls where he filmed seven hours, ran it on two screens, where each scene was in a different room at the Chelsea Hotel with these people he called 'Superstars" who were basically super-exhibitionists - the guy in one room high on LSD talking about masturbation, Brigid Berlin in another room playing a lesbian and shooting up people with amphetamines right through their jeans, it was all real and they were really doing it (though Brigid is now a proper lady), but you know Andy really did pre-date reality TV.”

“I feel most spiritual when I am listening to a soprano voice soaring to the top of its range at the most dramatic point of an aria. It feels like a geyser shooting up from the center of the earth and reaching for the stars.”

Feels Earth Spiritual Stars Voice Listening Shooting Range Dramatic Reaching Soar Sopranos Aria Reaching For The Stars Shooting Up Geysers

Author:China Forbes

“I did [Michael Cimino] first movie, "Thunderbolt and Lightfoot," and I remember I was still in my twenties and very nervous, we're shooting up in Montana, and I'm thinking, "What the hell am I doing here? I don't feel anything like this part.”

Thinking Feels Firsts Stills Remember Hell Twenties Nervous Shooting Montana Thunderbolts Shooting Up

Author:Jeff Bridges

“The inspiration for this movie [Something New] was this Newsweek article that came out a couple of years ago that talks about 42.4 percent of black women in America aren't married. Black women are shooting up the corporate ladder way faster than our black male counterparts. And (black men) are either dating outside their race, in jail or dying. And so if you want to have a family, you want to be married, you have to look at other options.”

“I started using drugs when I was thirteen. By twenty-one, I was shooting up coke and heroin. In my early twenties, I unconsciously used asana to make the "getter" inside me stronger. Sure, I got a hit of the yoga high - serenity at the end of class - but how sustainable is that if you're holding grudges against yourself or others?”

Ifs Ends Used Class Drug Yoga Twenties Stronger Shooting Serenity Heroin Grudge Twenty One Coke Thirteen Asana Shooting Up Holding Grudges

Author:Angel Grant

“Reading a good poem can give me a far bigger kick than a novel. But it's not something I can keep doing. It would be like shooting up 10 times a day.”

Giving I Can Would Be Reading Novel Bigger Give Me Shooting Kicks Shooting Up

Author:Stephen Dobyns

“Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.”

“I am not going to die, I'm going home like a shooting star.”

Home Death Dies Stars Inspiring Shooting Going Home Shooting Star Shooting Up Truth Prevails

Author:Sojourner Truth

“We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar.”

Men Bars Locals Bunch Drunk Shooting Dice Efforts Wasted Shooting Up Target Shooting

Book:Notes of a Dirty Old Man

Source: Notes of a Dirty Old Man

“Probably there is an imperceptible touch of something permanent that one feels instinctively to adhere to true humour, whereas wit may be the mere conversational shooting up of "smartness"--a bright feather, to be blown into space the second after it is launched...Wit seems to be counted a very poor relation to Humour....Humour is never artificial.”

Feels May Humor Seems Space Poor Humour Relation Mere Wit Shooting Permanent Artificial Feathers Smartness Shooting Up

Author:Mark Twain

“I was fifteen, and when I picture myself then, I see flames shooting up, see myself falling off the edge of the world, and am amazed I survived not the outside world but the inside one.”

World Fall Edges Shooting Flames Fifteen Survived Amazed Outside World Falling Off Edge Of The World Shooting Up

Book:A Field Guide to Getting Lost

Source: A Field Guide to Getting Lost

“One time I considered making a video game about my life where people control a character called 'Zach Braff' and run around being awesome. Then I realized that getting to pretend to be me would be like shooting up heroin for anyone who played it, and I don't want that on my conscience.”

People Want Character Would Be Running Games Conscience I Realized Video Shooting One Time Heroin Shooting Up Being Awesome

Author:Zach Braff

“Mediocrity is no answer to violence. In fact, it probably invites violence. At least the mediocre and the violent appear together as in the old Western movies - the ruffian outlaw band shooting up main street and the little white church with the little white schoolteacher wringing her hands. To cool violence you need rhythm, humor, tempering; you need dance and rhetoric. Not therapeutic understanding.”

“Think of me as the weathered sheriff coming back into Dodge 'cause the youngsters are shooting up the church and scaring the horses and not doing right by the women.”

Thinking Artist Causes Church Horse Shooting Coming Back Think Of Me Youngsters Doing Right Dodge Doing Me Sheriffs Weathered Just Doing Me Shooting Up

Author:Frank Miller

“Used to be that my whole body was my canvas-hot cuts licking my ribs, ladder rungs climbing my arms, thick milkweed stalks shooting up my thighs.”

Whole Body Used Cutting Arms Hot Used To Be Shooting Injury Climbing Thick Canvas Ladders Stalking Thighs Ribs Licking Self Injury Shooting Up Milkweed

Book:Wintergirls

Source: Wintergirls

“Three times a day Petrovich showed up at the nurse's office for his injections, always using the hypodermic needle himself like the most craven of junkies, though after shooting up he would play the concert piano in the auditorium with astounding artistry, as though insulin were the elixir of genius.”

Play Three Genius Office Shooting Piano Concerts Nurse Three Times Needles Artistry Junkie Elixir Injection Auditoriums Insulin Shooting Up

Author:Jeffrey Eugenides