Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeff Goodell

Despite all the progress climate scientists have made in understanding the risks we run by loading the atmosphere with CO2, the world is still as addicted to fossil fuels as ever.

The next step is what happens in people that have some kind of alteration or damage to that part of the brain. Does that explain why some people are addicted to the stock market and make the wrong choices all the time?

David Rosenberg

For an economy addicted to credit ... periodic interest rate spasms of the likes we are seeing today could easily derail the nascent turnaround from the 'growth recession' of the past nine months.

Wendy Braun

(These teams) give them an opportunity to continue playing a sport that you really become addicted to.

Everybody's buying them. All of our employees, including myself, have become addicted to them.

Suki Waterhouse

I've gotten so into the thing of moving, moving, moving, but I'm desperate to have a home. I just want my own little spot - I'm saving, but it's difficult because of the shopping... I'm actually addicted to online shopping - it's something about the packages arriving!

They come in any day of the week at any time, this is not related just to partying on the weekend or so-called recreational use but shows that there are a lot of people out there who are addicted and take this drug on a daily basis.

Abbey Clancy

The one product I can't live without is my mascara. I'm addicted to long eyelashes and think girls just look so pretty with long lashes!

Ray McGovern

The president says we are addicted to oil. He's quite right. We've reached the first resource-war. It's bizarre to think that this war had nothing to do with oil. The war misses the criteria that I learned in school that is needed for a just war... Oil is a blessing and a curse for Iraq.

The president is the one who said we're addicted to oil. This is his most important tool to curb that addiction.

Faculty met, and after the usual business, some conversation was had about certain students being addicted to drinking, and it was reported that a citizen of the village had informed a member of the Faculty that there was a good deal of drinking this term among the students.

Bill McKibben

The popular notion is that Americans are addicted to fossil fuels, but I find that's not true; most people would be happy to power their lives with anything else.

Tobacco use is the single leading cause of preventable death. The vast majority of all adult tobacco users became addicted as teens. If we don?t work to prevent teens from using tobacco, we risk losing thousands of lives and spending more and more money treating tobacco-related illnesses.

Bryce Dallas Howard

When I was seven, I was allowed to be an extra in 'Parenthood,' which was amazing. But then I kind of got addicted to it, and my parents didn't want me to want to act. They felt that would be putting your kid in an adult world.

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.

Her birthmother, I understand, was addicted to prescription drugs,

Jason Calacanis

I've become addicted to playing poker because you're constantly faced with confusion, and winning is trying to make sense out of nonsense.

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.

They screwed me out of about two grand. It didn't matter because I already had caught the bug. It became the most abusive, passionate relationship and I've been addicted every since.

Joy Bauer

They say you have to exhibit physical withdrawal for it to be an addiction. But clearly, people will say that psychologically and emotionally, they are addicted to sugar.

George H. W. Bush

America is addicted to oil, which is often imported from unstable parts of the world.

Will Adams

There's a huge chasm between us and big business. They're addicted to cheap labor, which illegal aliens provide. It's in their interests to keep the border porous and to keep the labor flowing.

Charlie Miller

This is the president who has said we are addicted to oil. But if this is the best we can do, we aren't going to get out of rehab.

This is why this fight is really a social justice issue for me. In the end, millions of people are addicted to killing themselves and multinational corporations are profiting from it.

Darby Stanchfield

As a kid, we had one television channel and a sad little roller rink. And there was not much else to do. So I used my imagination all of the time growing up. That's the main way I played. When we moved and I went to high school, I did my first play, and I was completely addicted to theatre. It felt like home; it felt natural.

I don't tend to use my cell phone for things like that (downloading games and applications). Plus, I'm far too addicted to my computer.

Lisa Whelchel

I am addicted to scrapbooking. I document just about everything my kids do or have done, either in photos, journaling or memorabilia.

I am addicted to 'Halo' and play almost every night. By giving it up, I will have more time to reflect and to also lead a faith-sharing group.

Wink Martindale

During the summer of '65, I became fairly addicted to Password. I enjoyed his work as a host and thought that this wasn't a bad way to make a living.

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.

John Leo

I spend some of my time brooding about people who seem addicted to double standards - those who take an allegedly principled stand on a Monday, then switch firmly to the opposite principle on Tuesday if it is to their advantage.

I've been using it for two years and so far I haven't had any physical effects. But I am addicted to checking it every 30 seconds or so, much to the chagrin of my husband.

Mitch Hedberg

I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling. I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.