Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mary Lambert

If people can find something that they love about themselves after going to one of my shows, then I am so addicted to that feeling. It's the most gratifying thing on earth.

I personally don't see the Internet as what the people are being addicted to. I see it as the social experiences that are offered by the Internet that people are addicted to.

If you can keep those concepts of play and competition, the behaviors are somewhat addictive. You can be addicted to fantasy sports just like you can be addicted to on-line betting - and I think there are probably several people out there who are like that.

Connor Franta

I like The Erised for the harmony of their addictive beats mix, and I like Allie X for her distinct style and incredible lyrics - they are pure art.

Andy Williams

It was like an addiction ... I wanted to be wealthy,

It was definitely a gambling addiction that started about four years ago,

It's addictive to go out and hunt deer, elk, antelope, turkey and bear.

It's a great hobby, ... You get addicted to it and want to do more.

Senator Kerry

It's the Bush administration and Washington Republicans who are addicted to oil, and this administration refuses to break the dependence that undermines our economy and threatens our security.

It's the new arms race. Companies have become addicted to incentives and states have forgotten how to attract investment without offering them.

It's a lot of information to go through, but what the employees understand is that someone with one type of compulsive behavior may be predisposed to other addictive problems. Over time, in working with Harvard, we hope to understand what sort of programs and treatments work.

Curt Smith

If you're a meth addict you either throw in the towel and go into treatment, or you scramble to find some other way to get it.

Marcia Gay Harden

In my opinion, Zac Efron is a total hero. Him seeking help encourages other people with addictive issues to seek help. It's brave of him.

If there is a silver lining in this awful cloud, it's that it's reminded Americans how vulnerable we are and why we have to end our dangerous addiction to foreign oil.

It encourages the use of a substance we think is harmful, ... It's a harmful, addictive substance.

Richard Wagner

Certainly this (study on addictive nature of tanning) could explain why educational interventions haven't been more successful.

Gambling can be just as addictive as drugs and alcohol. Teens and their parents need to know that they're not just gambling with money, their gambling with their lives.

I know I struggled with it during my high school/adolescent stage. It was an addiction that I fought with every day. I was trying to conquer my sexual desires through something the world says is acceptable. Though it is no longer a daily struggle, it is something that I must ask God to sustain me from. I understand now that only God can fight these battles. Through God's strength, temptations, especially pornography, can be defeated, but only if we maintain a daily relationship with Him.

Linda Cardellini

I know, I know. It gets blonder and blonder. It's a sick addiction at this point.

Andrew Buchan

I have to confess I'm addicted to Sky Sports News. Just the music can pull me in. And then whether it's badminton in the Czech Republic, snail pushing or mole hopping, I'm hooked.

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.

After half a century in psychiatric practice, I know without a doubt that the source of addiction is spiritual deficiency. Irrespective of whether we are religious or atheist, all human beings are spiritual by nature and spirituality is the cornerstone of our recovery.

Addiction thrives in secrecy. The only real difference is that they can hide this one easier.

John Walters

Addiction is a serious problem for our nation, and the efforts that individuals make against this problem benefit us all.

A couple of years ago, my husband started playing fantasy football, and I learned quickly how addictive it could be. I was into it, but I kept thinking, 'I don't follow the stats and I don't follow all the teams.' I joked I was going to start a fantasy fashion league for my friends.

Peter Bernstein

Some people are addicted to seeing catastrophe in the future.

Hugh Hefner

So unless you can turn sexual addiction on and off ... .

Space Invaders proved so addictive that it not only inaugurated an entire video game paradigm, it caused a nationwide coin shortage in Japan

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.

Ashley Leggat

I always kind of wanted to be on 'CSI.' I'm kind of addicted to that show right now. I've never gotten to die in something, and I know that's a little gruesome, but I just think it would be really fun - I'd make it as dramatic as possible.

This is a classical gambling addiction where the person feels it's over and takes everybody down,

This is a bipartisan effort to support ethanol. President Bush said we're addicted to oil. He's right.