Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jose Rizal

Experience has everywhere shown us, and especially in the Philippines, that the classes which are better off have always been addicted to peace and order because they live comparatively better and may be the losers in civil disturbances.

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.

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.

I feel addicted and at a party, if I don't consume ecstasy, I can't enjoy the party,

Anne Meara

I love documentaries and the computer. I am a little addicted to the computer, and that relaxes me. I find information, I shop, and I look up people I worked with to find out if they're dead or alive.

Janice Dickinson

I'm not addicted to plastic surgery, but I need it. I'm 50-years-old and I'm on television... I can't have that chicken neck-thing going.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

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

The company was addicted to a particular revenue stream and distribution model.

Gavin Rossdale

I am really addicted to music.