Shooting Up Quotes:

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.

- Jeff Bridges

source: "Jeff Bridges talks to us about his gripping new movie and why he wants to play The Dude again". Interview with Jason Guerrasio, www.businessinsider.com. August 8, 2016.

topic: Thinking, Twenties, Shooting Up, Thunderbolts

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.

- Mark Twain

topic: Humor, Space, Shooting Up, Smartness

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.

- Rebecca Solnit

source: Rebecca Solnit (2010). “A Field Guide To Getting Lost”, p.100, Canongate Books

topic: Fall, Flames, Shooting Up, Survived, Edge Of The World

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

- Bernie Sanders

source: "Bernie Sanders on politics, Clinton and guns". Interview with Dan Roberts, www.theguardian.com. December 18, 2015.

topic: Gun, People, Shooting Up

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

- Charles Bukowski

topic: Men, Drunk, Bars, Efforts Wasted, Target Shooting

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

- Christopher Morley

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Motivational Keep Going, Determination And Persistence

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

- Sojourner Truth

topic: Inspiring, Death, Stars, Going Home, Truth Prevails

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?

- Angel Grant

topic: Yoga, Class, Serenity, Shooting Up, Holding Grudges

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.

- Sanaa Lathan

source: "Sanaa Lathan tries 'Something New'". The Associated Press Interview, www.today.com. August 4, 2010.

topic: Couple, Inspiration, Men, Black Males, Shooting Up

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.

- China Forbes

source: "China Forbes, Lead singer of Pink Martini: Always Growing". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. January 27, 2015.

topic: Spiritual, Stars, Voice, Reaching For The Stars, Aria

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.

- Stephen Dobyns

source: Source: epaper.bostonglobe.com

topic: Reading, Giving, Would Be, Shooting Up

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.

- Laurie Halse Anderson

source: Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.52, Penguin

topic: Cutting, Climbing, Ribs, Milkweed, Self Injury

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.

- Zach Braff

topic: Running, Character, Games, Being Awesome, Shooting Up

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.

- James Hillman

topic: Hands, White, Understanding, Ruffian, Western Movie

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.

- Bob Colacello

source: Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

topic: Girl, Real, Talking, Chelsea, Exhibitionist

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.

- Will Self

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Space, Addiction, Drug, Shooting Up

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.

- Art Spiegelman

source: "In the Shadow of No Towers". Interview with Jeff Fleischer, www.motherjones.com. October 18, 2004.

topic: Art, Thinking, Validation, Sept 11, Art And Culture

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.

- Kevin Sessums

source: Source: www.thedailybeast.com

topic: Guy, Hot, Looks, Shooting Up, Hot Guy

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.

- Frank Miller

topic: Horse, Thinking, Church, Just Doing Me, Weathered

Religious bigotry is a dull fire - hot enough to roast an ox, but with no lambent, luminous flame shooting up from it.

- Sara Coleridge

source: Sara Coleridge Coleridge (1873). “Memoir and Letters”, p.260

topic: Religious, Flames, Fire, Religious Bigotry, Shooting Up

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.

- Jeffrey Eugenides

topic: Play, Piano, Nurse, Elixir, Auditoriums

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.

- Lady Randolph Churchill

topic: Life, Fall, Water, Shooting Up