Famous Quotes & Sayings

Liev Schreiber

Acting is like an addiction - once you start, you can't stop.

John Brunner

Love and joy are incredibly habit-forming; often a single exposure is enough to cause permanent addiction.

M. Scott Peck

Many addictions can be far more dangerous than addiction to drugs. The addiction to power ...

What is dangerous about tranquillizers is that whatever peace of mind they bring is a packaged peace of mind. Where you buy a pill and buy peace of mind with it, you get conditioned to cheap solutions instead of deep ones.

Padgett Powell

I've had an addiction for a long time to the whole business of maximizing one's potential, what I call human activation. The vehicle for actualizing oneself is choice, options, seeking out the proper choices.

Paulo Coelho

MySpace is an addiction.

Jonathan Lethem

I try not to become too regular an addict of any one subculture.

Ellen Hopkins

Addiction is rarely conquered alone.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Addiction is the hallmark of every infatuation-based love story.

John McCain

I was an addict. That's why, ... I tell you, addiction is a very cunning enemy.

John Oliver

Stand-up, for me, is really more of an addiction, so you have to feed the beast whenever you can.

James Taylor

I was a functional addict.

James Taylor

People should watch out for three things: avoid a major addiction, don't get so deeply into debt that it controls your life, and don't start a family before you're ready to settle down.

Lucas Till

I'm also a video game addict, so I'm always looking to support my addiction.

Louise Jameson

I never watch TV. I'm a Radio Four addict. I love listening to music too.

M. F. K. Fisher

. . . word-sniffing . . . is an addiction, like glue -- or snow -- sniffing in a somewhat less destructive way, physically if not economically. . . . As an addict, I am almost guiltily interested in converts to my own illness . . .

Mahatma Gandhi

We cannot, in a moment, get rid of habits of a lifetime.

Mahatma Gandhi

Every worthy act is difficult. Ascent is always difficult. Descent is easy and often slippery.

Gavin Rossdale

I am really addicted to music.

Freda Adler

Of all the tyrannies which have usurped power over humanity, few have been able to enslave the mind and body as imperiously as drug addiction.

Henry Ford

Anybody can do anything that he imagines.

Judith Wright

Soft addictions are an alluring, seductive aspect of our culture - they are easy to attain and socially acceptable, they are even encouraged in many cases. Yet they are lethal to the spirit.

John Mayer

I have the obsessiveness of someone who's a sober, recovering addict displacing his addiction. Except I never had the addiction.

Lynda Carter

Facing my addiction was one of the hardest things I've had to do in my life.

Lynda Resnick

Pomegranate juice has staying power. It's not a fad. Once people have tasted POM Wonderful, they say they are addicted - and it's a good addiction to have.

Pauline Kael

Is there something in druggy subjects that encourages directors to make imitation film noir? Film noir itself becomes an addiction.

Martin Amis

Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.

Martin Amis

Being inoffensive, and being offended, are now the twin addictions of the culture.

Martin Amis

Addictions do come in handy sometimes: at least you have to get out of bed for them.

Paulo Coelho

Success is both an addiction and an enslavement...

Pope Francis

Drug addiction is an evil, and with evil there can be no yielding or compromise,

Tommy Rettig

I had always turned it down-to me, smoking pot was absolutely the worst thing in the world. I thought of it as an addiction, and all my friends who smoked it, I felt they really needed help.

Lauren Conrad

It's a good thing to feel like you have to prove something