Famous Quotes & Sayings

Caroline Leavitt

I am totally and completely addicted to movies. Jeff, my husband and I, watch movies every night and go out to the movies constantly.

Dexter Fletcher

With directing, you've got to find something and drag it up from its inception, and I'm at the early stages of doing that again. There's something all-consuming and addictive about that.

The threat of disintegration and collapse in this family and to a certain extent the heroic struggle of the central character in overcoming the problems that beset her is real. It's real, you know? It's not the stuff of losers, it's the stuff of ordinary families, ordinary suburban families. Not the working class poor, not the silly rich, it's the stuff of every single family I know. There is a family member, there is a beloved friend who is beset by the life and death struggle to do with drug addiction and getting free of it.

Harry Hamlin

I've lived with God every day for a long time. When I got busted in 1987 I turned myself in because I knew I'd messed up. What I did was so shocking to me. I hurt people, stole from them. For about three weeks I just lost myself, my morality, values. I didn't care about anything or anybody in the world. I knew it couldn't go on. For several years after that I read books to try to find out what happened to me, and I finally decided I got bitter, I was addicted to heroin. I was in a bad marriage where drugs were involved and I got to a point where I didn't care about myself because I had such a horrible life.

I've never before given anybody anything without expecting anything in return. I always thought somebody owed me something. My role was a drug addict and I fit in at the crack house.

It's a stressful job to be in. You're always looking for work, ... Once you're a superstar, if you started smoking when you were a struggling actor, it's very hard to quit. It's a highly addictive product.

Mick Mars

It was bothering me a lot, and I became addicted to pain medication, which is like what dragged me down. When we first started talking about this thing, I was like pretty much out of it, but I wanted to do it. So I needed to get myself overhauled, cleaned up and everything else to do this, because I wanted to do it, you know?

They're addicted to the Internet. As we become more dependent on technology, it's just an avenue for kids to express themselves.

I've seen cases of parents with bad credit that use their kid's name to get utilities. Other cases involved friends with addiction or gambling problems that steal your personal information to open credit card accounts.

It's a film about the pull of the past and the fact that whether you're a rehabilitating heroin addict or an ageing rugby league footballer or even a criminal kingpin, you have to let go of the past in order to live the present,

I too searched far and wide for the cure to addiction, but my medical and psychiatric background did not lead me to the cure because the source of addiction does not lie here,

Fran Lebowitz

The thing you love right away, don't do it, because that's the very thing that's going to be your addiction for the rest of your life.

Emma Forrest

Yes, I have patterns of love addiction. But I'm a woman. Of course I do.

Hillary Clinton

We have to do more about addiction, not only drugs, but also alcohol.

You must learn to work without me. You cannot be here always, you have other works to do. You have come from different countries all over the world. For a few days you will be here with me. If you become addicted to my physical presence, then rather than being a help, it may become a disturbance. Because then when you go away, you will miss me. Your meditation should be such here, that it can happen without my presence. Then, wherever you go, the meditation will not in any way be affected.

You might want to have somebody on there that is familiar with the power of the addiction to gaming, ... You'd want to have somebody sensitive to the enterprise potentially abusing poor people.

Harold Rosenberg

Avant-gardism is an addiction that can be appeased only by a revolution in permanence.

I'm addicted to this stuff, and it's really a triumph when you're the first person to share with your friends.

I'm addicted to these horns, ... I love these four horns. Now, with an eight-piece band - with the four horns and a stand-up bass - I'm getting exactly the sound I want. I am not compromising. And that's what makes it so thrilling to me.

Joshua Bell

I'm addicted to the adrenaline of performing, and I think when you're used to having that high, you look for it in other things.

Mark Margolis

I'm addicted to New York, and I like L.A., as I have kids there. Sometimes I think New Mexico is the one place where I could almost live there. It helps your acting; there's magic in that place.

Henry Ford

Anybody can do anything that he imagines.

Edward Teller

Secrecy, once accepted, becomes an addiction.

Liev Schreiber

Acting is like an addiction - once you start, you can't stop.

John Brunner

Love and joy are incredibly habit-forming; often a single exposure is enough to cause permanent addiction.

Jackson Pollock

How do you know when you're finished making love?

Kent Conrad

The ground-breaking research that will be done right here in North Dakota will allow our grandchildren to drive hydrogen-powered cars, live in hydrogen-powered homes and end our country's addiction to foreign sources of energy.

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.

Os Guinness

Negative freedom is freedom from - freedom from oppression, whether it's a colonial power or addiction to alcohol oppressing you. You need to be freed from negative freedom. Positive freedom is freedom for, freedom to be. And that's what's routinely ignored today.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

All evils to which so many become addicted begin in the mind and in the way one thinks.

Eric Hoffer

Our present addiction to pollsters and forecasters is a symptom of our chronic uncertainty about the future... We watch our experts read the entrails of statistical tables and graphs the way the ancients watched their soothsayers read the entrails of a chicken.

Nicole Kidman

All that nose twitching becomes quite addictive after a while. It was hard to switch off

E. B. White

The effects on the home life (include) increased anxiety, nervousness, sleeplessness that could impact on their school work. And even more significant is the fact that it's an addictive substance.