Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nicotine addiction is such a powerful force that even the heartbreak of watching a family member die of lung cancer often isn't enough to convince smokers to quit.

Mr. Bradley has seemed to go off the deep end in his addiction to crack cocaine,

Joel Fuhrman

Meeting the body's micronutrient needs helps to suppress food cravings, and high-nutrient foods do not produce dangerous, addictive craving.

One more hit of crack cocaine on these earnings. I felt we were so addicted to our quarterly earnings that we were selling our future revenue potential.

Sathya Baba

One who is addicted to intoxicating drinks and meat eating and leads a sensuous life is a demonic being.Such a person is intensely selfish and has no feeling or consideration for others.

One thing we do know: Just slamming them in jail doesn't work. They come out with the same addiction they went in with, and they don't have the social or vocational skills to help them cope and find a new life.

William Burroughs

My experience as an addict was very useful to me as writer: the whole syndrome of addiction and withdrawal and the extensions of that and other forms of addiction. It gave me a great deal of material. A writer can profit by something that someone else may not be able to profit from at all. Yet they were very disagreeable experiences. Very boring experiences.

Jamie Lee Curtis

Because I know I'm an addict, and I know I'm an alcoholic.

Janice Dickinson

I'm a former bulimic myself and it's a horrible, horrible addiction.

Murray Bartlett

I'm a real nature lover, so whenever possible, I like to get to the beach or get to a forest or get somewhere there's fresh air. Apart from that, I'm a film addict and a DVD freak.

Jeremy Piven

I'm a musician who's at the end of his rope who's been addicted to coke for a while,

I'm a methamphetamine addict and I'm admitting that in this court. I'm done with all the lies ... I need treatment.

I'm a methamphetamine addict and I'm admitting that in this court, ... I'm done with all the lies ... I need treatment.

I'm a great lighter and lover of candles, particularly fragranced ones, as I'm kind of addicted to scent.

Michael Irvin

More important to me is to help my friends and help my brother and to remove this drug addiction spirit out of my family.

More than corrupting the public trust, these Guatemalan police officials have been Trojan horses for the very addiction and devastation that they were entrusted to prevent.

Money can be as addictive as lots of other things -- drugs, sex, alcohol. There are truly money disorders.

My favorites are the chocolate-covered berries -- raspberries, blackberries and blueberries. They are just divine. The berries are always enormous and fresh. I'm also addicted to the almond butter crunch.

Now states are addicted to this money. The state, for better or for worse -- we are wedded now to those payments.

FRIENDLESS, adj. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.

Kathy Mattea

I have been blessed to work for so many years with great musicians. That's my joke with my manager: that I'm addicted to musicians.

Mary Karr

I have a completely addictive personality. Diet Coke is my last - God, I know people counting days off Diet Coke; I'm such a Diet Cokehead. Now I won't let myself buy it.

James Harden

I have an iPhone, too, but I use the Blackberry more because I'm addicted to BBM'ing. I'm also on Twitter 24/7 and it's a lot easier on the BlackBerry.

I have a thing about duck, ... It's a culinary addiction -- when we eat out, my 'I'll have the duck' is so commonplace that my wife doesn't even bother to roll her eyes anymore.

Victoria Jackson

I have a very addictive personality and I'm very childlike, always wanting attention.

Susan Choi

If I'm not in the dead heat of working on something, I can end up spending tons and tons of time on the Web, and I hate it. I feel the same shame I did in grad school when I was pretty much addicted to reruns of 'Star Trek: The Next Generation'. I wish someone would make the Web just go away. Just remove it from the earth.

I don't care what tobacco companies are saying, they're flat out lying. This stuff is addictive, and I still consider myself addicted. I haven't used it in better than 18 years, but I still love the smell of it and I consider myself an addict . . . once you're an addict, whether you stop using or not, you're always an addict.

Bonnie Raitt

When they were putting oil rigs up and down the California coast, the whole issue of safe energy and the addiction to fossil fuels really came into focus.

Colin Quinn

Those early days of comedy are when you get addicted to it.

Gayle Forman

'Twilight' is a breathlessly addictive read with a love story that sucks people in.

Annie Dillard

I wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing.

David Foster Wallace

That it is statistically easier for low-IQ people to kick an addiction than it is for high-IQ people...That boring activities become, perversely, much less boring if you concentrate intently on them.

Dale Archer

One of the things you learn in rehab is that you're responsible for your own actions.