Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edith Piaf

Drugs are a carnival in hell.

Bill Moyers

There's 1,000 ways into addiction 1,000 ways out.

Bill Ayers

I have an addiction to caffeine.

Daron Malakian

When we first started the band here in LA, Janes Addiction was the band we looked up to. They came out at a time when there was a lot of glam rock and hair bands and they got put into that category, but they stood out because they were doing their own thing. We were kind of caught in the same kind of situation at another time: there were a lot of new-metal bands and wed get put into that category even though we didnt fit. Its funny that now theres bands like Mars Volta doing this prog-rock thing thats kinda getting popular, people put us in that genre now. That may be closer to the truth, but I think Hypnotized is going to go further in terms of getting people to understand what were doing.

Dennis Miller

In the late twentieth century, staying sober has become just as much an addiction as getting wasted.

Chelsea Handler

Mexico's a great place to overcome a drug addiction.

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

There were times when people could have gone either way. Either back to homelessness and addiction or forward. She would say just a comforting word, give you a hug, no matter what you looked like.

This is the same doctor under whose care Mr. Limbaugh has remained free of his addiction without relapse.

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,

It is worth it even if only the financial balance sheet for society is considered: a few years of investment versus a subsequent lifetime of productive activity. Perhaps a cycle prevented with children's lives changed. Health problems averted. Addiction and crime avoided as ways to cope with hopelessness.

There is the only pure negative. That is the concern about addiction and people losing too much money, ... we've got a problem and we are going to tackle it.

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

David Suzuki

We humans have become dependent on plastic for a range of uses, from packaging to products. Reducing our use of plastic bags is an easy place to start getting our addiction under control.

As a primary condition of the dismissal, Mr. Limbaugh must continue to seek treatment from the doctor he has seen for the past 2 1/2 years. This is the same doctor under whose care Mr. Limbaugh has remained free of his addiction without relapse.

Oil addiction can happen to anyone. For too long people have not faced up to their addiction and the consequences are now obvious. Your oil addition not only ruins your life and the life of your families, but the lives of most of the world's inhabitants.

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.

I've always had an interest and addiction to photography. I do events and weddings and my specialty is golf course photography.

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.

Hugh Hefner

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

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.

This is one of the nicest kids I've ever met, but his gambling addiction led him to make a terrible, terrible mistake. There's so much good in this kid. It easily outweighs this one bad mistake.

This isn't over yet. We'll keep fighting to make sure that this sneaky strategy is stopped in its tracks. Rather than improving national security as the rest of the bill does, cutting off the most promising offshore wind project in the country would harm it. This won't help America break its addiction to oil and reliance on foreign sources of energy.

The vaccine works by producing antibodies that specifically bind to nicotine, and thereby prevent much of the nicotine from entering the brain. This process potentially reduces the pleasurable effects from smoking and reduces the addiction to nicotine.

Howard Zinn

The weapons addiction of all our political leaders ... has the same characteristics as drug addiction. It is enormously costly, very dangerous, provokes ugly violence, and is self-perpetuating -- all on a scale far greater than drug addicton.

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.

Ben Nicholson

I started producing work with an ecstatic addiction.

Ayn Rand

The desire not to be anything is the desire not to be.

Bertrand Russell

We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.

Brendan Behan

One drink is to many for me and a thousand not enough.

Jane Fonda

I was in my mid-40s. I was a bulimic, and I realized if I continue with this addiction of mine, I will not be able to continue doing my life. The older you get the more damage it does; it takes longer to recover from a binge. And it was very hard.