(32 quotes found)
“Heroine: girl who is perfectly charming to live with, in a book.”
Mark Twain
“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
“I had someone at the Houston police station shoot me with heroin so I could do a story about it. The experience was a special kind of hell. I came out understanding full well how one could be addicted to 'smack,' and quickly.”
Dan Rather
“I got addicted. News, particularly daily news, is more addictive than crack cocaine, more addictive than heroin, more addictive than cigarettes.”
“If tobacco suddenly were unavailable and was as expensive as heroin and cocaine, I think that you would find that the behavior of some tobacco addicts would be very much like the behavior of some addicts of heroin and cocaine,”
Dr. C. Everett Koop
“I am my own heroine.”
Marie Bashkirtseff
“We said 'You're going to have to quit this. It's gonna get you. You just don't win with heroin. You die or you go to jail. There's no middle ground. There's no other options,' ”
Tom Petty
“You name it, I took it. Cocaine, ecstasy, even heroin ? although I never injected... I had a job so I looked like I was holding everything together. But then the cracks started to show. I began letting people down and turning up late for work”
Davina McCall
“I was on heroin when I testified before the grand jury,”
Gregory Coleman
“The victim apparently removed a packet of the heroin-cocaine mixture that the defendant had placed in the same pocket that contained the candy,”
Joseph Conti
