Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Suzuki

We humans have become dependent on plastic for a range of uses, from packaging to products. Reducing our use of plastic bags is an easy place to start getting our addiction under control.

Edith Piaf

Drugs are a carnival in hell.

Dennis Miller

In the late twentieth century, staying sober has become just as much an addiction as getting wasted.

Bill Moyers

There's 1,000 ways into addiction 1,000 ways out.

Bill Ayers

I have an addiction to caffeine.

Daron Malakian

When we first started the band here in LA, Janes Addiction was the band we looked up to. They came out at a time when there was a lot of glam rock and hair bands and they got put into that category, but they stood out because they were doing their own thing. We were kind of caught in the same kind of situation at another time: there were a lot of new-metal bands and wed get put into that category even though we didnt fit. Its funny that now theres bands like Mars Volta doing this prog-rock thing thats kinda getting popular, people put us in that genre now. That may be closer to the truth, but I think Hypnotized is going to go further in terms of getting people to understand what were doing.

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.

Brendan Behan

One drink is to many for me and a thousand not enough.

Jane Fonda

I was in my mid-40s. I was a bulimic, and I realized if I continue with this addiction of mine, I will not be able to continue doing my life. The older you get the more damage it does; it takes longer to recover from a binge. And it was very hard.

Blaise Pascal

We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.

Tom Vilsack

Let us build a 21st-century rural economy of cutting-edge companies and technologies that lead us to energy and food security. Such an investment will revitalize rural America, re-establish our moral leadership on climate security and eliminate our addiction to foreign oil.

Dean Koontz

I need those nukes, the chief said. I need them, I need them right now. I don't want to be an enabler, sir. I'd rather get you into a twelve step program to help you break this addiction.

Craig David

Once you've been overweight you never want to be overweight again, so you keep going, keep going, like for any addiction. Health can be an addiction, it doesn't have to be drugs or alcohol.

Armistead Maupin

But I will say that the drugs are much more ferocious then they used to be. There are people wrecking their lives with addiction, which seems much more severe.

Barbara de Angelis

All addictions have one thing in common - they numb you out to what is happening in the moment.

Sexual addiction is the fastest-growing addiction in the United States. It's based in part on the fact that obtaining sexual literature, pornography, is so convenient today. It's more readily available. It is there at the click of a finger.

Should PROMETA prove to be as effective within the Pierce County Alliance drug offender population as it appears to be, the State will consider its effectiveness for use in treatment so that stimulant dependent individuals in Washington will be able to benefit from this therapy. Methamphetamine addiction is a serious issue and has ravaged Pierce County and is escalating throughout the state. Washington is pleased to join the States of Louisiana, Idaho, and Indiana in conducting accelerated commercial pilots of PROMETA.

Ben Nicholson

I started producing work with an ecstatic addiction.

We've seen an acknowledgement that they do have an addiction to spending. That's the first step to recovery.

David Bowie

It took me a long time to reach the bottom and it went through various stages. I went from drugs into an alcohol stage. For a while, one feels, "Ah, I've kicked drugs," but what I discovered was I had another addiction instead.

She's relaxing more. She laid off Healthy Addiction and pounced.

She's dealing with a serious drug addiction and trying to get through it. It's not my unwillingness to reconnect, but she's not ready. Maybe when she's on the road to recovery.

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.

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.

Aldous Huxley

Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction

Aaron Neville

Until I went to rehab, I didn't understand what it did.

Sarah Shahi

My father left when I was really young, but he's still living. There are things I wish I'd said that I didn't and I don't think I'll ever get the opportunity to say. He's battled addiction problems his entire life. I wish things were different. I wish there were a way my son could know him, know the good parts of him.

The defendant had something else, though, a secret. He had an addiction to prescription drugs.

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.