Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bellhop: "this is a non-smoking floor."Carrie: "I have an addiction sir!

We wanted to save this next generation from the horrible addiction to tobacco and we put a program into place to do exactly that, ... Now we're making huge cuts to that. It's not a good message at all.

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

Susan Cheever

Addiction isn't about substance - you aren't addicted to the substance, you are addicted to the alteration of mood that the substance brings.

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.

Twenty-five billion frankly doesn't surprise me. In the U.S. alone, right now there are about 3 million users who would potentially be affected. One million of those are government and law-enforcement workers who would presumably be exempt -- so, say, 2 million people who are essentially addicted to their Blackberries, and without them their business would basically evaporate.

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.

When I started out particularly in Internet addiction in back 1995, I thought that this could potentially be a major problem.

When I started out particularly in Internet addiction back in 1995, I thought that this could potentially be a major problem. In no way has the hype lived up to what has actually been found in research.

Ruth Reichl

We in America have gotten addicted to cheap food. The result of that is antibiotic-laden fish, foods that are bred to be portable.

Vandalism happens in almost all cemeteries around the world. It has for hundreds of years. Young people seem to be addicted to it.

You don't have your own phone for anyone to call you back. People see your address is a homeless shelter and they assume you're a drug addict or something, and they won't call you back anyway.

The time will come when human can do almost everything with the technology and still one thing remains impossible, releasing addiction on technology.

Dale Archer

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

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.

Aldous Huxley

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.