Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marie Lu

As a writer, I try to appeal to the 'elusive boy audience' the same way I try to appeal to everyone: I do the very best I can to create interesting characters, addictive plots, tons of conflict, believable settings, unexpected plot twists, intriguing beginnings, and satisfying endings.

Serena Williams

I've always been a beauty junkie. I've tried every product. I'm addicted to products. I can't go into the mall without buying everything. I said to my manager, 'I should get a beauty deal, I'm going to go broke buying all these products.

A drug addict in Detroit knocked on my door one night because he knew I collected records, and he sold me a two-piece Presto cutter from the ?50s. At 4 a.m.

Peter Bernstein

Some people are addicted to seeing catastrophe in the future.

Craig Benson

So you get kind of addicted to a revenue stream, and then all of a sudden it goes away, now the problem is worse than it was before.

So when you're dealing with one addict, you're dealing with 8 to 10 other people that get affected because of the addiction. We have to look at public policy, the government, the people who are leaders and rely on them to do better public policy when it comes to a very, very addictive product.

Jamie Lee Curtis

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

At some point, your will dies. At some point, your addiction has a whole other plan for you.

Oprah Winfrey

What is relevant is that he was a drug addict ... and stepped out of that history to be the man he is today and to take that message to save other people and allow them to save themselves.

To me, I guess, it just sums up the addiction of addiction, kind of the guilty pleasure in being addicted to something. I never really write about one thing in particular, so, I mean, it can be about a girl, or it can be about alcohol. It's just basically the guilty pleasure in enjoying addiction, trying to get away from wanting to be addicted to something, yet still feeling comfortable with it.

Amy Sedaris

Um, I played this lady who was in her late 40's/early 50's, who was a prostitute, drug addict and she decides to go back to high school to start her life all over again.

Allen Ginsberg

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

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.

Anthony Hopkins

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

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.

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.

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.

Thomas R. Insel

With the implementation of the Affordable Care Act and the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act, more people will have insurance coverage and, in principle, be eligible for more care.

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.

Marianne Williamson

Sobriety itself is today's high, for it is ultimately in the most centered consciousness that we find our power to transcend the world.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I don't want an alcoholic or drug addict to think he's the only one in that situation.

If someone is addicted to chocolate, this may be a better choice than other chocolate bars. But to think that you are going to lower blood cholesterol levels, or chance of heart disease, by eating two of these a day - that is just wishful thinking.