Famous Quotes & Sayings

We aren't addicted to oil, but our cars are.

The president called for ending our addiction to oil but there's no 12-step program in his budget. ... The president's energy policy ... is constrained by lack of imagination, scope, resources and an unwillingness to roll back subsidies to energy companies already enjoying record profits.

Pornography has set up unrealistic expectations by young men concerning their wife and women in general. In some cases, the addiction has become so bad that they can't perform sexually without pornographic stimulus.

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.

Pattie Maes

I try to eat healthy, but being Belgian, I'm also addicted to chocolate.

Carl Pope

Those leaders who have stood strong to keep Arctic drilling out of the budget must continue to hold the line. It?s time for Congress to put this bad idea to rest once and for all and focus instead breaking our oil addiction with clean energy solutions.

Harry Mathews

Well, I had this little notion - I started writing when I was eleven, writing poetry. I was passionately addicted to it; it was my great refuge through adolescence.

We appropriately compared the lifestyle to that of drug addiction and alcoholism - lifestyles that one would be encouraged to seek help to leave - never encouraged to stay in.

We are open to the investigation. We have the same objective of eradicating drug addiction in the city.

My opinion is that anyone repeatedly driving DUI has an illness, and that illness is called alcoholism, ... Now, you've got someone with a disease, and you take away their license, and you have someone with an alcohol addiction with no license getting behind the wheel of a car. That's an additional crime, so you'll have someone going to jail. ? Now you've broken up the family and taken away the breadwinner.

Tom Clancy

My wife will tell you I'm practically addicted to the History Channel, ... And I read a lot of history.

Alice Miller

What is addiction, really? It is a sign, a signal, a symptom of distress. It is a language that tells us about a plight that must be understood.

Annie Dillard

I wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing.

Dale Archer

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

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.

Davina McCall

I knew it was really, really popular when my granny told me she watched it, and was addicted. When your granny is interested, you know you're on to a winner.

Desmond Tutu

We can no longer continue feeding our addiction to fossil fuels as if there is no tomorrow. For there will be no tomorrow.

Andre Benjamin

Everyone has an addiction, mine happens to be you.

Anais Nin

This diary is my kief, hashish and opium pipe. This is my drug and my vice.

Anais Nin

He does not need opium. He has the gift of reverie.

Anthony Hopkins

I was hell bent on destruction... it was like being possessed by a demon.

Allen Ginsberg

When it snows in your nose, you catch cold in your brain.

Allan Bloom

Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music.

James Redfield

We're all addicted to sort of the habits of our lives. And we get stuck, and sometimes we'll get stuck because we had traumas that we don't want to remember.

Pam Bondi

We realize that drug addiction is a sickness, but it's also a crime.

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.

Tom Scholz

'Higher Power' was the result of a personal experience: a friend of mine who went through the process of addiction and recovery. It's a very, very tough thing - very easy to become addicted and very, very hard to become a recovering addict.

If America is addicted to foreign money and foreign oil, then China is addicted to foreign supplies of just about every commodity known to man - save highly polluting coal.

Thomas Hoving

My heavily-cleverly disguised low self-regard manifested itself in my constant showing off, my addiction for publicity, and my intolerable 'me-me-me' attitudes and actions. But it's done, isn't it? And no one can really change, can they? And, hey, it has been a lot of fun being the life-long irresponsible, snarky, nasty art scamp.

Trinny Woodall

Ottolenghi sells lots of delicious sweet things, but my daily addiction is their unbelievable dark chocolate salted caramel biscuits. They're the best things in the world - I go through half a packet every night. I bring them out after pudding at dinner parties.

Terence

I take it to be a principle rule of life, not to be too much addicted to any one thing.

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.