Gateway Drug Quotes & Sayings

Wine is a gateway drug to environmentalism. — Katherine Cole

Comics are a gateway drug to literacy. — Art Spiegelman

Ignorance may be bliss, but only if it outweighs curiosity. Curiosity is a gateway drug to sympathy. — Victoria Schwab

Parents, do your daughters come home smelling like an orchard? Is their giggle quotient higher than usual? They may be in thrall to the dangerous wine cooler. Gateway drug of the terminally insecure, its usage results in excessive clumsiness and the condition 'trophy wife-itis.' The lethalness of which only manifests after age thirty-five and ends in gutter living and suicide. — Tellulah Darling

Now, as I look around at a room filled not only with boxes but plenty of its own marks, I want to know the stories behind them. Or rather, a part of me wants to know those stories. The other part of me thinks that's the worst idea in the world, but I don't listen to that part. Ignorance may be bliss, but only if it outweighs curiosity. Curiosity is a gateway drug to sympathy, Da's warning echoes in my head, and I know; but there are no Histories here to feel sympathy for. Which is exactly why the Archive wouldn't approve. They don't approve of any form of recreational reading. — Victoria Schwab

wit, a salary or even the potential of a future salary seems to be a gateway to the debt drug; so many people could probably reduce the risk of getting into debt by simply quitting their jobs. — Jacob Lund Fisker

Or, if you want the positive but somewhat callous view, you might wish to describe Christianity as the gateway drug to supply-side capitalism — Thomas King

I'm opposed to legalizing marijuana because it acts as a gateway drug. — Enrique Pena Nieto

If you go to a network and say, "I wanna do prison stories about black women and Latino women and old women," you're not gonna make a sale. But, if you've got this blonde girl going to prison, you can get in there, and then you can tell all the stories. I just thought it was a terrific gateway drug into all the things I wanted to get into. — Jenji Kohan

Familiarity is the gateway drug to empathy. — IO Tillett Wright

And, to be honest, if weed is a gateway drug, then I really did hop the fence, but sometimes I can't help but miss the sticky-sweet warmth of a good old fashioned hot box. — Kris Kidd

I don't think there is such a thing as a bad book for children ... do not discourage children from reading because you feel they are reading the wrong thing. Fiction you do not like is the gateway drug to other books you may prefer. — Neil Gaiman

Marijuana is a gateway drug that can lead to awful things, like Phish getting back together. — Stephen Colbert

Fix myself a hot chocolate because it is a gateway drug to reading. — Helen Ellis

He told himself: Hope is a gateway drug, don't do it. — Colson Whitehead

I stay away from weed because it's a gateway drug. I like heroine, you're not going anywhere from there. — Atticus

Caffeine. The gateway drug. — Eddie Vedder

Kenny is a drug, and I've just had the best hit of my life. I'm not losing this addiction. I'm in, all the way, pledging my voluntarily servitude to the gateway of my desire. Kenny was the freedom I was longing for. Love and all this wild pent up desire, proved to be the combination that set me free. But only Kenny had the power to unleash me. She scrubbed the impurity from my life and washed clean the world, so I could see it stark and clear for the very first time. Kenny perfumed my existence with her regal charm, her sovereign splendor. Kenny is in everyway sublime. — Addison Moore

You wanna know what a gateway drug is? It opens a gate. — Eugene Mirman

We all act as independent learners in charge of designing our autodidactic curricula. Reading the books written by the prophetic genius of history including the literary masterpieces and philosophical treatises awakens the mind. Reading can act as a gateway drug leading to writing and expansion of a personal state of conscious awareness. — Kilroy J. Oldster

I love you' really is the gateway drug of breaking up. — John Green

You don't discourage children from reading because you feel they are reading the wrong thing. Fiction you do not like is the gateway drug to other books you may prefer them to read. And not everyone has the same taste as you. — Neil Gaiman

I feel that flip-flops are the downfall of many relationships. It's, like, first it's the flip-flops, and then it's the sweatpants ... it's the gateway drug to no sex. — Lady Gaga

Looking back, it's funny how the lighter family-friendly version of these classic Universal movie monsters that were satirized in The Munsters seduced me like a gateway drug into the genre. — Bryan Fuller

Text is the gateway drug to real time marketing. — Jay Baer

God, 'I love you' really is the gateway drug of breaking up. Saying 'I love you' while walking across the dorm circle inevitably leads to saying 'I love you' while you're doing it. — John Green

Cigarettes and alcohol are much stronger gateway drugs. — Steven Machat

Drugs are the gateway drug — Darnell Lamont Walker

You know, it turns out that cannabis really IS a gateway drug.
It's a gateway drug to hashish,
which, actually, is cannabis. — Sienna McQuillen

The real danger has always lived in my granddad's kind voice, his soft caresses. All of it masquerading as innocent, but really just a gateway drug for girls starved for affection, desperate for someone to love them. He doesn't force us with a heavy hand. He manipulates with a gentle touch, guides us exactly where he wants us to go. So in the end, we blame only ourselves. — Amy Engel