Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lucas Till

I'm also a video game addict, so I'm always looking to support my addiction.

Louise Jameson

I never watch TV. I'm a Radio Four addict. I love listening to music too.

M. F. K. Fisher

. . . word-sniffing . . . is an addiction, like glue -- or snow -- sniffing in a somewhat less destructive way, physically if not economically. . . . As an addict, I am almost guiltily interested in converts to my own illness . . .

Mahatma Gandhi

We cannot, in a moment, get rid of habits of a lifetime.

Mahatma Gandhi

Every worthy act is difficult. Ascent is always difficult. Descent is easy and often slippery.

Freda Adler

Of all the tyrannies which have usurped power over humanity, few have been able to enslave the mind and body as imperiously as drug addiction.

John Mayer

I have the obsessiveness of someone who's a sober, recovering addict displacing his addiction. Except I never had the addiction.

Ellen Hopkins

Addiction is rarely conquered alone.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Addiction is the hallmark of every infatuation-based love story.

Rodney King

What I've learned to do is arrest my addiction - arrest it myself, so I don't get arrested.

Robin Williams

My battles with addiction definitely shaped how I am now. They really made me deeply appreciate human contact. And the value of friends and family, how precious that is.

Russell Peters

This is our most dangerous addiction - our addiction to things. For it is this addiction that underlies the materialism of our age. And nowhere is this addiction more apparent than in our addiction to money.

Susan Cheever

Addiction isnt about substance - you arent addicted to the substance, you are addicted to the alteration of mood that the substance brings.

Robert Pattinson

I was just taking out my trash and I had, like, 300 cans of Diet Coke. It was just like, 'How did that happen?' I don't even remember buying them. I also like Cinnamon Toast Crunch. My addictions are pretty much the only things I consume.

Tommy Rettig

I had always turned it down-to me, smoking pot was absolutely the worst thing in the world. I thought of it as an addiction, and all my friends who smoked it, I felt they really needed help.

Kelly Osbourne

I took more hell for being fat than I did for being an absolute raging drug addict. I will never understand that.

Keith Miller

Beneath all of these addictions is this disease, this control disease which is the mark of our society.

Stella Adler

An addict is someone who uses their body to tell society that something is wrong.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

My case is a species of madness, only that it is a derangement of the Volition, and not of the intellectual faculties.

Vladimir Putin

Some are addicted to cigarettes, some, God forbid, to drugs, and some become addicted to money. They say that the worst addiction is to power. I have never felt that. I have never been addicted to anything

Winona LaDuke

It's time to transition beyond our fossil fuel addiction to a just economy based on green jobs, renewable energy, and local organic food.

William S. Burroughs

There isn't a feeling you can get on drugs that you can't get without drugs.

William S. Burroughs

I like the idea of generalizing the narcotic thing by making it black meat addiction.

William S. Burroughs

Whether you sniff it smoke it eat it or shove it up your ass the result is the same: addiction.

William S. Burroughs

Addiction is a disease of exposure. Doctors and nurses, for instance, have a high addiction rate.

Sarah Silverman

Making my family laugh when I was little - it became an addiction. It was a kind of survival.

Salman Rushdie

faith without doubt is addiction

W. H. Auden

All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.

Sandra Cisneros

There's all kinds of ways to wean yourself off of sugar - because it is like an addiction.

Roseanne Barr

The end of my addiction to fame happened at the exact moment 'Roseanne' dropped out of the top ten, in the seventh of our nine seasons. It was mysteriously instantaneous!

Roger Babson

If things go wrong, don't go with them.

Yusef Komunyakaa

It wasn't a deliberate decision to become a poet. It was something I found myself doing - and loving. Language became an addiction.

Wendell Berry

Much of our waste problem is to be accounted for by the intentional flimsiness and unrepairability of the labor-savers and gadgets that we have become addicted to.